welcome back to the ed show. this is the story for the folks who take a shower after work. chris christie is facing a road block in any potential run for president. christie is being accused of abusing his political power by causing a massive traffic jam just a few weeks before he was re-elected as governor of new jersey. all but one lane of the traffic to the george washington bridge were abruptly closed for no reason and no warning. nobody had any idea why. wall street journal reported that the lane closures had had been ordered by one guy. a former republican mayor and activist who happened to be an old high school buddy of christie. and when he was asked about his involvement earlier this month i worked the cones actually.
just do it. don t warn the town. don t warn the police. just do it. but why? why did he do it? why did he do that to fort lee. what had the town done to merit terrible treatment? well the mayor of fort lee had two weeks earlier rejected requests to endorse governor chris christie s re-election efforts. but come on, governor christie was ahead by 100 miles in the polls by then. this couldn t have been some political brush back just for that, right? that would be crazy. who would believe that? but then last week, governor christie s high school buddy who ordered that lane closures, he resigned. and this week, the head of the port authority and others were questioned under oath at the state capital in trenton. specifically contradicting the early claim that the fort lee traffic closure thing was part of some sort of study. new jersey s biggest newspaper, the star ledger editorialized yesterday, that legislators should call more officials to testify about the fort lee
political activist blogger, who was also turns out an old high school buddy of new jersey governor chris christie. the governor s buddy, alone, called up the bridge and told the workers there to close down those lanes in fort lee and not tell nobody about it. don t say a word. just do it. don t warn the town. don t warn the police. just do it. but why? why did he do it? why did he do that to fort lee. what had the town done to merit terrible treatment? well the mayor of fort lee had two weeks earlier rejected requests to endorse governor chris christie s re-election efforts. but come on, governor christie was ahead by 100 miles in the polls by then. this couldn t have been some political brush back just for that, right? that would be crazy. who would believe that? but then last week, governor christie s high school buddy who ordered that lane closures, he resigned. and this week, the head of the port authority and others were questioned under oath at the state capital in trenton.
city took two hours. nobody had any warning. cars could not move in the entire town of fort lee. it was gridlock that went on for the better part of a week. nobody had any idea why it was happening. official explanation from people in charge of the new jersey side of the bridge was lanes had to be closed for a traffic study. that was news to their boss, the guy responsible for the for the authority and bridge. when he was asked why it got shut down. the head of the port authority under oath said he was not aware of an traffic study. then, the wall street journal reported that the lane closures and therefore the traffic disaster had been ordered by one specific nameable guy. a former republican mayor, political activist blogger, who was also turns out an old high school buddy of new jersey governor chris christie. the governor s buddy, alone, called up the bridge and told the workers there to close down those lanes in fort lee and not tell nobody about it. don t say a word.
a former republican mayor, political activist blogger, who was also turns out an old high school buddy of new jersey governor chris christie. the governor s buddy, alone, called up the bridge and told the workers there to close down those lanes in fort lee and not tell nobody about it. don t say a word. just do it. don t warn the town. don t warn the police. just do it. but why? why did he do it? why did he do that to fort lee. what had the town done to merit terrible treatment? well the mayor of fort lee had two weeks earlier rejected requests to endorse governor chris christie s re-election efforts. but come on, governor christie was ahead by 100 miles in the polls by then. this couldn t have been some political brush back just for that, right? that would be crazy. who would believe that? but then last week, governor christie s high school buddy who ordered that lane closures, he resigned. and this week, the head of the port authority and others were questioned under oath at the