note the date. may 8th of last year. that was the same day the hoboken planning board did not adopt the redevelopment recommendation for the rockefeller property. and then, two days later, mayor zimmer got a call. the lieutenant governor, kim guadagno, wanted to come to town to do an event at a shop rite, to talk about businesses that had recovered from the storm. so they set that out. and on may 15th, there they were, kim guadagno and dawn zimmer at the hoboken shoprite. you can see them in the picture. zimmer has told us that guadagno pulled her aside during that visit and delivered a message to her. if you want that sandy money, you need to get that rockefeller project moving, because it s very important to the governor. that s what dawn zimmer, the mayor of hoboken, told us that kim guadagno told her that day. and she s not just saying it to us now, because she says when it happened, she was so shocked, that she wrote it down in her personal diary, which she has
on the inside. so much of this is about the inside. let s start with hoboken mayor dawn zimmer s interview saturday morning on up with steve kornacki in which she decides a pull-aside in the parking lot at the hoboken shoprite where she says the lawsuit governor of the state delivered a bracing message. the fact is that the lieutenant governor came to hoboken. she pulled me aside in the parking lot, and she said i know it s not right. i know these things should not be connected, but they are. and if you tell anyone, i ll deny it. so these the bottom line is it s not fair for the governor to hold sandy funds hostage for the city of hoboken because he wants me to give back to one private developer. early today, this morning new jersey lieutenant governor kim guadagno challenged the mayor. let s listen to her account. mayor zimmer s version of our
0 his lieutenant governor. the message if she didn t back a local project being pushed by christie s former aides, the hurricane money would stop flowing to hoboken. zimmer says she recorded that conversation in her personal diary and has turned over that diary to the u.s. attorney s office. she has offered to testify under oath and even to take a lie detector test. in response, the lieutenant governor of the state has denied tying the hurricane funds to the favored project, which of course opens the question of what she did say to the mayor in that parking lot, and why she did site the two issues and what did she mean when she said the message was coming from the governor. a partisan of the governor, rnc chair haley barbour says mayor zimmer may have written her diary at the present time, but inserted it back in the summer, an unlikely possibility giving the presumed need of the mayor to have left those pages for that day blank so she could fill them in later. as someone myself who ha
0 specifically, was so devastating. sandy affected every state on the eastern seaboard. it caused fatalities as far south as haiti and as far north as canada. sandy sent a storm surge flooding through new york city, the biggest city in the nation, and essentially turned the lights off in new york for a very long time. but when it comes to new jersey, it was something different. sandy just punched the state of new jersey right in the face. and from the very beginning, it was clear that densely populated little hoboken, new jersey, one of the most densely populated cities in the nation, 50,000 people living in basically one square mile, all right up on the mighty tidal flow of the hudson river that swelled and surged and overflowed in that storm, from the very beginning, it was clear that the little city of hoboken, new jersey, was in trouble. reporter: 20,000 people trapped, hoboken became a virtual island, as 500 million gallons of water overwhelmed this square mile town. by wednesda
0 on the inside. so much of this is about the inside. let s start with hoboken mayor dawn zimmer s interview saturday morning on up with steve kornacki in which she decides a pull-aside in the parking lot at the hoboken shoprite where she says the lawsuit governor of the state delivered a bracing message. the fact is that the lieutenant governor came to hoboken. she pulled me aside in the parking lot, and she said i know it s not right. i know these things should not be connected, but they are. and if you tell anyone, i ll deny it. so these the bottom line is it s not fair for the governor to hold sandy funds hostage for the city of hoboken because he wants me to give back to one private developer. early today, this morning new jersey lieutenant governor kim guadagno challenged the mayor. let s listen to her account. mayor zimmer s version of our conversation in may of 2013 is not only false but is illogical and does not withstand scrutiny when all of the facts are examined.