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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew Jersey braces for new disclosures in bridge scandal
Source: Reuters
New Jersey braces for new disclosures in bridge scandal
BY DAVE WARNER
NEWARK Fri Jan 10, 2014 10:19am EST
(Reuters) - New Jersey legislators on Friday planned to release nearly 1,000 pages of documents that may shed new light on a probe of four days of traffic jams at the George Washington Bridge apparently orchestrated by Republican Governor Chris Christie's top aides to settle a political score.
The release would come the day after Christie, a star of his party seen as a likely 2016 White House contender, fired the staffer who had sent e-mails calling for trouble at the key commuter choke point and repeatedly apologized in a two-hour news conference.
The scandal, which had been brewing for weeks, burst onto the national stage on Wednesday when New Jersey officials released e-mails that appeared to show Christie's staff plotting the lane closures in September to retaliate against the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey, because he had not endorsed the governor's re-election campaign.
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BY DAVE WARNER
NEWARK Fri Jan 10, 2014 10:19am EST
(Reuters) - New Jersey legislators on Friday planned to release nearly 1,000 pages of documents that may shed new light on a probe of four days of traffic jams at the George Washington Bridge apparently orchestrated by Republican Governor Chris Christie's top aides to settle a political score.
The release would come the day after Christie, a star of his party seen as a likely 2016 White House contender, fired the staffer who had sent e-mails calling for trouble at the key commuter choke point and repeatedly apologized in a two-hour news conference.
The scandal, which had been brewing for weeks, burst onto the national stage on Wednesday when New Jersey officials released e-mails that appeared to show Christie's staff plotting the lane closures in September to retaliate against the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey, because he had not endorsed the governor's re-election campaign.
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New Jersey braces for new disclosures in bridge scandal (Original Post)
Eugene
Jan 2014
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lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)1. I hope so, the smugness of Bloomberg and other networks is disgusting
librechik
(30,676 posts)2. I see, they're going to bury the scandal under random documents
that works pretty well at slowing things down. Especially before documents became electronic and word search was invented!
They don't know us very well, do they? Unlike them ,we DO know how to read.
JustAnotherGen
(31,879 posts)3. I'm waiting
Should make for interesting reading this weekend.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)4. Tricky Dick did the same thing.
Dump tons of documents, slow down the investigation. Bush did the same thing with the investigation into the Valerie Plame leak.
Laxman
(2,419 posts)5. 1,000 Documents is Nothing...
in this day and age. And this is coming from the committee that is investigating the GWB caper. This is not a document dump. (I've been on the receiving end of a few of those). Hopefully there will be a few tid bits in there.