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Laxman

(2,419 posts)
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 02:49 PM Oct 2016

Bridgegate: Kelly says she told Christie of plot the day before she sent 'traffic problems' email

Source: Bergen Record

Taking the witness stand in her own defense Friday, Kelly explained that Christie “really didn't react” when she told him of the upcoming study, but said “OK” and asked her when it would be scheduled.

Christie told her to “make sure you run it by O'Dowd,” she said, referring to Christie's chief of staff at the time, Kevin O'Dowd.

“He wanted to know what our relationship was and how are things with Mayor Sokolich,” Kelly said.
Kelly is accused of working with Bill Baroni and David Wildstein, two former executives at the Port Authority, to reduce access lanes to the bridge in Fort Lee to punish Democratic mayor Mark Sokolich for not endorsing Christie for re-election.

Kelly testified Friday after Mike DuHaime, a friend of hers and one of Christie’s closest political advisers.

Read more: http://www.northjersey.com/news/bridgegate-kelly-says-she-told-christie-of-plot-the-day-before-she-sent-traffic-problems-email-1.1681115



Kaboom! Well there you have it! I'll have more on this later. I have to actually work sometimes. I'll fill in details in the Christie Crime Digest later. Read this article. It includes this tidbit:

Q. You're afraid of the governor?

A. Yes, yes.
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Bridgegate: Kelly says she told Christie of plot the day before she sent 'traffic problems' email (Original Post) Laxman Oct 2016 OP
The link doesn't work? PearliePoo2 Oct 2016 #1
I Just Clicked On It... Laxman Oct 2016 #2
i got into the link....no problem.n/t chillfactor Oct 2016 #3
This is gonna be good! NurseJackie Oct 2016 #4
Thanks for the good news. n/t Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #5
Christie Coolest Ranger Oct 2016 #6
Hey Christie do you remember that time you were using the state helicopter to go back and forth to turbinetree Oct 2016 #7
Christie's future not fooled Oct 2016 #8
I can't make heads or tails out of that article jberryhill Oct 2016 #9
re: "And what does that last sentence mean?" thesquanderer Oct 2016 #13
Ah! thank you thank you thank you jberryhill Oct 2016 #14
Except the case is based on much more than her one email. yardwork Oct 2016 #20
oh BS that Christie didn't know until day before and this traffic study wordpix Oct 2016 #16
Christie told of NJ 'Bridgegate' closures month before: defendant Eugene Oct 2016 #10
She's still covering for him really. forest444 Oct 2016 #11
Covering for him. skypilot Oct 2016 #12
Well said. forest444 Oct 2016 #15
my take, too. Must've offered plenty of NJ taxpayer $ to keep quiet wordpix Oct 2016 #17
From the beginning of all this... skypilot Oct 2016 #18
Stick a fork in him, he's done. pat_k Oct 2016 #19

Laxman

(2,419 posts)
2. I Just Clicked On It...
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 02:57 PM
Oct 2016

and it worked. I know a lot of eastern newspapers have been having trouble today because of a denial of service cyber attack. NJ.Com is down right now. But the Bergen Record is working. Try this (its the same link but maybe it will work here): http://www.northjersey.com/news/bridgegate-kelly-says-she-told-christie-of-plot-the-day-before-she-sent-traffic-problems-email-1.1681115

turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
7. Hey Christie do you remember that time you were using the state helicopter to go back and forth to
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 03:34 PM
Oct 2016

your kids baseball game at taxpayer expense

Well guess what, just think of a baseball game and this one is at the states taxpayers expense, you have now gotten two strikes against you, and your being called to the plate to explain yourself, I have feeling that you are going to perjure yourself

I have a pretty funny feeling, that it going to be a slider being delivered to you, when your looking for a curve ball, and your going to swing and miss.

Have you looked at new uniforms lately XXXL and when your called out, you will have to "shut up and sit down" in jail

You from all appearances you didn't even think of your family, when you did, this, or your citizens of the state, your power was more important, than principles






not fooled

(5,801 posts)
8. Christie's future
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 03:54 PM
Oct 2016

From the White House to the Big House. Couldn't happen to a creepier creep. Buhbye jerk.



 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
9. I can't make heads or tails out of that article
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 04:03 PM
Oct 2016

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Kelly said she told Christie of Wildstein's plan.

The governor said that's typical Wildstein,” Kelly said.

Christie then told Kelly that the two should get together for lunch the next day if her schedule was free, she testified.

The next day, Aug. 13, Kelly and Christie met for lunch, along with his then-deputy chief for policy, Deborah Gramiccioni, at a cafe in Morrisville, Pa.

That same day, Kelly sent Wildstein the “time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee” email.

But Kelly said it was “absolutely not” an order to block access to the bridge. The message was sent “in a very quick manner” using words that Wildstein had often used to describe the anticipated effect of the study and other Port Authority matters.

“Traffic problems were just two words that went together when you talked to David about the Port Authority,” Kelly said. Addressing the jury later, she said, “If I said time for a traffic study in Fort Lee, we wouldn't all know each other.
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The article says that Christie called it "typical Wildstein". Then, they had lunch the next day.

Did she testify about what went on during that lunch?

And what does that last sentence mean? They all knew each other, no matter what she wrote. Is that a typo?


thesquanderer

(11,989 posts)
13. re: "And what does that last sentence mean?"
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 04:57 PM
Oct 2016

i.e. “If I said time for a traffic study in Fort Lee, we wouldn't all know each other.”

She was addressing the jury. That is, if she had worded her email differently, she wouldn't be there, and she and the jury would never have met each other.

wordpix

(18,652 posts)
16. oh BS that Christie didn't know until day before and this traffic study
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 05:44 PM
Oct 2016

is likewise BS. If there were such a study, ppl would have been informed. I've been on I-95 plenty and there are lots of amber alerts re: traffic problems, lane closings and such.

Eugene

(61,899 posts)
10. Christie told of NJ 'Bridgegate' closures month before: defendant
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 04:08 PM
Oct 2016

Source: Reuters

U.S. | Fri Oct 21, 2016 | 2:36pm EDT

Christie told of NJ 'Bridgegate' closures month before: defendant

By Joseph Ax | NEWARK, N.J.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was told about the lane closures that led to the "Bridgegate" scandal a month before they occurred, a former aide testified on Friday, contradicting Christie's statements that he only learned about them afterward.

Bridget Kelly, the governor’s former deputy chief of staff, told jurors in federal court in Newark that she discussed the plan to shut down access lanes at the George Washington Bridge with Christie in August 2013, and again in September as it was ongoing.

Kelly, who is on trial for her alleged role in the plot, said she believed at the time that the closures were a legitimate traffic study, not a politically motivated scheme, and described it as such to Christie.

Prosecutors have charged Kelly and former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey executive Bill Baroni, Christie's highest-ranking political appointee at the transportation agency, with creating massive traffic gridlock in Fort Lee, New Jersey, as payback after the town's Democratic mayor, Mark Sokolich, refused to back Christie's 2013 re-election campaign.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-jersey-bridgegate-idUSKCN12L2G1

forest444

(5,902 posts)
11. She's still covering for him really.
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 04:35 PM
Oct 2016

Anything less than a full admission that this - and so much else, such as holding Sandy funds hostage from defiant mayors - was on the direct orders of Crisco himself is almost certainly a whitewash.

skypilot

(8,854 posts)
12. Covering for him.
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 04:55 PM
Oct 2016

That's my takeaway from this. They're still trying to frame it as a "traffic study" that Christie ok'd, with him supposedly not being aware of what was really going on.

forest444

(5,902 posts)
15. Well said.
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 05:12 PM
Oct 2016

Partial admissions and limited hangout have, for decades, been the go-to tactics for scoundrels whenever they've painted themselves into a corner.

Once wrongdoing becomes universally understood, admit it - just not the full scope of it (which usually amounts to treason).

skypilot

(8,854 posts)
18. From the beginning of all this...
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 07:19 PM
Oct 2016

...I've always thought of those movies where some guy agrees to take the fall and do jail time as long as there's a certain amount of money that he's guaranteed to get for each year he spends in prison. I'm almost convinced that something along those lines is going on here.

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