Hoboken blackmail charge worse than Bridgegate: Moran
Hoboken blackmail charge is worse than Bridgegate: Moran | NJ.com
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Hoboken mayor discussed Chris Christie, Sandy aid allegations with U.S. Attorney, she says
Hoboken mayor discussed Chris Christie, Sandy aid allegations with U.S. Attorney, she says | NJ.com
U.S. Attorney Said to Meet With Hoboken Mayor
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Hoboken mayor discussed Chris Christie, Sandy aid allegations with U.S. Attorney, she says | NJ.com
U.S. Attorney Said to Meet With Hoboken Mayor
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/20/n...html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0
First on CNN: Lt. governor to deny mayor's Christie claims
New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno to deny claims of Christie ultimatum - CNN.com
[But, admits a conversation took place!!!]
New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno to deny claims of Christie ultimatum - CNN.com
[But, admits a conversation took place!!!]
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Little Has Changed Year After GOP's Planned Reboot
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Hoboken Mayor Is Said to Have Told of Threat
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/n...o-have-told-of-threat.html?smid=tw-share&_r=2
Federal authorities in New Jersey have interviewed several witnesses who said the mayor of Hoboken told them in May about a state official’s threat to withhold hurricane recovery funds if the mayor did not support a development project favored by the governor, people briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.
The statements by the witnesses, two of whom are aides to the mayor, Dawn Zimmer, support the account she gave to federal prosecutors on Sunday, and the interviews suggest that prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have moved swiftly to investigate her accusations.
The aides said she had told them about the threat by Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, shortly after it occurred, according to two people briefed on the matter.
A Hoboken city councilman, David Mello, said in an interview that Ms. Zimmer had also told him about the threat by Ms. Guadagno, a Republican. Mr. Mello, a Democrat, said he had been upset to hear about what he called “this quid pro quo ultimatum by the lieutenant governor.”
The allegation first surfaced on Saturday when Ms. Zimmer, in an interview on MSNBC, said that the threat was made by Ms. Guadagno in a parking lot in May. Ms. Zimmer said Ms. Guadagno told her that federal Hurricane Sandy recovery funds and money for fortifying her city against another storm would depend on her support for the development project. The mayor said Ms. Guadagno said that Gov. Chris Christie had sent her to deliver that message because the project was so important to him.
Late on Sunday, Ms. Zimmer said in a statement that she had been interviewed about her accusations earlier in the day by prosecutors in the office of the New Jersey United States attorney, Paul J. Fishman, and provided them with documents, including a diary in which she had memorialized her encounter with Ms. Guadagno.
Mr. Fishman’s office was already conducting a preliminary review of allegations that several of Mr. Christie’s aides and appointees, including his deputy chief of staff, had ordered the closing of two approach lanes to the George Washington Bridge in what was apparently an act of political retribution. A spokeswoman for Mr. Fishman’s office, Rebekah Carmichael, would neither confirm nor deny that Ms. Zimmer had been interviewed and declined to comment on her assertions.
On Monday, Ms. Guadagno disputed Ms. Zimmer’s account of their meeting, and denied she had made any threat in connection with the large commercial development project, which was to be on property owned by the Rockefeller Group, which is represented by the law firm of one of Mr. Christie’s closest associates, David Samson.
“Mayor Zimmer’s version of our conversation in May of 2013 is not only false, but is illogical and does not withstand scrutiny when all of the facts are examined,” Ms. Guadagno said at an event to commemorate the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. “Any suggestion that Sandy funds were tied to the approval of any project in New Jersey is completely false.”
Ms. Zimmer’s spokesman, Juan Melli, would not discuss whether her aides had been interviewed, saying, “The U.S. attorney’s office has asked that we not conduct additional media interviews and we are respecting their request.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/n...o-have-told-of-threat.html?smid=tw-share&_r=2
Federal authorities in New Jersey have interviewed several witnesses who said the mayor of Hoboken told them in May about a state official’s threat to withhold hurricane recovery funds if the mayor did not support a development project favored by the governor, people briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.
The statements by the witnesses, two of whom are aides to the mayor, Dawn Zimmer, support the account she gave to federal prosecutors on Sunday, and the interviews suggest that prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have moved swiftly to investigate her accusations.
The aides said she had told them about the threat by Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, shortly after it occurred, according to two people briefed on the matter.
A Hoboken city councilman, David Mello, said in an interview that Ms. Zimmer had also told him about the threat by Ms. Guadagno, a Republican. Mr. Mello, a Democrat, said he had been upset to hear about what he called “this quid pro quo ultimatum by the lieutenant governor.”
The allegation first surfaced on Saturday when Ms. Zimmer, in an interview on MSNBC, said that the threat was made by Ms. Guadagno in a parking lot in May. Ms. Zimmer said Ms. Guadagno told her that federal Hurricane Sandy recovery funds and money for fortifying her city against another storm would depend on her support for the development project. The mayor said Ms. Guadagno said that Gov. Chris Christie had sent her to deliver that message because the project was so important to him.
Late on Sunday, Ms. Zimmer said in a statement that she had been interviewed about her accusations earlier in the day by prosecutors in the office of the New Jersey United States attorney, Paul J. Fishman, and provided them with documents, including a diary in which she had memorialized her encounter with Ms. Guadagno.
Mr. Fishman’s office was already conducting a preliminary review of allegations that several of Mr. Christie’s aides and appointees, including his deputy chief of staff, had ordered the closing of two approach lanes to the George Washington Bridge in what was apparently an act of political retribution. A spokeswoman for Mr. Fishman’s office, Rebekah Carmichael, would neither confirm nor deny that Ms. Zimmer had been interviewed and declined to comment on her assertions.
On Monday, Ms. Guadagno disputed Ms. Zimmer’s account of their meeting, and denied she had made any threat in connection with the large commercial development project, which was to be on property owned by the Rockefeller Group, which is represented by the law firm of one of Mr. Christie’s closest associates, David Samson.
“Mayor Zimmer’s version of our conversation in May of 2013 is not only false, but is illogical and does not withstand scrutiny when all of the facts are examined,” Ms. Guadagno said at an event to commemorate the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. “Any suggestion that Sandy funds were tied to the approval of any project in New Jersey is completely false.”
Ms. Zimmer’s spokesman, Juan Melli, would not discuss whether her aides had been interviewed, saying, “The U.S. attorney’s office has asked that we not conduct additional media interviews and we are respecting their request.”
For Christie, Politics Team Kept a Focus on Two Races
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/n...olitics-team-kept-a-focus-on-two-bids.html?hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/n...olitics-team-kept-a-focus-on-two-bids.html?hp
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I had thought that the New Jersey governor had a by-pass surgery done.
It must not have taken. He is still portly.
It must not have taken. He is still portly.
How Pressure Mounted for Development in Hoboken
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/30/n...s-pushed-a-project-in-new-jersey.html?hp&_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/30/n...s-pushed-a-project-in-new-jersey.html?hp&_r=0
Perkinsnacht
Liberal vituperation makes our letter writer's point.
Perkinsnacht - WSJ.com
Five days on, the commentariat continues to drop anvils on Tom Perkins, who may have written the most-read letter to the editor in the history of The Wall Street Journal. The irony is that the vituperation is making our friend's point about liberal intolerance—maybe better than he did.
"I perceive a rising tide of hatred of the successful one percent," wrote the legendary venture capitalist and a founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Mr. Perkins called it "a very dangerous drift in our American thinking. Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendant 'progressive' radicalism unthinkable now?"
That comparison was unfortunate, albeit provocative. It's not always easy to be subtle in 186 words, as Mr. Perkins learned, though a useful rule of thumb is not to liken anything to Nazi Germany unless it happens to be the Stalinist Soviet Union. Amid the ongoing media furor and an ungallant rebuke from Kleiner Perkins, Mr. Perkins has apologized for the comparison, without repudiating his larger argument.
While claiming to be outraged at the Nazi reference, the critics seem more incensed that Mr. Perkins dared to question the politics of economic class warfare. The boys at Bloomberg View—we read them since no one else does—devoted an entire editorial to inequality and Mr. Perkins's "unhinged Nazi rant." Others denounced him for defending his former wife Danielle Steel, and even for owning too many Rolex watches.
Maybe the critics are afraid that Mr. Perkins is onto something about the left's political method. Consider the recent record of liberals in power. They're the ones obsessed with the Koch brothers and other billionaires contributing to conservative causes, siccing journalists to trash them and federal agencies to shut them down.
President Obama's IRS targeted conservative political groups for scrutiny in an election year and has now formalized that scrutiny in new regulatory "guidance" for this election year. Democratic prosecutors in Wisconsin unleashed a special prosecutor to target conservative groups allied with Governor Scott Walker. A judge threw out the subpoenas as baseless but only after months of legal harassment and dawn police raids.
Or take New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who said in a recent radio interview that, "If they are extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York." He said he meant people who oppose gay marriage or abortion, or favor legal assault weapons. He didn't say they were wrong. He said get out of the state.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio then chimed in to say Mr. Cuomo was "absolutely right," throwing in a riff about "crippling inequality" for no extra charge. Like Mr. de Blasio, Mr. Obama doesn't merely want to raise taxes on the rich to finance the government. He says "millionaires and billionaires" simply make too much money and deserve to be punished. Or as they say at the New York Times, NYT -1.78% they are "the undeserving rich." By the way, does that include the third-generation rentiers in the Sulzberger family?
The liberals aren't encouraging violence, but they are promoting personal vilification and the abuse of government power to punish political opponents.
Liberal vituperation makes our letter writer's point.
Perkinsnacht - WSJ.com
Five days on, the commentariat continues to drop anvils on Tom Perkins, who may have written the most-read letter to the editor in the history of The Wall Street Journal. The irony is that the vituperation is making our friend's point about liberal intolerance—maybe better than he did.
"I perceive a rising tide of hatred of the successful one percent," wrote the legendary venture capitalist and a founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Mr. Perkins called it "a very dangerous drift in our American thinking. Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendant 'progressive' radicalism unthinkable now?"
That comparison was unfortunate, albeit provocative. It's not always easy to be subtle in 186 words, as Mr. Perkins learned, though a useful rule of thumb is not to liken anything to Nazi Germany unless it happens to be the Stalinist Soviet Union. Amid the ongoing media furor and an ungallant rebuke from Kleiner Perkins, Mr. Perkins has apologized for the comparison, without repudiating his larger argument.
While claiming to be outraged at the Nazi reference, the critics seem more incensed that Mr. Perkins dared to question the politics of economic class warfare. The boys at Bloomberg View—we read them since no one else does—devoted an entire editorial to inequality and Mr. Perkins's "unhinged Nazi rant." Others denounced him for defending his former wife Danielle Steel, and even for owning too many Rolex watches.
Maybe the critics are afraid that Mr. Perkins is onto something about the left's political method. Consider the recent record of liberals in power. They're the ones obsessed with the Koch brothers and other billionaires contributing to conservative causes, siccing journalists to trash them and federal agencies to shut them down.
President Obama's IRS targeted conservative political groups for scrutiny in an election year and has now formalized that scrutiny in new regulatory "guidance" for this election year. Democratic prosecutors in Wisconsin unleashed a special prosecutor to target conservative groups allied with Governor Scott Walker. A judge threw out the subpoenas as baseless but only after months of legal harassment and dawn police raids.
Or take New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who said in a recent radio interview that, "If they are extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York." He said he meant people who oppose gay marriage or abortion, or favor legal assault weapons. He didn't say they were wrong. He said get out of the state.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio then chimed in to say Mr. Cuomo was "absolutely right," throwing in a riff about "crippling inequality" for no extra charge. Like Mr. de Blasio, Mr. Obama doesn't merely want to raise taxes on the rich to finance the government. He says "millionaires and billionaires" simply make too much money and deserve to be punished. Or as they say at the New York Times, NYT -1.78% they are "the undeserving rich." By the way, does that include the third-generation rentiers in the Sulzberger family?
The liberals aren't encouraging violence, but they are promoting personal vilification and the abuse of government power to punish political opponents.
Christie Knew About Lane Closings, Ex-Port Authority Official Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/nyregion/christie-bridge.html?smid=fb-share
The former Port Authority official who personally oversaw the lane closings on the George Washington Bridge in the scandal now swirling around Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey said on Friday that the governor knew about the lane closings when they were happening, and that he had the evidence to prove it.
In a letter released by his lawyer, the official, David Wildstein, a high school friend of Mr. Christie’s who was appointed with the governor’s blessing at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which controls the bridge, described the order to close the lanes as “the Christie administration’s order” and said “evidence exists as well tying Mr. Christie to having knowledge of the lane closures, during the period when the lanes were closed, contrary to what the governor stated publicly in a two-hour press conference” three weeks ago.
“Mr. Wildstein contests the accuracy of various statements that the governor made about him and he can prove the inaccuracy of some,” the letter added.
The letter marked the first signal that Mr. Christie may have been aware of the closings, something he repeatedly denied during thenews conference.
In early January, documents revealed that a deputy chief of staff to Mr. Christie, Bridget Anne Kelly, had sent an email to Mr. Wildstein saying, “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” the town at the New Jersey end of the bridge, where Mr. Christie’s aides had pursued but failed to receive an endorsement from the mayor.
Mr. Christie has steadfastly denied that he knew before this month that anyone in his administration was responsible for the lane closings, and his administration has tried to portray it as the actions of a rogue staff member.
The governor fired Ms. Kelly. Mr. Wildstein, the director of interstate capital projects at the Port Authority, resigned.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/nyregion/christie-bridge.html?smid=fb-share
The former Port Authority official who personally oversaw the lane closings on the George Washington Bridge in the scandal now swirling around Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey said on Friday that the governor knew about the lane closings when they were happening, and that he had the evidence to prove it.
In a letter released by his lawyer, the official, David Wildstein, a high school friend of Mr. Christie’s who was appointed with the governor’s blessing at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which controls the bridge, described the order to close the lanes as “the Christie administration’s order” and said “evidence exists as well tying Mr. Christie to having knowledge of the lane closures, during the period when the lanes were closed, contrary to what the governor stated publicly in a two-hour press conference” three weeks ago.
“Mr. Wildstein contests the accuracy of various statements that the governor made about him and he can prove the inaccuracy of some,” the letter added.
The letter marked the first signal that Mr. Christie may have been aware of the closings, something he repeatedly denied during thenews conference.
In early January, documents revealed that a deputy chief of staff to Mr. Christie, Bridget Anne Kelly, had sent an email to Mr. Wildstein saying, “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” the town at the New Jersey end of the bridge, where Mr. Christie’s aides had pursued but failed to receive an endorsement from the mayor.
Mr. Christie has steadfastly denied that he knew before this month that anyone in his administration was responsible for the lane closings, and his administration has tried to portray it as the actions of a rogue staff member.
The governor fired Ms. Kelly. Mr. Wildstein, the director of interstate capital projects at the Port Authority, resigned.
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Exclusive: Chris Christie attacks N.Y. Times, David Wildstein
Exclusive: Chris Christie attacks N.Y. Times, David Wildstein - Mike Allen - POLITICO.com
Exclusive: Chris Christie attacks N.Y. Times, David Wildstein - Mike Allen - POLITICO.com
Christie's Office Attacks Claims of Former Ally's Lawyer
Governor Challenges Allegation He Knew of Bridge Disruptions Earlier Than He Has Said
Christie's Office Attacks Claims of Former Ally Wildstein's Lawyer - WSJ.com
Governor Challenges Allegation He Knew of Bridge Disruptions Earlier Than He Has Said
Christie's Office Attacks Claims of Former Ally Wildstein's Lawyer - WSJ.com
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Christie Ally Prepped Official Before George Washington Bridge Lane Closure Testimony
Philip Kwon, an Attorney at the Port Authority, Helped to Prepare Bill Baroni
Christie Ally Prepped Official Before George Washington Bridge Lane Closure Testimony - WSJ.com
Philip Kwon, an Attorney at the Port Authority, Helped to Prepare Bill Baroni
Christie Ally Prepped Official Before George Washington Bridge Lane Closure Testimony - WSJ.com
Chris Christie's Bridgegate response has been a debacle
In flailing for cover, Christie has only exposed himself to accusations of incompetence
Chris Christie's Bridgegate response has been a debacle - The Week
In flailing for cover, Christie has only exposed himself to accusations of incompetence
Chris Christie's Bridgegate response has been a debacle - The Week
Chris Christie's Botched Attempt at Bridgegate Character Assassination
Chris Christie Memo Slamming David Wildstein Raises New Questions - Businessweek
Chris Christie Memo Slamming David Wildstein Raises New Questions - Businessweek
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