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In New Jersey, There’s No Exit for Chris Christie’s Bridge Trolls
By Michael Daly
POLITICS 01.09.14
In Fort Lee, the full scope of the insanity of the traffic jam that top political aides ordered is finally hitting home—for the governor, too.
The most infamous traffic cones in America sat on a curb by the Fort Lee entrance to the George Washington Bridge on Wednesday. These were the very orange cones that had been arrayed across the entrance after a senior troll to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie emailed a Port Authority official.
“Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly emailed at 7:34 a.m. on Aug. 13, 2013. The recipient, a Christie troll at the Port Authority named David Wildstein, emailed back at 7:35 a.m., only a minute later. “Got it.”
But Wildstein’s almost-instant response was not out of any hurry to proceed with the scheme. Just as true trolls might, they waited three weeks to the morning of Sept. 9, the first day of school.
The scandal is not just that the lanes were closed, but that the closing was timed to blindside kids as they waited excitedly and maybe already a little nervously for the bus in their back-to-school clothes and their new backpacks and fresh notebooks.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/09/in-new-jersey-there-s-no-exit-for-chris-christie-s-bridge-trolls.html