bob sommer was asked if he had any idea this bobsommer.com thing was going on. his response was wow! i am shocked that someone who i worked with very closely has taken my domain name without my knowledge. a spokesperson for governor christie said today that the campaign for re-election for governor christie and the governor himself, they all had no idea this was going on, no knowledge of it at all. as this chris christie administration story gets weirder by the day, the big picture here, the reason the story is still around to get weirder and weirder by the day is that there is still no explanation forthcoming from anyone for why two lanes on the busiest bridge in the world had to be randomly closed, causing traffic mayhem for a week, if it wasn t just a neener, neener, vindictive political move. governor christie has been insistent from the beginning that the idea this was political retribution is a ludicrous idea. i mean, can you imagine somebody in the chris christie administratio
new jersey, bob summer, somebody who used to write for david wildstein s politics blog site, his name is being squatted by wildstein as well. bob sommer was asked if he had any idea this bobsommer.com thing was going on. his response was wow! i am shocked that someone who i worked with very closely has taken my domain name without my knowledge. a spokesperson for governor christie said today that the campaign for re-election for governor christie and the governor himself, they all had no idea this was going on, no knowledge of it at all. as this chris christie administration story gets weirder by the day, the big picture here, the reason the story is still around to get weirder and weirder by the day is that there is still no explanation forthcoming from anyone for why two lanes on the busiest bridge in the world had to be randomly closed, causing traffic mayhem for a week, if it
0 so, in the town of exeter, rhode island, if you call the police for anything, there s no local police to respond. it s actually the state troopers who respond in exeter. and because there is no local law enforcement infrastructure of any kind, there s no chief of police, there s no police department, exeter, rhode island, alone has a bureaucratically awkward issue that its town council has been trying to fix, and the issue is this. when you want to get a concealed carry permit for a gun, you re supposed to get the okay for that, the permit and everything, from your local police department. exeter, rhode island, doesn t have a local police department. practically speaking, that means they do not have access to the databases and computer terminals and other things that make it easy to issue the permit and do the background checks. police departments tend to have those things. exeter doesn t have a police department, and so, they don t have them. the town clerk and the town council were
0 even in that storm, even though it was a saturday, even though all they were voting on was a little town-specific, municipal matter. they nearly tripled the turnout. they nearly tripled the voter turnout that massachusetts had been able to muster for a congressional race that was held just a few days earlier on a normal tuesday, like a normal election and everything. exeter put them to shame. exeter, rhode island, has 5,000 registered voters, more or less, more than 1,800 of them turned out in the storm on saturday to vote in their little, local election that may or may not have been about guns. rhode island is really small, right? rhode island is so little that if you are not from rhode island, you tend to think of it as just one big place. but there are 39 cities and towns inside the great state of rhode island. it s not just one thing. and of rhode island s 39 municipalities, one of them, only one of them, the town of exeter, doesn t have its own so, the little town of exeter made
0 the standing has been overcome, we ll see a lot more decisions like this. congressman steve cohen and jameer jaffar, thank you. the rachel maddow show starts now. did that piece say game of phones ? well done. thank you at home for joining us this hour. the numbers are in. it is official now. the congressional election last week in massachusetts appears to have been the lowest turnout congressional election in massachusetts history. only 13% of people turned out. 13% of voters in that district turned out to choose a replacement for ed markey, when he got kicked upstairs to the u.s. senate in a special election earlier this year. so, yes, massachusetts now has a new member of congress, one of the very few women that massachusetts has ever elected to federal office, and that is very exciting, except that nobody actually bothered to show up when it came time to decide whether or not that would happen. do not despair, though. turns out, this is not the new normal, there is no reas