Most of the news media are going with some variation of: What a surprise! Gov. Chris Christie's friends and hand-picked investigators found that the governor did no wrong in Bridgegate,
Leave it to the New York Post and the New York Daily News to find the new thing we learned from the report.
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Christie aides had ‘personal relationship’ before Bridgegate -- Post
Chris Christie advisers had a ‘personal relationship’ ahead of Bridgegate scandal: report-- Daily News
That's right. Bridget Anne Kelly and Bill Stepien had a relationship that ended about a month before the traffic jam at Fort Lee.
Stepien's lawyer questions the relevance of including this nugget in the report:
“That Bill Stepien and Bridget Anne Kelly dated briefly at a time when both were single, after Mr. Stepien left the Governor’s office and before the bridge lane fiasco arose, is completely irrelevant. Its inclusion in the report commissioned by the Governor is gratuitous and, indeed, a little silly,” Marino said.
I
suspected this back in January. I also pointed out why I think it's relevant. So does the Post:
“Because Stepien was her ‘benefactor,’ Kelly relied heavily on him during this transition” before the relationship soured, the report said.