In what seems like ages ago in the Chris Christie / Gina
Close #bridgegate scandal saga, the WSJ reported something that
looked exceptionally fishy at the time; that Christie had talked with
Andrew Cuomo and asked him to get Patrick Foye, the executive director
of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, to back off investigating the Fort Lee bridge closure.
Among the mounting stream of evidence that shows Christie knew damn well what was going on, this one would seem to be the final nail in the coffin.
And it's very easily proven ... if Governor Cuomo has the backbone to be a proper partisan and put his boot on Christie's neck.
He doesn't have to do it personally. Heck, the WSJ would be HAPPY to report the facts if they just got the nod ... they're the ones with the connections to "a person familiar with the matter," which by the sound of it has to be someone in Cuomo's office anyway.
Ball is in your court, Andy. End Christie's political career.
According to the WSJ story, that phone call was the week of December 12. Yeah. Kind of makes Christies little press "performance piece" this morning look like the firehose of lies that it actually was."Mr. Christie, a Republican, complained in a private phone call to Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, that Patrick Foye, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was pressing too hard to get to the bottom of why the number of toll lanes onto the bridge from Fort Lee, N.J. was cut from three to one in early September, according to this person. The lane closures occurred without notice to local authorities, officials have said, and snarled traffic for a week in the small borough on the Hudson River bluffs."
Among the mounting stream of evidence that shows Christie knew damn well what was going on, this one would seem to be the final nail in the coffin.
And it's very easily proven ... if Governor Cuomo has the backbone to be a proper partisan and put his boot on Christie's neck.
He doesn't have to do it personally. Heck, the WSJ would be HAPPY to report the facts if they just got the nod ... they're the ones with the connections to "a person familiar with the matter," which by the sound of it has to be someone in Cuomo's office anyway.
Ball is in your court, Andy. End Christie's political career.
UPDATE (1 pm PST): H/t to Catte Nappe below ... our own Jed Lewison saw the same story when it happened way back in December and put up dKos diary then. Daily Kos---like seeing the future before it happens!
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