Word is that it was payback for the Democratic Mayor of Fort Lee not endorsing Christie’s re-election or it was payback to NJ Legislative Democrats over the State Supreme Court or a development project in Fort Lee.
Or something else – which may or may not be found out through investigations, hearings or maybe even subpoenas and prosecutions. And ironically, it was this and not one of the myriad of other things he did over his career that finally has people sitting up and taking notice of how scummy Governor Fleece has been consistently over the course of his career.
But at this point, quite honestly, the big thing here is not why this was done (even though it could lead to other crimes being uncovered and could be a very big deal in its own right), but the mere fact of how many people in Christie’s inner circle were so very intimately involved in the planning and cover up of this – leading to the conclusion that the only way that Christie actually didn’t know about the planning and cover up is if it was perfectly clear by design that Christie was to purposely be kept in the dark about the details.
Which is (1) not plausible or (2) a sinister culture (a point made many times already) in that these people – people this loyal to him - would not keep Christie in the dark about something this big and this damaging without him wanting to not be told of the details.
In short – this could not credibly have been kept from Christie without he himself letting his inner circle know that he doesn’t want to know about these things. And not wanting to know how this is being covered up or not pressing to find out why his own high level appointees were resigning is patently absurd to anyone who has followed Christie in any way.