Chris Christie is FINISHED: Gave Pieces Of 9/11 Wreckage As Gifts To Political Cronies!

Pssst…GOP. You want to know why you’re failing, and everyone with an ounce of moral integrity hates you? Because here’s something nobody’s ever heard anyone say before. “Sources report that Bernie Sanders gave away twisted chunks of 9/11 wreckage as gifts to political supporters.” You know what else nobody’s ever heard? “Hillary Clinton caught sending $25 million worth of hurricane disaster relief funds to political allies in areas undamaged by hurricane.”

And yet, in yet another sick turn of scandal in a scandal-plagued year, both of those things can be said about one man: Tea Party darling Chris Christie.

Yes indeed, the New York Times just reported on yet another Christie scandal, this one with a truly sickening twist. As head of the Port Authority, Christie had access to pieces of wreckage from the 9/11 attacks on New York. Prior to his 2013 re-election, Christie disbursed pieces of the wreckage to certain New Jersey mayors who topped his list of must-have endorsements in the state.

Those mayors lower on Christie’s must-have list got consolation prizes in the form of private tours of the National Sept. 11th memorial and the new WTC construction site; those less inclined toward morbid interests simply got Port authority money for jobs programs and new firefighting equipment…even in towns nowhere near any port. And that isn’t the first time Christie’s gotten his pound of fat from the deaths of 3,000 New Yorkers: When New York got more than a bit up in arms when Christie ‘s top appointee Bill Baroni (who has since resigned in the wake of BridgeGate) said:

 

“For the Port Authority, the World Trade Center wasn’t just a building that we built. It was our home. Its rebuilding is a passion to the Port Authority, and it’s a passion to our governor and lieutenant governor.”

Baroni and Christie later managed to wrangle that passion for rebuilding the Port Authority’s home into more than $1 billion in rebuilding funds from the government. Not to rebuild the towers, mind you…but to raise the road-bed of the Bayonne Bridge and rebuild the Pulaski Skyway. Not that Christie hadn’t already had some practice diverting funds earmarked for disaster relief and rebuilding — e.g. the disbursement of Sandy funds to political allies. And you can bet that was a contributing factor to his slow death at the polls — for the first time, Christie’s disapproval ratings (at 41 percent) are higher than his job approval ratings. Turn out that those who play with fire get caught in their own burning buildings.

Is there anything at this point about Tea Party Christie that HASN’T earned the adjective “morbidly” yet?