NJ Gov Christie wants to "move on" after his big ScrewUP over education & trying to blame Obama

[Cha]

* New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) wants to "move on" after his monumental screw up over education funding and demonstrably false criticism of the Obama administration. I'm sure he does, but that may be easier said than done.

<snip> From TMP

"Responding in an e-mail at 5:01 p.m., Education Commissioner Bret Schundler wrote Comella that they provided the wrong data and that "the competition rules did not permit fixing of the error post-facto," according to e-mails he provided to TPMMuckraker. That appears to be true: the states gave presentations to explain what they wrote and, while they can point to data mistakenly included in other sections, they could not introduce new facts after the written application deadline. Schundler says he knew this because his team caught a separate error (which did not end up costing them points) that they tried to correct shortly after they submitted their application, but that attempt was rejected.

Comella followed up with an e-mail asking when they realized the error. Schundler responded at 5:14 p.m., telling her that they "didn't let the DOE know we had made the error because we didn't know we had made it - not until a panelist asked us about the Fiscal Year 2008 budget data."

Christie reportedly told Schundler that he was going to hold a press conference to accept responsibility for the mistake -- but he then planned to go on the offensive and make it about Obama not accepting the revisions. "I said, 'Governor, stop right there'," Schundler told TPM.

Schundler told TPMMuckraker in a phone interview on Tuesday that prior to the press conference, he made it "crystal clear" to Christie that he never tried to provide the additional information to the federal officials specifically because he knew it was against the rules".

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/ex-nj_education_official_says_he_warned_christie_about_false_statement.php

Slimey repuke gov of NJ trying to blame his problems on Obama like a lot of others who can't take responsibility for their own actions. Looks like the asshole of NJ took on the wrong Education Secretary to mess with.

[Hekate]

1. "Nothing to see here. Move on." bwahaha

:rofl:

I hope this comes back to bite him in the butt -- often.

[whistler162]

2. Cool if this works can I revise my final paper if I find

I used the wrong data and get a better grade?

[quiet.american]

3. Cha, the thing that really stands out for me in this story --

-- is that Christie has been so thoroughly exposed for the typical GOP piece of work that he is.

He was warned not to lie about this, but was so convinced he could get away with it (probably even perversely thought he could turn this foul-up into a bump iup n his own polls) that not only was he going to deflect blame from himself, he was going to make Obama "pay" for what Christie's own administration did.

Thanks for posting this. Needless to say, I've been loving this story.

[Cha]

4. I'm loving this story, too, quiet.american, of this

bumbling lying republi-con who is so confident he can lie and make himself look good that he ends up looking like the greedy monster he is behind doors plotting his next dirty scheme on the people of New Jersey.

<snip from the article>

"Schundler was in a meeting at the time of the press conference, but read the transcript of Christie's remarks on Wednesday afternoon. He recalled saying, "oh damn" when he read what the Governor had said.

"I suspect that he didn't know that the whole was being videotaped," Schundler said. He said he thought that telling the Governor not to say what he planned to say because it wasn't true should have been enough. He added that he didn't think he should have to tell Christie, "'I also don't think you should say this when there's videotape that's going to contradict you.'"

Wouldn't it be nice if Pres Obama indirectly brought down the lying, way too stupid, Gov of New Jersey? :)

[quiet.american]

5. Hello, Cha -- that is one of my favorite quotes from this story, too! nt

[Cha]

6. So glad Schundler didn't tell Christie..

it was being videotaped! Oooops! :rofl: :fistbump: