Christie appointee watched bridge closure in person, documents show

[joeybee12]

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.

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

[madaboutharry]

1. Reminds me of how arsonists like to hang around and watch the fire.

Something was going on in Christie's office that was just psycho.

[joeybee12]

5. Hah! Good comparison! nt

[zentrum]

7. Exactly.

And they took photos too---as trophies of their crime.

[MisterP]

10. See the breaking glass/ In the underpass

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szilveszter_Matuska

[Skraxx]

2. I predict we may learn that Christie himself took a helicopter to survey and chuckle at the handy

work. Not joking.

[okaawhatever]

3. I don't agree with the last statement. That the "irate head of the Port Authority, which

controls the bridge, ordered them reopened." Foye threatened legal action and opened the lanes he controlled. That was one of the emails where the Christie staffers were saying he had opened up lanes "on his side" and then one commented something to the effect that they would get even with him for that.
The story makes it seem like Foye could have just opened the bridge on day one and from all I've read that isn't the case. Of course, the bridge is one thing, the road leading up to it is another. They had only one toll booth open and that was on the NJ side.

[Blue Owl]

4. While jacking off

n/t

[sorefeet]

6. Where was Christie at for these 4 days

didn't he watch the news or hear the gossip that the fucking bridge was causing havoc????

[Voice for Peace]

8. seriously good and obvious question..!

[zentrum]

9. FBI needs to subpeona the phone photo...

....records, and face book pages, scrubbed and otherwise, of these guys ASAP.