On The Last Word Wednesday night, Lawrence O’Donnell officially pronounced Chris Christie “exed out of the veepstakes.”
O'Donnell’s damning verdict on the New Jersey governor came after a horrifying series of New York Times stories on the state’s system of halfway houses, which under Christie were turned over to a private firm. The privatization scheme doesn’t appear to have been a success: Among other troubling details reported by the Times, a mentally disturbed inmate escaped in 2010 and murdered a former girlfriend who had spurned him.
Making things worse for Christie, a close Christie ally who played a key role in his political career has a major financial stake in the firm that was placed in charge of the system.
“This episode of Christie corny capitalism is enough to destroy Christie’s chances of being selected for the Republican vice presidential nomination—if he ever had a chance,” O’Donnell declared, calling the revelations, “the Willie Horton story on steroids.”
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Is anyone surprised? This is the state attorney that ignored a felony allegations against his master- Newscorp.
I'm from NJ, and this idiot is an embarrassment.
Check this out.
i just looked at kelly odonnell on msnbc and she lied she said this program began in 2009 to 2011 wanting people t believe that it started under obama that is why people don't really know what is going on because you also have racist journalist not telling the whole true story
Are you sure you are commenting on the same article about NJ?
Thank goodness for the NY Times article. Something told me that Christie was a crook. And he will be a one term governor. Good bye and good luck fat boy!
Fat boy is gonna be the new vice president. You bunch of thieves need ole Jon Corzine in there stealing the state and whoever he can, blind. You deserve pieces of @!$%#!