{"id":186412,"date":"2014-01-28T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/28\/and-the-new-york-times-just-went-medieval-of-christies-lt-governor\/"},"modified":"2014-01-28T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T00:41:00","slug":"and-the-new-york-times-just-went-medieval-of-christies-lt-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/28\/and-the-new-york-times-just-went-medieval-of-christies-lt-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"And the New York Times Just Went Medieval of Christie&#8217;s Lt. Governor\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that&nbsp; New Jersey Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno has drawn the attention of the <i>Times<\/i>, and when the hed is, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/28\/nyregion\/a-lieutenant-governor-an-artist-and-a-portrait-of-a-smear.html?ref=nyregion\">A Lieutenant Governor, an Artist and a Portrait of a Smear<\/a>, it&#8217;s pretty clear that your political career is in trouble:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">In her first year in office, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno opened a frontal attack on an unlikely target, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Its contracting was \u201cinexcusably\u201d flawed, she said. Its practices were \u201cunethical\u201d and too cozy. Its director had to go.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Ms. Guadagno went on like this for months in 2010, and no one knew what to make of it. She wanted more control over the Arts Council, which distributed $16 million a year all over the state and was broadly respected. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In spring 2011, she began a new offensive. She went before legislative committees and pilloried a man doing work on an Arts Council contract, building a 9\/11 timeline at Liberty State Park in Jersey City. His contract was no-bid, she said, the money unclear.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">This gentleman is Daniel Aubrey, a 62-year-old man with a gray-flecked goatee. He and his wife, an artist, live in a modest home on a modest block just outside Trenton. A friend called him that day and exclaimed: The lieutenant governor just spelled out your name and said there was contract fraud!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A day later, an assistant attorney general called Mr. Aubrey. You are involved in an illegal contract, the prosecutor said. Do you have a criminal attorney?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">He did not.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Just like that, Mr. Aubrey fell into reputation\u2019s ditch, and the Christie administration piled dirt atop him. Except \u2014 and this is not incidental to our story \u2014 Mr. Aubrey did nothing wrong.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This behavior is unconscionable, and if it is not illegal, it should be.<\/p>\n<p>No surprise, but Kim Guadagno used to be a <strike>professional bully<\/strike> prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>Sucks to be her right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that&nbsp; New Jersey Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno has drawn the attention of the Times, and when the hed is, &#8220;A Lieutenant Governor, an Artist and a Portrait of a Smear, it&#8217;s pretty clear that your political career is in trouble: In her first year in office, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno opened a frontal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1167,970,969,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-corruption","category-evil","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}