Hoboken, N.J.'s Mayor Dawn Zimmer claims she was told to greenlight a development in her town or else she wouldn't get Hurricane Sandy aid money controlled by Gov. Chris Christie.
Now the problem for New Jersey’s Chris Christie is more than traffic cones on the George Washington Bridge. Now a much bigger problem for him is the mayor of Hoboken saying that a member of the Christie administration shook her down for a political favor for a rich developer, and threatened to hold back funding that Hoboken wanted and badly needed after Hurricane Sandy if she didn’t play along.
It is why Christie needs for the Hoboken mayor to be just one more person telling lies about him for political gain, and piling on. Because if she’s not, then way too many people in Christie’s administration start to look like they think this is “Boardwalk Empire” and they’re working for Gov. Nucky.
The Hoboken mayor is Dawn Zimmer. Not only is she a Democrat, she also first told her story on MSNBC, which the Republican Party sees as state-run television. Only now Zimmer doesn’t back up even a little bit, she continues to say she is willing to tell that story under oath, and take a lie detector test if that’s what it takes to get people to believe her about Christie, and how the hero governor of Hurricane Sandy might have turned relief money into bargaining chips.
“I’m sharing my journal,” she said Sunday on CNN. “I’m offering to testify under oath. What are they doing?”
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Zimmer sure has produced her journal, which includes her recollection of a conversation she says she had with Jersey’s Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno last May, about a projected development project in Hoboken — backed by the Rockefeller Group — that had Christie’s full support.
Zimmer writes of Guadagno telling her how important the project was to Christie, then describes the message she felt Guadagno was delivering:
“The word is that you are against it, and you need to move forward or we are not going to be able to help you. I know it’s not right — these things should not be connected — but they are, [Guadagno] says, and if you tell anyone, I will deny it.”
That is from Dawn Zimmer’s diary. We can only imagine what Christie’s diary would read like if he were keeping one lately:
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“Dear Diary: Can you believe these morons? The Democrats are treating me the way our party treated Bill Clinton when his problem wasn’t orange traffic cones, it was interns in blue dresses!”
You know the narrative on this from Christie and his people, at least the ones he hasn’t fired. The governor didn’t know about the bridge, his underbosses did it on their own and then lied about it. Mayor Zimmer? She’s making it all up, the diary and the conversation with Guadagno and everything else.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is now under fire after Hoboken's mayor said she was denied Sandy relief money because she would not back a development deal pushed by those close to the governor.
Christie’s side also wants to know why she didn't come forward when she alleges the shakedown occurred, and why she continued to act, at least in public, as if Christie was the most lovable bear since Baloo in “The Jungle Book.”
You know the rest: this is all a plot of the liberal media and scheming Democrats. Rudy Giuliani went on “Meet the Press” on Sunday and said this is all a witch hunt, oblivious to the fact that he sounded like he was coming to the defense of Alex Rodriguez and not Chris Christie.
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Giuliani spoke of “a very, very well-orchestrated Democratic kind of organizational effort to try to hurt Gov. Christie, who was the only Republican who was beating Hillary Clinton in any poll at any time.”
Is he serious? Giuliani knows better than anyone that any Republican in any poll beating Hillary Clinton at this point means absolutely nothing. You know who was supposed to be the big, unbeatable front-runner before the 2008 presidential season began?
Rudy Giuliani, that’s who. You know how many primaries he won once the country actually got to know him? None. You know how many delegates he won after spending about $50 million? One. So the idea that Christie was such a threat to the Democrats that they had to stop him now happens to be dumber than hamsters.
Here is what a political insider, one who has worked on both sides of the Hudson River, said Sunday:
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“[Christie] is twice as bad as Giuliani. [Giuliani] was a bully, too, but he understood politics and there were certain things he wouldn’t do. Christie has been on a continual roll and he thinks he’s invincible. And once you think you are invincible, you’ve got a problem.”
Dawn Zimmer doesn’t sound like some partisan hack, as long as it took her to come forward, and whatever mixed messages she has sent about Christie. She sounds wounded, and betrayed. And if she is telling the truth, Christie really does have far bigger problems than the media, or the Democratic Party.
Maybe the real issue with Christie isn’t a phony traffic study or rogue underbosses or rich developers. Maybe the real issue is an arrogant political culture he has created in New Jersey.
His empire.
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