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Gov. Christie's Political Problems Just Grew To GWB Traffic Jam Sized Proportions

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lawhawk1/08/2014 9:35:58 am PST

It’s not the crime; it’s the coverup.

It’s the stonewalling and claims that this was a legitimate study of traffic, even though it didn’t follow any established protocol.

It’s that each FOIA or subpoena reveals documents showing that PANYNJ staffers and now Christie administration officials were in contact and directing this action.

We’re talking about a political vendetta and abuse of power. You know, the things that kind of matter regardless of what state you’re in and who you’re talking about.


This is one of those instances where you can see how media coverage will fall depending on the political affiliation, even when it shouldn’t matter.

It’s real easy to do a thought experiment since the Port Authority is a bistate agency and Gov. Cuomo appoints individuals to top posts in the agency just as Gov. Christie does.

If you were to flip this around and it was Gov. Cuomo’s appointees on the PANYNJ who were talking with Cuomo’s office about punishing Bloomberg for not endorsing him and caused backups into Manhattan by limiting access from the Harlem River or Henry Hudson into the GWB, you’d see the same people who are ignoring the issue demanding resignations from the top on down.

Cuomo’s appointee, Patrick Foye, actually stopped the lane shutdown and intimated that it might have violated state law. That’s my assessment as well.