Why is she not talking??? Something to hide?

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/ ... html#incart_river_default

Twenty-six hours of audio tape of emergency worker dispatch calls from Fort Lee

http://bridgegatetapes.com/

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-sh ... ghlight-traffic-nightmare

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GWB Scandal: Release of previously redacted messages reveals new information

By Shawn Boburg and Abott Koloff
The Record
February 27, 2014

The private messages that linked Governor Christie?s office to lane closures at the George Washington Bridge also contain jokes about causing ?traffic problems? at the home of a New Jersey rabbi associated with the Port Authority, newly released documents show.

The information is contained in 20 pages of messages that previously had redactions shielding who sent and received texts between former Port Authority executive David Wildstein and others. The documents do not shed any new light on potential further involvement of the governor's office.

The texts ? exchanged between Wildstein and Christie?s former deputy chief of staff Bridget Anne Kelly ? include snarky jokes aimed at a Port Authority police chaplain, including the jibes about causing traffic jams on his street and delaying international flights to Israel.

The texts occurred six days after Kelly sent to Wildstein her now-infamous email, ?Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,? setting off more than four days of gridlock in the borough in mid-September.

In the texts about the chaplain, Wildstein sent Kelly a picture of Rabbi Mendy Carlebach, later writing: ?And he has officially pissed me off.?

?Clearly,? Kelly responded on Aug. 19.

?We cannot cause traffic problems in front of his house, can we?? Kelly wrote.

?Flights to Tel Aviv all mysteriously delayed,? wrote Wildstein, an executive at the bi-state agency that controls the region?s airports.

?Perfect,? Kelly wrote.

It?s not clear why Wildstein was angry with Carlebach. But the messages echoed comments, already made public, about the Fort Lee mayor that led to speculation that the lane closures were retaliation against the Democratic mayor for not endorsing Christie for reelection.

Other information disclosed on Thursday showed that in November, Christie?s top Port Authority executive, Bill Baroni, worried that he and Wildstein would be fired. They were not; they resigned in December before the controversy escalated and received praise from Christie on the way out. New passages in the documents also reveal early efforts to keep at bay two Democratic state legislators who were demanding answers about the lane closures.

Carlebch, a Middlesex County rabbi, said he was surprised and baffled when told about the passages. He said he has never spoken to Wildstein and had only exchanged pleasantries with Kelly at the State House in Trenton. He is a member of the state?s Homeland Security Interfaith Advisory Council and was a chaplain at the 2004 and 2008 Republican National Conventions.

?I have totally no idea,? he said when asked why he might be the subject of the text messages between Wildstein and Kelly. ?I don?t understand it. ? None of it makes any sense.?

He knows Kelly ?from the State House? but said the extent of their conversations was ?hello? and ?good morning? greetings as they passed one another in the hallways. He saw Wildstein at Port Authority meetings but ?never engaged him,? he said.

In the photo Wildstein forwarded to Kelly before they exchanged messages about the rabbi, Carlebach is posing next to U.S. House Speaker John Boehner. It?s not clear when the photo was taken or why Wildstein was sending it.

?I think this qualifies as some sort of stalking,? Kelly wrote to Wildstein in response to the photo, adding, ?You are too much.?

Wildstein replied: ?He is the Jewish Cid Wilson,? an apparent reference to a Leonia resident and Bergen Community College trustee who is active in politics and community organizations.

Wilson said he never met Wildstein and was ?deeply appalled and offended? that his name came up in the texts.

But, he said, when Wildstein was an anonymous blogger, he once poked fun at Wilson for having celebrity Facebook friends.

Wilson was mentioned in a headline for a 2009 story on the PolitickerNJ website run by Wildstein, about Giants players appearing at a Passaic County political fundraiser: ?It?s a perfect chance for Cid Wilson to start a new photo album: ?me with famous football players.???

Wilson said that the reference ?seemed odd? to him at the time because he wasn?t even planning to attend the event. He said he was ?stunned? that Wildstein made another reference to him last year.

?I didn?t think he knew me that well,? Wilson said. ?I didn?t think that he cared. ? It?s a testament to his negative character. I think he?s deeply troubled. It goes to show how deranged he is to make comments about people he?s never met.?

Wildstein?s attorney did not respond to request for comment.

In the months after the lane closures, the documents show, Wildstein and others tried to stem the fallout. On Nov. 12, the day before a Port Authority commissioners? meeting, Wildstein got a message from Baroni. ?Are we being fired?? Baroni asked Wildstein at 7:24 p.m. There was no response that night.

At the meeting the next day, Wildstein and Baroni discussed keeping state Sen. Loretta Weinberg and Assemblyman John Wisniewski, the two Democrats now leading the investigation, from attending a question-and-answer session with reporters. Weinberg and Wisniewski appeared at the meeting to confront commissioners about the lane closures.

?Do we let Weinberg and Wiz attend? Can we stop them?? Wildstein wrote.

?How do we stop them? It just creates an issue,? Baroni replied.

?I don?t see how but need to ask you,? Wildstein wrote.

?Yeah they will beat us up either way,? Baroni responded.

The 20 documents also identified for the first time those who sent explosive text messages that had already been released.

Kelly was identified as the person who wrote ?Is it wrong that I?m smiling?? after being told the Fort Lee mayor complained about delayed school buses and traffic congestion. ?I feel badly about the kids,? she wrote, ?I guess.?

?They are the children of Buono voters,? Wildstein responded, referring to Barbara Buono, Christie?s Democratic challenger in the gubernatorial election.

Those passages had already been reported, but the identities of who sent and received the messages were not clear from the documents turned over by Wildstein in response to legislative subpoenas. The legislative committee that issued the subpoenas asked Wildstein?s attorney to remove redactions from the documents and to identify the participants in some of the discussions. Wildstein?s attorney did that.

Some redactions remain, because the information was deemed not relevant to the committee?s investigation.

?The committee?s special counsel addressed with Mr. Wildstein?s attorney the redacted documents submitted by Mr. Wildstein in December,? read a joint statement issued by Wisniewski and Weinberg. ?Upon review and discussion, it was agreed that many redactions were appropriate because the material was outside of the subject matter or date range requested, but certain redacted information should be made public.?

The new messages also show that a Port Authority police officer, Lt. Chip Michaels, was giving reports to Wildstein about the traffic backups in Fort Lee during the lane closures, which ran from Sept. 9 to 13. Michaels, the documents indicate, chauffeured Wildstein to observe the traffic jams on the first morning of the lane closures.

?Local ft lee traffic disaster,? Michaels wrote to Wildstein at 8:39 p.m. on Sept. 10, the second day of the lane closures.

Michaels and his brother were childhood friends of Christie, and like Wildstein, they all grew up in Livingston.

A message released for the first time also shows that Bill Stepien, Christie?s former campaign manager, wrote to Wildstein on Oct. 1 in an apparent reference to Port Authority Executive Director Pat Foye after an internal agency email was leaked to the press. Foye, who was appointed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, reversed the lane closures in the email and called them abusive and potentially illegal.

?Holy [expletive], who does he think he is, Capt. America?? Stepien wrote to Wildstein on the same day the email surfaced publicly.

?Bad guy,? Wildstein replied. ?Welcome to our world.?

Christie cut ties with Stepien last month after the first round of emails was released, saying he was ?disturbed? by Stepien?s ?tone? in emails where he calls the Fort Lee mayor an ?idiot.?

Two days after Stepien?s exchange with Wildstein in October, Kelly sent a text message to Wildstein making an apparent reference to a quote by Mark Sokolich, Fort Lee?s mayor. Sokolich told The Record in a story published that day that perhaps someone at the Port Authority simply made a ?dumb mistake? by closing the lanes. He previously told The Record that he wondered whether he was being sent a message because he had done something wrong. He has since said that had ignored requests to endorse Christie?s reelection bid.

?Dumb mistake,? Kelly wrote on Oct. 3, the day the story was published. Wildstein, apparently confused by the message, responded with question marks.

?Today?s article,? she wrote, adding later: ?Sokolich said it.?

More: http://www.northjersey.com/news/Previ ... ling_new_information.html

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If Newsmax says a Republican's rating has dropped by 10 points, it means that the rating has dropped by 20 or more.

More to come today? Let's watch...

Wildstein Gives E-Mail Names to N.J. Panel Probing Bridge

By Elise Young
Bloomberg
February 26, 2014

David Wildstein, whose ?Got it? reply to an aide of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie triggered four days of traffic jams at the George Washington Bridge, has told lawmakers the identities of e-mail users with whom he discussed the matter.

Wildstein, a former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey executive, had provided material with names blacked out in response to a subpoena in January by New Jersey legislators reviewing the Republican administration?s ties to the lane closings. Members of the state Select Committee on Investigation today were given about 15 pages of complete documents, according to Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg, a Democratic panel member from Teaneck.

?They give us the names -- to whom and from whom -- which we didn?t have before,? Weinberg said in a telephone interview.

Weinberg said she hadn?t yet viewed the new material. She said, though, there was no reason to believe that Christie was among the people with whom Wildstein discussed the matter.

More: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02 ... el-probing-bridge-1-.html

the bully's popularity is plummeting

http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/Chr ... utm_campaign=widgetphase1

Port Authority's NJ commissioners blast director for criticizing chairman's 'moral authority'

Yet another example of the Port Authority's corrupt leadership in action. I'm glad these Commissioners have finally decided to make a public stand for what's right! These are the issues affecting the public!

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/ ... ority.html#incart_m-rpt-1

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Interesting, I was just reading this... Why I left the GOP
I grew up in a rich, Republican household, but after Katrina and Iraq, I realized my priorities were out of order

Republican party needs a makeover.

Poll: 41 Percent Of Republicans Don?t Want Christie To Run In 2016

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) ? Forty-one percent of Republicans say they would not like to see Gov. Chris Christie run for president in 2016, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll.

The poll asked the public whether they would like to see some prospective contenders as well as other party leaders run for president in 2016.

From a list of five high-profile Republicans, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul topped the list with 41 percent of Republicans saying they would like to see Bush run and 39 percent saying yes to a Paul candidacy.

Thirty-two percent said they would like to see Sen. Marco Rubio run in 2016.

Christie came in fourth with 31 percent saying the would like to see him run followed by Sen. Ted Cruz at 24 percent.

More: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/02/2 ... -christie-to-run-in-2016/

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Limbaugh is no dummy. Don't kid yourself, he knows exactly what he's doing. He outlined his strategy on how to string in suckers during a radio interview in what looks like the 80's or early 90's.

I wish I could force all of his listeners to watch their idol describe in detail how he fleeces them.

http://youtu.be/ELRmgJw8muw?t=40s

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Hannity and Limbaugh can read?

there was an article in some paper recently about growth in NJ trailing that versus other states

Day by day it becomes more and more obvious that he's one of the worst governors we've ever had; a complete loser as a man.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02 ... ld-Lies-of-Chris-Christie

The Many Lies of Chris Christie

In his latest townhall, Chris Christie tried to resort to his old style of working the room. This time his ability to charm, deflect, intimidate and obfuscate didn't have that same old Christie magic. Here's why: people are no longer afraid and they are pissed.

For Christie, Awkward Return to a Setting He Once Ruled




By?Michael Barbaro
The New York Times
February 20, 2014

PORT MONMOUTH, N.J. ? When Chris Christie started to talk over a complaining questioner, a signature tactic of the bellicose, pre-scandal governor, the audience here briefly turned on him.

?Answer the question,? some shouted.

When he took a microphone from a long-winded speaker, the man startled Mr. Christie by snatching it right back.

And when he singled out a young woman as his inspiration for repairing the Hurricane Sandy-battered coastline, he failed to grasp that the girl?s mother ? sitting just a few feet from Mr. Christie ? was angry with him for not doing enough.

?He?s full of it,? she said.

-snip-

It worked ? at least for a while. Christie entered his 110th town-hall-style event in Port Monmouth, a blue-collar Shore town battered by the storm, without his self-promotional video. The Springsteen soundtrack was dialed down. So was the Christie swagger and sarcasm.?

But then Tom Largey, a Sea Bright resident whose home was badly damaged by the storm and who is living with relatives, confronted Christie.

Why was so much money, Largey asked, being spent on private contractors to handle the storm recovery, particularly Hammerman & Gainer, the Louisiana-based company that was quietly let go by the administration in December? After all, New York did just fine without hiring outsiders.?

The crowd lustily applauded Largey, not Christie. The calm empathizer was now seething, defensive.?

"What's your suggestion on how I should have done it?" Christie shot back. "Should I have hired thousands of new government employees to be able to administer these programs?"?

"Answer the question!" barked one woman. Heads turned in irritation. Two men loudly cleared their throats.

More: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/nyr ... hristie-meets-voters.html

http://project.wnyc.org/christie/?utm ... 4788ad9f8-70662941#latest

Christie Tracker

Monroe, in your opinion what has Christie effectuated that has benefited the State of NJ in substance?

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Dirty? Well, he's a very successful Republican Governor in a blue state, so for many on the looney left he's dirty for being effective. And he scares the crap out of them, hence the demonizing.

Now for dirty, can we talk about Senator Menendez? Or Booker, who put Jeff Zucker's 15 year old kid on his internet start up board??

Nah, that doesn't sit well with the Star Ledger editorial board![/quote]

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/ ... html#incart_most-comments

heh

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A former aide to Gov. Chris Christie who has been subpoenaed in the George Washington Bridge scandal, recently took a high-level job at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, The Star-Ledger learned today.

Nicole Crifo, who served as the liaison from the governor's office to the Port Authority for three years, was named chief of staff to Deb Gramiccioni, the deputy director of the bi-state agency, last month. Christie selected Gramiccioni to replace Bill Baroni, who has been implicated in the scandal over the closing of access lanes to the bridge in September.

Port Authority chairman David Samson should resign: Editorial

By Star-Ledger Editorial Board
February 20, 2014

Wednesday?s apology by Port Authority Chairman David Samson, for the agency?s role in the George Washington Bridge entry lane closures, rings hollow. He hit bottom when he called the weeklong traffic bomb his co-workers dropped on Fort Lee last September an ?inconvenience.? Mea culpa came five months too late.

Worse still, Samson?s half-hearted attempt at remorse ignored his own failures as head of this hopelessly broken agency ? a list of ethical lapses, broken promises and business-as-usual, with new examples breaking by the day.

Samson must step down. His resignation would mark a strong first step in an overdue overhaul of the entire Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Heading the Port Authority isn?t Samson?s only job. He?s also a partner in the powerful Wolff & Samson law firm that has moved heavily into the government lobbying business since Samson?s pal, Chris Christie, was elected governor. It was Christie who appointed Samson, a former state attorney general, to the Port Authority?s top job.

More: http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2 ... uld_resign_editorial.html

http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/130 ... ent?content_item_KEY=9921

Bridgegate bumper sticker

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/polit ... ng-term-article-1.1620823

Christie Christie avoids Bridgegate scandal at Town Hall, talks Sandy relief and weight loss

Why wait til now to express his profound apology?
Has Samson been sub poenaed?




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did Christie force nj transit to build a light rail station in Hoboken for his friends at the Rockefeller group

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... ade_ago.html#incart_river

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Unless it's being read aloud - slowly - by a Limbaugh or Hannity, it is indecipherable to our Monroe.

Long, but good read, are you squirming yet Monroe?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/11 ... s-christies-rise-and-fall

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckrake ... christie-pals-traffic-jam

Another Connection Emerges Between Christie Pals Linked To Traffic Jam

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/ ... html#incart_river_default

Someone is having fun.

Photos: Orlando designer creates Christie 'Bridgegate' doll with 3-D printer

Down with the Port Authority and its cronyism!

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http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/14 ... g-jobs-to-christie/?p=all

Police Union Implicated in Bridgegate Owed Hundreds of Jobs to Christie