Bwaaaaaaaah it won't be long-Ex-Christie administration member lobbied for train station
http://www.northjersey.com/news/Ex_Christie_administration_member_lobbied_for_train_station_that_wouldve_boosted_project_cited_by_Hoboken_mayor.html<snip>
A former Christie administration official lobbied NJ Transit to build a train station that would benefit a $1 billion office and residential complex being proposed for the Hoboken waterfront — the same complex the city’s mayor claimed she was pressured to fast-track or risk losing Sandy aid.
Records show that the lobbyist argued for the station within months of an agreement signed with NJ Transit to move forward on the rail project. That lobbying occurred in the spring of 2013 — the same time period that Mayor Dawn Zimmer said she was pressured by Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno.
The lobbyist, Lori Grifa, works for Wolff & Samson, the law firm founded by former state Attorney General David Samson.
Samson is also a central figure in the crisis Governor Christie is confronting over the lane closures at the George Washington Bridge. Samson was appointed by Christie to be chairman of the Port Authority and met with Christie on the day The Record reported the now-infamous email, “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.”
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Read the PDF of the non-binding Memorandum of Understanding between NJ TRANSIT and Park Willow, LLC, about the potential Hudson Bergen Light Rail
http://dng.northjersey.com/media_server/tr/2014/02/hoboken/hobokenrockerfellernjtransit.pdf
Samson will be Christie's Delilah!!!
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I know we are getting a bit almost daily but I'm hooked and need another fix of scandal. lol
Oh, and thanks for the heart if that was you.
Christie won't sing the words to London Bridge 
from Hee-Haw. "If it wasn't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all"- that certainly seems to be Christie's life these days. But I prefer to think of it as chickens coming home to roost.
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...It may be considered circumstantial evidence supporting Mayor Zimmer's allegations...Don't look for evidence that puts a "smoking gun" directly into Christie's hands -- he's smarter than that. His problem is that there are now so many smoking guns pointing directly at him, he's either too corrupt or too incompetent to continue to have his claims of innocence taken seriously.
All in all, it's just another brick in the wall!
rocktivity
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Yes, I remember it well: the city of Hoboken refused to allow a tattoo parlor to open, citing "sanitation issues." But after arming themselves with info from the health department about what standards they'd have to meet, plus the argument that doctors and dentists were being allowed to operate in Hoboken despite their potential "sanitation issues," they filed suit and got their permit.
But why was the tattoo parlor given such a hard time? It soon became apparent: the city had just begun to gentrify, and an establishment that attracted biker and rock star types would certainly not fit in with the decor of their yuppie hell-to-be. But this story has a happy ending: the parlor celebrated their 20th anniversary in 2018!
rocktivity
in their heads.
Mayor Zimmer was just a wrinkle in the scheme.
This would be tantamount to putting in the foundation on a house on a lot that isn't approved for building in our world. In their world, just add a billion or so.
Cher
...the junction of Clinton St. and the light rail is near the center.
along his interview with Mayor Zimmer:
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/mayor-christie-camp-held-sandy-money-hostage
P.S. The David Samson who was Christie's point man at the Port Authority owns the Wolff and Samson law firm!!!
rocktivity
in comparison to the RW poster-child-like choir-boy governor of NJ. 
Project! Ya think!
Has there ever been a political reversal of fortune as rapid and as absolute as the one just experienced by Chris Christie? At warp speed, the governor of New Jersey has gone from the most popular politician in the country to the most embattled; from the Republicans’ brightest hope for 2016 to a man with an FBI target on his back. One minute, he was releasing jokey vanity videos starring Alec Baldwin and assorted celebrity pals; the next, he was being ridiculed by his lifelong idol, Bruce Springsteen. Mere weeks ago, Christie was a straight-talking, corruption-busting everyman. Now, he is a liar, a bully, a buffoon.
What is remarkable about this meltdown is that it isn’t the result of some deep secret that has been exposed to the world, revealing a previously unimagined side to the candidate. Many of the scandals and mini-scandals and scandals-within-scandals that the national media is salivating over have been in full view for years. Even the now-infamous Bridgegate was percolating for months before it exploded into the first major story of the next presidential race.
Case in point: Last year, just before Thanksgiving, I traveled to Trenton to see Bill Baroni, Christie’s top staff appointee at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, get grilled by state legislators about the closure of access lanes to the George Washington Bridge in September. It was clear that something fishy was going on. Baroni gave a command performance, defending the closures as part of a traffic study, but more than that, as a matter of justice. Discussing whether Fort Lee deserved three dedicated lanes during rush hour, Baroni demanded, “Is this fair?” His voice actually cracked with emotion. “And if it is not fair, how do you not study it?” But there were only a handful of reporters in the room to witness his melodramatics, and it was six weeks before the national media caught on to the story. Outside New Jersey, at least, it seemed inconceivable that Christie, good-government evangelist, scourge of Soprano State shenanigans, could preside over a piece of payback so outrageous and so petty.
Now, of course, we know that there was no traffic study and that the lanes were deliberately shut to punish the mayor of Fort Lee, who had declined to endorse Christie for reelection. (“Is it wrong that I’m smiling,” crowed a Christie aide in a text message, even as congestion got so dire that ambulance workers were forced to respond to an emergency on foot.) We also know that this act of retribution wasn’t an isolated incident: The mayor of Hoboken, to name just one example, has claimed that Christie’s office pressured her to approve a big development project represented by a Christie crony—or risk losing recovery aid for damage caused by Hurricane Sandy.
And yet, even post-Bridgegate, the prevailing interpretations of Christie fundamentally miss the mark. He has been so singularly successful at constructing his own mythology—as a reformer, a crusader, a bipartisan problem-solver—that people have never really seen him clearly. Over the past three months, I talked to more than 50 people who have crossed paths with Christie throughout his career—legislators, officials, Democrats, Republicans, lawyers, longtime New Jersey politicos. (Christie himself didn’t respond to a detailed request for comment.) The problem with Christie isn’t merely that he is a bully. It’s that his political career is built on a rotten foundation. Christie owes his rise to some of the most toxic forces in his state—powerful bosses who ensure that his vow to clean up New Jersey will never come to pass. He has allowed them to escape scrutiny, rewarded them for their support, and punished their enemies. All along, even as it looked like Christie was attacking the machine, he was really just mastering it.
in full: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116601/chris-christies-rise-and-fall
