about me. in terms of based on all the facts. in terms of why it might have been about you, this idea that you not endorsing governor christie when a lot of other democratic officials were endorsing the governor seems to be operatings, maybe that s why he s mad at you. he insisted today that wasn t it. we, he wanted democratic endorsements but yours wasn t the top of the list and wouldn t have been worthy of this retaliation even if he wasn t interested in retaliation. are there any other issues on which you clashed with the christie administration or which any other officials from ft. lee clashed with the christie administration that might have engendered this kind of vende a vendetta? , no, not that i m aware of. there s a side story to all of this, rachel. ft. lee, we re going through a renaissance at the moment. we ve taken steps in the last three years we haven t taken in any prior 25. we are in the middle of a
i d rather he not waste the gas and wait a little bit. joining us now is the mayor of ft. lee, new jersey, mark sokolich. thank you very much for being here. i know it s been a long and stressful day for you. thank you, rachel. first let me ask you, i know governor christie did make his way to ft. lee today despite your plea maybe it was premature. how did it go once he got there, and ultimately are you glad he came? i m glad that he came. you know, the suggestion that he not come was not to be disrespectful in any manner, shape or form. this continues as there are just more and more facts and there seems to be more and more chapters that just haven t been read yet. so we thought that, perhaps, it would be best to wait. he insisted on coming. we also said that if he came, he would be welcomed because that s the way we are here in ft. lee. he came. and we had a very sincere, candid and productive conversation. so we re glad he came. mayor sokolich, you were on record when the
advisers my campaign manager, somebody i had just urged to become the chair of the republican party in new jersey, i m now throwing him under the bus, but i don t know how it happened. i don t know why it happened and i m sorry. well, thousands of people were put in jeopardy, thousands of people that i represent and that governor christie represents and the speculation will stop when if ever, this governor who set an environment that people are worried about retribution and mayor of ft. lee stated one of his first questions to the governor is, i am worried that somehow there will be retribution on the people of ft. lee. what kind of atmosphere has been created in new jersey that elected officials and citizens are worried about that? that s because of the environment that governor christie has set. he s responsible for that. and he ll go along way to have
endorsing the governor seems to be operatings, maybe that s why he s mad at you. he insisted today that wasn t it. we, he wanted democratic endorsements but yours wasn t the top of the list and wouldn t have been worthy of this retaliation even if he wasn t interested in retaliation. are there any other issues on which you clashed with the christie administration or which any other officials from ft. lee clashed with the christie administration that might have engendered this kind of vendetta? no, not that i m aware of. there s a side story to all of this, rachel. ft. lee, we re going through a renaissance at the moment. we ve taken steps in the last three years we haven t taken in any prior 25. we are in the middle of a billion, i said a billion-dollar redevelopment on a piece of property that s laid fallow for over 45 years right at the foot of the bridge. you know, there were some theorists and speculators that suggested that, you know, maybe you guys are progressing too quickly.
of the senate democrats. leader of the senate democrats represents ft. lee. roughly 12 hours after governor christie blows up at the senate democrats and torpedos a career of a supreme court justice who he likes, because he said the senate democrats are animals and he s not going to let that justice loose to those animals, the leader of those animals in the senate sees her district, her district, get the order of destruction from governor christie s deputy chief of staff. i want to reenforce this is just a theory, but investigative reporters are all going to be looking at date lines and timelines and where different people were to figure out the true machinations behind all of this. that is an interesting theory, but is that probably more likely there s something less obvious than what people think, that this was just about trying to get the mayor of ft. lee to provide an endorsement? it s a possibility, like you said, it s still just a theory, and a lot of that, of course, will be