Christie Cleared Again

This time it was an investigation into a $15 million investment of New Jersey pension funds into a firm with ties to Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker after Baker made a $10,000 donation to the New Jersey Republican State Committee that an audit, launched by Christie’s administration, found did not violate pay-to-play rules.

The reasoning, according to an nj.com story, went like this:

Attacking Public Employees

A cabal seems to have developed to counter the perception that there is a crisis in the funding of public pension plans and they fancy themselves as defending public employees.  Nothing could be further from the truth.