Weinberg leaves nothing on the table

by: Jason Springer

Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 10:30:00 PM EDT

In an email sent out to supporters last night, Lt. Gov candidate Weinberg summarizes much of the recent news about Chris Christie and she didn't leave anything on the table:

It seems that there are two sets of standards when it comes to ethics and insider deals in the mind of Mr. Christie: Those that apply to everyone else and those that obviously do not apply to him. Here's a brief synopsis of recent scandals that Mr. Christie has found himself engrossed in:

First, she hit the mortgage loan to a subordinate:

Exhibit A: Insider Deals
More breaking news recently shed light on Christie's failure to report a $46,000 loan he gave to his top aide while he was U.S. Attorney. Christie failed to report the loan and interest earned from those loans on his tax returns and financial-disclosure forms. Read the N.Y. Times article to learn more.

Then she went after the Rove and Bush connections:

Exhibit B: Ethics
While Mr. Christie made his whole campaign platform about corruption and ethics, he doesn't believe that it applies to him. It was recently discovered that Christie had secret conversations with President Bush's right hand man, Karl Rove, while Christie was still a U.S. Attorney. Chris Christie may portray himself to be an outsider fighting for reform, but he's just another Bush Republican crony. Bergen Record article about Rove and Christie.

And finally she pointed to the monitor deals and family connections:

Exhibit C: Insider Monitor Deal gets Christie's brother off the hook
As U.S. Attorney, Chris Christie gave deferred prosecutions and no-bid contracts worth millions of dollars. One of those went to David Kelley, a former U.S. attorney in Manhattan. Kelley investigated a stock fraud case involving Christie's younger brother, Todd, but declined to prosecute him. Kelley was later picked to monitor Biomet Orthopedics Inc., another of the medical device makers. Learn more here.

We've talked a great deal about many of these issues here at Blue Jersey. The Corzine campaign wants to make the case that Chris Christie isn't a credible option for Governor and these exhibits help to undermine the claims he is running on as a candidate. Making Christie not a vialble option is only half of it though and they will have to sell the Governor more as worthy of four more years in the coming months as well.

Jason Springer :: Weinberg leaves nothing on the table