Christie Still Hasn't Denied the Story

by: huntsu

Fri Aug 24, 2007 at 12:22:09 PM EDT

Well, Chris Christie's PR guy Michael Drewniak had a series of e-mail conversations with the site about it, asking us to take down the story and to issue a retraction.  Since the paper in question told three different versions of the story, we said no but that we would happily do so if Chris Christie issued a statement on what he said or the paper released a transcript of the meeting.  Frankly there is just too much confusion over the story to know what the heck happened without someone who was in the room telling us.

Blue Jersey asked Drewniak for such a statement at least four times and he ignored, then resisted, then belittled the repeated request.

Well, it's been 10 days and we are still waiting. 

So now the question is not just, "What was actually said?" but "Why won't Chris Christie tell us what was said?"

All he has to do is release a sentence like this: "I did not give a date for when I heard I was on the list;" or this: "I told them I learned I was on the list in March;" or this: "I did tell them the December/January version."

It's not a hard lift here to just give us a sentence telling the truth.  But Drewniak and Christie are refusing to do it.

One reason could be Christie thinks Blue Jersey is beneath him, and is not a real media outlet that he should respond to.  Considering that we have audio podcasts of US Senators and op-eds from US House members, we're at least as real as most papers out there.

Another reason could be that Christie thinks we are just a partisan web site out to get him.  Might be that he's not too far off on that, but in this case we're offering him the chance to -- in just a sentence or two -- remove all doubt and blunt our accusations.

The third reason is that he really did tell two different stories to different papers, and got his buddies at the Daily Record to cover for him.  If you read the partial transcript Christie is joking about baseball teams with the editors instead of tackling hard questions, and when he refuses to answer they don't do follow-up.  Maybe Christie is refusing to tell us which story he told (December/January, no date or March) at the meeting because the transcript might get out and prove him a liar?  If that were true, his best bet is not to go on the record with another lie to cover the first one.

Which one is it?