I Know It's Not Monday

by: Senator Loretta Weinberg

Thu Jan 20, 2011 at 05:52:29 PM EST

But I love Jay Lassiter.  We moved the clean needle bill out of the Senate Health & Human Services Committee today. Interesting vote on that one. We also established an overwhelming transcript to put on the desks of the entire legislature which spells out all the reasons why we must overrule the DHSS regs on Medical Marijuana.  Thank you Senator Nick Scutari for providing the leadership!

Stephen Colbert to testify before Congress Friday

by: Rosi Efthim

Thu Sep 23, 2010 at 06:07:00 PM EDT

He's expected to talk about illegal immigrants and in case C-SPAN doesn't cover that (and really, what are the chances?) that testimony might go something like this conversation with a very patient United Farm Workers president Arturo Rodriguez.

Christie held stock in a company he was investigating as US Attorney

by: Rosi Efthim

Wed Sep 23, 2009 at 06:41:28 PM EDT

Like maybe today's news that Christie held stock in a company even while investigating them as United States Attorney. Star-Ledger:

Chris Christie bought and sold stock in a travel and real estate company while it was under investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office he led at the time, according to public records. Christie, now the Republican candidate for governor, purchased shares of Cendant Corp. in 2004 and sold them in 2005, according to financial disclosure reports he filed with the Justice Department. In 2002, his office had renewed an investigation into Cendant, leading to fraud convictions of two of its former top executives in 2005 and 2007.

What I haven't seen anywhere today is that Cendant's name also pops up in the list of the seven deferred prosecution agreements Christie was called to testify about before Congress, the day Christie went (briefly) to Washington:

-- John Carley. A former Cendant Corp. vice president and Federal Trade Commission lawyer under President Reagan, Carley was on Sen. John McCain's 2008 New York fundraising team. He oversaw a nonprosecution agreement involving Stryker Orthopedics.

Why do the same names keep popping up in Chris Christie's history? Why are so many of them Bush insiders, or high donors to marquee Republican campaign's like John McCain's? Doesn't Christie know anybody else?

Christie's answers today on how he came to be holding Cendant while also investigating Cendant seem a little unsteady to me. He acknowledged he saw Cendant on his disclosure reports, but says his financial adviser bought and sold the stocks without his knowledge. He denies making either decision himself. It all sounds plausible. But given Christie's incredibly casual attitude towards financial disclosure and to the truth in general when he has something to gain or lose, this deserves all the scrutiny in the world.  

Christie to testify

by: Hopeful

Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 02:18:18 PM EDT

Perhaps we will finally get some answers. Chris Christie has just agreed to testify before the House Judiciary subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. on Thursday at 11AM.  In his letter, though, he states he must leave by 1:30PM, leaving only 2 1/2 hours at most to testify.