New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (The Economist)

In one of the most galvanizing media days in New Jersey since then Governor Jim McGreevey came out of the closet, current Gov. Chris Christie today fired a chief staffer and apologized to the public at a marathon press conference minutes before a key figure in the George Washington Bridge political-revenge saga took the Fifth on every question put to him by a legislative panel other than is your name David Wildstein.

Only in New Jersey.

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