uh oh! christie blaming another low level employee for his screw up!

[yortsed snacilbuper]

“The issue is how did we lose $120 million worth of rolling stock?” Gordon said Friday. “A bigger issue is what can the state be doing to provide greater protection to its transportation infrastructure in light of the fact that we’re likely to see more frequent storms as a result of climate change.”

Gordon said he heard about the explanation Christie offered to The Record last year: that a rogue, low-level employee moved the equipment to the yards on his own, without telling NJ Transit Executive Director Jim Weinstein.

- See more at: link

[rocktivity]

1. ANOTHER rouge Christie employee? Or another stealth hit on Hoboken's mayor?

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...(The) chairman of the Legislative Oversight Committee...received clearance...to begin hearings into how nearly 400 pieces of NJ Transit rail cars and locomotives were left in flood-prone yards in Hoboken and Kearny, resulting in $120 million in damage.

...(He) said he heard about the explanation Christie offered...last year: that a rogue, low-level employee moved the equipment to the yards on his own, without telling NJ Transit Executive Director Jim Weinstein...

Yet another example of "Governor Soprano's" purity and honor being threatened by evil-doing underlings! And by the worst of coincidences, one of the rail yards is in Hoboken, the city whose mayor has accused the Christie administration of trying to shake her down for development money. Is there no end to the vicious underhandedness of his minions? Cue the DU "Cry Me A River" String Quartet!


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[bettyellen]

11. I wonder if whoever got the train contracts is a big donor…..

[dem in texas]

2. He's putting the nails in the coffin of his presidency

Do you want a man who doesn't know what the hell his underlings are doing to run the country. I think not.

[ReRe]

6. It would be like GWB and "Brownie" all over again during the Katrina debacle...

... croneyism is no way to run a state. Or a country.

[Cha]

3. Somebody should whisper in mr I dunno's ear..

"that it's his job to know what his staff and aides are doing."

He can't run NJ.. he sure as hell can't be President. Stupid.

[bettyellen]

9. "He can't run NJ... he sure as hell can't be President." THANK YOU!!!

[Wounded Bear]

4. I suppose it's a woman, too...

That would fit the profile Repubs use.

[Shrike47]

5. Those damned rogue (unnamed) employees, the state is full of them!

When I was a state employee, we kept our heads down and did the best we could no matter what was happening politically, although sometimes the elected officials made it damned challenging.

[ReRe]

7. Drip. Drip.

"What a difference a day makes; 24 little hours."
As each day passes, more mis-management surfaces. The plot thickens...

[rocktivity]

8. There they go again: "Nobody could have anticipated..."

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...The Record reported last year – after suing the agency for the release of public documents – that NJ Transit had a plan for relocating its equipment to higher ground, but that the plan was ignored.

...The governor’s explanation...conflicts with the explanation Weinstein had been giving...that the agency moved trains into the rail yards because it never expected them to flood, and that data available showed the chances of flooding were small.

...NJ Transit did commission a $46,000 report that advised on how to protect its infrastructure for a variety of severe weather events resulting from climate change, including hurricanes. The agency received the report four months prior to Sandy making landfall in New Jersey on Oct. 29, 2012, but Weinstein told legislators he didn’t really study the report.
(link)

I think it's a safe bet that the report was commissioned in response to Hoboken being flooded by Hurricane Irene the previous August. So why didn't Weinstein study the report at least when he heard Sandy was coming? And why hasn't Christie fired Weinstein for this textbook case of dereliction of duty?


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[jsr]

10. Cowardly Chris Christie

[malaise]

12. Drip , drip, drip

That was one BS answer from Christie

[yortsed snacilbuper]

13. I wonder what else will come out?

In the next few days!