By David Sirota
On April 17, 2014
Yesterday, (click here) New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) made headlines by slamming his state’s legislators for supposedly paying police and firefighters too much.
“They want to give away more of your money,” thundered Christie.
The irony of the complaint coming from Christie is strong. The Christie administration has been spending record amounts of taxpayer money on corporate subsidies at the exact same time as he claims New Jersey doesn’t have enough money to make required public pension payments.
In short, Christie is using money that should be going to fulfill pension promises to instead pay for large corporate gifts – and not just random gifts, either. A Pando analysis of campaign finance data has found that Christie is giving those huge taxpayer-financed corporate subsidies to some of his major political benefactors....
While seeking to resolve the Governor's concern over the State's pensions and having to reach into statewide coffers, reality came to call. It is called oversight. Magnificent. Who knew?
What is even more interesting is the depth of the corruption. The RNC, no doubt, would simply like to isolate this to Governor Christi, but, it goes far beyond that. This literally defines chronyism and RNC methodology in seeking to influence elections. This is New Jersey. Now. Apply New Jersey anti-corruption laws to every state where the RNC is influence peddling. The picture is probably more than interesting.
The picture will reveal vast corruption and why such anti-corruption laws are not adopted by every state in the nation. If one wants to rid the country of power brokers and return it to the people it is best to get on with it. The Koch influence peddling will quickly dissolve once the reality of the corruption is revealed.
What tangled and ensnaring webs political bosses weave.
An even more interesting DNC agenda should be to propose anti-corruption legislation in the US House and then have them explain why they can't pass it.
On April 17, 2014
Yesterday, (click here) New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) made headlines by slamming his state’s legislators for supposedly paying police and firefighters too much.
“They want to give away more of your money,” thundered Christie.
The irony of the complaint coming from Christie is strong. The Christie administration has been spending record amounts of taxpayer money on corporate subsidies at the exact same time as he claims New Jersey doesn’t have enough money to make required public pension payments.
In short, Christie is using money that should be going to fulfill pension promises to instead pay for large corporate gifts – and not just random gifts, either. A Pando analysis of campaign finance data has found that Christie is giving those huge taxpayer-financed corporate subsidies to some of his major political benefactors....
While seeking to resolve the Governor's concern over the State's pensions and having to reach into statewide coffers, reality came to call. It is called oversight. Magnificent. Who knew?
What is even more interesting is the depth of the corruption. The RNC, no doubt, would simply like to isolate this to Governor Christi, but, it goes far beyond that. This literally defines chronyism and RNC methodology in seeking to influence elections. This is New Jersey. Now. Apply New Jersey anti-corruption laws to every state where the RNC is influence peddling. The picture is probably more than interesting.
The picture will reveal vast corruption and why such anti-corruption laws are not adopted by every state in the nation. If one wants to rid the country of power brokers and return it to the people it is best to get on with it. The Koch influence peddling will quickly dissolve once the reality of the corruption is revealed.
What tangled and ensnaring webs political bosses weave.
An even more interesting DNC agenda should be to propose anti-corruption legislation in the US House and then have them explain why they can't pass it.
