Accountability:Chris Christie Shows the Way
9 January 2014 By Abiodun Giwa
Chris Christie
For leaders who don't know how to deal with subordinates who bring negative attention to them, Chris Christie of New Jersey has shown the way. Fire them!
Just within 24 hours that information emerged that aides close to the governor may have been aware of the politically motivated closing of George Washington Bridge, the governor has fired Bridget Anne Kelly, a deputy chief of staff.
"I am heartbroken that someone I permitted to be in that circle of trust for the past five years betrayed the trust, the New Times quoted the governor from a speech he made at the State House.
The truth about the closure of the bridge has been in the news until Wednesday when emails from the governor's aides show that the governor's office might have been aware of the matter against earlier fillers from the office. Instantly, the governor said he had been misled by an aide and promised to hold whoever was responsible in his office accountable.
He claimed ignorance of the lane closure on the bridge and the orchestrated political drama. He described the act as stupid; said he felt humiliated by the development, in his apology to the public.
The bridge's three lanes that link New York to New Jersey were closed for three days. Apparently as a political vendetta against a democratic mayoral candidate for failure to endorse the governor in the last governorship election in the state.
By his action, observers say Christie has shown trust matters and that betrayal of it should not be treated with a kid's glove. People feel and say that politically Christie has used this opportunity to make a case that he is serious about accountability in public office and that he is a decisive leader. But liberal political pundits are expressing different views that seems to means Christie cannot claim to say he does not about a decision taken in his own office to close a bridge for four days. They are impugning the public has not heard the last and drumming in manners that suggest that 2016 battle for the White House has begun.
Not many people thought that Christie could come out brimming with fire saying he was unaware of development that caused the bridge closure. For example, Joshua Green in Bloomberg BusinessWeek like many others believed that the news linking Christie to the bridge closing scandal was damaging without waiting to hear the governor' side of the story.
Even after the news conference, many pundits still don't believe Christie can be innocent as he has claimed. But some say that if a man of Christie's age and stature says that he has nothing to do with the closure ; that the act belong to his aides and no aide has come forward to say Christie has lied, he has to be given the benefit of the doubt, and that if at end of the day it is established that he knows about it contrary to what he has said, he must know the consequence that he is politically a goner.
Some people are saying that no matter what the pundits who are politically opposed to Christie are saying, Christie has won the first round. They said that he delivered a gusto and nerve wracking submission that was difficult to be doubted; showing the way about how leaders should hold their subordinates accountable in an era that protection of special interests and winning elections have taken the front seat, and tax payers who foot the bill for paying the politicians have become mere spectators to leadership lacking accountability as if government business is charity.
Just within 24 hours that information emerged that aides close to the governor may have been aware of the politically motivated closing of George Washington Bridge, the governor has fired Bridget Anne Kelly, a deputy chief of staff.
"I am heartbroken that someone I permitted to be in that circle of trust for the past five years betrayed the trust, the New Times quoted the governor from a speech he made at the State House.
The truth about the closure of the bridge has been in the news until Wednesday when emails from the governor's aides show that the governor's office might have been aware of the matter against earlier fillers from the office. Instantly, the governor said he had been misled by an aide and promised to hold whoever was responsible in his office accountable.
He claimed ignorance of the lane closure on the bridge and the orchestrated political drama. He described the act as stupid; said he felt humiliated by the development, in his apology to the public.
The bridge's three lanes that link New York to New Jersey were closed for three days. Apparently as a political vendetta against a democratic mayoral candidate for failure to endorse the governor in the last governorship election in the state.
By his action, observers say Christie has shown trust matters and that betrayal of it should not be treated with a kid's glove. People feel and say that politically Christie has used this opportunity to make a case that he is serious about accountability in public office and that he is a decisive leader. But liberal political pundits are expressing different views that seems to means Christie cannot claim to say he does not about a decision taken in his own office to close a bridge for four days. They are impugning the public has not heard the last and drumming in manners that suggest that 2016 battle for the White House has begun.
Not many people thought that Christie could come out brimming with fire saying he was unaware of development that caused the bridge closure. For example, Joshua Green in Bloomberg BusinessWeek like many others believed that the news linking Christie to the bridge closing scandal was damaging without waiting to hear the governor' side of the story.
Even after the news conference, many pundits still don't believe Christie can be innocent as he has claimed. But some say that if a man of Christie's age and stature says that he has nothing to do with the closure ; that the act belong to his aides and no aide has come forward to say Christie has lied, he has to be given the benefit of the doubt, and that if at end of the day it is established that he knows about it contrary to what he has said, he must know the consequence that he is politically a goner.
Some people are saying that no matter what the pundits who are politically opposed to Christie are saying, Christie has won the first round. They said that he delivered a gusto and nerve wracking submission that was difficult to be doubted; showing the way about how leaders should hold their subordinates accountable in an era that protection of special interests and winning elections have taken the front seat, and tax payers who foot the bill for paying the politicians have become mere spectators to leadership lacking accountability as if government business is charity.
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