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As damage control strategy goes, this is very weak. Mystifyingly weak.

The Christie front office is responding to the bombshell allegations out of Hoboken by … tweeting nice things Mayor Dawn Zimmer once said about Gov. Christie. Back in the day. Right after Sandy. In the fleece era, when Christie was suddenly everywhere – doing his job, managing a crisis that Hoboken, under water and in crisis mode, was very much a part.

Washington Post reporter Robert Costa tweeted a collection of old Zimmer tweets compiled and just sent out to reporters from the Christie front office. They’re the kind of thing every Sandy-affected mayor was shooting out via social media in the aftermath: status updates from the soggy, powerless front lines, with thanks from the mayor to both Christie and Obama.

If their point is that Zimmer used to be in the Christie fold and therefore her allegations lack credibility, I’d argue just the opposite. I don’t think they’re helping themselves sending reporters evidence that a mayor alleging Christie held crucial disaster aid hostage used to think that governor was good and true.

Let the investigations continue.