Mayor Zimmer on What Should Happen to Christie: Support My Sandy Competition

Stunning: What Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer Thinks Should Happen to Chris Christie (Mediaite)

On Saturday, Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer accused Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) and Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno (R-NJ) of one of the most reprehensible political acts  imaginable, even for New Jersey: the extortion of political favor in exchange for disaster relief funds. On Monday night’s AC360, host Anderson Cooper mainly rehashed the (strongly-denied)  allegations, but also asked a fresh question: “What do you think should happen to Christie? Or to the lieutenant governor?”

Early in the interview, Cooper did put forward a fresh document, an April 23 letter that was not among the documents published by MSNBC in which Mayor Zimmer writes, to Gov. Christie, that “the solution to Hoboken’s flooding challenges cannot be dependent on future development.”

Earlier in the same paragraph, Zimmer wrote that support for Hoboken’s Sandy relief “is absolutely essential both as a matter of fundamental fairness and because it will not be possible to proceed with a variety of development projects that burden Hoboken’s infrastructure until the flood problem has been adequately addressed.”