January 13, 2014

New Cosa Jersey?




[From article]
Fort Lee is the George Washington Bridge and the George Washington Bridge is one of only three access points from New Jersey into Manhattan. And let’s be frank: Manhattan is really the only reason anyone pays attention to New Jersey in the first place.
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The image of Chris Christie as Tony Soprano seems destined to persist—the loyal and aggressive underlings; the hard-nose for politics; the ambition to find a place for himself in the sun. In Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s book on the 2012 election, Double Down, they reported that Christie took the unusual step of telling Mitt Romney that he wasn’t allowed to fundraise in New Jersey without the governor’s say-so:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/thing-ours_774095.html#

This Thing of Ours
JAN 20, 2014, VOL. 19, NO. 18

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