Evidence from Randy Mastro's own report is contradicting his own assertions that a culture of retribution did not exist in his office. John Reitmeyer of NorthJersey.com has obtained and reviewed thousands of pages of footnotes and documents "lend at least some credence to allegations against Christie that the report plainly said can’t be true."
He reports these in Analysis: Some evidence seems to contradict Mastro report's findings on Christie. This title is far to modest given what I am seeing here. Holy smokes (so to speak.)
This is a bombshell set of document folks and Chris Hayes, is now reporting a another major revelation from Mayor Doherty in the Mayor Zimmer case, I reported partially information on this morning. This documents undercut most of Mastro's summary assertitons. The evidence seems to support exactly the opposite conclusions.
And they include some of the harshest language yet disclosed in the bridge scandal: ... “The only trouble is David is/was a true friend of mine,” Drewniak wrote in January. “Now, I could claw his eyes out, pour gasoline in the sockets and light him up.”
There’s also a curt dismissal of the Hoboken mayor who later alleged politics played a role in getting aid for Superstorm Sandy. After supposedly “kissing her ass” for an endorsement, Christie’s campaign team worked to make sure she didn’t show up at one of his political events — a meet-and-greet across the street from Hoboken City Hall.
These documents paint exactly the opposite picture of the culture and environment withing Chris Christie's inner circles that Robert Mastro is trying to proclaim.
For example, the report said Christie did not create a “culture of political retaliation,” something many lawmakers suggested after allegations were leveled by Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer and by Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop — who both said the Christie administration essentially punished them for not endorsing his 2013 bid for reelection.
But, here's an email exchange between Christie's campaign manager and top strategist about Mayor Fulop:
“We’re approaching a point in time where we have the ‘so what’s it going to be?’ conversation with Zimmer and Fulop,” the campaign manager, Bill Stepien, wrote to Mike DuHaime.
“Are you with us, or against us?” Stepien wrote to DuHaime, in reference to Zimmer and the endorsements.
For Christiegate addicts this article is going to be like going from snorting to mainlining and it is only a summary of a longer analysis. If you have a job, family or other obligations, perhaps, you should just read this summary and live the hard-core stuff to others who can afford to stay up all night glued to their computer. This is primo stuff folks.
I can't even tell you more because I beyond my three paragraphs already. I will be shocked, truly shocked if any readers start quoting other sections and putting them in the comments!
Oh, just one more juicy teaser. You know how Christie has been pretending how he is just one of those "head in the clouds" kind of managers who has no idea of what his staff is doing? Not! Included in this release of documents is one showing Christie personally edited one on how his team should respond.
Oh, just one last example, this article shows extensive communications about how the team planning to cold should an uncooperative mayor at social functions. These documents say "Guilty, guilty, guilty" all over them.
I'm going to have to just stop now even though I'm not even half way through describing this article. You have to read it yourself. If you are unemployed, or on vacation.
Otherwise, "just say no!"