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no_hypocrisy

(46,182 posts)
Wed Jan 17, 2018, 08:12 AM Jan 2018

Remembering the first victim of Chris Christie's lust for power

Remembering Ma Laureys, the Mother of 10 Christie Slandered to Win His First Election

Democrats accuse the governor of being a bully today. In 1994, he played so hard against a fellow Republican that his own party threw him out of office and put her back in.

As scandal swirls around New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie like the snowstorm that accompanied his second inauguration, he would do well to remember the magnificent mother of 10 he defeated by defaming her in his very first bid for public office.

He should remember Cecilia “Cissy” Laureys and the old tough guy’s axiom that what goes around comes around.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/remembering-ma-laureys-the-mother-of-10-christie-slandered-to-win-his-first-election

I hope that Christie is condemned to perpetual obscurity and a rare footnote in history.

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