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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReport of Christie As Youthful Non-Goon Actually Sounds Pretty Goonish
Plenty of news stories have emerged to fill out Chris Christie's image as a vindictive and sometimes unethical politician. But the Washington Post digs deep into Christie's youth and finds an episode suggesting just the opposite. The story, headlined, "Chris Christie less keen to play hardball as a young man," reports of an episode when Christie "passed up the chance to play legal hardball," and passes along the favorable comments of teammates and coaches impressed with his maturity and restraint. It was "the most impressive thing Christie did in high school," reports a teammate. I dont know if I could have handled it the way he did," recalls his coach.
What did Christie do that so impressed them? Well, he had been the starting catcher on the baseball team, and a better player transferred to the school and took his starting spot, and Christie decided not to sue to keep the kid out of school.
The idea of suing to block the transfer of the better catcher came from Christie's father, and Christie decided against it. The story notes that Christie did not reject this idea out of hand. (He "sought opinions about the idea from two of his closest friends on the team.." Nor did he reject it on moral grounds. Rather, he simply decided it was too risky. ("Christie thought his dad was wrong, given the apparent risks: The season might be forfeited, and the team and the town might be turned against their family."
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/02/report-of-christie-as-non-goon-sounds-goonish.html?imw=Y&f=most-viewed-24h10
What did Christie do that so impressed them? Well, he had been the starting catcher on the baseball team, and a better player transferred to the school and took his starting spot, and Christie decided not to sue to keep the kid out of school.
The idea of suing to block the transfer of the better catcher came from Christie's father, and Christie decided against it. The story notes that Christie did not reject this idea out of hand. (He "sought opinions about the idea from two of his closest friends on the team.." Nor did he reject it on moral grounds. Rather, he simply decided it was too risky. ("Christie thought his dad was wrong, given the apparent risks: The season might be forfeited, and the team and the town might be turned against their family."
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/02/report-of-christie-as-non-goon-sounds-goonish.html?imw=Y&f=most-viewed-24h10
Chait is right - "he thought about being a legalistic douchebag, but decided not to" is not a ringing endorsement.
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Report of Christie As Youthful Non-Goon Actually Sounds Pretty Goonish (Original Post)
muriel_volestrangler
Feb 2014
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lapfog_1
(29,243 posts)1. Who the fuck comes up with an idea to sue to keep someone out of school
because your son loses his spot as catcher on the baseball team?
And even if such a loser idea is floated by your father, would you even ask around about it?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)2. Reminds me of Squat Wanker's phone call with "David Koch" ....
Murphy: Right, right. Well, well back you any way we can. But, uh, what we were thinking about the crowds was, uh, was planting some troublemakers.
Walker: You know, the, well, the only problem with that because we thought about that.
Walker: You know, the, well, the only problem with that because we thought about that.
http://host.madison.com/transcript-of-prank-koch-walker-conversation/article_531276b6-3f6a-11e0-b288-001cc4c002e0.html