Anatomy Of A Sellout.....
just so we're all clear on how things work in this country. Let's take a trip in the Wayback Machine (well maybe not so Wayback) to early March when news of Chris Christie's billion dollar giveaway to ExxonMobil first hit the news. How-or why-could someone sell out the future of their state to a mega corporation that had spent generations destroying the state's natural resources? As puzzling a question as that might be, the answer turns out to be pretty simple. You can sum it up in three words-Pay to Play.
Now we already know that making large contributions to the Republican Governor's Association is an investment that pays great dividends for folks in the investment world- How To Loot A Public Pension. Well, it works the same for other things too. The Exxon Mobil settlement is back in the news this week because a judge is about to rule on whether or not the settlement is adequate and in the public interest. This should be a fairly easy call but......we'll see. Meanwhile, the IB Times reports that Exxon's lobbyist has made a very nice donation to Chris Christie's SuperPAC-demonstrating once again that a politician makes a great pet and anyone who is anyone needs to own one.
As Chris Christie’s administration is being slammed by environmental groups for pushing in court for a reduced settlement with ExxonMobil, one group is expressing its support for the governor: the oil giant’s New Jersey lobbying firm.
Public Strategies Impact, the firm that represents Exxon’s interests in New Jersey, has donated $50,000 to "America Leads," a super PAC supporting Christie’s presidential campaign, according to federal campaign finance filings released Friday.
The Christie administration’s proposed settlement, which was announced in February, aims to reduce levies against ExxonMobil from $8.9 billion to just $225 million for widespread environmental damage at the company’s facilities in northern New Jersey. The decade-long case was reviewed in court this week. The governor and his appointees have defended the agreement as a good one for the state. New Jersey Democratic legislators have been seeking to block the settlement.
The donation to the super PAC from Exxon’s lobbying firm is “not surprising,” said Democratic State Sen. Raymond Lesniak, who has led the charge to block the settlement. “If the judge approves Christie's settlement, Exxon will walk out with a check," he said. "The settlement's that bad.”
America Leads spokesman Tucker Martin, asked by IBTimes about the propriety of accepting money from Exxon's lobbying firm, said, “We greatly appreciate the support of all our donors.”
read on here: http://www.ibtimes.com/chris-christie-exxons-lobbying-firm-donated-his-super-pac-governor-pushed-new-jersey-2034448
We greatly appreciate the support of all of our donors-is that the punchline to a joke?
Looking back to March once more, we already knew some other interesting facts:
2. Former Christie DCA Commissioner and former Wolff & Sampson partner Lori Grifa is now a partner and lobbyist for Archer & Greiner-the law firm representing Exxon in this litigation.
3. Former Christie Deputy Chief of Staff Lou Goettner now works for Public Impact Strategies, the lobbying firm representing Exxon's interests in NJ.
4. Exxon donated $751,000 to the RGA in 2014 while Christie was in charge and nearly $1.8 million during the period of time Christie has been governor.
5. Public Impact Strategies donated $80,000 to the RGA.
6. Archer & Greiner donated $30,000 to the RGA.
7. Christie saw an opportunity for a quick infusion of cash into his ailing budget and a chance to reward his corporate benefactors.
You can go to the IB Times article to see a list of others who have all bought a piece of Christie in return for lucrative public contracts, but the ExxonMobil deal is probably the most damaging because it sells out public health and the environment for generations to come. It's a sleazy tale of powerful corporations, a corrupt and ambitious politician and how money and influence can buy almost anything in this country. It's all for sale-only the average person is the one paying the price. When you want to know how these things could possibly happen, all you have to do is scratch the surface to find the money connections and the personal ambition that makes people sell out. If Billy Mays were still alive he'd be pitching Chris Christie as some kind of miracle product. He'll get you out of legal liability, he'll get you billions in investment money, he'll get you lucrative public contracts! He's better than the shamwow! Only you're not getting him for $19.99-and who in their right mind would want to Act Now to get a second Chris Christie thrown in for free?
Head on over to the Christie Crime Digest to read lots more on how you can buy a Christie of your very own!
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can't kick this enough.
and I can't imagine having to clean up after Christie!
for that visual. 
Thank you.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/05/christie-spent-82000-on-snacks-at-nfl-games.html
And he complains Obama "gave away the store to the Iranians."
Chris Christie: Obama 'is lying to the American people' about Iran deal
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/chris-christie-obama-is-lying-to-the-american-people-about-iran-deal/article/2568900
Oy!
Getting him out of the way cleared the way for a lot of stuff, all bad. If I may pile it on a bit:
U.S. Judge Mark E. Fuller, the guy who helped railroad Gov. Don Siegelman.
Fuller just happens to be the owner of a company that's made a huge fortune off the Pentagon and War Inc via no-bid crony War on Terror largesse.
The Pork Barrel World of Judge Mark Fuller
By Scott Horton
Harper's August 6, 2007, 5:14 pm
For the last week, we’ve been examining the role played by Judge Mark Everett Fuller in the trial, conviction, and sentencing of former Alabama Governor Don E. Siegelman. Today, we examine a post-trial motion, filed in April 2007, asking Fuller to recuse himself based on his extensive private business interests, which turn very heavily on contracts with the United States Government, including the Department of Justice.
The recusal motion rested upon details about Fuller’s personal business interests. On February 22, 2007, defense attorneys obtained information that Judge Fuller held a controlling 43.75% interest in government contractor Doss Aviation, Inc. After investigating these claims for over a month, the attorneys filed a motion for Fuller’s recusal on April 18, 2007. The motion stated that Fuller’s total stake in Doss Aviation was worth between $1-5 million, and that Fuller’s income from his stock for 2004 was between $100,001 and $1 million dollars.
In other words, Judge Fuller likely made more from his business income, derived from U.S. Government contracts, than as a judge. Fuller is shown on one filing as President of the principal business, Doss Aviation, and his address is shown as One Church Street, Montgomery, Alabama, the address of the Frank M. Johnson Federal Courthouse, in which his chambers are located.
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Doss Aviation and its subsidiaries also held contracts with the FBI. This is problematic when one considers that FBI agents were present at Siegelman’s trial, and that Fuller took the extraordinary step of inviting them to sit at counsel’s table throughout trial. Moreover, while the case was pending, Doss Aviation received a $178 million contract from the federal government.
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http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000762
There's a special place for Judge Fuller, and it's not on the bench, it's where warmongers and war profiteers should be working making little rocks out of big rocks.
the original Christie Crime Digest just reached 50,000 views over the weekend. I hope that means it's doing it's job. Now granted 5,000 of those views must come from my edits. 5,000 more must come from Rocktivity. I would think 10,000 come from Ron Paul opposition researchers. That still leaves 30,000 views from some other source. 
