Christie has remained especially close to his high school friends. He checks in by phone and attends reunions. But he's also made a habit of appointing and nominating his former classmates to plum state positions, including judgeships. An Associated Press review of his senior class yearbook, state payroll records, agency websites and state press releases found that a handful of Christie's former high school classmates have ended up in state positions since he took office.
The world's changed quite a bit, but he's still just the spotty teenager playing air guitar to Born to Run, deciding it's better to be the bully than to be bullied. And he has stuck around a bit too long...