Ouch. An email designed to tout Rep. Bruce Braley’s (D-IA) farming background after getting caught dissing “farmer” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) managed to misspell “baling” and “detasseling” — terms that Iowa farmers should be familiar with.
For what it’s worth, you can see my farmer cred in this photo.
Despite the gloss, there were some real pieces of news that came out of the BridgeGate report just released by Chris Christie’s lawyers.
Given the apocalyptically bad launch of the national health care exchange website, the sign up numbers have made a pretty remarkable come back. Today, the White House is saying they’ve hit 6 million private insurance sign ups to date. They’re not exactly clear when that 6 million number is from. Is it from today? Yesterday? The end of last week? Let’s assume, it’s yesterday.
Chris Christie swears he doesn’t remember having a conversation about the bridge lane closures, but he does remember the conversation had nothing to do with getting back at some mayor.
Coming off his multiple felony indictments for campaign finance fraud involved involving both his estranged wife and then mistress, disgraced and defenestrated former Christian college President Dinesh D’souza has a new film coming out. And to promote it, he’s come out with this ‘parody’ version that “Between Two Ferns” interview President Obama did a few weeks ago with Zach Galifianakis
I just got it in a PR email about (though I just realized we wrote it up at LiveWire yesterday) and it is clearly meant to be funny. But … well, just watch …
Robin Marty has a great look at the infighting happening in the anti-abortion movement in Georgia, where the state affiliate of National Right to Life is so extreme it might lose its ties to the national organization.
Anti-abortion advocates are posting the names, addresses and photographs of a pro-choice activist, journalist and doctor. TPM Cafe writers David S. Cohen and Krysten Connon wonder, when do we start taking this kind of harassment seriously?
It’s almost as if the BridgeGate report commissioned by Chris Christie’s office was one big PR stunt that ignored vital questions and lets him pivot toward 2016.
Chris Christie plans to hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. ET after releasing his self-exoneration. Watch it live.
Chris Christie started off his news conference this afternoon with some actual news: David Samson, a longtime ally and one of his appointees to the Port Authority, had just resigned. The announcement didn’t seem to trouble Christie, though. In fact, so far in the news conference, we’ve seen the governor smiling, laughing and berating reporters. The old Christie is back. He’s very pleased with his own self-exoneration.