An ex-staffer for Gov. Chris Christie who was subpoenaed in the BridgeGate scandal has now gotten new job at the Port Authority, which oversees the George Washington Bridge.
Interesting contrast between this story about how cardinals are scaling back their sartorial splendor in deference to Pope Francis’ more ascetic approach and this one about a New Jersey archdiocese building out a fancy retirement home for its archbishop.
Chris Christie’s top appointee to the Port Authority apologizes for the lane closures that set off the BridgeGate scandal.
Arizona takes one step closer to legalizing anti-gay discrimination as “freedom of religion.”
Nowhere near McDonnell territory yet. Not even Christie. But it’s looking like Scott Walker could end up the third GOP Governor presidential candidate golden boy who goes down the tubes because of his own pre-presidential scandal.
Good Lord. When I heard that Russia was bringing in Cossacks to brutalize their underpeople and undesirables, I thought it was a metaphor. But no. Cossacks.
Not just for raping and killing Jews in the late 19th century any more …
Is this how it ends? Is this Peak GOP? 70 year old Texas GOP candidate clipped for assault after he attacked his longtime rival who was pulling up his lawn signs and replacing them with ones calling him a RINO.
Right now we’re combing through more than 2,000 pages of documents that were just released in the Chris Christie BridgeGate scandal. We’ve posted them all here. See anything interesting? Email us at the address at the top of the TPM home page and include “Fort Lee Docs” in the subject line.
As we see with dying brands and companies (Blackberry) and even political ideas, when things start to go really bad there’s often a late spasm of what we now call (some of us tongue-in-cheek) rebranding. And with the galloping successes of pro-equality legislation picking up steam, we’re seeing something very similar on the anti-LGBT right. The most prominent Dylan Scott chronicles here in the series of states introducing laws aimed at rebranding hating gay people as “religious freedom.”