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To: JohnM who wrote (242134)	1/14/2014 2:00:54 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541853

If you are interested in NJ politics, I suggest you click on the link here and read the post. It does about as good a job as I've seen of a quick and dirty summary. ------------------------------------------- New Jersey Politics 101 Talking Points Memo by Josh Marshall Vincent Prieto (D), incoming Speaker of the State Assembly, says State Sen. Richard Codey (D) is wrong when he says that "Democratic Power Brokers" are trying to stymie the BridgeGate investigation. Want to understand what this is all about? Who's right and how Prieto fits into the "power brokers" Codey is talking about? Then read this truly epic TPM Reader email from last night about who's who and how they do politics in the Garden State.

To: JohnM who wrote (242134)	1/14/2014 2:02:04 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541853

The clusterf*** Republican civil war will continue at a fever pitch through mid-2016. Hope they have as much fun duking it out as we will watching it.

To: JohnM who wrote (242134)	1/14/2014 4:07:21 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 541853

If Christie’s Out If? Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, a veteran of presidential campaigns and a potential contender in 2016, dismisses Mr. Christie’s defense trying to deflect blame on aides who he said did not clear their actions with him. “Personnel is policy,” Mr. Santorum said Sunday on “Meet the Press,” adding that it was “very clear that the personnel” Mr. Christie surrounded himself with were “not sensitive to what seemed to be a fairly obvious wrong thing to do.” “The people that you hire are the policies that are implemented,” he said in explaining why Mr. Christie deserves more blame. Read more: washingtontimes.com