If we use the first axiom, Follow the woman....then let's ask ourselves.....Who is the woman, Bridget Ann Kelly in the center of the Chris Christie bridge scandal??
The femme fatale Christie aide ousted for orchestrating the George Washington Bridge traffic scheme that delayed ambulances and left schoolkids trapped on buses is a New Jersey soccer mom whose brother is an EMT.
Bridget Anne Kelly, 41 — fired Thursday by Christie for repeatedly lying about her political payback plan was described by neighbors as a “typical suburban mom” who sends her four kids, ages 17, 14, 10 and 7, to Catholic schools.
“I am just shocked that she could be so petty and reckless,” a mom whose daughter attends the same school as some of Kelly’s brood told The New York Post.
Even more stunning,is that Kelly’s brother, Eamon Daul, is a longtime emergency responder who trains new EMTs, works as a firefighter and is the EMS supervisor at New Jersey’s St. Clare’s Health Care Systems, according to public records.
His sister’s little September bridge stunt delayed responses to 911 calls, including one to the Fort Lee residence of a 91-year-old woman whom officials and family members said died before EMTs could reach her.
Another of Kelly’s brothers, state employee Liam Daul, was likely doing a slow burn Thursday at his $70,000-a-year trading gig in the investment unit of the New Jersey Treasury.
“Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” Bridget Kelly wrote in her now infamous Aug. 13 e-mail that signaled the go-ahead for the massive, three-day lane closure plan that wrought havoc on the GWB.
Christie said Thursday he was “embarrassed and humiliated” by Kelly’s actions — and he isn’t the first man blindsided by the cutthroat blonde, sources said. (Oh really? Now you go there Crispy Creme?)
Her husband, Joe — a golf pro at the Mendham Golf & Tennis Club, where Christie and wife Mary Pat are members — was stunned when his wife of 16 years came home in 2011 and announced she wanted a divorce.
“The guy was a wreck. It was completely out of the blue,” a source said. I'm a married man and believe me when I tell you...Something like that is never just out of the blue.
Records show Bridget Kelly filed for divorce in December 2011, citing irreconcilable differences. The divorce was granted in February 2012. She got their Ramsey home, and he moved to Upper Saddle River. They have joint custody of their two daughters and two sons.
Neither Joe nor Bridget Kelly could be reached for comment on Thursday. No surprise there.
Bridget Kelly’s spectacular flame-out ended a nearly two-decade Republican political career. After graduating Maryland’s Mount St. Mary’s University in 2004, she went to work as a legislative aide.
She jointed the Christie administration in 2010 as director of legislative relations and in April 2013 was tapped for her $140,000-a-year job as a deputy chief of staff.
So...if we now follow the money....What do you think will happen next to Ms. Kelly...
Over zealous or not...I don't personally think she did all of this with at least not a wink and a nod from the top...Someone higher than her...In a big mess like this....Somebody has to fall on their sword...Take one for the team....
She's a single mom with four kids. She's spent 20 years in GOP politics, to get to her $140K with Gov. Christie. So watch where she winds up, who she works for next. She's done in politics in NJ, so who will hire her? I say a connected friend of Christie.
It will be done very quietly....It will make the bottom column of page 56,it if makes the newspapers at all...but she will be taken care of....This is how these things always work.
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Any of the conservative think tanks in Washington DC will hire her, but they won't make any announcement of that.
From what I'm seeing on MSNBC and reading online, she's not that heavy... she was a foot soldier, not a politico. And Christie is not liked by the Tea Party crowd
Someone will try to buy her silence, but the Feds may spoil the deal. Tough though she may be, the prospect of being separated from those kids for a few years may be enough to make her sing. I think the documents may provide the overture.
Rachel Maddox was talking about this scandal before the rest of the news media got it..
She is the first person I heard talking about this bridge story. She was on the Wendy Williams show early last month discussing it.
Great post Keith...
The family of the 91 year old lady say they are not blaming Christie for her death. They say they believe her time to die had come. For some reason, I'd be surprised if they weren't black people.
Lisa-They were white. I Saw them on the news. I'm sure they were ($)PAID a visit from Christie's people.
Had ANY black politician done this ANYWHERE in America, they'd have already done the perp walk in handcuffs with murder charges and destroyed in the media. WHILE KRISPY KREME Christie got some fools saying "I believe him" ..lol. never underestimate the stupidity of the american public.
Any of the conservative think tanks in Washington DC will hire her, but they won't make any announcement of that.
Think tanks tend to hire a mix of publicists and people with serious skills in the realm of research and analysis. There is nothing about Bridget Kelly's background that suggests she knows SAS or anything of regression analysis and they cannot put her on MacNeil-Lehrer because she's tainted.
I will wager that there may be a patronage job out there for her that she desperately needs, but it will be on the staff of pol so-and-so (which is a world she knows).
Had ANY black politician done this ANYWHERE in America, they'd have already done the perp walk in handcuffs with murder charges and destroyed in the media.
Maybe Zulu, but given Charles Rangel's personal history, crooked black pols would be well advised to go into tax evasion; works for him.
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