Spare a thought this morning for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has just given us all a fresh reminder of how important tone at the top really is.
Today Christie is front-page news at the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, the New Jersey Star-Ledger and probably a bundle of other media outlets. The story is that his senior staff conspired with other political appointees in New Jersey to close off northern New Jersey’s access to the George Washington Bridge into New York, as punishment for a local mayor not endorsing him for re-election.
