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Don t believe an ap article earlier this week that suggested the opposite. 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 interview, 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 n ....
September on the orders of governor christie s deputy chief of staff. joining us now is steve, reporter covering the port authority for new jersey star ledger newspaper. thank you for being here. thanks for having me, rachel. you are more informed on these matters. you ve been covering the port authority for a long time. you seem to be doing pretty well. having covered the backup when it happened, did i screw anything up there? is it pretty much how it happened? you got both the ft. lee backup and the goethals pretty on the mark. excellent. tell me what you think people should understand about david samson, about his role in this agency but also his role in new jersey politics? samson is a longtime player in new jersey politics. not only on the republican side with christie, but he was named attorney general originally by a democrat, jim mcgreevey. he s a partner in a prominent law firm. ....
For traffic problems in ft. lee, the day before that e-mail and the rest of the documents came out which showed governor 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 ....
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. ....