Meet Regina Egea, the woman who may bring down Chris Christie

So I know, you read  the headline and went who the hellis Regina Egea?

Well let me not keep you in the dark for long.

Regina Egea will be the reason Chris Christie may be impeached and/or resigns.

Now I know, none of this is making sense, so let me start from the beginning

Chris Christie's entire defense/denial of knowledge for bridge-gate, rests on the idea that he is basically incompetent.

On September 9, 2013, until September 13 lanes leading off the GW bridge in NJ were closed in what now appears to be an act of political retribution by Chris Christie.

Now according to Gov. Christie he didnt know anything about his administrations involvement Bridge-gate until January 8th. And even after that he doesnt know anything.

This despite having his office issue an official denial of involvement/dismissal of the idea as "Crazy" on September 17th.

Now look that alone actually isnt a problem, Im sure all politicans have to issue "this shit is crazy" disclaimers to a lot of conspiracy theories, and then they forget all about them and move on. It's what happens next that is the problem.



As can be seen in the video above, on December 2nd Christ Christie is forced to directly address and deny the controversy.

4 days later, Christie appointed official, David Wildstien, who ordered the lanes closed, resigns because of the controversy.

Now for most people, when someone resigns over a scandal you've been asked about for 2 /2 months and just had to personally deny, you'd probably want to look into that. But then again, your competent and Gov. Christie wants you to believe he's not.

Which is why, as shown on the Video, on December 12th Christie responds to being asked if he's looking for any evidence of a crime or cover-up with "why would I"?

And lets be honest, thats a reasonable question. I mean why would you care that a person you gave power too used that power to abuse the people you work for? clearly not a problem....*sarcasm*

But even if Christie did actually think the scandal was over and that was it, you'd think he'd want to make sure or know why?

Especially considering that the next day he personally announcing the resignation of Bill Baroni, Wildstein's boss and also directly involved in the lane closing and currently (at that time) under investigation.

But hey again, why ask questions? its only two people who have resigned. I mean everyone just sees a resignation letter and tells the person. "hey have a nice life" and never asks why they are leaving.

Well clearly at some point, Christie changed his mind, because at the end of that video, December 23rd 203, Christie says "I asked my staff to give me a full briefing"

Which is kinda weird because 16 days later, when firing his deputy chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly for sending the email telling Wildstein and Baroni to close the lanes, Christie claims he didnt know anything about it until then.

Even weirder though in that same press conference, he claims he asked his staff about it 1 month ago. That would make it approximately December 8th, a good 4 days before he told a reporter he wasnt and wouldnt be looking into it. Also did he forget he already knew when he fired Kelly and only remembered later? whats up with that???

And again, its kinda odd you ask your staff about their involvement in something you say you had no reason to think they were involved in until a month after you asked them. Just saying.

By the way, when asked why Kelly did it, Christie says:

"I have -- I have not had any conversation with Bridget Kelly since the email came out. And so she was not given the opportunity to explain to me why she lied because it was so obvious that she had. And I'm, quite frankly, not interested in the explanation at the moment."

So we wind up back at square one, just like with Wildstein, you see absolutely no reason to look into anything because its not remotely possible anyone else could have been involved, the thing MUST be over.

Oh by the way did I mention in the same speech, Christie also removed his support from a former aide, and campaign manager Bill Stepien who had left to take over the state GOP because that guy was involved in it too?

So thats his second "one staff member who lied to him." Must suck to work with so many untrustworthy people.........

And it turns out not the last. Hang on we are almost back to Regina Egea.

See after he took office the second time a lot of his senior staff left to do other things (quite normal) including the aforementioned almost head of the state GOP. Another staffer who left was Chief of Staff Kevin O'Dowd, Christie's pick to be the states new Attorney General, and the person therefore who would investigate Bridge Gate. Well assuming he gets confirmed,  because as of now Mr. O'Dowd's confirmation has been delayed due to his name showing up in some of the Bridge Gate emails. OOPS, that's awkward......

Anyways Mr. O'Dowd's move created a vacancy for Chief of Staff, a vacancy that was filled by Regina Egea.

Which is kinda awkward given what happened yesterday.

See by Saturday it was discovered that WAAAAY back on September the 13th, the New York appointed head of the Port Authority, the organization that oversees the GW bridge and employed Wildstein and Baroni, and also the man who had lifted the lane closures, had sent an email about the closures, calling them possibly illegal and mentioning an investigation would be starting to Gov. Chris Christie's office.

Now you will remember that on September 18th, Christies office dismissed the claims of an intentional closure as crazy....even though it turns out they had been notified 5 days prior to that claim.

or at least he sent it to Christie's Director of the Authorities Unit of the Governor's Office, Regina Egea.

Now unlike many other Christie staffers connected to this, who all CC'ed, forwarded or emailed each other, there is no other evidence that Egea had anything to do with Bridge Gate.

Which means she likely did her job as passed the email along to her boss, Governor Chris Christie.

Which is kinda a big problem for the governor seeing as how he's on record repeatedly saying he didnt know anything about it until at least December, and also telling people their was no need to investigate.

And that ignores the optics of the one person who knew about this and wasnt connected to the scandal getting a MASSIVE promotion (maybe to buy silence?).

Now I suppose its possible Egea will fall on the sword, and have some way to prove that she was in on it from the beginning and therefore had been warned by Kelly or O'Dowd, or Stepien not to forward those messages to the Governor, but if she cant, Christie better buckle up cause its going to be a bumpy ride, especially since the incoming speaker of the State Assembly has said he would be open to impeaching the Governor if it can be proven he lied in the cover-up.


Some people never learn, the cover up can be as bad as the crime........