Courtesy of TPM Reader DD, here’s an article in what would normally seem the non scintillating tollroadnews.com. It is significantly out of date; published on December 17th. But it’s interesting because it looks at the story as of that moment not through mainly through the prism of national politics and scandal-watching but civil engineering and scandal management. So it’s a helpful perspective on whether or mainly whether this didn’t make sense in those terms
In case you missed it from last night, the BridgeGate story simply doesn’t add up.
A couple nuggets that have been in print for weeks but seem worthy of another look.
First, earlier I mentioned the documents released today which suggest that Port Authority police were telling angry commuters that the traffic jams were due to a decision made by Mayor Sokolich. Here’s the specific language.
But TPM Reader RE points out that this letter was reported in the Star-Ledger way back on November 13th.
Something odd’s happening in the Christie bridge scandal. As the number of people involved in ordering and then covering up the bridge closure grows, the would-be target of the action seems to shrink. Something doesn’t fit.
We’ve completed uploading all the documents released today. So if you’ve been helping go through them — or want to — they’re all here now.
I am not sure which document he was referring to yet. But Joe Johns on CNN just filed a report in which he seemed to say that Port Authority Police were telling angry commuters that the idea for the shutdown came from Mayor Sokolich.
It is my honor to tell you that the Golden Duke trophy was delivered Friday afternoon.
Following our many unsuccessful efforts to find Mayor Rob Ford and present him with the Golden Duke award for the best scandal of 2013, TPM’s Toronto delegation gave the trophy to Ford’s brother, Councillor Doug Ford, who promised he would pass the award along to his sibling.
Hundreds if not thousands of documents subpoenaed in the Chris Christie bridge scandal have been posted online by the state legislative committee investigating the matter. Here they are.
We’re asking readers who are going through them to email us at talk at talkingpointsmemo.com with specific documents from the batch that deserve special attention.
Find something good? Email us.
Put “Christie Docs” in the subject line of your email. Please identify which document you’re referring to by exhibit and page number. Thanks in advance.
I urge you to read Jill Filipovic’s piece at TPMCafe about misogynistic online trolls showing up at her door in real life.
New Jersey Senate president throws cold water on Maddow’s alternate theory of the bridge scandal.