Whose name is redacted in the NJ bridge text msgs?

[brentspeak]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/08/politics/christie-bridge/

On the second day of the lane closures, at 8:04 am, Sokolich sent a text to Baroni. "Presently we have four very busy traffic lanes merging into only one toll booth. ... The bigger problem is getting kids to school. Help please. It's maddening."

Seeing that text, a person whose name has been redacted from the e-mails and text messages writes to Wildstein: "Is it wrong that I am smiling?"

"No," Wildstein responds.

"I feel badly about the kids," the unknown person writes.

"I guess," he or she adds a minute later.

Responds Wildstein: "They are the children of Buono voters."

[malaise]

1. Could it be this lady?

[riversedge]

7. "Bridget Anne Kelly, a deputy chief of staff in Mr. Christie’s office, gave a signal to ..."....

Here is the mystery redacted name:


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/nyregion/christie-aide-tied-to-bridge-lane-closings.html?hp

...In the documents, obtained by The New York Times and other news outlets Wednesday, Bridget Anne Kelly, a deputy chief of staff in Mr. Christie’s office, gave a signal to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to close the lanes about two weeks before the closings occurred.

“Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” she emailed David Wildstein, Mr. Christie’s close friend from high school, and one of his appointees at the Port Authority, which controls the bridge. Mr. Christie and some officials at Port Authority have said the closings were done as part of a traffic study, but they caused havoc for days, backing up traffic for hours.

After the emails were released, Mr. Christie canceled his one public event for the day, which had been billed as an announcement of progress in the recovery from Hurricane Sandy. His office had no immediate comment.

Mr. Christie’s handpicked chairman of the Port Authority, David Samson, was also involved in the closings, according to the emails, which describe his efforts to “retaliate” against New York officials who had not been told of the changes and sought to ease the gridlock.

[brentspeak]

11. Probably not Kelly

As far as the particular text excerpts referred to in my OP (pages 9 and 10 of the provided documents), it seems highly unlikely that it was Kelly whom Wildstein was texting. In other emails and texts, Kelly's name is clearly identified and not redacted at all, so why would her name be blacked-out in some portions of the documents but not others?

There's someone else who the Port Authority is protecting with its redactions, and the NYTimes apparently erred when it attributed the above text correspondence as being between Wildstein and Kelly.

[matt819]

2. Check the NY Times story

The NYT story has the info. www.nytimes.com, lead story.

[brentspeak]

5. The NYTimes article doesn't reveal the redacted names

Don't know why you linked us over to that page.

[justiceischeap]

14. It does... whether they are correct or not... shrugs

The mayor of Fort Lee, Mark Sokolich, is a Democrat and did not endorse Mr. Christie. In the obtained emails and texts, Mr. Christie’s staff and appointees appeared gleeful when the abrupt lane closings gridlocked the town for days, beginning with the first day of school and including the anniversary of Sept. 11. Mr. Sokolich, who had not been informed of the closings, texted Bill Baroni, the governor’s top appointee at the Port Authority, asking for “help” because the lane closings were making children on buses late to school.

“Is it wrong that I am smiling?” Mr. Wildstein texted Ms. Kelly.

“No,” she texted back.

“I feel badly about the kids,” he texted.

“They are the children of Buono voters,” she said, referring to Mr. Christie’s Democratic opponent, Barbara Buono, who was trailing consistently in the polls and lost by a wide margin.

Ms. Kelly is one of three deputy chiefs of staff in Mr. Christie’s office, and a close member of his team. Her Twitter timeline included a photograph, before it was taken down Wednesday morning, of her celebrating her 40th birthday last year with the governor and other members of his staff.

[11 Bravo]

3. I can ony hope that it thymes with "Piss Fisty".

[riversedge]

4. Those comments from Wildstein are really callous!--they are involving the kids in a

precarious--maybe dangerous situation!

[herding cats]

6. It's not known who they are or why their name is redacted.

I've seen it speculate about here and there but so far that's all.

[BobUp]

8. Sir, I'm sorry, you're just too big and heavy for the chopper

CHRISTIE: STFU and get outa my effing way, I own this effing thing. I'll have your arse fired, you hear me? fired!

[otohara]

9. Bridget Anne Kelly - Time to Resign

by the end of the day.

[BobUp]

10. Christie too

snippet
The emails contradict repeated statements by Christie that neither his staff nor anyone from his campaign was involved with the lane closures.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/chris-christie-bridge-traffic-jam-emails

[mstinamotorcity2]

12. Which might mean

that Christie is Mr. Radacted possibly???? We can only hope.

[BobUp]

13. He claims to know nothing,

too many episodes of Hogan's Heroes I suspect.