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Beach Rat

(273 posts) Thu Feb 27, 2014, 12:18 PM Feb 2014

Release of previously redacted GWB messages reveals new information

Source: Bergen Record

The private messages that linked Governor Christie’s office to lane closures at the George Washington Bridge also contain jokes about causing “traffic problems” at the home of a New Jersey rabbi associated with the Port Authority, newly released documents show.

The information is contained in 20 pages of messages that previously had redactions shielding who sent and received texts between former Port Authority executive David Wildstein and others. The documents do not shed any new light on potential further involvement of the governor’s office.

Link to Pdf of emails here: http://dng.northjersey.com/media_server/tr/2014/02/26emails/Wildstein.pdf

Read more: http://www.northjersey.com/news/Previously_redacted_GWB_messages_released_revealing_new_information.html

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Release of previously redacted GWB messages reveals new information (Original Post) Beach Rat Feb 2014 OP

Punishing his innocent constituents over such a petty thing. arcane1 Feb 2014 #1

Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2014 #3

These two should have a comedy show! Beach Rat Feb 2014 #5

Welcome to DU, Beach Rat! calimary Feb 2014 #6

Thank you Beach Rat Feb 2014 #9

An additional story out from the Star-Ledger Beach Rat Feb 2014 #2

And yet another from the NY Times Beach Rat Feb 2014 #4

I was hoping this thread was about George W. Bush's un-redacted messages Blue_Tires Feb 2014 #7

Every time I see GWB, that is what I think, too frazzled Feb 2014 #8

Rachel will be on this tonight can't wait bigdarryl Feb 2014 #10

Same here. nt bananas Feb 2014 #12

kick OKNancy Feb 2014 #11

arcane1

(38,613 posts)

1. Punishing his innocent constituents over such a petty thing.

Reply to Beach Rat (Original post)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 12:28 PM

Feb 2014

Yeah, he really cares about the people of New Jersey

Response to arcane1 (Reply #1)

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Beach Rat

(273 posts)

5. These two should have a comedy show!

Reply to Name removed (Reply #3)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 12:38 PM

Feb 2014

What a couple of cut-ups. Dark hollow souls!

calimary

(81,379 posts)

6. Welcome to DU, Beach Rat!

Reply to Beach Rat (Reply #5)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 12:43 PM

Feb 2014

Glad you're here! GREAT observation. They are indeed dark hollow souls. And that's about the best one can say about them. Now they're weasels trying to cover their tracks and finagle some sort of protection so they don't have to pay for their criminal behavior.

Beach Rat

(273 posts)

9. Thank you

Reply to calimary (Reply #6)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 01:11 PM

Feb 2014

What creepy people. It's like they're living out some kind of power fantasy from a political movie or tv show. Like this is the way "players" act.

Beach Rat

(273 posts)

2. An additional story out from the Star-Ledger

Reply to Beach Rat (Original post)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 12:34 PM

Feb 2014

The records also included newly revealed messages between Wildstein and Bill Baroni, the former deputy executive director at the Port Authority. On Nov. 12, Baroni wrote, "Are we being fired?"

Wildstein announced his resignation Dec. 6, saying the controversy over the lane closings had "become a distraction, and I'm going to move on." Baroni resigned Dec. 13.

The records also suggest state Sen. Kevin O'Toole (R-Essex), who serves on the committee, coordinated with Wildstein on Nov. 25 to release a statement supporting Baroni's testimony earlier that day that the lane closings were the result of a traffic study.

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/02/bridge_scandal_david_wildstein_uncensored_documents.html#incart_river_default

Beach Rat

(273 posts)

4. And yet another from the NY Times

Reply to Beach Rat (Original post)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 12:36 PM

Feb 2014

Hoping to run up an impressive margin of victory in November, Mr. Christie’s campaign aggressively targeted the endorsements of Democratic mayors, religious leaders and other groups. A prevailing theory about the lane closings is that they were intended to punish the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee, Mark Sokolich, who did not endorse Mr. Christie.

The documents include no definitive answer as to why the lanes were closed, or why Mr. Christie’s allies were angry at Mr. Sokolich. But they do help to clarify the roles of various Christie aides now entangled in the scandal, and their attempts to cover up the traffic ruse.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/nyregion/documents-show-christie-allies-discussed-another-traffic-jam.html?hp

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

7. I was hoping this thread was about George W. Bush's un-redacted messages

Reply to Beach Rat (Original post)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 12:45 PM

Feb 2014

frazzled

(18,402 posts)

8. Every time I see GWB, that is what I think, too

Reply to Blue_Tires (Reply #7)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 01:01 PM

Feb 2014

Sorry, but those three letters, in that combination, are already taken. They were seared into my brain during that long eight years (and the year of election runup to them), and they will forever connote that ... person*... to me.

*(I've made a pledge to myself, which I'm trying to keep, not to be mean or hyperbolic or crass. So while I might have wanted to say something like "idiot," I have confined myself to "person.&quot