Sentences with phrase «christie appointee»

Interviewed late last week, Baraka — a council member and school principal whose critique's of Anderson's ed reforms have fueled his mayoral bid — denounced the Christie appointee's approach as «dictatorial,» «totalitarian» and «narcissism.»

But Jameson Doig, the Princeton University professor who wrote the authoritative history of the Port Authority, said Cuomo's inspector general reminded him of the Christie appointee at the Port who masterminded Bridgegate.

He has also openly (and covertly) been battling Port Authority Chairman John Degnan, a post-Bridgegate Christie appointee who, in his advocacy for a new Port Authority Bus Terminal, has sometimes stood in Cuomo's way.

In July, Port Authority chairman and Christie appointee John Degnan said if the search bore no fruit in the ensuing two months, «we should rethink the process and concede that reform is dead.»

A Christie appointee running the state Ethics Commission, which was asked to investigate the matter, defended the trips by saying the governor «sort of went as a personal thing.»

«They're gonna kill each other,» said David Wildstein, the admitted mastermind of the George Washington Bridge scandal and a former Christie appointee at the Port Authority.

Wildstein testified that it was his «understanding» from his former superior Bill Baroni — a Christie appointee now facing federal charges — that that the New York and New Jersey governors colluded to blame the shut down of lanes headed into Fort Lee on a fraudulent «traffic study.»

To take Foye from the Port Authority would deprive Cuomo of a trusted lieutenant at the same time he's feuding with the Port's chairman, John Degnan, a Chris Christie appointee who sometimes hinders Cuomo's Port Authority - centric infrastructure agenda.

Wildstein, a former Christie appointee to the Port Authority, pleaded guilty to his role in the lane closure scheme and is cooperating with prosecutors.

It's believed that Cuomo will not let Foye — a Cuomo appointee — leave until Degnan does, because Degnan — a Christie appointee — is intent on using Port Authority resources to build a new bus terminal on the west side of Manhattan.

But now Christie appointees Bill Baroni and David Wildtsein have been ensnared by the U.S. Attorney's office, and I'm told former Chair David Samson may soon be in handcuffs over the «Chairman's Flight.»

But it was not until that testimony on December 9th that Foye revealed there had been no traffic study — the stated reason from the Christie appointees (who have since been fired) as to why the lanes were actually closed.

Wildstein testified that he was told by two top Christie appointees that the governors coordinated on a false cover story to «put an end» to the lane - closing controversy.

Wildstein's comments today in the federal trial of several Christie appointees to the Port Authority, however, undercuts the two politicians» claims of innocence.

Not exact matches

Scott Rechler, a Cuomo ally and until recently his appointee as the Port's former vice-chairman, testified on Thursday that Cuomo and Christie had indeed talked about «the Fort Lee issue.»

Cuomo, a Democrat who has long observed an unofficial nonaggression pact with Christie, has been placed on the defensive by David Wildstein, a former Christie ally and authority appointee who pleaded guilty to closing lanes on the George Washington Bridge as an act of political retaliation against a Democratic mayor who declined to support Christie's re-election.

In a statement, Christie — whose appointees were responsible for Bridgegate — urged «New Jersey's legislature to introduce and pass this bill as well so that we can finally meet the standard for reform laid out by Governor Cuomo and me last year.»

According to the widely reported narrative, Christie's top two appointees at the Port Authority, Bill Baroni and David Wildstein, had shut down access lanes to the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee as part of a half - cocked revenge scheme against Fort Lee's mayor for failing to endorse Christie for re-election.

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Christie calls Gov. Andrew Cuomo to complain that Patrick Foye, the executive director of the Port Authority and a Cuomo appointee, was pressing too hard to get to the bottom of why the number of toll lanes onto the bridge from Fort Lee was cut from three to one in early September.

Nadler, a Democrat whose district includes the existing bus terminal, sent a letter to the Port Authority demanding Degnan, a post-Bridgegate appointee of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, recuse himself from all further deliberations about the bus terminal.

Patrick Foye, executive director of the Port Authority, testified in the Bridgegate trial that he was told by an appointee of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie that closing bridge lanes was «important to Trenton.»

Advocates and officials who'd hoped that national attention to the spectacular misbehavior of Christie's authority appointees in the Bridgegate scandal would catalyze more substantive reform of the authority were crestfallen.

The governor's office says Foye told Cuomo's office about the email only after it was sent — he forwarded the email to a top Cuomo aide several hours later — informing them that something strange had happened that he was trying to get to the bottom of, but did not point the finger at Christie or his appointees.

«Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,» Bridget Anne Kelly, Christie's deputy chief of staff for legislative and intergovernmental affairs, e-mailed David Wildstein, then the highest - level political appointee representing the state at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week to complain about a Cuomo appointee's handling of a growing controversy over traffic pattern changes on the George Washington Bridge, a person familiar with the matter said.

Since the debacle at the George Washington Bridge — known as Bridgegate — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has stepped away from the bi-state agency and deferred to his appointee, chairman John Degnan.

Newark Public Schools Superintendent Christopher Cerf took the helm of the district in 2015 after a tumultuous run by former school superintendent Cami Anderson, an appointee of Governor Chris Christie who stepped down eight months before her contract expired.