New Jersey Republicans slam Bridgegate panel, want own investigation

Washington (CNN) -- Republican members of the New Jersey legislative committee investigating Gov. Chris Christie's involvement in the Bridgegate controversy blasted the panel's work, calling it "a shiftless, broken political vehicle," in a report released Monday.

Republicans also called for an independent investigation into whether the committee misused taxpayer money for political purposes.
The committee met Monday to publicly release an interim report that failed to find any conclusive evidence tying Christie to the scandal. The report leaked to the press last week.

But Republicans used the meeting as a platform to release their own "minority statement," slamming Democratic co-chair John Wisniewski's handling of the probe into last year's lane closings on the George Washington Bridge.

"An opportunistic and power-hungry politician also used those reprehensible lane reassignments as cover, while leading a legislative committee to try to execute a two pronged political mission: take down Governor Chris Christie, the biggest political threat to state and national Democrats, and in so doing, become the next Democrat gubernatorial candidate," the report said.

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