Vietnam Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh has signed a decision approving the building of infrastructure at Prodezi Industrial Park in the Mekong Delta province of Long An.
kara, when you heard those things at the time, they were kind of nuts to hear. but now hearing them with the context of knowing that he very possibly or was in negotiations with russia about a big development project is a very different thing. it s an extremely different thing. first of all, there s always been questions about whether the president was pursuing his bottom line in these statements about russia, and it s a question of ratcheting up the level of bad this potentially is when he s doing that potentially before he s a candidate. okay. when he s one of 17 candidates, protestor problematic. when he s the actual nominee, extremely problematic. he was receiving security briefings, too. is the president saying he s going to be doing all these things because he believes in the policy, or he thinks it s actually throwing out a gesture to people that he thinks will pay into this project that he s pursuing for a longer term goal. and you campaign on what you re going to do as pre
when zimmer had a conversation in may of 2013 with a member of christie s cabinet. that s a man named richard constable who runs the department of community affairs. occasion was a televised town hall at monmouth. zimmer alleges before the program began, she had a conversation which constable suggested to her that hoboken would receive the sandy funds she was seeking if she approved that big development project. project that was proposed by something known as the rockefeller group. zimmer shared with us and then with federal prosecutors a contemporaneous diary entry that describes what she says happened. we are miked up with other panelists all around us and
present when zimmer had a conversation in may of 2013 with a member of christie s cabinet. that s a man named richard constable who runs the department of community affairs. occasion was a televised town hall at monmouth. zimmer alleges before the program began, she had a conversation which constable suggested to her that hoboken would receive the sandy funds she was seeking if she approved that big development project. project that was proposed by something known as the rockefeller group. zimmer shared with us and then with federal prosecutors a contemporaneous diary entry that describes what she says happened. we are miked up with other panelists all around us and probably the sound team is listening and he says, i hear you against the rockefeller project. i reply, i am not against the rockefeller project. in fact, i want more commercial development in hoboken. oh, really? everyone in the statehouse believes you are against it. the buzz is that you are against it. if you move that f
york times paints a portrait in colorful detail, as i said, of how christie s team pressures and intimidates their opposition. in the case of hoboken mayor dawn zimmer, it meant repeatedly muscling her to get into line. it started last may when zimmer is lured to meetings about flood prevention only to find she ll really be meeting with a bunch of christie lobbyists and allies who are all wanting a piece of a big development deal that zimmer isn t ready to support. it s a deal being pushed by the rockefeller group which is represented by a cadre of christie supporters, including david samson who led christie s transition team and chaired the bridge commission. here is scene one, per the times. she, hoboken mayor dawn zimmer, was due to meet the next day with officials of the new jersey department of environmental protection when she hoped to talk about protecting hoboken from the next catastrophic deluge to come. instead here is what she walks into. the rockefeller group which had lon