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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEmails Expose Christie Lies---show Port Authority officials warned of GWB lane closure hardships
Emails show Port Authority officials were warned of hardships brought on by GWB lane closuresSATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2013 LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY DECEMBER 29, 2013, 9:03 AM
BY SHAWN BOBURG
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
Hours after unannounced lane closures went into effect at the George Washington Bridge on a Monday morning in September, Governor Christies top two executives at the Port Authority received an email indicating that the resulting traffic jams were posing problems that carried potential life-and-death consequences.
Read the emails:
Email between Lisa Herrera and Robert Durando
Email between Tina Lado, Bill Baroni, David Wildstein and Cedrick Fulton
MUCH MORE:
http://www.northjersey.com/fortlee/wildstein_baroni_gwb_port_authority_christie_fort_lee.html?page=all
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Emails Expose Christie Lies---show Port Authority officials warned of GWB lane closure hardships (Original Post)
kpete
Dec 2013
OP
If there was loss of life or major loss of property from emergency vehicles being blocked
Tom Rinaldo
Dec 2013
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hatrack
(59,587 posts)1. This is the heart of the matter
I'm going to fuck anyone who gets in my way, or disagrees with me, or even refuses to kiss my ring.
If first responders have difficulty handling emergency situations as a result, even at the risk of people dying, I don't give a shit.
trumad
(41,692 posts)2. Unreal...
Threaten them with jail and they will squeal.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)3. If there was loss of life or major loss of property from emergency vehicles being blocked
This could escalate quickly into a huge scandal.
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)4. K&R nt
Laxman
(2,419 posts)5. Interesting Admission/Mistake
He also disputed the suggestion, made by Baroni and Christie, that the local access lanes were exclusively for Fort Lee residents.
A lot of people other than Fort Lee residents use those access lanes, he said. He declined to say what municipality he lives in, other than to say it is in Bergen County, north of Fort Lee.
A lot of people other than Fort Lee residents use those access lanes, he said. He declined to say what municipality he lives in, other than to say it is in Bergen County, north of Fort Lee.
Baroni & Christie think that the fact that the lanes only served Fort Lee residents is a sign that this was all really not that big of a deal. In reality, it shows that this was designed to affect only Fort Lee residents. Clearly to target and punish the mayor of Fort Lee by causing him political pain.
This is how Christie operates. He will punish you by causing pain to people who will blame you first. By the time the dust settles, usually it ends with you suffering and Christie laughing. Property taxes, state aid, public pensions, his M/O is the same.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)6. Vindictive prick.
Cha
(297,323 posts)7. Wonder if he wishes he wouldn't have gone there now? Did
he ever have a clue it would come back to bite him in his vindictive a$$?
malaise
(269,057 posts)8. This is a huge scandal
because this is Christie's modus operandi.
Let this vindictive ReTHUG[/b prick fry in his own fat.
Go Dems!!