Questions Remain About Actions of Cuomo's Top Port Authority Appointee Following GWB Incident

[hrmjustin]

Zack Fink

There are more questions about Governor Andrew Cuomo's top appointee at the Port Authority and his actions surrounding the Bridgegate scandal that has engulfed New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Patrick Foye was the first person to say that laws had been broken in the case, but it remains unclear why Cuomo says he wasn't immediately notified. NY1's Zack Fink filed the following report.

Patrick Foye, Governor Andrew Cuomo's top appointee at the Port Authority, said he did everything right when he wrote an email back in September saying that lane closures at the George Washington Bridge were a violation of federal and state law.

"I took the right action. I took it immediately," Foye said. "I did it because I didn't want someone dying in the back of an ambulance. If I had to do it again, I'd do exactly the same thing on the same time and circumstances."

Foye sent an email to Cuomo's office but didn't report his concerns to law enforcement officials outside the agency.

http://www.ny1.com/content/politics/political_news/204005/questions-remain-about-actions-of-cuomo-s-top-port-authority-appointee-following-gwb-incident

[Historic NY]

1. Questions because he ordered the farce to cease...

and the lanes taken down over NJ's objections.

[hrmjustin]

2. It does seem like sour grapes.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. Foye seems like the "hero" here but this part is just *weird*:

>>>Foye refused to say whether he spoke to the governor about the matter, and referred NY1 to the governor's office. Howard Glaser, the governor's director of state operations, said that he spoke to Foye but did not inform the governor of Foye's concerns.

It's been hard to get a handle on exactly what the governor knew because he has been much less accessible to the press this year than he was in the first two months of last year. >>>>>

I'm sorry, but I want to know whether or not he spoke to Cuomo, what they talked about if he DID, and why he "refuses to say".

I'd also like to know as much as possible about the "private" call from Christie to Cuomo.

[hrmjustin]

4. I think Cuomo is covering for Christie in some way.

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. That's my hunch also.

But we have a right to know.

Esp. since the party is about to renominate the dude.

A "right" to know, did I say? More like an OBLIGATION.

[hrmjustin]

6. Agreed!

And it is a shame that we can't trust the Democratic Governor of NY.