Not really a huge deal in practice of course, but still. I did not expect so see an actual left winger get elected for anything in the US.
And of course this is what a lot of people felt that the Occupy movement should have tried to do from the start.
It's incorrect to treat the US as a monolith. Western Washington is very liberal, as are many other small parts of the US.
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So, there I was 2 days ago, walking up Hollywood blvd, in my shorts and sandals....
and one of the guys that tries to sell you sightseeing tours gave us the speel, until I said we were already signed up with one. so he kind of follows along beside me a bit, and we have this small conversation.
him: vote for someone for governor of California. He's from the Tea Party, good guy, I support the Tea Party. they knows what's going on.
me: I'm from Canada and I think the TP is fk'd.
him: looks at me kind of surprised, but then has to hit up someone else about the tours, and then kind of walks back to me, after thinking for a bit. " You know the good thing about being born in Canada is, everyone is taken care of from cradle to grave, so no one has to work.
me: really, well, I've worked my whole life, my wife here has worked her whole life, so I don't know how you came up with that.
him: I can't say what I really want when I'm on the job.
me: go ahead, I'm not buying the tour from you anyways.
him: walks away.
Anyways, I thought his perspective about Canada was pretty funny. Is that a TP sentiment, or just his?
So, there I was 2 days ago, walking up Hollywood blvd, in my shorts and sandals....
and one of the guys that tries to sell you sightseeing tours gave us the speel, until I said we were already signed up with one. so he kind of follows along beside me a bit, and we have this small conversation.
him: vote for someone for governor of California. He's from the Tea Party, good guy, I support the Tea Party. they knows what's going on.
me: I'm from Canada and I think the TP is fk'd.
him: looks at me kind of surprised, but then has to hit up someone else about the tours, and then kind of walks back to me, after thinking for a bit. " You know the good thing about being born in Canada is, everyone is taken care of from cradle to grave, so no one has to work.
me: really, well, I've worked my whole life, my wife here has worked her whole life, so I don't know how you came up with that.
him: I can't say what I really want when I'm on the job.
me: go ahead, I'm not buying the tour from you anyways.
him: walks away.
Anyways, I thought his perspective about Canada was pretty funny. Is that a TP sentiment, or just his?
Why bring smiles and joy to your kids faces when you can just donate to Scott Walker's campaign instead? I'm sure the parents that actually do this will have kids that love them forever for doing so and those kids will never feel angry or bitter about it...
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's re-election campaign has the cure for your holiday shopping fatigue: Take the money meant for children's toys and send it to the Walker campaign.
In a Black Friday fundraising email to supporters, the Walker campaign asked supporters for a holiday contribution to his re-election bid that will last another four years.
"This year, we are celebrating the Holiday Season with a Black Friday special that is better than any deal found in stores," Friends of Scott Walker's Taylor Palmisano wrote in an email.
According to Walker's campaign, toys are temporary, but political contributions are forever.
"Instead of electronics or toys that will undoubtedly be outdated, broken, or lost by the next Holiday Season, help give your children the gift of a Wisconsin that we can all be proud of," Palmisano continued. The email was first spotted by this blogger.
In a last-minute move Monday evening, conservative Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, filed papers to give up his seat in the House to mount a primary challenge against Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.
Cornyn is a two-term incumbent and the second-ranking Republican in the Senate with strong conservative credentials. Stockman, however, said he was compelled to challenge Cornyn, the Senate Minority Whip, because the senator "betrayed" Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, by declining to back his strategy to shut down the government in October over Obamacare.
"You and I are in a foxhole fighting to save this constitutional Republic, but liberal John Cornyn is bayoneting us in the back," Stockman said in a statement on his website. "Liberal John Cornyn wakes up every morning and works to make the Senate a more liberal place. That's why I am running for the United States Senate. I have a 100% pro-gun, pro-life, conservative voting record in Congress."
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Additionally, Cornyn -- the former chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee -- is considered to be a solid conservative. His re-election campaign is already backed by Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, and he has a 94 percent rating from Americans for Prosperity, the conservative political advocacy group backed by the billionaire Koch brothers.
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Stockman, meanwhile, came under scrutiny this year for failing to disclose in federal filings all of his business affiliations. He has, however, proven to be very conservative since rejoining the House this year after first serving from 1995 to 1997.
Stockman's taken a hardline conservative position on immigration, and gun control -- in January, he threatened to impeach President Obama over his efforts to use his executive authorities to reduce gun violence. In February, just two months after the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., Stockman brought musician and gun advocate Ted Nugent as his guest to attend Mr. Obama's State of the Union address.
In an interview with Texas Monthly in September, Cornyn lamented the ongoing fueds between tea party conservatives and the rest of the Republican Party.
"I don't know how we got off on this track where some people are welcome in our party and some people are not," he said. "Hence my reference to Ronald Reagan's line, 'What do you call someone who agrees with you eight times out of ten? An ally, not a twenty-percent traitor.' Well, we're at a point where you can agree with someone 98 percent of the time, but they think of you as a 2-percent traitor, which is just an impossible standard."
After the news of the Reno letter leaked, Guns & Ammo magazine published an essay Stockmann had penned for its June issue. In it, he alleged that the Waco siege was part of a government plot to generate momentum for an assault weapons ban. "Waco was supposed to be a way for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Clinton administration to prove the need for a ban on so-called 'assault weapons,'" Stockman wrote.
Reno, he argued, should have been charged with "premeditated murder" and the cult members at David Koresh's compound had been "executed."
"These men, women and children were burned to death because they owned guns that the government did not wish them to have," he wrote. To put it in perspective, Stockman said, "The average Texan in my district owns more firearms than did the average Branch Davidian."
Although he'd sent in a draft in February, the article appeared in print immediately following the Oklahoma City bombing. "A few things could have been said a little better," he conceded afterwards. Stockman also blamed an anonymous staffer whom he said had written portions of the article.
(Not coincidentally, that May, Roll Call reported that Stockman had finished in third in a "Boss From Hell" survey of Hill staffers; five staffers left in his first four months in office, at least one out of protest over a mandatory morning prayer policy.)
A congressman for all of five months, Stockman was now everyone’s new favorite target, and he didn't do himself any favors. Next, he came under fire from the Anti-Defamation League after going on a radio show run by a pro-militia conspiracy theorist group called the Liberty Lobby. Stockman rejected the ADL's assertion that the Holocaust-denying radio show was anti-Semitic. "They said that because they talk against 'international bankers' that means they're against Jewish folks," he told Jewish Week. "I don't agree...The largest banks today are not American. I know that most of them are Japanese now."
Besides, he explained, he led by example. His own staff included "a Christian Jewish person."
Stockman also came under scrutiny from the Federal Elections Commission. Although Stockman claimed to have been inspired to run for office by Oliver North's testimony during the Iran-Contra scandal, there was another incentive he didn't talk about. An Ohio direct marketing firm called Suarez Corp., angered by Brooks' proposal to tax out-of-state direct marketing firms, had put out an ad in a local paper promising financial support for anyone who would run against him. They ultimately loaned the cash-strapped Stockman $82,000—then filed a complaint when he never repaid it; Stockman insisted he'd been given just $44,000.
But the FEC had its sights on more than just the Suarez Corp. money, though. The commission also launched an investigation into the Southeast Texas Times, a bimonthly newspaper was launched in advance of the 1994 election and disbanded shortly thereafter. Although Stockman claimed he had no connection to the newspaper, it served as a wing of the Stockman campaign; for one thing, it was published out of his house. (Stockman's campaign headquarters was his two-car garage.) The direct line for advertisers was his home phone number, the masthead was filled with Stockman campaign volunteers, the advertisers were Stockman donors, and Stockman himself asked supporters to pay $26.50 to subscribe.
Headlines of copies obtained by Roll Call included red-meat tracts such as "Servicemen Don't Want Sodomites in the Military" and "HUD Appointee is a 'Mean Lesbian.'"
Hall found that when the extreme candidate won the primary, that candidate won about 11 points less in the general election. And as the ideological gap between the moderate and extremist candidates grew, so did the penalty for nominating the more extreme candidate. Even more remarkably, the electoral penalty appeared to persist for the rest of the redistricting cycle — as you might expect if a party nominated an extremist candidate, lost the general, and then had to live with an incumbent of the opposite party for years. As a consequence, there was a shift in roll-call voting too: these districts were more likely be represented by someone who tended to vote in exactly the opposite direction as the party who nominated the extremist wanted. This is how nominating an extremist can backfire.
But maybe none of this matters. After all, Texas is Texas. Pretty much any Republican has a very good chance of winning the general election in 2014. Indeed, Hall finds that this backfire effect on roll-call voting is more pronounced in competitive districts than safe districts.
Still, Hall’s research raises some red flags worth considering. The issue for the GOP isn’t so much the 2014 Texas Senate race. The issue is that, in general, the party would be better off — that is, it would control more seats and be better-positioned to steer policy — if it could discourage primary challengers in races where negative consequences are more likely. And Stockman’s example — particularly if successful — may only reinforce the desire of other conservatives in the party to mount similar challenges. When those challenges happen in states or districts that aren’t quite as red as Texas, the party may suffer, just as it has in Nevada, Delaware, Indiana, and Missouri.
Give Birthers credit: Give them an inch and they'll take it to the insane asylum.
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When President Obama marched into the White House briefing room with his Hawaiian birth certificate in April 2011, he said: "I know that there's going to be a segment of people for which, no matter what we put out, this issue will not be put to rest."
How right he was. The release of his long-form birth certificate did not eliminate the "birther" movement, which wrongly contends that Obama was born in Kenya and is therefore ineligible to be president. Although conspiracists had demanded its release, once he made public the document it merely shifted the debate. Some birthers accused Obama of forgery, while others turned their focus to his college transcripts in hopes of proving that he had applied for admission as a foreign student. (He had not.)
And this week, birthers seized on a plane crash off Hawaii that killed one person: state public health Director Loretta Fuddy, the woman who verified the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate.
Skeptics turned to social media Thursday to suggest that Obama had played some role in Fuddy's death. Twitter posts included: "The WH tying up loose ends?" "What did she really know?" and "R.I.P. Loretta Fuddy — we'll know the truth about Barack Hussein Obama, regardless."
Donald Trump, a longtime doubter of Obama's birthplace, also weighed in on Twitter: "How amazing, the State Health Director who verified copies of Obama's 'birth certificate' died in plane crash today. All others lived."
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For Orly Taitz, the leading birther litigator who has argued in several federal courts that Obama isn't a natural-born American, the sole fatality was too much of a coincidence.
"Attorney Taitz calls on 8 courts and judges who received her cases to rule expeditiously on the merits and review the evidence of forgery and theft in Obama's IDs before more people die in strange accidents," she said on her website. Taitz has yet to win a case in the matter
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It's unclear how many people ascribe to birther beliefs. But a poll by Fairleigh Dickinson University in January found that 36% of voters, including 64% of Republicans, believed Obama is hiding information about his background.
There were some really nice candid photos of three families on Air Force One on their way to or from South Africa earlier this week. Didn't see them on any news network.
The media loves the polarization. It sells.
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There were some really nice candid photos of three families on Air Force One on their way to or from South Africa earlier this week. Didn't see them on any news network.
Well it looks like Chris Christie has sunken his presidential nomination dreams:
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On August 13, 2013, Bridget Anne Kelly, the deputy chief of staff to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, sent an eight-word e-mail to David Wildstein, the governor's appointee to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, that read, "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee".[6][8] Wildstein responded to Kelly's e-mail: "Got it." Subsequent e-mail exchanges also implicated Port Authority Chairman David Samson, another Christie appointee, by name, in the toll lane closures.[9]
Beginning on September 9, 2013, the dedicated toll lanes for one of the Fort Lee entrances to the upper level of the George Washington Bridge were reduced from three to one until early morning on September 13, on orders from David Wildstein without notification to Fort Lee government and police officials. In an area that normally experiences a great deal of traffic, the lane closings caused a significant increase in congestion. This led to major delays for school transportation and police and emergency response within Fort Lee, both during and after the peak hours of travel.[10] The lane closures caused slower response time for emergency vehicles and may have contributed to the death of at least one person.[11]
On September 13, 2013, Patrick Foye, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, ordered that the lanes be reopened. He said the closure violated agency policy and jeopardized public safety. Foye was an appointee of Andrew Cuomo, the Governor of New York.[12]
Hours after unannounced lane closures went into effect at the George Washington Bridge on a Monday morning in September, Governor Christie’s top two executives at the Port Authority received an email indicating that the resulting traffic jams were posing problems that carried potential life-and-death consequences.
Fort Lee police and medical personnel had been delayed while responding to a report of a missing child and a cardiac arrest, according to an email sent to the pair from a lower-ranking Port Authority employee.
Despite that warning — laid out in one of three internal agency emails obtained by The Record — the two Christie executives, who had quietly decided only days earlier to divert local lanes leading to the bridge, ignored the pleas of Fort Lee’s police and mayor, local officials have said. The lane diversions continued for four days until Pat Foye, the Port Authority’s executive director and an appointee of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, found out about them and angrily reversed the decision, which he called “abusive” and potentially illegal.
The September lane closures on the George Washington Bridge delayed emergency responders in four situations, according to records obtained by the Bergen Record — including one in which a 91-year-old woman died.
According to the Record, EMS coordinator Paul Favia wrote in a Sept. 10 letter to Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich (D) that response times doubled in two of the cases.
Whereas it normally takes about four minutes to respond, it took EMS seven minutes to respond to the situation involving an unconscious 91-year-old woman. She later died of cardiac arrest at a hospital. Favia, however, did not say that the woman's death was directly due to the delays.
TRENTON — The controversy over the closing of lanes on the George Washington Bridge in September ramped up today with the revelation that a top aide to Gov. Chris Christie was involved in the decision.
Here's a timeline of how the scandal has unfolded:
Aug. 13: A deputy chief of staff to Christie, Bridget Anne Kelly, e-mails David Wildstein, the governor's appointee to the Port Authority, saying, "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee." Wildstein responds, "Got it."
Sept. 6: Wildstein, the Port Authority's director of interstate capital projects, orders the bridge's general manager to carry out the closures.
Sept. 9: The Port Authority closes two of three local access lanes from Fort Lee to the George Washington Bridge, the nation's busiest crossing, bringing traffic to a halt and turning borough streets into a parking lot. Records show Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich calls Port Authority to ask what is happening.
Sept. 12: Sokolich writes to Christie appointee Bill Baroni, the deputy executive director of the Port Authority, and expresses the belief that the closures were "punitive" and asks they be lifted. Some suspect they were put in place because Sokolich, a Democrat, did not endorse Christie for re-election. Records show Wildstein e-mails Kelly and Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak a statement saying the Port Authority is "reviewing traffic safety patterns at the George Washington Bridge."
Sept. 13: Port Authority Executive Director Patrick Foye, an appointee of Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, directs bridge managers to lift the closures, saying they violated agency policy and jeopardized public safety as well as the agency’s "credibility." Records show Wildstein e-mailed Kelly to tell her of the change, saying, "We are appropriation going nuts. (Port Authority Chairman David) Samson helping us to retaliate."
WASHINGTON -- David Wildstein, the former Port Authority official at the center of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's (R) bridge scandal, has been held in contempt by state lawmakers after refusing to testify about the controversy before a state Assembly panel on Thursday. Wildstein invoked his Fifth Amendment right to avoid incriminating himself.
"On the advice of my counsel, I respectfully assert my right to remain silent under the United States and New Jersey constitutions," said Wildstein, to audible reactions from the audience.
Wildstein appeared before the New Jersey Assembly's Transportation, Public Works and Independent Authorities Committee, which has been probing the four-day closure in September of Fort Lee's access lanes to the George Washington Bridge.
His lawyer had tried to get him out of testifying, but a judge refused to quash the subpoena Thursday morning.
Wildstein stated and spelled his name for the committee, said where he resided and that he wasn't currently employed. But after that, he clammed up, refusing to even say where he was most recently employed.
State lawmakers plan to file the contempt charges with law enforcement.
Until Dec. 6, Wildstein was one of Christie's top officials at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He resigned when questions began emerging about why he ordered Fort Lee's access lanes to be shut down from Sept. 9 to 13.
Members of the Christie administration, as well as the governor himself, had maintained that the lanes were closed due to a traffic study. But on Wednesday, emails emerged showing that the closures were actually ordered as retribution against Fort Lee's Democratic mayor, who the governor's allies believed wasn't going to endorse Christie's bid for reelection in November. The emails were obtained by state lawmakers in response to a subpoena.
At one point, Wildstein received a text message from an unknown sender -- the emails are partially redacted -- saying, "Is it wrong that I'm smiling."
"No," replied Wildstein. When the other person added, "I feel badly about the kids. I guess," Wildstein reminded him or her that their parents are probably Democrats anyway.
"They are the children of Buono voters," Wildstein said, referring to Democrat Barbara Buono, who unsuccessfully challenged Christie in the Nov. 5 gubernatorial election. (The majority of Fort Lee voters, incidentally, voted for Christie, not Buono.)
Not only were Christie's Port Authority officials involved, but so were his deputy chief of staff and his campaign manager. Christie announced Thursday he has cut ties with both of them.
Christie is a former U.S. attorney under George W. Bush. He’s a prosecutor who knows how to investigate wrongdoing. He claims that what he “read yesterday” (Wednesday) made him “angry.” This scandal’s been percolating for months. He’s belittled it, joked about it, claimed he didn’t think it was a “big deal.” But on Wednesday, when he read the emails and texts “for the first time,” he realized he’d been lied to by several of his top staffers. He was “stunned,” but didn’t want to speak to the woman, his once-trusted deputy chief of staff, who sent the original email instructing that it was “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee”? Really?
That simply doesn’t seem plausible.
It has also become clear that Christie did not discuss the matter with his two top appointees at the N.Y./N.J. Port Authority either, even though he fired them in early December last year as part of damage control at the time, including the one who actually ordered the lanes shut down after responding to Kelly’s “Time for some traffic problems” missive with the simple reply: “Got it.”
Why doesn’t Christie want to speak to those people if, as he claims, he wanted to get “to the bottom of things” and “spent all day yesterday” trying to do it after being “blindsided”?
Answer: It doesn’t seem like he really wants to get to the bottom of things at all. It seems he may already know what’s at the bottom, or, in the most generous interpretation, doesn’t want to know. I suspect it’s the former. Either way, his claims today — despite his repeated apologies, his expressions of regret and sadness, his assertion that it was “heartbreaking to me that I wasn’t told the truth” and his willingness to answer questions for two hours — don’t seem particularly plausible, given the extent to which he has clearly gone to not learn the truth when he had the opportunity to do so firsthand from some of his very closest staffers.
If his deputy chief of staff was in on the conspiracy, along with his campaign manager and his top appointees at the Port Authority and several others, and they all lied to him, as he says, wouldn’t he want to find out what else they didn’t tell him before cutting them loose? Who else was in on it? For some reason, Chris Christie doesn’t appear to want to know.
It makes no sense. Unless he’s covering something up. What is he covering up? Maddow may have uncovered a hint tonight.
Until now, the reason suspected for the retaliatory closure of the lanes out of Fort Lee was that it was political payback against the Democratic mayor who refused to endorse Christie in his reelection bid. But other Democrats had also declined to do so. Both Christie and Fort Lee Mayor Mike Sokolich have claimed to be puzzled by that. Sokolich, while acknowledging that he’d been asked for the endorsement, didn’t think he was “that important” that the governor of N.J. would exact that kind of retribution when he chose to endorse the Democrat instead. For his part, Christie said during his presser that he didn’t “have any recollection of at any time, anybody in the campaign ever asking me to meet with Mayor Sokolich or call him, which was the typical course that was used when we were attempting to get an endorsement.”
It does, after all, seem an incredibly aggressive response to a fairly petty matter, particularly given the landslide reelection victory that Christie believed (correctly) that he would have in November.
“I know who I was pursuing as endorsers. I know who was close and we didn’t get. I know who was never close or we were trying to get. And know the people we got. This guy never was on my radar screen. And I think he confirmed that last night by saying he was never really — he doesn’t have any recollection of being even asked for the endorsement. And that’s — you know, that’s why I don’t get this,” Christie said during the marathon press appearance on Thursday.
So, if that’s true, what was this all about? Was it something else? Something other than the Fort Lee mayor’s lack of endorsement? Something that Christie knows about, perhaps? Something that would lead him to not want to have to admit he’d discussed it with Kelly and others before firing them?
Maddow, noticing that Kelly’s “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee” email was sent to Christie’s Port Authority appointee David Wildstein on Aug. 13, 7:34 a.m., wondered what else happened around that time in N.J. that might have spurred Kelly to order the lane closures on the world’s busiest bridge first thing in the morning that day?
Here’s Maddow’s report, finding that the evening before, Christie had unloaded on Democrats in a particularly angry press conference concerning the renomination battle of a N.J. Supreme Court judge, a battle that had been several years in the making. The woman who headed the state Senate committee causing embarrassment for Christie at the time was N.J.’s state Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (D), who happens to represent … you guessed it … Fort Lee …
The amount of evidence that is coming out over that closure over the last few days is pretty amazing. As much as it could be very damaging to him, especially if they find a solid link, I think the fact that he is unlikely to play ball with the Tea Party would be his major undoing.
Of course, I said the same thing about Mitt Romney in the year before he won the nomination, and he proved me wrong.
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But as New Jersey’s nightmarish traffic devolved over the years, Christie has dealt severe and repeated blows to the only viable solution to ease the area’s gridlock: public transportation.
To alleviate the constant traffic jams into New York, New Jersey spent 14 years planning and finally broke ground on a new commuter rail tunnel in 2009. The Access to the Region’s Core (ARC) Tunnel was expected to double the number of trains that could enter Manhattan, shave off 15-30 minutes from commutes, and convert thousands of New Jersey drivers into train passengers. In October 2010, Christie abruptly canceled the project, claiming unforeseen costs. A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report later concluded that Christie had greatly
exaggerated these costs.
The money set aside for the thwarted tunnel was then diverted into the state’s depleted Transportation Trust Fund, which pays for basic maintenance for highways, roads, bridges, mass transit, and other infrastructure. The trust fund usually draws from gas taxes paid by drivers, but Christie has refused to raise the tax despite the state’s transportation woes. New Jersey Democrats accused the governor of tanking the tunnel in order to avoid raising the gas tax.
The existing commuter rail, New Jersey Transit, also took a hit after Christie became governor. Christie suddenly froze $33 million in state subsidies to the agency. Soon after this decision, NJ Transit was forced to cut service and hike fares for the first time since 2007. The cancellation of the ARC Tunnel also sucked up NJ Transit’s revenue gains, leaving the agency on the hook for millions of dollars in lawsuits and insurance costs triggered by Christie’s decision. Meanwhile, demand for more public transportation is exploding — along with commute times.
In light of this protracted war on car alternatives, Christie’s traffic scandal may strike a particularly sore spot for his constituents. After all, they’ll still be sitting in traffic long after the TV crews lose interest.
Therefore we can estimate that commuters spend 320,850 hours going from New Jersey to New York over the bridge during a normal four-day stretch. If we assume the traffic jam doubled that time, the total cost of the jam would be $7 million. If we assume that it quadrupled commuters time on the road it could have cost as much as $21 million!
Obviously this is just a rough, back-of-the envelope estimate of costs, but given that 1) traffic problems in Ft. Lee due to lane closures likely affected more drivers than those crossing the bridge, and 2) the median salary of workers in the New York metropolitan area is 19% higher than the country overall, this calculation could be an underestimate.
That's too bad about Christie, and even worse for the Republicans. Now that virtually ensures it'll be another bat####er as the candidate in 2016. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul must be thrilled at this news.
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Rachel Maddow presents a mostly compelling argument that the bridge closure was retribution for the bitter fight the senate democrats are waging on Chris Christies NJ Supreme Court nominations. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_4572367.html
