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Showing Original Post only (View all)NYT: Chris Christie 'Suspiciously Connected' To Revenge Traffic Jam [View all]
A massive traffic jam on the George Washington Bridge is "beginning to look suspiciously connected" to one of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's (R) political feuds, according to a column in the New York Times.
The column Tuesday on the alleged "New Jersey Traffic Conspiracy" noted two of the three access lanes allowing drivers from Fort Lee, N.J. onto the bridge to New York were closed last summer shortly after the town's Democratic mayor, Mark Sokolich, declined to endorse Christie's re-election bid. Sokolich has indicated he believes his lack of support for Christie led to the traffic jam, which the column said temporarily turned his town into a "parking lot."
At a hearing on Monday, the column said several witnesses indicated they share Sokolich's suspicions, including Patrick Foye, who is the executive director of the agency Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, which oversees the bridge. Foye was appointed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D).
The Times column said bridge workers were told the lane closures were caused by a non-existent "traffic study" and Foye said it was ordered by David Wildstein, a Port Authority official and longtime Christie confidante. Wildstein announced on Friday he will resign from Port Authority effective Jan. 1. According to the column, Christie denied he played any role in the lane closures and called the theory politics played a role "crazy."
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The column Tuesday on the alleged "New Jersey Traffic Conspiracy" noted two of the three access lanes allowing drivers from Fort Lee, N.J. onto the bridge to New York were closed last summer shortly after the town's Democratic mayor, Mark Sokolich, declined to endorse Christie's re-election bid. Sokolich has indicated he believes his lack of support for Christie led to the traffic jam, which the column said temporarily turned his town into a "parking lot."
At a hearing on Monday, the column said several witnesses indicated they share Sokolich's suspicions, including Patrick Foye, who is the executive director of the agency Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, which oversees the bridge. Foye was appointed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D).
The Times column said bridge workers were told the lane closures were caused by a non-existent "traffic study" and Foye said it was ordered by David Wildstein, a Port Authority official and longtime Christie confidante. Wildstein announced on Friday he will resign from Port Authority effective Jan. 1. According to the column, Christie denied he played any role in the lane closures and called the theory politics played a role "crazy."
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NYT: Chris Christie 'Suspiciously Connected' To Revenge Traffic Jam [View all]
Capt. Obvious
Dec 2013
OP
I think he's behind the Menendez prostitute scandal. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) was appointed to his
okaawhatever
Dec 2013
#25
I'm SO glad the NYT picked up this story...I saw it on Rachel's show and hoped it would get
CTyankee
Dec 2013
#3
Sorry, Christie. Wildstein has been hit with a subpoena. This is not going away.
SunSeeker
Dec 2013
#31
Sounds like something Mayors Daley and Daley would have been proud of.
K.O. Stradivarius
Dec 2013
#38
Yeah, unless they can produce the study they claim to have been conducting he is in trouble
Bjorn Against
Dec 2013
#48
Christie acts like a crime boss and believes NJ is his territory awarded by the Koch brothers.
freshwest
Dec 2013
#43
My son's school bus uses those access roads every day. It's no joke. Also....
Smarmie Doofus
Dec 2013
#55