closure of the george washington bridge access lanes but the allegations from hoboken mayor dawn zimmer that christie linked sandy aid to the development of a commercial project. mastro report touts dougherty as an independent dependent eyewit undermines one of mayor zimmer s key claims. now at issue here is one of christie s cabinet secretaries, richard constable, that he suggested to her that there was a linkage between her city sandy aid and that proposed development project. it was known as the rockefeller group project. zimmer and constable sat next to each other at a televised town hall event at mammoth university in may of last year. on that stage, just before the broadcast started, zimmer claim she s had this exchange with
another thing i want to get to is there is these insinuations about dawn zimmer, the allegations that she was essentially bullied by christie. i do want to read you a statement from the mayor on the report really quickly. it says randy master could have written his report the day he was hired and saved the taxpayers the millions dollars in fees he billed in generated this one-sided whitewash of serious misconduct by the christie administration. mastro s conclusion that there was nothing to the threat that was made to me that hoboken would not get sandy relief money it needs and deserves unless i supported the rockefeller group project was surprisingly predicted. it includes the damaging fact that after the lieutenant governor made the threat to me in the parking lot, she got in her car and told an aid that i was not playing ball. this reinforces the soundness of the decision i made not to cooperate with mr. mastro s so-called investigation, and to do so would have only lent credibility
know, i m concerned for our city if that s these are allegations are true. because we have a number of development projects in our town. if that s on our docket now, we need to know that. we need to know and the citizens had a right to know that before the election. 250 days in between that was actually an election that took place. our governor was on the ballot and the mayor was on the ballot and it could have potentially changed the direction of that election. so let s talk about that project and its role in hoboken. this rockefeller group project. we showed you video from the site there. tell us from a hoboken standpoint, how big after deal has this been? what does this potential development mean in had this town? has this been a driving force in local politics? well, it is a very big deal and there are a l number of projects in hoboken not just this project proposed by the rockefeller group. in southern hoboken we have new jersey transit as proposing building a tremendous amo
politicians. the port authority has become politicized, that is someone giving political answers. the port authority has always been political. our team, new jersey team, versus their team, the new york team when you go to washington you see him argue against his own state senator that s getting the money for the project was more weird than the binder they had. if you didn t know the binder was there beforeis hand, you knew that day. a lot of gray in politics. it can be tough to tell what side you re on. sometimes it s very obvious when you ve crossed the line and that s a theme that keeps coming up. i want to thank andrea bernstein, brian murphy and jim mcqueeny. also congressman frank pallone. no, he s sticking around. today we ve been discussing the state of new jersey. next we will turn to the state of the union. stay with us. at farmers, we make you smarter about insurance. because what you don t know, can hurt you.
the administration to push it. you have this added piece that we ve now established you have the chairman of the port authority, his name is popping up on these e-mails from his own law firm. he s being copied on them. people in his l firm are trying to set up teleconferences with him and city officials in hoboken to push for this project. so now it s not just the christie administration in the abstract has an interest in pushing economic development, an office tower in hoboken if that s the case, they d be pushing for a project that one of christie s top political allies has a vested economic interest in. it is troublesome. one other thing at the top of your show today you showed you were interviewing residents in hoboken. and what you saw, the division of opinion there, is really what s going to be what this will rest on, the judgment. let s say there s a crippminal complaint. there s a jury for that. that s the rule of law and the court of law. this is really something that s in