http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/02/portrait-of-the-governor-as-a-young-man-chris-christie-103502.html?hp=f1#.Uv6UFvldW_B
Christie has not yet fallen, but the look in his eyes suggests he knows his fingers are slipping off the ledge, one at a time. Even if no documents emerge that put Christie’s fingerprints on the George Washington Bridge, he’s already in such trouble that to let even something as inconsequential as a months-old endorsement rest unrevoked would be an embarrassment.Amid all the hand-wringing by the press over Christie warning signs they might have missed, it’s instructive to take a close look at the governor’s earliest, mostly forgotten, political adventures. Bridgegate wasn’t a sudden fall from grace—it was just the first time anyone was paying attention.As a young lawyer in the 1990s, the rules and customs of small time campaigns were not of particular interest to Chris Christie. Local New Jersey pols—no strangers to bare-knuckle tactics—had never seen anything like him. Picture Christie, as he is today: overreaching, overbearing, over-everything.A personality so big it threatens to subsume the state he rules. Now take that image and superimpose it on the quaint landscape of the local Jersey politics of 20 years ago, with minuscule campaign war chests and candidates hammering in their own lawn signs.
you just don't morph into the 30's or 40's type of ruffian gangster gov. politics over night it's cultivated and improved with time. but like all else it ain't forever "to big for your britches" comes to mind. convincing yourself that you are invincible in your position, good approval ratings just a cherry on top.
the way he turned on his staff and assumed no responsibility other than the standard reply "buck stops here", well in his case seems someone has that buck on a string and keeps yanking it away when questions about his complicity come up.
Christie in Lilliput.
There was a lot of breakage.
His early political career saw him kicked off a ballot, successfully sued for libel and all but chased out of local Republican politics by a pitchfork-wielding mob.
In April 1993, the 31-year-old future governor—then just an attorney from Mendham, the type of place a family in a Norman Rockwell painting might live—hit the ground running for his first political campaign… And came to a dead stop.
Christie had entered the Republican primary to unseat a 15-year veteran of the New Jersey State Senate, a man for whom he had previously been an aide, Majority Leader John Dorsey. In his formal announcement, Christie explained, “The issue which has energized me to get into this race is the recent attempt by certain Republican legislators to repeal New Jersey’s ban on assault weapons.
A few days into his first political campaign, Christie was keeping pace. He publicly challenged Dorsey to limit the amount of campaign funds he would collect from PACs and he had already gotten the required 100 signatures needed to get his name on the ballot—in fact, he’d obtained 111.
But then somebody read the names.
Dorsey charged that 40 of the 111 signatures were from people in the wrong legislative district, and another 27 were not even those of registered Republicans. Dorsey had also trapped Christie, waiting until the very last minute to challenge the petitions, leaving Christie no time to correct his rookie mistake.
this guy was a manipulator from the jump, practicing corrupt politics, why wasn't this exposed in his first and second campaign, but then again criminal tactics are a basic criteria for being elected in the republican party.
their base seems drawn to the "bad boy" type like now they know their party lies cheats voter suppression and purging are the daily plans de jour, and they still vote for them guess they don't know there is no honor among cheats, and all are fair game.
their party wins they lose, kinda hard for them to blame Obama, he will not run again, but whoever wins their agenda will remain the same they are the Pinky and the Brain of politicians always trying to take over the world.
