This is horrible. Some would like to think this was punitive as the Mayor of Fort Lee didn't endorse the governor in the past election. It matters that a personal vendetta actually takes place, but, whether it was an agenda of vendetta or simply poor management of states assets requires an apology.
It would seem a minor whodunit (click here) for a small suburb: On the first day of school in September, three access lanes leading from Fort Lee, N.J., streets to the George Washington Bridge were unexpectedly and mysteriously shut down. Cars backed up, the town turned into a parking lot, half-hour bridge commutes stretched into four hours, buses and children were late for school, and emergency workers could not respond quickly to the day’s events, which included a missing toddler, a cardiac arrest and a car driving into a building....
No one is laughing, Governor.
Children are crying and upset because their transportation to school is late and this was their first day of school. This may have been some kind of legitimate use of a New Jersey road, HOWEVER, for the lack of notice to the City of Fort Lee is inexcusable. It is simply is inexcusable. New Jersey usually has a well established infrastructure and can sometimes run itself. But, for a department to ignore notice to an entire city regarding a change of purpose of a road is at the very least negligent and/or a vicious attack on a Mayor who thinks for himself.
If this is any indication to the Christi Second Term, he might be looking at a recall election; whether it costs millions or not. Everyone whom this impacted deserves an explanation and people held responsible.
Changing the topic, the House Speaker needs to move into a budget soon or a continuing resolution. I am sure there were many unhappy over the past shutdown, but, at least they had notice.
September 30, 2013
By KATE ZERNIKE
Published: December 9, 2013
No one is laughing, Governor.
Children are crying and upset because their transportation to school is late and this was their first day of school. This may have been some kind of legitimate use of a New Jersey road, HOWEVER, for the lack of notice to the City of Fort Lee is inexcusable. It is simply is inexcusable. New Jersey usually has a well established infrastructure and can sometimes run itself. But, for a department to ignore notice to an entire city regarding a change of purpose of a road is at the very least negligent and/or a vicious attack on a Mayor who thinks for himself.
If this is any indication to the Christi Second Term, he might be looking at a recall election; whether it costs millions or not. Everyone whom this impacted deserves an explanation and people held responsible.
Changing the topic, the House Speaker needs to move into a budget soon or a continuing resolution. I am sure there were many unhappy over the past shutdown, but, at least they had notice.
by Scott Wise
However, (click here) many of the more than 5,000 Department of Defense civilian employees there would be temporarily furloughed, Stephen Baker with the Fort Lee Public Affairs Office wrote in an email.
Other changes, according to Baker, include:
- Fort Lee’s commissary will remain open one full business day Tuesday, the first day of the new fiscal year, to reduce the amount of perishables on-hand before closing, according to Defense Commissary Agency.
- All fitness centers except the MacLaughlin Fitness Center will be closed.
- All hunting on Fort Lee will be suspended.
- The privately owned weapons range will be closed.
- The Wednesday grand opening of a new Child Youth Center will be postponed.
- The annual Army Family Action Plan Conference scheduled here Tuesday-Thursday will be cancelled.
- These Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation programs and facilities will be closed: Outdoor Recreation, Leisure Travel Services, Army Community Library, Picture Perfect Frame Shop, Adventure Park and Auto Crafts.
- Army Community Service programs such as Survivor Outreach Services and the Exceptional Family Member Program will be closed; limited financial counseling services will be offered.
- The Army Education Center will remain open with limited services.
- Passport processing and forms and records support services at the Solider Support Center will be suspended.
- Services at the new Training Support Center will be limited.
- The U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum and U.S. Army Women’s Museum will remain open, but with reduced support for special services.
Republicans, always in a snit.
Honestly.
