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debacle, and he lambasted the executive director of the port authority for having caused that traffic jam on that bridge 2 1/2 years ago. when the port authority caused this even bigger traffic jam for four straight days, the same chairman, david samson, didn t say beep. no public comment on the issue. no apology. no telling the press it was unthinkable, nothing. not a word. why is that? in contrast to the outer bridge backup in 2011 where david samson raked the director over the coals for public in that backup, here s what we know about what david samson did about the backup this past september in ft. lee. he e-mailed the vice chairman of the port authority after an article about the backup came out in the wall street journal. david samson s complaint was the executive director of the port

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were stuck in the parking lot on that bridge until well after midnight on easter sunday. after some initial conflicting and confusing information that night, the port authority did issue a statement, apologizing statement on monday. the port authority apologizes for the disruptions that travelers faced. that was not good enough. the written apology was not enough. ultimately they had the executive director of the port authority get out and make a public apology to the people of staten island. i will start by apologizing to staten island residents and everybody affected by the extraordinary delays. april 20 11 this was. that was an apoll write from the port authority executive director after that agency closed down all but one cash lane between new jersey and new york and caused a big backup. that was an apology at a public meeting called to apologize. apology to the public came after that executive director had

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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.

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other lanes. it was so bad that the website gothamist did a feature on the galactically stupid traffic jam on the bridge. saying the port authority ruined easter. look at the coverage the next morning, that was easter sunday, right? was the jam. the next monday, monday morning, right after easter, it s from the staten island advance. motorists fume as port authority creates an hours long bridge backup. easter spirit gave way to traffic outrage yesterday, on what should have been a reasonable holiday commute turned into an hour s long ordeal. the reason, for most of the day only a single toll collector was working at the outer bridge toll plaza, meaning one cash lane was open, and there were miles of backed up traffic behind it. whether they were trying to get home after visiting family or friends from out of state or trying to catch easter dinner with loved ones on staten island, motorists found themselves frozen in parking lot conditions for hours. on easter.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140116:05:06:00

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