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TomClash

(11,344 posts)
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 10:24 AM Jan 2014

Kelly was messaging about GWB lane closures on day she accompanied Christie to Seaside fire

Source: Bergen Record

Bridget Anne Kelly, the aide Governor Christie fired for her role in manufacturing a Fort Lee traffic jam apparently as political retribution, was receiving messages about what to tell reporters before she accompanied him to the Seaside Heights boardwalk fire, newly released documents show.

On the fourth day of the traffic jam, the governor - accompanied by Kelly - rushed to the scene of the inferno raging in Ocean County. The pair arrived at the boardwalk on Sept. 12 at about 6:25 p.m. The fire was first reported at about 2:05 p.m.

Ocean County photographer, Phil Stinton, snapped photos of Christie and Kelly — a Ramsey resident with deep Bergen County political ties — at about 7 p.m. walking and talking with firefighters. In one photo, Christie is strutting, fist clenched, absent his suit jacket, sleeves rolled, tie and hair wind blown. Kelly, wearing a mauve blouse, black skirt and pearl necklace, stands alongside him. She is looking down at her smartphone.

About four hours earlier, at 3:18 p.m., Kelly received an email from Port Authority of New York and New Jersey executive David Wildstein, who resigned after months of dogged questions about his order to close toll lanes leading from Fort Lee’s local streets to the George Washington Bridge. Michael Drewniak, the governor’s spokesman, was also sent a copy.



Read more: http://www.northjersey.com/news/state/CHRISTIE_KELLY_gwb_lane_closures_seaside_emails.html



It is getting closer to the Big Enchilada.
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Kelly was messaging about GWB lane closures on day she accompanied Christie to Seaside fire (Original Post) TomClash Jan 2014 OP
Oooo, I love timelines warrior1 Jan 2014 #1
Not entirely off-topic, I hope Cirque du So-What Jan 2014 #2
They (Kelly & Wildstein) were making up their cover story about why the bridge was closed ... Botany Jan 2014 #3
Good catch TomClash Jan 2014 #6
Hope mtasselin Jan 2014 #17
Kelly riverwalker Jan 2014 #8
Thats going to leave a mark. Historic NY Jan 2014 #10
" Stepian's "righthand woman" " - oh that is so tempting to comment on!!! George II Jan 2014 #13
Can someone have joint custody when they are in prison? nt TheBlackAdder Jan 2014 #16
Three people are looking in one direction. What's the other guy looking at? :-) nt TheBlackAdder Jan 2014 #15
Connecting the dots...... K&R n/t Jefferson23 Jan 2014 #4
k&r Little Star Jan 2014 #5
But he's a republican........that's how they operate Theyletmeeatcake2 Jan 2014 #7
So they met to plan the plot and similar plots like them. onehandle Jan 2014 #9
So sad. jsr Jan 2014 #11
My, my... SoapBox Jan 2014 #12
As ye sow SCVDem Jan 2014 #14
The NSA should leak the content of those messages. NorthCarolina Jan 2014 #18
It just doesn't make any sense bucolic_frolic Jan 2014 #19

Cirque du So-What

(25,922 posts)
2. Not entirely off-topic, I hope
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 10:37 AM
Jan 2014

but the term 'strutting' put me in mind of a bit of dialogue from Woody Allen's Love and Death:

Are you still talking to this strutting ass?

- Careful. It's a trick question.

Botany

(70,483 posts)
3. They (Kelly & Wildstein) were making up their cover story about why the bridge was closed ...
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 10:39 AM
Jan 2014

.... that day to give to the Bergen Record.

“The Port Authority is reviewing traffic safety patterns at the George Washington Bridge to ensure proper placement of toll lanes,” the message reads. “The [Port Authority Police Department] has been in contact with Fort Lee police throughout this transition.”

- See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/news/state/CHRISTIE_KELLY_gwb_lane_closures_seaside_emails.html?c=y&page=1#sthash.InBvq418.dpuf

That is when these pictures were taken






*******
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024309730

I still stand by my post yesterday that Ms. Kelly does not look like a "nice person."

BTW she was less then 3 feet from Gov. Christie as she and Wildstein were making up their cover story
but he knew nothing about it ......

TomClash

(11,344 posts)
6. Good catch
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 11:06 AM
Jan 2014

More to come soon on this story. This guy's done - he ordered it, lied about it, tried to cover it up.

Done.

mtasselin

(666 posts)
17. Hope
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 02:25 PM
Jan 2014

I hope you are right, but the msm loves him for some reason. He doesn't deserve to be in office one day longer, when and if all the info comes out I believe he will be forced to leave office. He is a friend of the koch brothers that should say volumes.

riverwalker

(8,694 posts)
8. Kelly
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 11:19 AM
Jan 2014
A longtime Republican official in Bergen County - who also did not want to be named - said Kelly had a reactive side "if she felt threatened."
There were instances, he said, when she would block volunteers vying for political jobs from moving up. "If someone talked to her funny or didn't give her the right amount of respect, she'd make a phone call and put the kibosh on it." The official said that when he read the e-mail, the language sounded a lot like Kelly.
"It's the banter she would usually have used. It's something that she would have said. I'm just surprised she'd be stupid enough to write it down."


also on Bill Stepian and Kelly (Interesting they both separated from their spouses at about the same time. Kelly "blindsided" her pro golfer husband Joe, of 16 years with a request for a divorce that "devastated him". I think Kelly and Stepian were doing the "Appalachian Trail"
The Republican operative labeled Kelly as Stepien's "righthand woman." Another party insider said the two were "attached at the hip." Many speculated the two orchestrated the lane closures together.
"This is a Bridget-and-Bill thing," the operative said. "They might have cooked it up in a Dunkin' Donuts in Trenton or at a nice little dinner in Yardley, Pa."


http://articles.philly.com/2014-01-10/news/46069569_1_lane-closures-bill-stepien-christie

Her husband, Joe — a golf pro at the Mendham Golf & Tennis Club, where Christie and wife Mary Pat are members — was stunned when his wife of 16 years came home in 2011 and announced she wanted a divorce.

“The guy was a wreck. It was completely out of the blue,” a source said.

Records show Bridget Kelly filed for divorce in December 2011, citing irreconcilable differences. The divorce was granted in February 2012. She got their Ramsey home, and he moved to Upper Saddle River. They have joint custody of their two daughters and two sons.


http://nypost.com/2014/01/10/meet-fired-christie-aide-bridget-anne-kelly/
 

SCVDem

(5,103 posts)
14. As ye sow
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 12:09 PM
Jan 2014

So shall ye reap!

Translated into todays version.

Karmas a bitch!

Petty, vindictive and just an all around jerk.

So much for the GOP plank that everything is for the kids and grandkids. Only if they're the "right" type, kids of the GOP/TP.

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