Chris Christie's Egregious Lie In His First Successful Campaign For Public Office

In Chris Christie's first successful campaign for public office, he sat down next to his wife and baby, looked into a camera and told voters something that wasn't true. It was 1994, and Christie was a 31-year-old lawyer running for the county board in suburban Morris County, N.J. He was making a television ad, saying to the camera that his opponents were "being investigated by the Morris County prosecutor." Actually, they weren't. But Christie's inaccurate ad ran more than 400 times on cable TV before the June GOP primary. He won." David A. Fahrenthold in The Washington Post.