Report: Christie Admin Snubbed NJ Mayor After He Didn’t Endorse

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gestures during a news conference Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, at the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. Christie has fired a top aide who engineered political payback against a town mayor, saying... New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gestures during a news conference Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, at the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. Christie has fired a top aide who engineered political payback against a town mayor, saying she lied. Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly is the latest casualty in a widening scandal that threatens to upend Christie's second term and likely run for president in 2016. Documents show she arranged traffic jams to punish the mayor, who didn't endorse Christie for re-election. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) MORE LESS
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) administration canceled at least four meetings between top commissioners and Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop after he declined to endorse Christie for re-election last year, according to emails obtained by the Wall Street Journal on Monday.

“Mayor Fulop believed the cancellations were connected to his decision not to endorse Governor Christie,” a spokesperson for Fulop said in a statement, according to the WSJ.

Other New Jersey Democratic mayors may have also suffered political retribution at the hands of Christie aides.

Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich last week accused Christie of “petty” tactics in the closure of the George Washington Bridge in September, and Hoboken, N.J. Mayor Dawn Zimmer claims she received substantially less federal relief dollars in the wake of Superstorm Sandy after she stayed neutral in Christie’s re-election race.

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