WaPo: Inside Chris Christie’s militia, flab and cronyism trigger mutiny in the ranks

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TRENTON, N.J. — Besides serving as governor and running for president, Chris Christie has another job. As commander in chief of the New Jersey National Guard, he is in charge of 8,400 citizen soldiers, a militia that has become increasingly dysfunctional under his watch.

After he took office in 2010, Christie (R) reappointed a two-star Army general — a childhood friend — to lead the Guard. But the married general was forced to resign in disgrace after staff members caught him having an affair at work, documents show.

The governor’s next pick, an Air Force pilot, was secretly reprimanded by the Pentagon last year for his excessive waistline and for repeatedly ducking physical-fitness tests, according to records obtained by The Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act.

...“It’s like the mob,” said Brian K. Scully, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who says he lost his job because he refused to help cover up the general’s affair. “One minute you’re the made man. The next, you get a bullet in the back of your head. Only here it’s career assassination.”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/inside-chris-christies-militia-flab-and-cronyism-trigger-mutiny-in-the-ranks/2015/09/21/1493ac4c-57bc-11e5-abe9-27d53f250b11_story.html

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1. Flab.

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6. that's from the WaPo, not I.

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2. Perfect word

Christie is a first rate scumbag

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5. he's a bully and a thug.

'you talkin' to me?' 'you talkin' to me????"

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3. Looks like Fred Hiatt has Gov. Christie next in the pool

I was thinking it would be Gov. Jindal who quit the Republican race next, but this story makes it look like the Post has its thumb on the scale to get Gov. Christie out of the race next.

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4. This stuff is sad

He should just apologize and resign.