The Times has a look at the inside of Christie’s inner circle, and the article included this paragraph:
Party leaders are urging the governor to let go of a trademark Christie trait: his fierce loyalty to old friends and high school classmates who have risen with him in state government. It is time, they counsel, for him to recruit a more nationally savvy political team that can take him beyond Trenton to Washington. Fueling such concerns, new allegations arose on Saturday that top Christie aides had used Hurricane Sandy recovery money as a political weapon against the Democratic mayor of Hoboken, N.J.
I don’t think these high-level Republicans understand what they’re dealing with. He surrounds himself with loyalists because he can trust them to keep their mouths shut about his dirty deals — just like they do in the Mafia. Who knows? By the time we’re done, we may find some slight overlap.
