sick & twisted: Christie appointee watched bridge closure in person, documents show

[spanone]

An appointee of Gov. Chris Christie personally showed up to observe the closure of lanes at the George Washington Bridge that triggered an epic traffic jam in New Jersey in September, according to documents made public Friday.

The appointee, David Wildstein, emailed the general manager of the bridge on the day before the lanes were closed to say, “Will be at bridge early Monday am to view new lane test,” the documents show. Other emails show that he arrived by 7 a.m. on Sept. 9, the first of four days of nightmare traffic in the city of Fort Lee.

The documents also show that Wildstein and Bill Baroni, another Christie appointee, were directly told on the first day that the backups were causing problems for police and paramedics. Lane closures at the bridge continued for four days, until the irate head of the Port Authority, which controls the bridge, ordered them reopened.

The matter exploded this week into the biggest scandal of Christie’s career after emails and texts appeared to show that Christie allies ordered the lanes closed as an act of political
payback.


http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/10/22257330-christie-appointee-watched-bridge-closure-in-person-documents-show?lite

[malaise]

1. Nasty, vindictive, ReTHUG

scumbags. They are a vile bunch.

[spanone]

3. it's from the top down.....

unbelievable scum

[SummerSnow]

2. Proof that Christie has no control over anyone in his staff.

Reading those documents and so many people involved. This all went pass him? Bad leadership.

[spanone]

4. he lied, it didn't get by a micro-manager like christie.

[El_Johns]

5. He knew. I'll never believe he didn't.

[malaise]

7. Rubbish

He knew

[DURHAM D]

10. Christie didn't just know, he planned it.

[malaise]

11. +1,000 n/t

[Segami]

17. Hah!! Nothing went past him.

[SummerSnow]

18. Christie to staff : " keep me posted"...............imo

[Cha]

6. thanks spanone!

[spanone]

14. hey Cha!!!

[CTyankee]

8. what kind of "test" is one that is done without full disclosure to the town/county agencies

involved DAYS in advance so that they have time to give advance warning to motorists? The SOP is clear. What we don't know is why Christie didn't see this IMMEDIATELY!

[malaise]

9. or to the New York side of the bridge

Tweety continues to devour him

[DURHAM D]

15. Just sort of...

Tweety sometimes has a complete giant black hole of stupidity. The possibility that Crispy has flat out lied has absolutely not occurred to him. Instead he has two other working theories and he will chew on them and chew on them way beyond the point when they are viable.

imo that makes Tweety just stupid.

What makes this stupidity so difficult for me to take is that he has worked on the Hill and speaking from personal experience exposure to Hill intrigue and machinations turns most into complete cynics and skeptics as one must always assume that nothing is what it seems at first look - just like Chinatown. I don't think Tweety has good sources in DC or NY and one of the reasons would be that he has strong opinions but is so often 180 degrees from understanding what is before him and thus he can't be trusted.

[malaise]

16. You don't think it has occured to Tweety

that Christie is lying.
Tweety can't be trusted because even when he knows the truth he hedges his bets. Either he's an opportunist who does not plan to alienate potential guests on his program, or he's seen too many lying Re[v]THUGs skate.
He's willing to call him a scumbag though and he maintains that this has long legs.Tweety is an establishment man.

[PeaceNikki]

12. fucking psychopaths.

[yardwork]

13. Typical of the psychopathy of the Republican Party.