...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.New Jersey Senate Majority leader Loretta Weinberg, who represents Fort Lee in the state Senate and has been a leading Democrat on the investigation into lane closures last year on the George Washington Bridge, said the new revelations concerning the closures were “worse than I imagined.”
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New emails emerged Wednesday morning that revealed New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's (R) deputy chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly, instructed a Port Authority official appointed by Christie to create “traffic problems” in Fort Lee. The Democratic mayor there had declined to endorse Christie for reelection.
“Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” she emailed David Wildstein, a high school friend of the governor.
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Weinberg also suggested there might be national security implications to the closure, as the George Washington Bridge is a main thoroughfare linking New Jersey and New York, and said Christie now has to explain his previous assertions that his administration had nothing to do with the closures.
The Hill
UPDATE: (seen at Dependable Renegade)
Last September, a week of epic traffic jams snarled traffic over the bridge, leaving people stranded in their cars for hours. The closing of toll booths on the bridge was in fact a political action taken by Christie’s administration as retribution when Ft. Lee’s Democratic mayor declined to endorse Christie’s re-election bid.
The “Maddow Show” reported on this story weeks ago, but now emails are coming to light which reveal that Christie’s closest aides handed down the orders to tie up traffic, even as Christie himself maintains that his aides misled him.
“Traffic jams are not news,” [Rachel] Maddow said. “Traffic jams caused by poorly organized ‘traffic studies’ are not even really big news stories. But if the state of New Jersey is being run in such a way that control of interstate assets is being manipulated on purpose to punish specific towns and even specific individuals for political reasons, then that really is news.”
“That is public corruption,” she said, and it’s why, no matter how much he wants to be, “Chris Christie will never be president.”
Raw Story
The “Maddow Show” reported on this story weeks ago, but now emails are coming to light which reveal that Christie’s closest aides handed down the orders to tie up traffic, even as Christie himself maintains that his aides misled him.
“Traffic jams are not news,” [Rachel] Maddow said. “Traffic jams caused by poorly organized ‘traffic studies’ are not even really big news stories. But if the state of New Jersey is being run in such a way that control of interstate assets is being manipulated on purpose to punish specific towns and even specific individuals for political reasons, then that really is news.”
“That is public corruption,” she said, and it’s why, no matter how much he wants to be, “Chris Christie will never be president.”
Raw Story
Really, Rachel? I thought public corruption (as she defines it) was an essential part of getting to be president.
FURTHER UPDATE (1/9):
“I am embarrassed and humiliated by the conduct of some of the people on my team,” Christie said at a Thursday morning press conference. “There’s no doubt in my mind that the conduct that they exhibited is completely unacceptable and showed an inappropriate respect for the role of government.”
Christie said he had fired his deputy chief of staff Bridget Ann Kelly for her role in instigating closures on the George Washington Bridge as an act of political retribution for the Democratic mayor Fort Lee, N.J., refusing to endorse Christie’s re-election bid.
The HIll
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