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Chris Christie hands out party favors.

Steve

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Chris Christie hands out party favors.

Removing 9/11 Artifacts From New Jersey’s Nest of Political Patronage.

Still up for grabs from the ruins of the World Trade Center are roughly 90 pieces of steel and 200 other artifacts — things like bits of antenna, a wrecked car, turnstiles — recovered after Sept. 11. Remnants of a dwindling inventory, they have been stored in a hangar at Kennedy International Airport for more than a decade, as pieces have been shipped to 50 states and at least seven countries for memorial sites and museums.

Perhaps it goes without saying that the distribution of trade center steel in New Jersey over the last few years was turned into a series of political high holy days.

The lieutenant governor and an appointee of Gov. Chris Christie to the Port Authority traveled the state to personally deliver tons of it to politically important towns.

The distribution policies for the steel given out in New Jersey were changed at the Port Authority last week, officials said Tuesday, and will no longer be handled by Mr. Christie’s political appointees, but by the agency’s professional staff, which handles the steel for the 49 other states and the rest of the world.

Throughout his quick rise in New Jersey politics over the last decade, Mr. Christie has been uninhibited in deploying the tools of whatever office he was serving in to political ends.

As the chief federal prosecutor in the state, he could and did bop subpoenas on the heads of political foes at the height of election campaigns, conveniently tarring them as being “under investigation.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/nyregion/removing-9-11-artifacts-from-new-jerseys-nest-of-political-patronage.html?_r=0

sometimes what comes around... goes around.

handing out pieces of world trade center steel to get an endorsement is pathetic,.. both for Christie and the democratic mayors who were bought off...
 
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