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TRENTON, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) – Gov. Chris Christie has responded Wednesday afternoon to email exchanges made public earlier in the day linking a top aide to the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal that’s been under investigation.Thank God the Media's Republican candidate has been exposed as nothing more than another lying liberal, no wonder Christie and Obama are so close, they both use their government agencies to target those who don't support them.
The email and text messages between Christie’s deputy chief of staff and the governor’s appointees to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey show a seemingly deliberate effort to create traffic gridlock by shutting Fort Lee’s access to the George Washington Bridge after its mayor refused to endorse Christie for re-election.
“Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” Christie aide Bridget Anne Kelly wrote to David Wildstein, a top political appointee at the Port Authority, which runs the George Washington Bridge, one of the world’s busiest spans.
Sokolich said, those responsible have to suffer the consequences for what they put drivers and people waiting on first responders through.
“I never in a million years would have ever imagined that for petty political gain, people would do what I now believe has been done, which was retribution against me. And that is the saddest, saddest political commentary that you could possibly imagine,” the mayor told Putney.
As CBS 2′s Tony Aiello reported, the governor last month claimed no one on his staff was involved with the lane closures. But the documents tell a different story.
“I don’t have any recollection of ever having met the Fort Lee mayor,” the governor said last month.
Christie has maintained the lanes closures were for a traffic study and not punitive. But the emails and text messages among Christie aides and his two top appointees at the Port Authority — Wildstein and Bill Baroni — suggest they were involved. The Port Authority’s executive director has testified there was no traffic study planned for the GWB.
The lane closures began on Sept. 9 and lasted several days.
On Wednesday afternoon, State Sen. Buono issued the following statement:
“Right now, we have no idea how far this scandal goes. The Governor has created a culture where cavalierly endangering citizens’ lives to exact political retribution is an acceptable form of governance. It’s beneath the dignity of his office and a breach of New Jerseyans’ trust.
“Everyone who had knowledge of the closing should be terminated immediately and the Department of Justice should conduct a thorough investigation to determine whether other towns in New Jersey suffered because the Governor wanted to get revenge,” said Buono.
The governor abruptly postponed a scheduled event Wednesday morning after reports detailing the email exchanges were published.
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