The Daily Beast provides more background on who exactly Christie slandered:

"The year was 1994, and Christie was a 31-year-old attorney running for a seat on the seven-member board of Freeholders in Morris County. The incumbents included Laureys, who was known to many as “Ma” and was as good a person as was ever in politics. She was someone who proved that you can be a loyal Republican and still be a true champion for human services and the environment.

At her core as both a mother and a politician was a guiding emotion that would make a cynic scoff.

“The simple truth is that Mom genuinely loved people,” her youngest child, Christopher Laureys, said in her eulogy after she died last summer. “She loved listening to them… Understanding them…Helping them.

Christopher added, “I don’t think anybody loved a crowd as much as mom did…So much that she gave birth to one.”

She was the first woman on the town council in an overwhelmingly Republican realm and some had continued to see her as not the right kind of woman to hold office.

“She wasn’t that pearl-wearing Republican with perfectly coiffed hair and one-point-two kids,” Christopher said this week. “She was a female Colombo.”

Christopher was making reference to the TV detective of the 1970s.

“A rumpled little Italian grandmom people were very inclined to dismiss or underestimate,” Christopher went on to say of his mother. “She was happy to let them believe what they wanted.”

Her opponents would then discover that she was cracklingly smart and resoundingly resolute.

“Mr. Christie got the better of her once, not twice,” Christopher noted."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/...

As the story goes on, Christie falsely claimed that Mrs. Laurey was being "investigated" and she consequently lost her bid for reelection. She fought back, sued him for slander and Christie was forced to publicly apologize as part of the settlement.

As a New Jersey resident, I cannot tell you how much relief the unfolding events have brought me. To have light finally shining into the nefarious activities that swirl around our unethical Governor is tremendously gratifying. And yes, we are just in the early stages but at the very minimum, NJ Democrats are finally waking up.

Is it wrong that I am smiling?