Bret Schundler News

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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Bret Schundler: I Didn’t Lie To Chris Christie

10:26 am EST August 28th, 2010 | Republicans | 4 Comments

Bret Schundler is now saying that he never lied to Chris Christie about the errors in New Jersey’s Race To The Top application. That’s critical, because it was that failed application that caused all the strife in the first place and allowed Christie to tee off his attack versus the Obama administration.

So, who’s lying? Schundler says he has e-mails proving his side.

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Chris Christie, Bret Schundler, New Jersey & Conservative Hypocrisy

3:02 pm EST August 27th, 2010 | Conservative | 61 Comments

1. Chris Christie has been hyped to the heavens by the conservative media as something of a rotund Reagan, someone who is laying down the law in a blue state like New Jersey (never mind that New Jersey had Republican governors from 1994-2002)

2. Yesterday, Christie blasted the Obama administration for rejecting New Jersey’s race to the top application based on a clerical error – by the way, Race To The Top is a program where the federal government gives money to states for education. Isn’t that the sort of thing conservatives are supposed to hate?

3. Today it turns out that Christie was in the wrong. The federal officials gave New Jersey a shot to correct their error in person. They couldn’t. In response Christie fired education commissioner Bret Schundler.

4. Now it turns out Schundler requested that Christie fire him so that he can collect unemployment, or as conservatives generally call it – a government handout.

Ousted state Education Commissioner Bret Schundler today said he asked Gov. Chris Christie to be fired from the work he considered his “life’s dream,” rather than resign, so he could receive unemployment benefits to pay his bills.

“I asked if they would mind writing a termination letter, instead of a resignation letter, because I do have a mortgage to pay, and I do have a daughter who’s just started college,” he said in an interview this morning. “And I, frankly, will need the unemployment insurance benefits until I find another job. … And they said fine. They said sure.”

Conservatism in reality is just chock full of ridiculous hypocrisy.

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