HUFFINGTON POST: Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer charged on MSNBC’s “Up With Steve Kornacki” showSaturday morning that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie held Hurricane Sandy relief funds hostage to force her to approve a development plan that overly favored one specific property holder.
Zimmer has said that she asked for $100 million in relief funds for Hoboken, and received only $300,000. In an interview with WNYC last week Zimmer questioned whether Christie may have denied the funds because she declined to endorse him…
In December, The New York Times catalogued the stories of “a former governor who was stripped of police security at public events; a Rutgers professor who lost state financing for cherished programs; a state senator whose candidate for a judgeship suddenly stalled; another senator who was disinvited from an event with the governor in his own district” — all after displeasing Christie in some way… (more)
