Chris Christie: a scandal too far for White House hopeful

The New Jersey Governor had only just dealt with Bridgegate when the Sandy relief storm blew in

Charles Laurence

HAS the other shoe just dropped on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s naked ambition for the White House?

The second Christie scandal inside a week broke early yesterday with a timing which suggests that the rotund but curiously charismatic Governor is not the only politician in New Jersey ready and willing to play hardball.

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Charles Laurence is a US correspondent for The Week.co.uk. He is a former New York bureau chief for The Daily Telegraph. He divides his time between Manhattan and Woodstock, upstate New York.