Former Pennsylvania Governor Rendell says

[malaise]

Christie knew - he had to - says every governor knows what's going on across their state daily.

[spanone]

1. he's right...daily briefings....vendetta briefings....he knew.

[malaise]

13. He spoke about the daily briefings

and the layout of Governors' offices.

[livetohike]

2. With everything we have seen and read on Bridgegate, I am wondering what it is Rendell thinks

Christie knew. Was it:

1)Christie knew this was being planned (and he was in on the planning) or,

2)While it was happening, Christie knew his office was behind it, or

3)Christie knew months ago, after the event, that his office was behind it

What exactly did he know and when did he know it?

[malaise]

5. Knew long before he declared that he only knew

when those emails went public.

He's a fugging ReTHUGLIAR.

[livetohike]

21. Thanks!

[ProSense]

15. Based on his lies, you'd get the impression

that Christie just found out about the Port Authority.

[livetohike]

22. He's a huge liar and that bully persona he uses is just a cover for how insecure he is. He will be

crying on camera before this is over.

[A Simple Game]

24. I'm leaning toward him hitting or pushing someone. n/t

[ProSense]

3. Christie

I know nothing
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024320643

LOL!

[catbyte]

4. Especially after those pics of GWBridget Kelly texting about the lane closures

while she was standing right next to Christie as they were touring the boardwalk fire surfaced. Suuuuuuuure, he knew nuttin', lol.

[malaise]

6. Tweety says this will not end well

I agree

[catbyte]

8. I think Tweety's right about that. I'll have to catch his show when it re-airs tonight.

[JaneyVee]

7. WTF was Christie thinking during day 2, 3, 4???

[malaise]

10. When did he call Cuomo ?

That's the answer we need

[GP6971]

32. Christie thinks????? N/t

[sheshe2]

9. Ha!

[malaise]

20. LOL

[neverforget]

31. Lol!

[Thinkingabout]

11. It is hard to believe Christie did not know something. I have been thinking, he set up a

Special election to replace Frank Lautenberg because there could have been a larger Democrat turnout if he had the replacement election the same time as the general election. It was about him getting the biggest percent of the votes. Perhaps his staff was trying to increase the percentage.

[malaise]

17. BIngo

You got it - the cost of that special election did not matter to him.

[SunSeeker]

29. Yup. He wanted to do better than the 40% margin his mentor, Kean, won by.

Yeah, the same Kean whose son Christie later screwed out of a job after Kean Sr. made an offhand remark about how some NJ state response times could have been better on some storm or something a few years back. Kean Sr. has not been exactly in Christie's corner on Bridgegate.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Which means he's a smarmy bastard for joking about the cones.

[moondust]

14. Even if his staff kept it a secret,

so as to give him plausible deniability, the TV and radio and newspapers and legislature and just about everybody else in NJ including his own family and half of NY and PA were not in on the secret.

No way around it: he knew at the very least that there was some big traffic snarl in Fort Lee that lasted days.

[SunSeeker]

30. It lasted 4 days. The cones were finally picked up at 8:30 am on the 5th day, Friday.

So basically almost a whole week, since the cones were still down for most of the early morning commute on Friday.

[moondust]

33. I don't know how much media coverage there was,

but people tend to get pissed off and word gets around and the phones start ringing and EMS services start asking how long and why and on and on. You can bet your ass Christie heard about the Fort Lee traffic snarl probably from multiple sources.

[truedelphi]

16. Good to know Governor Frack-A-Whack is not

Fond of lane closures.

Now if he would wake up and realize the damage done by his involvement with fracking.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/03/rendell-op-ed-fracking-fails-disclose-industry-ties

View Gaslands II to see even more about his alliance with Texas natural gas, shale oil company.

[malaise]

18. Oh we know he's a corporate whore

but he does have some use in matters 'governors'.

[Cha]

19. Except Christie who according to Christie was locked in a

cellar like a mushroom and covered with shit.

[OnyxCollie]

23. I thought it would be, "Fracking's good. Fix the Debt."

[SHRED]

25. and if he didn't he's incompetent

[MADem]

26. Not just daily briefings, but damn, every news channel I know has something called a

"traffic report." Was CC in the habit of sleeping till noon and he missed that?

[tblue]

27. It's not out of character and it was a STUPID stunt

Did he really believe he could inconvenience that many people in such a blatant way and there'd be no investigation? New Yorkers aren't stupid.

[DURHAM D]

28. Good post. Rendell is 100% correct.

I have been puzzled at the way everyone is acting like there is actually a division or wall between the Governor and his staff. It is the Governor's office - Period.

The GOVERNOR'S OFFICE (the staff and the Governor) is one unit. Repeat - It is one indivisible unit.

The Governor is personally and legally responsible for everything that happens in the office, the communications with others, and every action taken by anyone from the Governor's office.

I have never before seen a scandal evolve from a Governor's office when anyone in the media tried to separate the aides from the Governor and split the responsibility. It is a bizarre notion. Apparently the media has gone completely stupid this time around; I guess because he is their Rethug.

[brooklynite]

34. Well, I guess we'll have to discount that assessment...

...since people here hate Rendell.