Rachel Maddow opened her January 9 show with a 16-minute blockbuster dissertation of an alternate — and more plausible — reason for Christie's minions shutting down the GWB local access lanes. It is as explosive as it is plausible. Maddow posits that the target of the retaliation was NJ Senate leader Loretta Weinburg, not Fort Lee mayor Mark Sokolich, and it had to do with the four-year long skirmish over the NJ Supreme Court. Fort Lee is in Weinburg's district. This is riveting must-see television and worth the view.
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This is all circumstantial at this point, but it fits with Christie's numerous press conference answers regarding Sokolich not being in his sights and fits in with the paper trail that has been released. Hopefully this theory gets enough traction that the numerous investigations that have launched will start looking in this direction. For those who are short on time, the timeline follows below the squigglie.
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