{"id":5162,"date":"2014-03-31T03:40:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T03:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=5162"},"modified":"2014-03-31T03:40:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T03:40:22","slug":"gov-christie-trips-over-his-own-mojo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5162","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Christie trips over his own mojo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It’s been reported that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has gotten his “mojo” back after a rough few months fighting off reports of possible cover-up in that infamous George Washington Bridge lane-closing kerfuffle.<\/p>\n

In a way, he has. He hired a law firm to do an internal investigation of whether the governor knew anything about the lane closure, which reportedly was done to get back at the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee, N.J., for refusing to endorse the Republican<\/em> governor’s re-election.<\/p>\n

The firm hired by Christie then cleared the guy who hired it of any wrongdoing. Imagine that. Shocking, I tell ya.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/202124-report-christie-apologizes-for-occupied-territories<\/p>\n

Then he jets off to Las Vegas to meet with prominent Republican donors where he — oops! — refers to those so-called “occupied territories” now known as Gaza and the West Bank bordering Israel.<\/p>\n

Well, it seems that one of those GOP fat cats is one Sheldon Adelson, a big-time Republican donor and a long-time ardent supporter of Israel, where the term “occupied territories” is stricken from the political lexicon.<\/p>\n

As The Hill reported: “Many Israelis object to referring to areas where Palestinians live but Israel maintains a military presence as ‘occupied territories’\u201d because they believe the term implicitly suggests that Israeli troops should not be in the area.”<\/p>\n

Christie apologized to Adelson, who accepted the governor’s mea culpa<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It just goes to show how politicians need to be sure they don’t let their mojo get in the way of better judgment and use of words.<\/p>\n\n

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It’s been reported that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has gotten his “mojo” back after a rough few months fighting off reports of possible cover-up in that infamous George Washington Bridge lane-closing kerfuffle. In a way, he has. He hired a law firm to do an internal investigation of whether the governor knew anything about … Continue reading Gov. Christie trips over his own mojo<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[749,965,2369,2739,3378,4250],"class_list":["post-5162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bridgegate","tag-chris-christie","tag-israel","tag-las-vegas","tag-occupied-territories","tag-sheldon-adelsen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}