Oops! Bridge over Christie's troubled water - Email to Bill Baroni - “Turn the {expletive}s in,”

[malaise]

Two days after an email surfaced in January linking the George Washington Bridge lane closures to a deputy chief of staff in Governor Christie’s office — and with questions swirling about who else was involved — a top Port Authority executive who had resigned amid the scandal received some advice in a private message from a longtime friend.

“Turn the {expletive}s in,” read the Jan. 10 email to former Deputy Executive Director Bill Baroni, Christie’s top appointed Port Authority employee. It was from a family friend and fellow Port Authority employee, Damon DiMarco, who was co-author of a self-help weight-loss book by Baroni.



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[tblue37]

1. Replace the brackets in the quoted message with angle brackets or these { }, because square

brackets make whatever they enclose disappear, since they are what DU uses to enclose HTML tags.

[malaise]

2. Thanks n/t

[bettyellen]

3. Is Christie the "fucker" in this case? I hope so!

[malaise]

4. I just love how they carefully added an {s}

so that it's more than one of them

[bettyellen]

6. If the police are testifying against their superiors- you know

This shit is going to hit the fan even harder.
The conspiracy is crumbling at it's very base. Going to love watching it crumble.

[malaise]

5. Here's a nice read-Road Warrior: Breaking the GWB lane-closure story

http://www.northjersey.com/news/nj-state-news/commuter-complaints-put-focus-on-nightmare-1.1083612
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The Road Warrior column was the first to report the massive traffic jams on the streets of Fort Lee caused by unannounced lane closures at the George Washington Bridge that started a year ago today. This is John Cichowski's account of how the biggest traffic story in years occurred.

An in-depth look at the scandal over the lane closures at the George Washington Bridge and related aftershocks. Click here to launch.
Morning rush-hour at the bridge was jammed on five days in September 2013 after three access lanes were merged into one.

As readers know, this column has been addressing commuter gripes for more than two decades. So when the first complaint was emailed to us last September about gridlock on Fort Lee's access roads to the George Washington Bridge, we didn't exactly envision one of the most sensational traffic jams in American history.

But Art Elmers did.

"This is a tragedy we can all see coming," the Fort Lee reader wrote on Sept. 11.

Upsetting? Yes. But a tragedy? Was this a big deal or some reader's hyperbole?

Harried local commuters sometimes see things that journalists, politicians and bureaucrats don't see, especially when they're readers like Art whose normal 90-minute sales trip from Fort Lee to Connecticut a day earlier turned into a three-hour debacle. Never mind that gridlock clogs Fort Lee two mornings out of five each weekday on average. This tie-up was different. Like a dashboard light that won't stop blinking, it kept returning. Even stranger, when Art looked down from his high-rise, he could see traffic on the bridge was moving normally.

Only Fort Lee seemed to be singled out. The reason: Two of the borough's three access lanes to the big bridge had been closed.
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