you guys should try this. it s so easy. oh, my. [ gasps ] i just washed this floor. if i didn t see it i wouldn t believe it. [ carmel ] it did my heart good to see you cleaning. [ regina ] yeah, your generation has all the good stuff. [ daughter ] oh, yeah. now, when did i first know about the lane closures? you know, the fact is that the first time this really came into my consciousness as an issue was when pat boyd s e-mail was linked to the media and reported on. and that was the first time that i got a sense that there might be some issue here, that s when i asked my chief of staff and chief counsel, i said, would you look into this and see what s going on here? joining us now is john ritemeyer. governor christie said as soon as he learned of the shutdown of
did somebody bring it to your attention? no, i read it, i read it in the wall street journal. and it was that day then that i read that that pat was saying, this wasn t i didn t know about this, this wasn t cleared through me, whatever else he said in that e-mail. that s when i asked my chief of staff and chief counsel, would you look into this and see what s going on here? we are currently going through all known previous statements from governor christie on this matter to see if he ever before mentioned that in october he sent his chief of staff and his chief counsel to go to the port authority to investigate the lane closures on the george washington bridge. so far we have found no previous instance in which governor christie ever mentioned this before he said so this week. i mean, the governor was pressed on this issue on december 2nd, that s when he lashed out and said, yeah, it was me moving the traffic cones, he was asked about it repeatedly on december 13th, on when he
0 deputy counsel once he didn t get the court job. and then there s david wildstein getting paid an annual salary of $150,000 plus change. that s him on the payroll in 20 2013. this is the same payroll document from the year before that, making the same, $150,000. the director of interstate capital projects, also in 2011, same deal. david wildstein, $150,000. same deal back in 2010, there he is. here s the thing, though. if you go back one year further than that, you go back to 2009, david wildstein is not there, he s not listed. that s because david wildstein couldn t get that job at the port authority until chris christie was sworn in as governor in 2010. david wildstein not on the payroll in 2009. description. had no job description on file. in his campaign to transform itself into a model of government transparency, the port authority turned over a stack of resumes and job descriptions for employees during governor chris christie s two years in office. for most of the 50 names on t
0 relief to belleville. in a fair world that money would have gone to actual victims of hurricane sandy, there s no question that the administration can t meet every sandy need because it doesn t have enough federal aid to do so. season the that all the more reason not to use what emergency we do have as a political slush fund. instead of simply telling sandy hurricane victims that the world is not fair why won t the governor help ensure that it is. the handling of what is supposed to be your single accomplishment as governor, that is not a good thing. the sandy funding issue appears to be the focus of the federal prosecutor s investigation in new jersey. the spreading criticism now of the transparency issue, the transparency with which sandy relief funds are being allocated is part of that scrutiny. in part because of new jersey s repatious history, that issue of transparency of letting the public know how government money is being spent, that s a really potent issue, because corrupti
relief to belleville. in a fair world that money would have gone to actual victims of hurricane sandy, there s no question that the administration can t meet every sandy need because it doesn t have enough federal aid to do so. season the that all the more reason not to use what emergency we do have as a political slush fund. instead of simply telling sandy hurricane victims that the world is not fair why won t the governor help ensure that it is. the handling of what is supposed to be your single accomplishment as governor, that is not a good thing. the sandy funding issue appears to be the focus of the federal prosecutor s investigation in new jersey. the spreading criticism now of the transparency issue, the transparency with which sandy relief funds are being allocated is part of that scrutiny. in part because of new jersey s repatious history, that issue of transparency of letting the public know how government money is being spent, that s a really potent issue, because