The political press devoted nearly all of its attention on Tuesday to President Obama’s State of the Union address, which meant embattled New Jersey Governor Chris Christie had a rare respite from what has been, for weeks now, unrelentingly negative coverage. But as has been the case almost since the moment the “Bridgegate” story first broke, there was still the drip, drip, drip of embarrassing or potentially troublesome reports on the Christie administration — they just received less attention than usual.

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