| For all our talk and analysis here that points to the fact that Chris Christie has repeatedly and regularly -- and now openly -- used his bully pulpit to influence New Jersey's politics to benefit himself and his party, we still get a little thrill when he gets one of the corrupt pols out there.
Looks like today Christie is going to announce that the grand jury is indicting former Newark Mayor and current State Senator Sharpe James.
Federal authorities plan to announce "a major development" Thursday in the long-running FBI corruption investigation into former Newark Mayor Sharpe James, according to two law enforcement sources.
For weeks, a federal grand jury has been considering evidence involving city land deals and travel expenses that James billed to the city while he was mayor, The Star-Ledger has reported.
We do not deny that Christie has nailed a lot of corrupt pols, though everyone who disagrees with us always suggests that we do. It's nice to see the Janizewskis and James and Bryants of the world booted out so better -- hopefully -- people can represent us.
But these good acts do no more to obviate Christie's partisan use of the office than James' successful efforts to bring NJPAC, the Newark Bears and the NJ Devils to his city to help in economic development. Or any of the other good work he did.
So we applaud Christie for his efforts to indict people for misusing their public positions for private or partisan gain. We just think that someone should be looking at Christie's actions with the same tough eye. |
