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Related: About this forumRachel Maddow: Bridge scandal marks the end of Chris Christie’s presidential ambitions
By David Ferguson
Thursday, January 9, 2014 9:22 EST
On Wednesday night, the Rachel Maddow Show delved back into a story that it was among the first to report, the New Jersey bridge debacle involving Gov. Chris Christie (R) and his attempt to take punitive action against one Democratic mayor.
The town of Ft. Lee, New Jersey is home to the George Washington Bridge, one of the busiest bridges in the country. Thousands of commuters stream into New York City each day via the GW Bridge.
Last September, a week of epic traffic jams snarled traffic over the bridge, leaving people stranded in their cars for hours. The closing of toll booths on the bridge was in fact a political action taken by Christies administration as retribution when Ft. Lees Democratic mayor declined to endorse Christies re-election bid.
The Maddow Show reported on this story weeks ago, but now emails are coming to light which reveal that Christies closest aides handed down the orders to tie up traffic, even as Christie himself maintains that his aides misled him.
Traffic jams are not news, Maddow said. Traffic jams caused by poorly organized traffic studies are not even really big news stories. But if the state of New Jersey is being run in such a way that control of interstate assets is being manipulated on purpose to punish specific towns and even specific individuals for political reasons, then that really is news.
That is public corruption, she said, and its why, no matter how much he wants to be, Chris Christie will never be president.
Watch the video, embedded below via MSNBC:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/09/rachel-maddow-bridge-scandal-marks-the-end-of-chris-christies-presidential-ambitions/
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Full article posted with the permission of Raw Story
patricia92243
(12,597 posts)with the mean ol' liberal media picking on him. Mark my words!
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)NJ Law - you can't disrupt/impede traffic deliberately especially when it impacts emergency response personnel. Goes to public safety and good.