The Bridgegate matter may have reached
some kind of climax, but the saga isn’t over, though it may get less-rapt
attention from the public from here on
It’s been seemingly a super-long
haul since March 2014 when I wrote this rather too-fancy but short comment on the Mastro report in the Bridgegate
matter.
Now that, today, guilty verdicts
have been returned on Bill Baroni and Bridget Kelly, I would only remark that
Kelly showed herself, in the trial, as you could pretty much infer from all I’d
read before and since—as having been a “super-admin” in Christie’s overheated
administration, not a major administrator with consequential powers of decision.
Anyone who’s worked for “too
long” in New Jersey knows that any organization here, governmental or
business-oriented, with a lot of power and not always the best motives, embraces
the wisdom that a “super-admin” is what you need to conduct your business,
seedy or not: someone to send the e-mails, arrange the events, do a lot of
high-tech secretarial work…but not draw up the protocol of the “Wansee Conference”
of the organization.
I think Kelly got a bad deal in
this—of course, she will probably appeal.
