Hoboken Mayor: Christie Team Shook Us Down for Sandy Relief

OMG! Say it isn't so.

On MSNBC’s “Up with Steve Kornacki” this morning, Hoboken, NJ, mayor Dawn Zimmer offered an extraordinary account of her dealings with the administration of Governor Chris Christie concerning federal Hurricane Sandy relief aid.

Like, was the relief money being held hostage?

She described an effort by top state officials–the lieutenant governor and a cabinet member–to coerce Hoboken’s city government into fast-tracking approval of a proposed redevelopment project by withholding Sandy aid from the government and residents of her city.

Hey! Hey! Hey! Shuddup unless you want a pair of cement shoes and a “swim” in the East River!

That project, she was told, was “very important to the governor.”

Yeah...very important.

If she worked to get it approved, “the money would start flowing to you.”

Like in “Evita” where the money starts rolling in? That was my fave number describing how the people in Argentina were screwed.

It just so happens that the proposed project in question is situated on three blocks of land owned by the Rockefeller Group, a client of the law firm of Wolff & Samson.

Swell. No problem there. Wolff? Aces! Sampson? Love his hair.

That firm was founded by Christie confidante David Samson, a former state attorney general who Christie tapped to head his transition team in 2009.

Christie founded it and we never knew it was losted, Wasn’t it fortunate that Christie already knew Dave?

He doesn’t have to look into his background...The governor already knows Dave’s pure as the driven snow.

In 2011 the governor appointed Samson to become the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, where he remains today.

We’re fortunate to have Samson. Seems he’s the only one who will do.