Post by Logan on Jun 16, 2016 16:57:14 GMT -6
Christie defends actions of office disbanded after Bridgegate
TRENTON - Gov. Christie on Thursday said his taxpayer-funded office did not inappropriately engage in political matters, despite emails that emerged this week in the George Washington Bridge lane-closure case that showed a former top adviser told him months before his 2013 reelection that a department in the governor's office had landed an endorsement.
"Everything that goes on in government is political," Christie, a Republican, said at a Statehouse news conference. "And anybody who tells you differently is just not telling you the truth."
"But the idea that somehow IGA was engaged in a regular course of politics is not consistent with my understanding of it," he said, referring to the now-defunct Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs.
Christie disbanded the office after its former top staffer, deputy chief of staff Bridget Anne Kelly, was implicated in the bridge scandal with her now-infamous August 2013 email, "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee."
Read more: www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20160617_Christie_defends_actions_of_office_disbanded_after_Bridgegate.html
TRENTON - Gov. Christie on Thursday said his taxpayer-funded office did not inappropriately engage in political matters, despite emails that emerged this week in the George Washington Bridge lane-closure case that showed a former top adviser told him months before his 2013 reelection that a department in the governor's office had landed an endorsement.
"Everything that goes on in government is political," Christie, a Republican, said at a Statehouse news conference. "And anybody who tells you differently is just not telling you the truth."
"But the idea that somehow IGA was engaged in a regular course of politics is not consistent with my understanding of it," he said, referring to the now-defunct Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs.
Christie disbanded the office after its former top staffer, deputy chief of staff Bridget Anne Kelly, was implicated in the bridge scandal with her now-infamous August 2013 email, "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee."
Read more: www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20160617_Christie_defends_actions_of_office_disbanded_after_Bridgegate.html