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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Thu Jul 3, 2014, 04:44 PM Jul 2014

Cuomo-Christie Port reform group resolves to consider reform

Dana Rubinstein

On the Thursday afternoon before the long July 4 weekend, Governors Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie released a letter from the Special Panel on the Future of the Port Authority, a committee populated by their allies that was convened in the aftermath of Bridgegate.

It was Christie's political appointees to the bistate authority who closed access lanes to the George Washington Bridge last year, in an apparent act of political retaliation. The ensuing scandal has come to endanger Christie's presidential prospects, all while damaging the Port Authority's once proudly technocratic reputation.

The Port Authority controls many of the region's tunnels and bridges, as well as the PATH and the World Trade Center site.

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2014/07/8548428/cuomo-christie-port-reform-group-resolves-consider-reform?top-featured-1

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You think they'd be a little more circumspect rocktivity Jul 2014 #1

rocktivity

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1. You think they'd be a little more circumspect

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Thu Jul 3, 2014, 07:03 PM

Jul 2014

Last edited Fri Jul 4, 2014, 07:01 AM - Edit history (1)

about issuing self-exonerating reports by now...

In May, after Senator Chuck Schumer publicly excoriated the governors' politicization of the agency, Christie and Cuomo announced the creation of the special panel. They populated it with John Degnan, Christie's nominee for Port Authority chairman, Richard Bagger, a Christie-appointed Port Authority boardmember, Port Authority vice-chairman Scott Rechler, a Cuomo appointee, Christie counsel Christopher Porrino and Cuomo counsel Mylan Denerstein.

The governors requested a report within 60 days, and asked that said report "include specific recommendations and proposed next steps."

The resulting report is aggressively unspecific.

"Aggressively unspecific" -- I'll have to remember that one for both Christie and Cuomo's politicial tombstones.

rocktivity

P.S. Please cross post to the Christie Crime Digest before I do something drastic.

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