Old news? maybe not. There should be a rule against firing someone to make them the fall guy... then piling on smears after the fact.
Christie should know that there is only so much his ex education commissioner Schundler would take. Especially since Schundler is sitting good with his new unemployment benefits (the same benefits he and his party rail against, until of course they need it).
Now Schundler is hitting back ... with a hand full of emails as proof, detailing what really happened and showing that Christie was intent on blaming Pres Obama despite the facts.
In the beginning I thought this was going to be a one day story, now who knows...
Schundler: Christie Calling Me A Liar Is 'The Last Straw'
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmem...
In an e-mail and statement provided to reporters this afternoon, former New Jersey Education Commissioner Bret Schundler (R) defended himself against charges by Gov. Chris Christie (R) that Schundler deliberately misled the governor over the events leading up to the state's loss of a $400 million grant. Although he would have been able to accept being fired over the error that cost the state money, Schundler said he was unwilling to accept any further character assassination.
"I will not accept being defamed by the Governor for something he knows I did not do," he wrote. "The Governor called me a liar this week. That was the last straw."
The Lie
Comella followed up with an e-mail asking when they realized the error. Schundler responded at 5:14 p.m., telling her that they "didn't let the DOE know we had made the error because we didn't know we had made it - not until a panelist asked us about the Fiscal Year 2008 budget data."
Christie reportedly told Schundler that he was going to hold a press conference to accept responsibility for the mistake -- but he then planned to go on the offensive and make it about Obama not accepting the revisions. "I said, 'Governor, stop right there'," Schundler told TPM.
Schundler told TPMMuckraker in a phone interview on Tuesday that prior to the press conference, he made it "crystal clear" to Christie that he never tried to provide the additional information to the federal officials specifically because he knew it was against the rules.
Schundler says he told Christie it would have been impossible for them to provide the federal officials with the correct budget information. "None of us have it in our head, we didn't have it on paper, so don't say that," Schundler recalled telling the Governor.
Christie then held a press conference in which he blamed the Obama administration for not allowing the officials to fix the error, and said that Schundler had tried to provide data to the officials during his meeting on Aug. 11.