quote, this should begin with the firing of the authority's chairman david samson, a christie appointee who appears to have used the job to advance his professional interest, his law firm, his clients, and the governor's own political ambitions. as port authority chairman, david samson oversees a budget of $8.2 billion. that budget is bigger than the budget of 25 state governments. and it has many more opportunities for corruption in it than most state budgets do. the chairman of the port authority has jurisdiction over complex issues than boast governors, but chris christie's definition of the job and david samson's definition of the job and the actual formal legal definition of the job, it's not a full-time job. and so david samson spends much of his time on his real job, which is lobbyist. lawyers function as lobbyists all the time without officially claiming that status.