Committee’s Attempt to Impale Christie Fails

How many more times do we have to hear from the functionally neutered New Jersey Legislative Select Committee on Investigation that its job is not yet over?
   

Christie listens intently at Jan. 2014 press conference.(Bergeron Screen Shot.)

This group of head-hunting politicians directed by Assembly Deputy Speaker John Wisniewski and Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg, issued a press release yesterday which added nothing new to what already has been reported ad nauseam by the press in hundreds, if not thousands of newspaper columns, as well as in the digital media concerning the Bridgegate “scandal.”

The committee’s report, which will be officially released on Monday, reluctantly clears Governor Chris Christie of any premeditated actions, prior knowledge of, or complicity in those now infamous four-day lane closings leading to the George Washington Bridge.

“Bridgegate” and Christie’s Aspirations to National Office

In June of 2013, in the midst of his battle with Barbara Buono to capture a second term as New Jersey governor, one poll had Chris Christie leading by 30 points (61 to 31).  It looked like nothing could slow him down, let alone that anything negative could be pinned on him – surely not a scandal. 
 

Christie at a Town Meeting, Raritan Valley Community College, April 2013

Yet, for a long time, his foes – including some within the press – had been looking for ways to knock him off his game:  Their opportunity would come when, in the fall of 2013, the so-called “Bridgegate” affair would provide Christie’s opponents with the impetus to begin pummeling him for months on end.

ONSET OF THE INVESTIGATIONS:
 
Paul Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the State of New Jersey, headed up one of the key investigative agencies that entered the fray.  Yet, as of this writing, his office has yet to produce any evidentiary reports that Governor Christie acted in an unlawful manner, or even knew anything about the oblique “Bridgegate” incident.

Have you noticed recently that . . .

.  .  .  .  New Jersey newspapers, notably The Star-Ledger, have moved away from the daily reporting and endless editorials which slammed Governor Chris Christie about the so-called ‘Bridgegate’ affair?

On June 13, Fallon and Christie dance away the 'Bridgegate' incident.

Ever wonder why?  Nobody cares anymore!  It’s over – done with.  There is no there, there.

The reason is that despite the millions in cash and the thousands of man-hours expended up to this point investigating Christie and what role he may have played in this incident, not a single person or entity has identified a scintilla of evidence to prove that the governor ordered the closing of two access lanes in Fort Lee, New Jersey that lead to the George Washington Bridge, and across the Hudson River into New York City.