Department of Justice: Chris Christie spent big on hotels

We don't know the exact amount because the lying Odumba who promised transparency during the campaign no longer thinks he's accountable to taxpayers who pay the bills. But that will change with Darrell Issa.

P.S. You need your little pointed head examined too.
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I heard it was $200 billion, but it was also from the same anonymous source as the $200 million.
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44879.html

Christie's expenditures came up during last fall's gubernatorial campaign. At the time, Christie defended his actions, saying he had no other option.

“There are only a few rooms at each hotel that are reserved for government rate,” Christie told the Asbury Park Press last year. “If you got them, you got them. If you didn’t, you didn’t. I wouldn’t have slept in the park.”
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100% true. anyone who has traveled on business knows this. if you must be in town for a meeting, and the hotels only have the max rate available, you have no choice but to spend the night in order to make the meeting. what should you do? sleep in the alley?

i've gone over my expense allotment in the same way, and had to clear it with my accounting group. the response is always the same: "did you try to book at the lesser rate? you did? ok, that's all we can do."

stupid article from a stupid source, posted by a stupid ET user.
 
Booking ahead of time usually helps... Christie could have also slept at the Holiday Inn, or even the Red Carpet Inn, with all the common folk. Wouldn't have caused death....

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100% true. anyone who has traveled on business knows this. if you must be in town for a meeting, and the hotels only have the max rate available, you have no choice but to spend the night in order to make the meeting. what should you do? sleep in the alley?

i've gone over my expense allotment in the same way, and had to clear it with my accounting group. the response is always the same: "did you try to book at the lesser rate? you did? ok, that's all we can do."

stupid article from a stupid source, posted by a stupid ET user.
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Booking ahead of time usually helps... Christie could have also slept at the Holiday Inn, or even the Red Carpet Inn, with all the common folk. Wouldn't have caused death....
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again, not sure how much you travel on business, but when I travel, sometimes i cannot book in advance. that's just the nature of urgent meetings.

secondly, sometimes there isn't a room available when conventions are in town, or the nearest "holiday inn" etc., is 50 miles away.

it's called "perspective" and you need it if you're going to throw stones.

i'm not saying christie couldn't have done better, but squabbling over 94$ on each of 23 trips, when the state is TENS OF BILLIONS over budget because of union folly and despicable spending is a bit like not seeing the forest for the trees. and if that's all you got to make Christie into a demon, you're not going to be very successful.
 
Shocker… Far Left DOJ Crackpot Was Behind Christie Hit Piece
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 11:51 AM

What a shock. The person behind the Department of Justice Chris Christie hit piece is a radical far left activist with a troubled work history.

The Daily Caller reported:
The Daily Caller has learned that the author behind the recent report from the Department of Justice that targeted five former U.S. attorneys for excessive travel expenses has had, according to our sources, a troubled history in the DOJ and attempted in the past to use her position to smear conservatives…

…Tom Fitton, the president of DOJ watchdog organization Judicial Watch, agreed with that sentiment, telling TheDC that his first instinct was that the report was nothing more than a hit job from an “ideological and hostile Justice Department that leaked the report.”

New information obtained by TheDC shows that that narrative may be true.

The report’s author, Maura Lee, began her DOJ career in the civil rights division, but now works in the DOJ Office of Inspector General. Hans von Spakovsky, former counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights, supervised Lee and told TheDC that he was “astonished” when he found out she was the author of the report.

According to von Spakovsky, Lee was “one of the most belligerent, unprofessional lawyers” he encountered during his time at the DOJ. “Because of her,” he said, “we had to completely change our security protocol.”

Another former senior DOJ official who asked not to be named confirmed Lee’s involvement in strategizing to leak information to the Washington Post, saying that she was not a trustworthy person and had major political motivations.

Von Spakovsky described one case where Lee was caught breaking into the e-mail of a colleague, Joshua Rogers, specifically because Rogers was conservative and Christian. “Lee was radically left. She made it plain that she didn’t like Rogers,” von Spakovsky said.

He went on to call Lee’s efforts at DOJ a “major security breach.”
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Not to mention that "$2,176 more than his budgeted rate over the course of 23 trips" is less than what Obama spent PER SECOND on his Mumbai trip.
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Shocker… Far Left DOJ Crackpot Was Behind Christie Hit Piece
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 11:51 AM

What a shock. The person behind the Department of Justice Chris Christie hit piece is a radical far left activist with a troubled work history.

The Daily Caller reported:
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What were the conditions under which the hotels were booked that went over?

Did the author determine if he just overspent or perhaps there was a reason he overspent. For example: Maybe there was a conference in town or something along those lines.

I suppose that 4 dollar a day overages weren't worth the authors time to check and the truth would remove the shock value of the 4 dollar a day overages.

You are truly an idiot.


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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44879.html


DoJ: Christie spent big on hotels


By: Meredith Shiner
November 9, 2010 09:00 AM EST

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has elevated his national political profile as a conservative cost-cutter since taking the state's highest office, used taxpayer money to stay at luxury hotels while serving as a federal prosecutor, according to a new Justice Department report.

Christie exceeded the federal government's set lodging rates by as much as $242 per night on 15 occasions between 2007 and 2009, states the report by Justice's inspector general.

He spent $2,176 more than his budgeted rate over the course of 23 trips, of which only eight stays were booked in compliance with the federally allotted travel rates.

According to the report, Christie, who was a U.S. attorney — referred to as "Attorney C" — "provided insufficient, inaccurate or no justification" for 14 of the 15 trips in question.

In one instance, Christie explained a $475-per-night stay at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington by saying an early-morning speech was scheduled at the hotel. The report concluded, however, that if a room at the government rate of $233 was available within a reasonable distance, "we do not believe this was a suitable justification."

The report also cites $798 worth of expenses submitted by Christie for car service to and from airports in Boston and London, which the IG dubbed as "excessive."

Christie's expenditures came up during last fall's gubernatorial campaign. At the time, Christie defended his actions, saying he had no other option.

“There are only a few rooms at each hotel that are reserved for government rate,” Christie told the Asbury Park Press last year. “If you got them, you got them. If you didn’t, you didn’t. I wouldn’t have slept in the park.”


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