NJ Lawmaker: Documents Show Bridge Closure Was Ordered From Outside

[deminks]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/subpoenas-raise-new-questions-bridge-scandal-christie



A New Jersey politician investigating a scandal involving Gov. Chris Christie (R) and the George Washington Bridge said this week that orders to close several lanes on the bridge in September came from outside the agency that runs it.

But Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D) investigating the scandal stopped short in an interview published Wednesday in the Bergen Record newspaper of implicating Christie, who has repeatedly denied he had anything to do with the closures that caused days of gridlock in Fort Lee, N.J.

“There are documents that we’ve received that would indicate that there was somebody else who initiated this,” Wisniewski told the newspaper. “There are words that are used that would imply an improper motive.”

Some Democrats have alleged Christie or his allies at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which oversees the bridge, ordered the lanes closed because Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich declined to endorse Christie's re-election bid last year.

Already, Christie's top appointees at the agency, Bill Baroni and David Wildstein, have resigned over the scandal. Both have said the closures were the result of a traffic study.

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drip...drip...drip...

[Lint Head]

1. Plausible deny-ability for a potential Presidential candidate.

[Dawson Leery]

2. The slow drip of information

is what is needed to keep this story in the public view.

Remember, the Bob McDonnell bribery case took 2 years before an indictment occurred.