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What you need to know is the national republican party is doubling down on the parties in the states. interesting timing. in the sunday new york times this week, the mayor of ft. lee, new jersey, mark sokolich did anner be view, explained how and when he was asked by the chris christie re-election campaign if he would please endorse chris christie for re-election. he said the request happened last spring, it was not a high-pressure pitch. he didn t want to tell the times exactly who the chris christie staffer was who asked for the endorsement. the same day, though, the wall street journal named the guy. turns out, reportedly, it was a guy named matt mowers according to the wall street journal the christie campaign official responsible for calling ft. lee mayor mark sokolich and other democratic mayors across new jersey trying to talk them into endorsing chris christie. now we know what happens when you say no. that may not be parts of the ....
Authority had talked about it. the article, confirms evidence of pat foye being the leak, stirring up trouble. in this case, he s playing in traffic. made a big mistake. so in the earlier bridge backup, david samson s mad at the executive director because of the backup and he says so. in the more recent one, the ft. lee one, there s nothing said publicly, the only thing david samson is apparently mad at the executive director about this time is that he s talking to the press about it. he s playing in traffic, he s the leak, stirring up trouble. he s made a big mistake. that s when some of the first press about the ft. lee disaster came out. during the ft. lee disaster itself, during the shutdown itself. on the final day of the shutdown. when that executive director who leaked to the press had intervened to ungridlock ft. lee and re-open the bridge, david samson turns up again in the documents that have been released thus far under subpoena. ....
Chris christie campaign manager e-mailing got i who shut down the bridge and calling the mayor of ft. lee an idiot, chris christie s campaign manager bill stepien had been put forward as the next chairman of the new jersey republican party. that was on a tuesday. e-mails came out on a wednesday. on thursday, that was over. governor christie announcing he was separating himself from bill stepien, he lost faith in his judgment and asking him to withdraw his name from consideration for leading the new jersey republican party. so the bridge scandal in new jersey has already claimed the head of one state republican party and causing big trouble for the new executive director of another state republican party in a really politically important state. and now the national republican party announced a new strategy for funneling at least some additional help from d.c. headquarters to the state parties. hey, how about that? when new jersey has trouble because of the chris christie bridge scandal, ....
Happened in spite of your obstruction. think hard senator booker, gillibrand, blumenthal, everyone else, whose advice and counsel you should be listening to. if you happen to be a constituent of one of the senators you see on the screen now, maybe you should tell them how you feel. war and peace is too darn important to leave to the professionals. all right. that is all in for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts now. amazing show, man. well done. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. okay. say you are in new jersey and for some reason you want to go to new york, the most famous way to do that is up top here, it s how you cross from ft. lee, new jersey, specifically over to the top of manhattan. that s the george washington bridge. it s famous now for the chris christie bridge scandal. but it s also a landmark in its own right. right? the busiest bridge for vehicular traffic in the entire world. the george washington bridge up there at the top of your screen, t ....
Samson has spoken for the governor. almost anybody who s named at the port authority by christie prefaces anything they say with, well, on behalf of the governor, or thanks to the governor. and, well, he s the chairman. in terms of how he fits into this scandal, the contrast between the way he was so vocal about that backup, which was a port authority caused backup back on easter sunday, 2011, and the fact he made no public meant about what happened in ft. lee. obviously that could be explained by him not knowing what was under way in ft. lee and so, therefore, why would he make a public comment about it? is he usually loathed to make public comments about things once they become political matters of political discussion? is he a kind of guy who doesn t like to talk to reporters generally? he will talk to reporters in ....