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Chris Christie at the Bridge
2014
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Chris Christie (1962-) was Governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018 and a contender for the 2016 Republican nomination. His political standing was badly damaged by the scandal known as "Bridgegate." Between September 9 and September 13, 2013 two unannounced lane closures on the upper deck of the George Washington Bridge created dangerous gridlock in a major commuter route connecting Manhattan with the New Jersey suburbs. Though the governor's appointees on the Port Authority claimed the closures were due to a traffic study, it was later revealed, when indictments were handed down, that the situation was in fact created deliberately, perhaps to retaliate against the mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey, who did not support Christie's 2013 re-election bid for governor.
It was never proven that Christie had direct knowledge of the conspiracy, but widespread belief that he did helped end his bid for the presidency. This caricature depicts the notoriously overweight Christie as a gargantuan Dionysus, the hedonistic Greek god of wine, protected by an entourage of hoodlums while he reclines, eating grapes and overseeing the situation. |