Did Chris Christie Lie About What He Knew When He Attacked Obama? Sounds Like It

2:36 pm EST September 2nd, 2010 | Republicans | 6 Comments

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Bret Schundler has released a chronology of events pertaining to his firing in New Jersey, and if his version of events is to be believed, it doesn’t look good for conservative hero Chris Christie. In the document, Schundler claims that at multiple instances he told Christie not to mischaracterize the mistake, and yet Christie explains to him his plan to assail the Obama administration and bureaucracy for their own mistake.

Schundler has also released the emails, and the Daily Record explains:

The copies of the e-mails Schundler provided shed light on the storm that the discovery of the error created in Christie’s office. They show officials scrambling to craft a response for a Star-Ledger reporter who first called attention to the mistake.

“I need an answer on this,” Comella writes to officials in the state Department of Education, attaching a copy of the reporter’s questions.

A response, crafted by Alan Guenther, the department’s director of communications, asks Comella to allow Deputy Commissioner Andy Smarick to talk directly to the reporter, saying that “the real story is the major reforms in our plan that the peer reviewers praised heartily for their sensibility and boldness.”

“I know what the real story is here,” answers Comella. “I need you to put in email the explanation to her question. Thanks.”

Schundler, who has been cc’d on all the e-mails, responds, “Maria, I’ll send you something on this momentarily.”

Part of his answer read, “All we could do was confirm that we had erred — the 2008 data was not included.”

Christie knew he and his people screwed up, and made a concerted effort to make this not about the mistake his administration had made, but to cover it up with an attack against the Obama administration.

No wonder he’s a conservative hero.

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6 Responses to “Did Chris Christie Lie About What He Knew When He Attacked Obama? Sounds Like It”

  1. Pryme says:
    September 2, 2010 at 3:28 pm

    I’m just amazed to see a Republican who doesn’t blindly fall on the sword for their loser boss and are actually (*gasp*) willing to call said loser boss out, even if that means no true political gain for their party.

    As for Christie? He’s a joke. Why do the GOP drool over every Republican with a title who slams the President? When did this become the WWE?

  2. SpiderJ says:
    September 2, 2010 at 4:05 pm

    Come on, Pryme, he’s the perfect GOP candidate. Christopher Christie! He’s Christ Twice! If Charlie Crist hadn’t fallen out of favor they could have run on the Crist/Christie ticket for Christy Christian Christ!

  3. pluege says:
    September 2, 2010 at 8:03 pm

    As for Christie? He’s a joke.

    christie is no joke – he is methodically destroying the state’s superior public education system. My guess is the “mistake” was no mistake. New Jerseyans are fools to have elected him and to sit silently by while he dismantles the State.

  4. Jaim says:
    September 3, 2010 at 2:16 am

    Lying Republican lies a lot.

    Film at 11.

  5. Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle says:
    September 3, 2010 at 2:33 am

    pluege:
    Problem was, Corzine didn’t step aside like the Colorado Governor, or even the idiot Chris Dodd. Christie is a one-termer. It will be up to the NJ Legislature(both houses of which are controlled by Democrats) to keep him in check as much as possible.

  6. ComradeAnon says:
    September 3, 2010 at 7:59 am

    Look, Karen Carpenter is alive and on the big guy’s staff.