Am I the only one watching Steve Kornacki? His stuff today is blowing me away!

[Ninga]

I'm taking notes, and rewinding to make sure I am hearing correctly!

This young reporter/journalist is something to behold.

Chris Christie has been paving his way to the White House on the backs of the comuters who have to pay tolls to get to their jobs, which by the way the huge increase of tolls has caused AAA to sue the Port Authority.

[mucifer]

1. I gotta wait a few hours till it's online. I don't have cable tv

Thanks for the heads up. I'm a big fan of "Up"

[Ninga]

2. I dare say. today's reporting may be the best! Nt

[PearliePoo2]

10. I don't have cable or Dish either but I found THIS:

watch live MSNBC
(works best with a fast connection)

http://www.zahipedia.net/2010/01/28/online-msnbc-news-live-msnbc-live-news/

[tulsakatz]

149. I use both...

I stopped paying for cable a long time ago & now watch most TV online...

I use zahipedia, live news chat & http://myrtv.eu/

Lately, myrtv works & sometimes it doesn't....I think they must be updating it because usually it's very reliable. However, among the 3 options I can always find one that works...

[PearliePoo2]

18. Here's another link for live streaming MSNBC:

http://blog.livenewschat.tv/politics/

[LongTomH]

100. Thanks for the links!

[Ninga]

3. For those of you interested in how Christie planned on getting to the White House,

Kornacki is telling you...today.

[Ninga]

4. Discussion now, describing how media have been co-conspirators ... Nt

[lostincalifornia]

103. I haven't seen the show but no question the media were and most still are giving him a free pass

If it wasn't for Rachael this story would have gone away

It was only 2 weeks ago I heard the media argue that Christie is innocent and not lying because they would have known by now if he wasnt

[tofuandbeer]

148. So, it's no wonder the Koch's had Rachel removed from AM radio in Los Angeles.

[mucifer]

5. Some of today's show is already uploaded on the msnbc website:

http://www.msnbc.com/up-with-steve-kornacki

[Ninga]

7. Thank you. Nt

[GP6971]

24. Thanks!!!!! n/t

[RKP5637]

6. Steve Kornacki is great! He reminds me of the old time investigative reporters

that dug in and presented news rather than these twits today which side with whichever way the wind is blowing so as to get their paychecks for nothing benefiting "we the people," but rather the corporate swill.

[H2O Man]

8. I agree.

100%

[Misskittycat]

66. I agree, too. Between them, he and Rachel have really knocked this out of the park! n/t

[JanetLovesObama]

9. Steve is the real deal.

Steve Kornacki is a TRUE journalist. I sincerely hope he is rewarded for the awesome investigation and reporting on this Christie scandal.

[W.J. McCabe]

11. Let's hope he can help put Christie away for good.

We don't need another Nixon.

[rocktivity]

88. Christie's presidential hopes are certainly put away for good. He's guilty of obstruction

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at the very least if the story of his calling NY governor Andrew Cuomo to complain that someone in the Port Authority was getting too nosy about the lane closure "traffic study" holds up. Immunity? We don't have to show Wildstein or Kelly no stinking immunity!


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[Cha]

117. It's weird that Christie would feel comfortable calling Gov Cuomo

about something so diabolical. Did he think in his arrogance he was going to fool him too?

[GP6971]

128. Probably not

Cuomo's silence, in my opinion, was predictable......don't give the investigations any more info and he stays clean. Let's see if that holds.

[marlakay]

144. My thought too Christie has something on him

or he would talk. i am beginning to think most of them do it as much as they can get away with and they little by little as they get away with it get closer and closer to the illegal side until its that way.

[Smarmie Doofus]

151. Very interesting observation. n/t

[avebury]

12. Christie treated the PA as his own

transportation piggy bank. This stuff really needs to come out in a big way. I would be really pissed if I lived in NJ.

[seveneyes]

13. How does highway toll extortion pave the way to the White House?

Hell, voting against pols that keep increasing taxes and fees on the common citizen is the only way to roll.

[Ninga]

21. It is worth while to watch Kornacki's reporting on the sinister way Christie funneled PA

mega dollars to NJ so Christie could (and did) get Democrats endorse him ,support him and smile in photo ops with Chrisite. Kornacki reports how this happened.

[SummerSnow]

27. Lets just hope those Dems are smart enough now not to support him

[avebury]

14. I really really really hope that at some

point down the road, Kornacki writes a comprehensive book on the Chris Christie scandals. I would 100% buy it.

[CTyankee]

115. Kornacki is on to well deserved fame as an investigative reporter...

I hope his star shines brightly in the mediasphere! What a breath of refreshing air!

[PearliePoo2]

15. malaise also started one!

here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024390518

[Smarmie Doofus]

16. I would if I could but I can't so I won't.

But I'll catch it later wherever I can find it. ( Youtube, MSNBC.com, etc.)

13 bucks to go over that fucking bridge. Then...to get to my house, I have to pay another 3.50 to MTA to go over a smaller bridge.

I live about 5 miles from the Ft.Lee (NJ) side of the bridge.

To paraphrase Madame De Farge ( Tale of Two Cities), "Why do we endure it?!"

[EC]

17. And closing down the tunnel

was just to get the money.


I've suspected the same about Scott Walker...maybe Steve should go deeper and dig out who was tutoring these Governors about shutting down projects to shift the money to campaigns. I really think this will go back to ALEC because I'm sure they've been doing more than writing our laws.

[okaawhatever]

25. The other governor installing toll booths is Rick Scott in Florida. I think that adds more

evidence to your theory. All three mentioned are pushing agendas for ALEC.

[rocktivity]

76. You mean that rail tunnel he didn't want to build?

I dare say he wants that to be yet another privatized Rockefeller Group project, which he would be able to ramrod through as president.


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[HereSince1628]

19. Did you notice Koch Industries was #1 contributor on the list Kornacki showed?

Kornacki was talking about someone down, but being a WI Koch-serf that screamed at me.

[Ninga]

22. I rewound the program a million times to take notes, and yes sadly caught the list. Nt

[bettyellen]

29. Oh, share your notes please!!!

[mucifer]

31. Yeah he talks so fast to get everything in it's hard for my 48 yo brain to

catch everything he says. But, I realize he does a ton of work and has a very limited amount of time to get his information out across to the viewers.

[Ninga]

20. I never bought into Christie from day one. My take-a-way from Kornacki's reporting

is the sad sad realization that the press is lazy, there are no investigative reporters, there is no such thing anymore.

Otherwise Christie would have been exposed sooner. This is such a huge story with many many connections that point directly to the most self-serving fuck that has occupied an elected office.

Kudos to Kornacki, but quite frankly, citizens across this county need their own investigative, curious, intellectual media to ask the hard questions and moreover, put their shoes on and go out and actually do investigative research. *sigh*

[factsarenotfair]

23. Exactly.

It's just unbelievable and terrifying.

[valerief]

34. I think the press are just as easy to buy as pols. Well, the folks controlling the media, anyway. nt

[Ninga]

86. Yes, of course...that's exactly why Christie was able to lie and lie and felt no repercussion. Nt

[kristy]

38. hi

Hello

[bettyellen]

41. Ha

You gonna do that to us ten more times?

[gopiscrap]

71. Welcome to DU

[Cha]

121. Rachel has repeatedly given praise to the local reporters on

the GWB story.. namely Shawn Boborg of the Bergen Record and had him on her show. Also Matt Katz from the wnyc.. and a another one, Ted Mann of wsj. But, yes, we're fortunate that we have Steve Kornacki and Rachel who have been on this from the beginning on the tv media side of it!

A Gift to our Country, Ninga!

[90-percent]

26. I'm thankful the GWB Toll isn't $50.00

The average $140,000 a year salary of the 7,000 employees of the Port Authority has to come from somewhere!

If my math is right the yearly payroll is $980,000,000. $20 million shy of a billion dollars a year! That implies that every single Port Authority employee is a member of the 1%!

salary info courtesy of Rachel's recent reporting.

-90% Jimmy

[Cleita]

33. I think that deserves a song. It could be titled "Corruption" and sung to Fiddler on

the Roof's song, "Tradition". Right now I wish I were a poet. Rocky Mountain Mike, are you there?"

[valerief]

35. Yeah, but corruption IS traditional! nt

[rocktivity]

135. Sorry

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But Jon Stewart has beaten you to it:

http://www.rocktivity.com/video/tds_christie.webm


rocktivity

[Cleita]

137. Hilarious! How did I miss that?

I usually watch Jon.

[bettyellen]

40. I read PA profits are up 30%, and the toll will increase AGAIN in 2015 to 15$. From 8>15$ in FOUR

YEARS, and they pushed it through in one quick meeting! How did CC make that happen?

[LeftyMom]

43. Christ, really? We pay $6 at rush hour to go over the (SF-Oakland) Bay Bridge,

and that's to cover the costs of rebuilding half of it for seismic safety. AFAIK all the other bridges are $4-5 if there's a toll (and we only have tolls on bridges, not on roads.)

[bettyellen]

46. for trucks it is up to 75-over 100 depending on weight. The GWB is the only way for trucks into NYC

also to get from NJ to New England without major detours. It is extortion.
They passed a series of four increases over (I think) four years in ONE meeting, almost doubling the tolls in that period of time.

[go west young man]

49. Now we truly know what highway robbery is.

And from what I hear no one can account for where all the toll money is going. Me thinks some government baddies are getting very rich somewhere. Someone needs to follow that money trail and I bet the whole thing will come tumbling down.

[bettyellen]

50. Yep, GWB bridge is part of I95, the route the goes N-S from one end of the East coast to the other.

The traffic it handles is truly incredible, they do a great job considering how busy it is day and night.
There was no way this "what if we shut down" thing was valid. Any idiot would know how horribly this would effect the local town, as well as surrounding towns. It is not at all walkable area- because so much of it is large access roads to the bridge- so he put a lot of lives in danger screwing with their only ability to get to hospitals, police response, etc.

[FarCenter]

52. I-95 doesn't go from one end to the other -- there is a gap in New Jersey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_95_in_New_Jersey

[bettyellen]

55. there are a series of workarounds to avoid major cities 295, 395, etc…. because it is an important

trucking route, and avoiding the cities helps. But there isn't a great workaround any where near the GWB, which is what is actually relevant here.

[dorkzilla]

141. You can get to NE from NJ alternately by taking the Tappan Zee to 287E...

then take the Merrit or I95. I HATE taking the GWB and having to go through the Bronx. Even when I lived in New Rochelle coming home from Giants games we used to take the Palisades and go over the Tap.

[bettyellen]

143. I know I grew up 2 blocks from the X Bx, LOL. It's always awful.

But that bridge and road are important to a lot of people, obviously. I wonder how much traffic it will lose over the almost doubled tolls.

[FarCenter]

147. To Boston, we usually take the GSP, NY Thruway, Tappan Zee, Sawmill, I-684, I-84

It looks like a lot of truckers on the interstates going to NE take I-81 to I-84. In fact even truckers coming from the south might take I-83 from Baltimore to I-81 near Harrisburg.

The Hudson crossings are especially busy with trucks, since there is no freight rail across the Hudson south of Selkirk, near Albany.

[mucifer]

45. Street parking in downtown Chicago $4 per HOUR at meters thanks to mayor daley.

He privatized the parking meters and enforcement for a 75 year deal and the money the city got is already spent.
We are all fuming about it here.

[quakerboy]

53. Reading this sub-thread

I become even more resolved to push locally here in Oregon to avoid creating a toll on the bridge going up to Washington. I dont think we have any toll roads in the area at this time, and it seems like starting would be a pisspoor plan.

[bettyellen]

56. Tolls will attract the parasites, that much is certain! Good luck with your fight!!

[mucifer]

28. Exciting news about the SOTU speech on the show.

I hope I'm not being too optimistic. But, I probably am.

Fun to see panel discussions with more people on the left than on the right.

[Cleita]

30. Not yet, but I have it recorded and am going to watch it now.

I agree. He's been knocking it out of the ball park these days.

[bkanderson76]

32. Steve Has Got it Goin' On

[El Shaman]

36. There is so much-

where to start!!!?

http://www.northjersey.com/news/Senate_panel_to_hold_hearings_on_NJ_Transit_decision_to_leave_third_of_fleet_in_Hoboken_Kearny_during_Sandy__.html?page=all

[El Shaman]

37. and then-

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/25/rachel-maddow-the-mammoth-slush-fund-where-chris-christies-friends-found-jobs/

[Babel_17]

39. http://www.msnbc.com/up-with-steve-kornacki

http://www.msnbc.com/up-with-steve-kornacki

I didn't know of his show, and it was hard to find as his name isn't included in its name, it's listed just as "Up". Even googling his name didn't lead me to his show.

So, here's the link.

I'm going to cross-post this as needed. Great reporting!

[SunSeeker]

61. THANK YOU!! nt

[bettyellen]

42. kick

[SunSeeker]

44. Steve Kornacki is blowing this story wide open.

[bettyellen]

47. Beth Mason, who appears on the show- offered to pay HERSELF for the study needed to push this

project through! She used to be on the right side of issues, then became wealthy and stuff started to get ugly.
She lives on the fanciest row of large houses, and had a a party where she had a FOOTMAN deliver the invites, and skip only the neighbors on Hudson that were shared between two families. She is all about the $$$.

Now she is complaining the mayor is respecting the FBI's request that Zimmer remain silent, and whining she is not in the loop? She is working for the other side, and Zimmer knows it. Everyone knows it.

[ColumbusLib]

106. Beth Mason came across very poorly

When she was complaining about Zimmer not telling the whole city council about the Lt. Gov.'s statement, and more particularly about her anger that Zimmer is not talking to City Council NOW (at the US Attorney's request), Kornacki asked simply, what should Zimmer do now? Mason totally avoided answering his question, because of course Zimmer can't go talk to the city council now that the Feds told her not to! But that is what Mason seems to be implying Zimmer do. Unbelievable!

[bettyellen]

116. Mason's had trouble about illegal campaign contributions in both directions, had joined the old

guard of corrupt a while back and would not have a chance of getting voted dog catcher if there wasn't so much "street money"= vote buying going on in Hoboken. There are a few lists of hundreds of ex or dead Hobokenites that circulate and get assigned to the candidate who will "play". They vote in precincts where they are helped by friendly poll workers who shout down any challenge. They spend a lot of money on "campaigners" who are often videotaped all together going inside one polling place after another, like a chain gang, after getting paid 50-75$ for a days "work". Since you can't tape inside, no one has yet proved it, even though the FBI has investigated. Other campaign helpers go to the hospitals and senior centers to collect "absentee ballots" only from people whose votes they like.

[Laxman]

119. When I Die...

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bury me in Hudson County. That way I can remain active in politics.-Gov. Brendan Byrne

-or-

Two Hudson County campaign workers were in a cemetery on election day, taking down names from the headstones. It was a large grave yard and one of the workers became tired and skipped a section. He suggested to his co-worker that they leave. "Get back over there and get the rest of those names!" he was admonished. "those people have a right to vote just like everyone else".

[ColumbusLib]

136. Ha!

Haven't heard that one before- that's rich! Or maybe those particular votes are paid for by the rich...

[go west young man]

48. Those shitty roads and their incredibly ridiculous tolls

should be a perfect example of what Christie would do to the United States. Turn it into an unaffordable shithole with consumers paying out the ass for broken down infrastructure. I am one individual who will never visit that area again after being robbed blind at the toll booths and nearly wrecking in the potholes. Someone is pocketing all that money somewhere. That could be the real major story here.

[bettyellen]

51. he pulled ARC tunnel to redirect the money, and take credit (and endorsements) for local projects

that had nothing to do with transversing the Hudson. So, he pulled the PA away from it's very mission in life, to gain political capital. Oooooh, heads will roll. GOOD.

[FarCenter]

57. Does rebuilding the WTC have anything to do with traversing the Hudson?

At least Christie is getting more money for NJ out of the PA, instead of letting it all be squandered in New York.

And many of the projects, such as the Goethals, Bayonne Bridge, and rebuilding the Pulaski Skyway do have to do with crossing the border from NJ to NY.

The Bayonne Bridge project is essential to getting the new size of container ships into the Port of Newark, which is part of the Port Authority. This is required because of the widening an deepening of the Panama Canal, which will increase the size of Panamax container ships. Without raising the bridge, they wouldn't be able to offload in Newark.

The Goethals Bridge is also a NJ, NY border crossing and owned by the PA.

The Pulaski Skyway is the main highway leading across the lower end of the Meadowlands to the Holland Tunnel.

Kornacki also include the Tappan Zee replacement. But I think that is funded by the NY Thruway and DOT, not the PA. It was deliberately located where it was to avoid NJ involvement, even though it is an inferior place for the bridge.

[bettyellen]

59. not more money- just redirecting the ARC $$ (based on lies about budget) to projects less needed.

We had to pay a shitload back to the feds for dumping ARC, which was sorely needed.

[bettyellen]

60. Pulaski Skyway fix should be paid for with gas taxes or road tolls, NOT PA money slated for rail to

cross the Hudson.

CC didn't want to raise taxes to do what needed to be done. He lied about cost overruns to kill ARC, and use the money for a slush fund. Throw projects at his supporters, taking the PA further and further away from his mission. End of story.

[SunSeeker]

62. Perfect summary. Cuomo should be screaming bloody murder!!!

Why has Cuomo been so silent?!

[FarCenter]

64. Because the PA is a bipartisan, bistate pit of patronage and corruption.

Of which NY has generally gotten the bigger advantage.

[bettyellen]

65. "everybody does it!!" Well, now they are busted- and I am sure you agree that is a good thing.

according to the panelists today- many tried to get shady PA money, but nobody ever brought it to this level off corrupt lying to the public and gleefully cheating / punishing so many constituents.

[SunSeeker]

68. Christie has taken it to a whole new level, shutting down GWB and ARC.

It is one thing to get goodies for your constituents. It is another thing to use your PA appointees to HARM people.

[FarCenter]

70. The GWB was not shut down - two lanes of an three-lane on-ramp from Fort Lee city street were closed

I-80, I-95, US 46, US 1&9 and Palisades Parkway traffic was probably improved due to fewer cars squeezing on through dedicated toll booths just before the bridge. The entrance is from Park Avenue / Martha Washington Way. Use google maps.

[bettyellen]

72. transparently minimizing the huge cost and threat to NJ citizens lives- for political reasons? WHOA.

we have your number now!

[FarCenter]

74. Just describing what was actually shut down and what was not.

[bettyellen]

78. a huge amount of access to the bridge was shut down, try and keep "Up!" LOL.

Christie PUNISHED a region for $$$/ political reasons, that is unconscionable! He is going down, ha ha.

[bettyellen]

73. even Christie is backing away from claims there was a study/ good reason, LOL. HILARIOUS.

[SunSeeker]

77. Shutting down 2 of 3 lanes IS shutting down the bridge.

It completely gridlocked the bridge and the entire town of Fort Lee for four and a half days. It cost hundreds of millions of dollars in economic damage. And it may have cost a woman her life.

The shutdown did not "probably improve" traffic. Good God, even Christie is not saying that. That has got to be the most ridiculous Christie apologist crap I have read anywhere. Ironic that I read it on DU.

[bettyellen]

79. "the most ridiculous Christie apologist crap I have read anywhere" Yep, it's like a doc killing you

and taking credit that the disease is gone now.

[SunSeeker]

81. LOL nt

[bettyellen]

82. someone here is making excuses for fucking over Dems here on DU- I am shocked!!

[SunSeeker]

83. Yes, but he didn't curse anyone out, so don't bother alerting.

In fact, posts like that goad progressive DUers into saying stuff that then gets hidden. Ironic, isn't it?

[FarCenter]

84. 3 lanes from NJ Tpk local, 4 from NJ Tpk express, 2 from 1&9, 2 from Palisades Pkway were unaffected

These are the major highway lanes converging on the 7 lane bridge.

I think there are also 2 lanes from Center Street in Fort Lee that were unaffected. 2 out of 3 lanes from Park Avenue were closed. The latter were used by Fort Lee residents and Bergen County commuters who knew that you could use them to hop on the bridge after all of the merges and tool booths except for the 2 lanes from the Palisades Parkway. They also had 3 dedicated toll booths.

Look at a map and get the facts.

[bettyellen]

87. only closed to punish "Buono voters", according to CC's staff. Spin THAT.

why are you reprinting nonsense from that crap rag from Woddland Park?

http://eyeontherecord.blogspot.com/2013/11/dull-and-uninteresting-even-on-page-1.html

[FarCenter]

90. See Washington Post maps showing the lane configuration before and after closure

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-christie-perhaps-a-bridge-too-far/2014/01/09/2928e054-797a-11e3-af7f-13bf0e9965f6_graphic.html

[bettyellen]

92. does that change their actions, gleefully hurting thousands of Dems, only because they are Dems?

[SunSeeker]

89. Oh and the 405 in L.A. was unaffected too. Good grief.

You just double down, while ignoring the FACT that entrance to the world's busiest bridge and the entire town of Fort Lee was purposefully, maliciously GRIDLOCKED for FOUR AND A HALF DAYS.

[FarCenter]

91. See the maps at Washington Post -- thru traffic got two more toll booths and lanes.

[bettyellen]

94. yes, targeting Dems in Ft Lee specifically. Which is what the scandal is actually about. Keep "Up!".

[SunSeeker]

96. Are you denying Christie's Dons gridlocked GWB & Fort Lee?

Even Christie is admitting that. You are really unbelievable.

[bettyellen]

99. "Over a four-hour period, a total of 2,800 hours were lost to traffic" , no biggie at all!

[SunSeeker]

98. The Wasington Post describes it as a traffic "shutdown."

Which it was. And it would have lasted even longer than four and a half days, but for Dem PA appointee Patrick Foye interceding, much to the explicitly stated outrage of Christie's Dons.

http://m.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-nj-documents-show-extensive-coverup-in-fort-lee-traffic-shutdown/2014/01/10/09af4efc-7a1f-11e3-af7f-13bf0e9965f6_story.html

[leftynyc]

154. That you don't live in the area is obvious

or you wouldn't be speaking so ignorantly about this Closing 2 lanes in Ft Lee was just the beginning. Because those two lanes were closed there was a cascade effect and it backed up traffic FOR HOURS. You may want to stop talking about things you're completely ignorant about and stop telling people to look at a map when you don't know the first thing about the FACTS.

[Ikonoklast]

130. You do know that the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is investigating the

shutdown because it had an immediate and deleterious effect on interstate commercial traffic, right?

You do understand that no political subdivision in this nation cannot impede interstate commercial traffic without a valid reason, and doing so for no reason whatsoever breaks federal statutes?

If any state is even doing road repair work that impacts commercial interstate travel across state borders they must notify the USDOT as to when, why and what they are doing.


There is commercial traffic that carries intrastate, interstate, and international freight that uses that bridge entrance.

Trying to minimize the impact of Christie shutting down access to the GWB from that entire region is laughable

It is a serious enough violation of federal law to have Jay Rockefeller's attention as head of that committee.

[leftynyc]

153. You have no idea what you're talking about

I have no need to go to google maps - I went over that bridge every single work day for 8 years. If traffic on the upper level approach from the Palisades was backed up, we headed for the Ft Lee entrance to the lower level. Closing 2 of 3 lanes was a disaster and in no way at all helped traffic. Traffic was backed up for HOURS and it was done for spite. Anybody who can claim with a straight face that it helped traffic is a bloody moron.

[bettyellen]

80. Exactly, his people GLEEFULLY hurt the community, and said it was because they were Dem voters.

Yet FarCenter defends it mightily. Interesting take on things, LOL.

[Cha]

122. Kinda goes with my question upthread, Sun.. "why did

Christie feel comfortable complaining to Gov Cuomo about the GWB Closures?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4392580

[Laxman]

124. Hubris!

They were on top of the world. They never thought they would be called on any of this.



Top of the world Ma!

[Cha]

126. Yeah, that was my thought, too..

"arrogance"? Unreal. Another thought I had but didn't voice was.. wondering what Gov Cuomo is thinking about all of this? Hmmm?

[FarCenter]

69. The only real purpose of the Pulaski Skyway is to connect Newark with the Holland Tunnel crossing

Design began in 1919 for the Holland Tunnel, the first fixed roadway connection between New Jersey and New York City; construction began in 1922, and the tunnel opened in late 1927.[30] To provide for a continuous highway connection on the New Jersey side, the New Jersey Legislature passed a bill in 1922 authorizing the extension of Route 1 from its end at Elizabeth through Newark and Jersey City to the proposed tunnel.[31] It was conceived as the nation's first "super-highway".[32][33] State highway engineer Hugh L. Sloan appointed old acquaintance Fred Lavis, a consulting engineer who had worked on foreign rail lines and the Panama Canal and written four books on locating and designing rail lines, to design this Route 1 Extension.[34] Sigvald Johannesson designed the Skyway portion.[28]

Frank Hague, mayor of Jersey City and boss of the state's political machine, directed the state to avoid the open cuts that were already common where the railroads crossed Bergen Hill, and to include an access ramp in Kearny to spur industrial development.[35] Construction of the highway, which was mostly raised on embankments and passed through Bergen Hill in a cut, began in mid-1925. The two major eastern and western sections in Jersey City and Newark—including the viaduct leading to the "covered roadway" (Route 139) and the embankments in eastern Newark—were opened on December 16, 1928, about a year after the tunnel opened.[36] Traffic was still required to use the Lincoln Highway to cross the Hackensack and the Passaic on the since replaced drawbridges that frequently stopped traffic to allow ships to pass.[34][37][38]

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

[bettyellen]

75. but, it has always been out of the PA's purview. the $$ should come from elsewhere, PERIOD.

tough job, caring water for Chris Christie. It's a shame Mayor Zimmerman stuck a fork in him, LOL. He is done.

[Herself]

67. reducing traffic jams, idling at toll booth's is of NO INTEREST to any state govt

Every time there is an opportunity for an American car to be idling, slowed, stop and go traffic, grid lock... it makes security for huge oil profits.

It's forced oil consumption.

Traffic lights are out of sync in every state, city and re-syncing would greatly reduce our gas consumption, reducing our foreign energy dependency. There is NO ONE profiting from it that will support that effort.

Your drive thru's with skeleton crews have driven up your "idle time" ... you burn gas, you have to buy more gas...

Keeping people "trapped" on high volume commuter highways keeps you too busy to investigate, organize, communicate with each other and come together to address your oppressors.

[factsarenotfair]

101. Oh, I hadn't thought about all of that.

[bettyellen]

63. Christie lied about costs to shut down BILLIONS in federal investment in commuter rail, just so he

could have some money to dole out to new "friends". He COST NJ big time.
Watch the segment on the politics of the PA on today's Up, and get back to us.

[Ninga]

85. Big lie. Important lie. And should have made newspaper headlines as well as the lead story on the

evening news. Instead. *crickets*

I sometimes think that activists like me need to put our energies not into a topic here, and a topic there....but into demonstrating for the return of true, independent investigative reporters...

[bettyellen]

134. I think the big picture is coming together. when more details come out, it will be huge.

[HipChick]

54. Any cliff notes?

for those of us who can't get to TV or video clips yet?

[Ninga]

108. Hope you were able to get the jist from the various posters who really added a lot of good info. nt

[2banon]

58. oh gosh. I tried and tried to avoid getting "sucked in" on Christi Gate. But this Kornack guy is

is just about the best tv journalist I've seen in recent memory, making Boardwalk Empire look like childs play in comparison. Amazing, and now I'm just as hooked in watching this drama as I was with Boardwalk Empire.

[Voice for Peace]

93. so glad for this OP! I didn't know Kornacki was on twice.. saw him yesterday

This New Jersey Story is too much fun.
I had to pause it to write this post.. savoring the
show.

I really like this councilman (first segment) --
he is super articulate and confident, quite
impressive.

Waiting for developments in this story is such
a drama.. like waiting for new seasons of
Breaking Bad. Or Downton Abbey.

[bettyellen]

95. the other councilman, Beth Mason is crooked as hell. Offered to pay for the feasibility study for

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huge redevelopment plan out of *her own pocket* to push along this project for Christie. She is pandering for the Gov, and trying to smear Zimmer because she lost her Mayoral bid against her. It wasn't so obvious on TV, but suggesting the Mayor ignore the FBI's gag order? Nuts.

[truebluegreen]

138. fyi, it's "Zimmer", not "Zimmerman."

And Mason did look like a total tool...When she said how many days had passed, and that there had been an election, the governor was on the ballot, the mayor was on the ballot, I could just hear her campaign slogan "Vote for me! I'll work with the Governor!"

[bettyellen]

139. Bwaaah, thank you! How silly, I had just been talking about the GZ "art" w/ a photo shopping friend!

I am so glad you said that about Mason- because I am so biased I wondered how credible she came off as.
I do not believe a word out of her mouth. She has no resemblance in manner, dress or speech to the person who helped me out 20 years ago. It is a bizarre transformation of for sure!

[truebluegreen]

140. Yes, I've never heard of her before but she was just...slimy.

Her poutrage about not being able to question Zimmer, maintained in the face of the U.S. Attorney's request, was just bizarre. And I'm sure that if she had won the election the Rockefeller redevelopment would be well-advanced.

[bettyellen]

142. Good to hear. That was my impression when she reemerged as a politician after not seeing her for

many years! She was actually a seer, unassuming, sort of bohemian type 20 years ago, when she volunteered to help w/ translations on a campaign I was working on. At first I believed it was another woman with the same name!
Thanks for the correction, and your impressions! It is heartening to hear she isn't fooling anyone.

[Cha]

123. Pretty much my take on it, too..

Voice for Peace. I will be watching UP later today. Saw Saturday's last night.

Only this is real.. it's a diabolic scandal that if it hadn't been uncovered and getting busted wide open could have led to reaching inside the halls of our White House.

[libdem4life]

97. The stars are "lined up" for Steve, to be sure. Has helped immensely that he is a NJ resident

so knows the players...he said himself that helped him get access...but I smell "Pulitzer" written on this old-style investigative reporting.

Should be/hopefully an amazing boost to MSNBC for allowing all of their news hosts to focus on story after story...beating the drum the Right does not want to hear.

It's a bad week for crooks...Yeah!

[lostincalifornia]

102. When Christie was asked to speak at the convention after Romney won the nomination

I recalled his speech was not about Romney but about Christie

That should have been a big flag about what he is about

[SunSeeker]

105. Yup. There's no "i" in "team." But there sure are a lot of i's in Chris Christie. LOL. nt

[Cha]

125. Oh yeah.. It was "Memememememememememeeeeeee"!

[lostincalifornia]

127. He has fooled a lot folks including the media who seem to start to now realize it

[ColumbusLib]

104. Kornacki is great

He is terrific at leading the discussions evenly and clearly, gets a nice balance of different people in there, and let's them speak (Chris Matthews' "interviewing" style is a pet peeve of mine). I'm going to start watching all his weekend Up shows; they're very close to on par with Rachel Maddow, and she is the absolute best... Oh, and Kornacki's been getting fabulous content and angles, today really driving home the point about how thoroughly Samson is implicated in all of this.

[mimi85]

131. Too bad Steve replaced

Chris Hayes on the weekend. Chris is ok, but he was better on "UP": MSNBC should have let Steve get the spot before Rachel. Oh well....at least Tweety is only on one hour a day. I never understood giving him two hours a day.

[jberryhill]

107. Yes, you are

I just checked today's ratings and, you are correct, he has one viewer today.

[mucifer]

109. what are we Chopped liver?

[Ninga]

111. I think your "chopped liver" just got "sandwiched" in-between some irony....

Of course you are NOT chopped anything....I heard you are the bomb!

[mucifer]

112. Awww thanks!

[Ninga]

110. Oh darn...I guess I didn't inspire you to turn it on! Hoping to get the number up to 2.

[proverbialwisdom]

113. Kornaki hosted wnyc.org journalist Andrea Bernstein and cited her work. Phenomenal reporting.

http://www.wnyc.org/people/andrea-bernstein/

http://www.wnyc.org/story/top-christie-mans-business-thrived-he-chaired-port-authority/?utm_source=/story/chris-christies-horrible-terrible-no-good-very-bad-week/
http://www.wnyc.org/story/how-christies-men-turned-port-authority-political-piggy-bank/

MORE.

[Ninga]

114. Thanks for these awesome links. I must confess, I am obsessed with this story and the legs it's

growing.

[Cha]

129. I've been obsessed, too, Ninga from the beginning.

Only I'm on Kaua'i so watch Rachel and Kornacki's shows later in the day online. Never use to watch any of these them but now is a different story. I take notes too.. there's so much to digest! OMGoodness!

Thank you for being "obsessed" and starting these threads!

[Ninga]

145. Back at ya Cha! The Christie story has all the parts and pieces to be our times Watergate...

To be continued.........

[Cha]

146. Right!

[proverbialwisdom]

155. Thank you for the very helpful thread! (nt)

[GP6971]

118. I haven't seen anything on YouTube yet. n/t

[northoftheborder]

120. Agree: excellent reporting

I'm watching recording of it from this AM; the best "muckraking" I've seen or read in ages! Even better than last week, which was worthy of a Pulitzer. Don't know who is actually doing the research, he must have a terrific team of producers, but Karnacki does a splendid job of reporting.

[nikto]

132. Steve Kornacki better watch his back...

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/08/three-weeks-later-details-about-reporter-michael-hastings-death-in-fiery-car-crash-remain-a-mystery/


Kornacki is doing some great work.
I think he's a hero.

But challenging elites (especially ones who have displayed mafia-like behavior),
can be risky, even years later.

Just sayin'.

[marlakay]

133. Rachel said before last weekend he had something special on his show

So I DVR'd it, and then I did last Sunday too and both days this weekend.

The guy is great, he lines up his stuff but in even a less partisan way than Rachel and I love her.

I feel same as you, overwhelmed by all Christy has done and saw why mitt didn't use him, which makes you wonder why mitt is going around saying great things, somebody is offering him something!

His show comes on from 4-6am here so no way in heck with a DVR would be watching!!

[Cha]

150. Who loves David Mello!?

Who was annoyed at Beth Mason's facial expressions?

What's up with Jim McQueeny, Lautenberg's former COS?

Frank Pallone!

Samson=Giant Conflict of Interest.. dude. I liked the woman reporter but they didn't state her name anymore when I wanted to write it down.

What tells me among a lot of reasons that Christie's lying is the $70 Million $$ explanation. that's for suckers and they're banking on more than a few.

thanks again, Ninga.. I couldn't watch the whole thing.. I probably missed a lot of interesting stuff!

[Ninga]

152. Sounds like you caught a lot, Cha. It's 7:20AM and time for me to bundle up

and take care of the huge snow drift in the middle of the driveway.

I suspect we will discuss this story again soon!

[Gothmog]

156. He has been doing a great job