Show us the money
by digby
The other day I ran the transcript of Christie being an ass in his December press conference in which he snidely wondered why Ft Lee had these dedicated lanes to begin with, saying in quite nasty fashion that he's been stuck in traffic and he doesn't know why they should get special treatment. I'm not from New Jersey so I figured maybe I didn't understand what the deal was but it did strike me as an odd thing to say.
Steve Kornacki has a very interesting theory as to why he said it. And it could lead to the money angle that should be at the heart of any scandal like this one:
Nice little development you've got there, yadda, yadda yadda ...
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