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" This is the sixth post of a series by Scott Raab, an Esquire writer at large and New Jersey resident who has covered the Port Authority for years. Read the entire series here. Strange days, even for New Jersey: Yesterday, the state&amp;#039;s largest newspaper rescinded its endorsement of Chris Christie, a mere three months too late, in a column referring to Christie twice as a &amp;quot;bully,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;the most overrated politician in the country,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;a man who is better at talking than governing,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;a creep.&amp;quot; It took me back to the first sentence of the endorsement itself -- where the same newspaper&amp;#039;s opening sentence read, &amp;quot;Gov. Chris Christie is the most remarkable political talent America has seen since Bill Clinton.&amp;quot; Governor Christie, meanwhile, sashays from town to town like some corrupted beauty queen -- Dallas last week, Chicago tomorrow -- whoring for money in his second job as chairman of the Republican Governor&amp;#039;s Association, which, like the poor newspaper editorial board, once swooned over Christie&amp;#039;s tits. Now the very same gubernatorial candidates counting on him to separate the right-wing johns from their cash, skip town when Christie comes, afraid to get caught on camera with him. You really can&amp;#039;t blame the politicians for their caution, which, given Christie&amp;#039;s case of crabs, is entirely sane. But there are no excuses in New Jersey, where his tenure as U.S. Attorney -- a job he &amp;quot;earned&amp;quot; by helping raise funds for Bush the Younger -- was pocked with weeping sores. My personal favorite was a case from 2005, when Christie&amp;#039;s office busted a sex-slave ring in a North Jersey town named Guttenburg. At the accompanying news conference, Christie spoke of all the horrors endured by the victims, and the bar owner who allegedly doubled as their madam faced up to 250 years in prison. Luckily, the madam proved willing to testify that among her off-the-books business expenses were $40,000 in bribes for the mayor of Guttenburg and his wife, who -- North Jersey being North Jersey -- also served on the town Planning Board. And so it came to pass -- never let it be said that Chris Christie won&amp;#039;t do happy endings -- that the Guttenburg mayor and his wife each caught four-year prison terms while the alleged slave trader got probation. Call it premature nostalgia for a man we knew only too well, yet I can&amp;#039;t help but choke up a little when I think back to those bygone days when Christie defended the homeland against the depravity of MTV&amp;#039;s Jersey Shore by reminding us that Snooki and The Situation were from New York, and calling its cast &amp;quot;buffoons.&amp;quot; If only those crazy kids had been from Jersey, Christie could&amp;#039;ve found them desks at the Port Authority. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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