dKos source RETRACTS story that Christie won't let his staff testify before legislative committee

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See the updated, retracted story at

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/11/1276672/-Gov-Christie-s-office-refuses-to-allow-members-of-his-office-testify-before-legislative-committee

I am retracting this story with apologies as I see no second source, or even mention of it by 11:37 p.m. The "supposed" NJSpotlight story must be a punk, as it is inconceivable to me that this news could be a real annoucement last night of the NJ Senate co-chair of the investigative committee Robert Gorden announcing that the Governor's office was not going to allow its members to testify, without dozens of other news organizations reporting it by now. My deepest apologies. I started another post announcing this retraction, and will report progress in investigating what happened there.

As of now, however, I believe I have been duped and reported a false story, which regrettable made it to our Daily Kos rec board. I am very sorry.

Update: I see no other source picking up this story by 11:00 pm EST, which is inexplicable. I hope I do not have to retract this story, reported late last night by NJSpotlight which still has it up. I am investigating this and will report back as soon as I can figure out what is going on. Sorry, if I jumped the gun on this report.

I was wondering about the lack of additional sources for the story, too, since I'd been checking Twitter and couldn't find anything to confirm it.