beyond that awkwardness, here's good old david serotta and "the boston globe" reporting on a $10,000 donation made to the new jersey republican state committee by charlie baker. charlie baker, the republican candidate for governor in massachusetts. mr. baker, in addition to being a candidate, is also a partner at a financial firm called general catalyst in massachusetts. and a few months after charlie baker gave that donation to the new jersey republican party, his company, general catalyst, got told that they were getting $25 million new jersey pension money. general catalyst invested some of that money in at least one company where charlie baker was directly involved with the company. so, basically, what it looks like is charlie baker paid chris christie and then new jersey paid charlie baker. the real problem here is that new jersey law is very explicit on this subject. new jersey law says really explicitly that you cannot invest any of this money, any of this state pension money with an investment firm if, quote, any investment management professional associated with such investm