working against them here. the first is that people understand this story. they know what it means to bulk traffic especially when it s in the morning and you re fighting to cover your butt at work. nobody likes the feeling of walk into work late. we get it. we get it some big shot thought it was hunky dory to screw up the traffic lanes, throw out traffic cones to screw up people s lives so they could slap a political rival over the nose. second, we know the feeling of being bullied. we don t like to see the big shot showing his big shot muscle to someone furter down the food chain. this scene of the new jersey governor s people shows up in hoboken presents a picture we ve seen before. maybe if we re lucky just in the movies. a muscle being applied. it s like the guys who showed up in the old days of the little restaurants and told the owner he d be wise to let the big boys put their jukebox in a place and not cause trouble about it. we have to hear all this in court, of course, but th
evangelical property assistants even though he is catholic, as well as young voters. marco rubio leads republicans with college degrees. rand paul no doubt sweeps it with the libertarians. joan, it does seem to be what sam says. when you take a guy on who would have been the wendell wilkie. people like us even, all the people paying attention to him in the big east. right. there is nobody like that left. so what you have is a scramble. what you have is a really perfect picture of the divisions in the republican party. it s a party that is really fractured, chris. so when you see the numbers line up, that s the way the pollsters would describe these different constituencies. and there is no one who can pull them together. now, you guys are both right. christie had a tough road to the nomination because it is such a confident party. i thought it was so interesting in the times today. they did that story about his political team was looking at two races, 2013 reelection and 2016. if
project and the new york times describes it as there is a bunch of representatives of the developer there. and the next day she gets a call from guadagno s office saying hey, the lieutenant governor would like to come out. and what is odd about that, during that initial interview, the mayor of hoboken said she thought it was little weird that suddenly kim guadagno wants to come to hoboken for a hop rite event. i find that a little weird or at least remarkable. the second is there was a meeting scheduled and she finds out lori grifa and david samson were going nobody this meeting. the lawyer and the lobbyist are going to be in this meeting with state officials when there is a quote in the story from samson s law firm where they they don t deny that that happened. they just say we deny dawn zimmer s account of this whole thing. they don t say that didn t half. you can be caught for perjury denying an event. but you can always come up with a different memory or interpretation of wha
that brings us to two. here is the third point in the line of the saga. a few months afterward, mayor zimmer says christie s head of hurricane sandy aid gets involved. she says furzon use linked sandy money to development. here is anderson cooper just last week. that s what i m asking as governor. please support this. but when i get an answer back from mark saying, well, you know. and mark is? the head of the sandy recovery process for the governor. so when i get an answer back saying you need to tell us the level of development you re willing to do. you re staying head of the sandy redevelopment process was also talking to you about development? he said that like a month ago. well, let me go to matt katz. you re on this story like wolf hounds. what picture do you get when you see the timeline of all three episodes when pressure is
applied continually to the mayor of hoboken, get aboard this rockefeller project along the waterfront. the governor s former transition boss, the governor s appointee to the new york port authority, the top job, the governor s former employee grifa who is now a lobbyist for this country company. all part of what the times is calling the christie crew are all on a case. and then the governor s lieutenant governor jumps in. and of course his sandy czar, his federal money czar jumps. in these aren t former employees. these are current crewmembers. this is a christie operation here. this isn t something made up of his alumni. this is a team effort. your thoughts. the last piece of that triangle you talked about is david samson s law firm donating a substantial amount of money to the republican governor s association, which in turn helped christie get in place and made him the chairman. and this story about sandy is really, if these allegations are true, if zimmer s account is