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Don t have to take the time s word for it, either. go back to the same e-mails and see christie s aides and port authority staff talked about ignoring messages from mayor mark sokolich of ft. lee, new jersey, when he called to report the traffic jam on the george washington bridge. did he call him back? radio silence. his name comes right after mayor fulop. steve fulop, mayor of jersey city. fulop who like sokolich says he s a victim of christie s bullying because he voted for barbara buono, the democrat in christie s re-election last fall. on the day last year he told christie s political team he would not back the governor, several high ranking state officials and cabinet members called to cancel meetings that christie s administration organized. fulop claims new jersey s senate president steven sweeney, a democrat but big christie ally killed a pension bill in the statehouse that would have saved jersey city $4 million a year. ....
Democrat but big christie ally killed a pension bill in the statehouse that would have saved jersey city $4 million a year. and this, the guy who said, there s a culture in trenton of being punitive. being petty. trenton, new jersey, of course where the governor s office is located. in response to these allegations from fulop about bullying and retribution, christie had this to say. i don t know about specific meetings or what s going on, but certainly, you know, i will look into all of those things, but the fact is that what mayor fulop knows is when we agree with him from a policy perspective, we ll work with him. when we disagree with him, we ll express those disagreements. sometimes that will mean friction. as soon as christie finished speaking, this is the statement mayor fulop, himself, put out. governor christie s comments today on my relationship with the state are a gross misrepresentation of the facts. joining me now, one of the foremost experts on the operations of g ....
Even at the time to heal over, you know, any bad feelings. i think that he came out of that race, you know, as someone who had been on the other side of a tough campaign against him. with people feeling pretty good, you know, about mitt romney at the end of the campaign. if chris christie had entered the race today, that obviously would have been great news for rick perry. centrist republicans would have been splitting votes between mitt romney and chris christie and would open up a lot of room to move for rick perry. right now rick per we doesn t have his footing. looks like mitt romney has a real straight shot at the nomination. do you think there is is there anything important to know about how the republican establishment is going to or not going to coalesce around mitt romney? i think a couple of things, rachel. i think you saw ken langone, a big christie supporter coming out today endorsing mitt romney. i think you will see a lot of undecided donors, big donors, ....
Big christie supporter coming out today endorsing mitt romney. i think you will see a lot of undecided donors, big donors, part of what you would call the republican establishment will break to mitt romney decisively over the next couple days. i think this has been a tough couple weeks for rick perry. it s not like he s over or he s completely out of it. as we go forward to the next debates you look forward to seeing michele bachmann attacking him from the right, rick santorum attacking him from the right. obviously herman cain has risen pretty high in the national polls. i think all of those candidates are going to try to take a piece out of rick perry. i think rick santorum has every potential to see movement in his numbers in iowa. so you re going to see a pretty vigorous contest now about who s going to be the conservative l alternative to romney and a pile-on in that part of the primary. it will be interesting to watch. in terms of what comes out of that conservative, say, sort ....
You know, any bad feelings. i think that he came out of that race, you know, as someone who had been on the other side of a tough campaign against him. with people feeling pretty good, you know, about mitt romney at the end of the campaign. if chris christie had entered the race today, that obviously would have been great news for rick perry. centrist republicans would have been splitting votes between mitt romney and chris christie and would open up a lot of room to move for rick perry. right now rick per we doesn t have his footing. looks like mitt romney has a real straight shot at the nomination. do you think there is is there anything important to know about how the republican establishment is going to or not going to coalesce around mitt romney? i think a couple of things, rachel. i think you saw ken langone, a big christie supporter coming ....