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   From: rhk@pfeiser.com   
      
   Attention Democrats!  Go buy a gun and put a bullet in your head.   
      
   For Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., even getting out of town isn’t   
   enough to help him avoid the fallout from the George Washington   
   Bridge lane closure scandal.   
      
   As he travels the country to raise money for the Republican   
   Governors Association (RGA) – he chairs the group – he’s finding   
   that GOP candidates aren’t all that eager to be seen with him.   
   According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the four Republicans running   
   for governor had no plans to attend his fundraisers there –   
   although another story from U.S. News and World Report has one   
   of the four candidates, Bill Brady, saying he would be happy to   
   campaign with Christie.   
      
   To make matters worse, former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, a   
   Democrat, will hold a press conference in Chicago on Tuesday,   
   the day of the fundraiser, to highlight the bridge scandal,   
   according to the Sun-Times. Strickland is being deployed by the   
   Democratic National Committee, part of a larger effort to keep   
   the scandal in the news.   
      
   National Republicans have generally defended Christie or given   
   him a pass in the wake of the scandal, and most have said he   
   should stay on as head of the RGA.   
      
   He got less than a ringing endorsement from Sen. Rand Paul, R-   
   Ky., who told a Houston television station it wasn’t his job to   
   judge whether Christie should continue running the governor’s   
   organization.   
      
   “It's important that people think that their government not be   
   used to bully them. So for example, one of the things that   
   conservatives have been upset with President Obama is that it   
   looked like he was using the IRS to target taxpayer groups.   
   Nobody wants to think their government would shut down a bridge   
   or do something just because you're a Democrat and I'm a   
   Republican. It's an unsettling charge. I don't know if it's   
   true, but it's unsettling,” Paul said.   
      
   On the home front, lawmakers in the New Jersey State Assembly   
   who sit on the committee investigating Christie are expanding   
   their probe to determine if he took a helicopter ride near the   
   closed bridge lanes in September and if he met with David   
   Wildstein, the former Port Authority executive Christie   
   appointed who has alleged that the governor knew about the lane   
   closures, the New York Post reported.   
      
   The two men appeared together in a photo taken on Sept. 11, the   
   third day of the lane closures.   
      
   http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bridge-scandal-follows-christie-   
   around-the-country/   
      
       
      
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