In 2010, John F. McKeon, a New Jersey assemblyman, made what he thought was a mild comment on a radio program: Some of the public employees that Gov. Chris Christie was then vilifying had been some of the governor’s biggest supporters.
He was surprised to receive a handwritten note from Mr. Christie,
telling him that he had heard the comments, and that he didn’t like
them.
“I thought it was a joke,” Mr. McKeon recalled. “What governor would
take the time to write a personal note over a relatively innocuous
comment?”
But the gesture would come to seem genteel compared with the fate
suffered by others in disagreements with Mr. Christie: a former governor
who was stripped of police security at public events; a Rutgers
professor who lost state financing for cherished programs; a state
senator whose candidate for a judgeship suddenly stalled; another
senator who was disinvited from an event with the governor in his own
district.
In almost every case, Mr. Christie waved off any suggestion that he had
meted out retribution. But to many, the incidents have left that
impression, and it has been just as powerful in scaring off others who
might dare to cross him.
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