{"id":15736,"date":"2014-01-12T22:47:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T03:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15736"},"modified":"2014-01-12T22:47:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T03:47:35","slug":"steve-kornacki-george-washington-bridge-lane-closure-was-about-more-than-a-traffic-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/01\/12\/steve-kornacki-george-washington-bridge-lane-closure-was-about-more-than-a-traffic-jam\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Kornacki: George Washington Bridge Lane Closure Was About More Than a Traffic Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>New York Magazine<\/em> is has the article <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2014\/01\/kornacki-gwb-lane-closure-more-than-traffic-jam.html\" title=\"New York magazine article\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Kornacki: George Washington Bridge Lane Closure Was About More Than a Traffic Jam<\/a><\/strong> based on an MSNBC video.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThis morning, Steve Kornacki offered up a new theory for why Chris Christie&#8217;s aides closed two of Fort Lee, New Jersey&#8217;s George Washington Bridge access lanes back in September. According to the MSNBC host, the shutdown was about much more than giving Mayor Mark Sokolich a nasty but temporary headache by causing a traffic jam in his town. Instead, Kornacki says that the lane closures may have been part of a long-term scheme to disrupt a project that Sokolich considers the &#8220;defining mission&#8221; of his tenure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>As seems typical of shows on MSNBC, there may be too much verbiage in this teaser, but it sure makes a whole lot more sense than any other explanation i have heard so far.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe src='http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/2E2eJC\/EmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_up_7stakes_140112' height='500' width='635' scrolling='no' style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" ><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>There was one comment on the magazine&#8217;s web site that I particularly liked.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTH_NY<\/p>\n<p>I saw American Hustle this weekend, and now I&#8217;m picturing Christie with a combover and lapels as wide as the Hudson.<\/p>\n<p>Liked By You and davifranci\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Magazine is has the article Steve Kornacki: George Washington Bridge Lane Closure Was About More Than a Traffic Jam based on an MSNBC video. This morning, Steve Kornacki offered up a new theory for why Chris Christie&#8217;s aides closed two of Fort Lee, New Jersey&#8217;s George Washington Bridge access lanes back in September. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15737,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736\/revisions\/15737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}