According to the New York Times, an aide to Chris Christie texted her colleague that the governor “flat out lied” when responding to reporters on December 13, 2013.
“Are you listening?” the aide, Christina Renna, texted a colleague. “He just flat out lied,” Ms. Renna wrote. Then she added that if certain emails were discovered, “it could be bad.”
According to a filing in United States District Court in Newark, Ms. Renna sent those texts on Dec. 13, 2013, as Mr. Christie was fielding questions from reporters about his knowledge of the alleged scheme to tie up traffic three months earlier on the New Jersey side of the bridge. The filing was made by lawyers for Bill Baroni, who was Mr. Christie’s top executive appointee at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the bridge.
Why don’t we ask Chris Christie where his damn emails are?
The staffer, named Christina Renna, texted her comments to another campaign staffer named Peter Sheridan. Christie himself denied the accusations yet again and acted as his usual bullying self.
This story has flown under the radar as the Trump soap opera plugs along, but we New Jerseyans haven’t forgotten Governor Christie’s flagrant abuse of power. I hope he gets prosecuted for abusing public power and putting lives at risk due to the traffic jam he caused on school opening day. What will it take for one of his former staffers to finally testify against him? Christie is at all-time lows in approval in NJ. His power is at the lowest it’s ever been. Now is the time to do the final blow against his political career.