Christie News Conference: I’m Sorry, Heads Are Rolling

Here are the key points from NJ Gov. Chris Christie’s Thursday news conference regarding Wednesday’s “Bridgegate” internal communication revelations made prior to the Q&A:

• The governor apologized to the people of Fort Lee and the state of New Jersey;
• The governor is going to Fort Lee today to offer an apology to the town;
• The governor fired deputy chief of staff Bridget Anne Kelly;
• The governor has ordered Bill Stepian to withdraw his name from consideration as chairman of the New Jersey republican Party and to withdraw his consultancy from the Republican Governors’ Association;
• • The governor repeatedly characterized the behavior behind the e-mails as “unacceptable”;
• The governor claims he “had no involvement… in the planning and execution” of the George Washington Bridge closing and blasted the “stupidity” of those behind the closings.

By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.