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onehandle

(51,122 posts)
Fri Jan 10, 2014, 01:20 PM Jan 2014

Gov. Chris Christie's apology for a N.J. traffic jam causes new one

Source: Los Angeles Times

FORT LEE, N.J. – Traffic is bad on a normal day in this town, a hodgepodge of single-family homes and big apartment towers on the banks of the Hudson River across a bridge from Manhattan. Small one-way streets pass by Korean groceries, banks and real estate offices, dumping traffic onto streets already packed with cars and buses.

During the September days when access ramps to the George Washington Bridge were closed because of what was revealed to be a vendetta against the popular mayor of this Democrat-leaning town, it didn’t move at all.

And traffic again came to a standstill Thursday evening, as a growing crowd of reporters, residents, and even a man dressed as a hamburger flocked to the town’s Borough Hall to await the arrival of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, in town to personally apologize to Mayor Mark Sokolich and the town’s residents for the incident.

Police closed one lane on Main Street, and rush-hour traffic sat at a stand-still as cars waited to get onto – and off of – the George Washington Bridge and the maze of one-way streets leading to it.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-chris-christie-bridgegate-traffic-jam-20140109,0,4929449.story

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Gov. Chris Christie's apology for a N.J. traffic jam causes new one (Original Post) onehandle Jan 2014 OP
Digging himself deeper in his own shit n/t tom_kelly Jan 2014 #1
Is this real? It could be an Onion piece! Aldo Leopold Jan 2014 #2
After they politely asked him not to come. For this very reason. truthisfreedom Jan 2014 #3
Zweiback? Damn, that's dry. n/t VWolf Jan 2014 #4
Heh. tanyev Jan 2014 #5
"even a man dressed as a hamburger flocked to the town’s Borough Hall" yellowcanine Jan 2014 #6

truthisfreedom

(23,113 posts)
3. After they politely asked him not to come. For this very reason.
Fri Jan 10, 2014, 02:02 PM
Jan 2014

He's TOAST. Dry toast. Zweiback. Crumblin' Christie.

yellowcanine

(35,692 posts)
6. "even a man dressed as a hamburger flocked to the town’s Borough Hall"
Fri Jan 10, 2014, 05:58 PM
Jan 2014

A jam and peanut butter sandwich would have been more appropriate....

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