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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"There was a missing child"-NJ Bridge Lane Closure Slowed Search for Missing 4-Yr-Old, Says Official
Private messages released on Wednesday strongly suggest that a top adviser to Republican Gov. Chris Christie orchestrated a massive traffic jam in Fort Lee, New Jersey, as political retaliation against the city's Democratic mayor.
Calling the messages "astonishing" and "unconscionable," members of the Fort Lee borough council described the mid-September traffic disaster, caused when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey unexpectedly closed two of the town's access lanes to the George Washington Bridge, as having dire consequences.
"There was a missing child that day. The police had trouble conducting that search because they were tied up directing traffic," says Jan Goldberg, a Fort Lee councilman who works with local emergency personnel. Police found the missing child, a four-year-old. "But with the streets in the condition they were, I would venture to say that the search took longer," Goldberg says.
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"There was a missing child"-NJ Bridge Lane Closure Slowed Search for Missing 4-Yr-Old, Says Official (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2014
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Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)2. This detail might just do him in.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)3. Here we go
Blue Owl
(50,547 posts)4. Sideshow Blob is going down
Like a ton of shit.