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Okay, I’m sorry. Chris Christie holds his first townhall post-BridgeGate – supposedly open to public, no vetting of questions – and not a single person asks anything about Bridge story? I don’t buy it. The public is often not as interested in scandal as the press. But zero questions is not credible.

Late Update: We’re putting in a call to Christie’s office asking for more details on whether questions or questioners were vetted.

Later Update: Christie’s office tells us that the questions were absolutely not vetted. It just happened that no one asked a Bridge question in an hour and a half of questions.

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