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A series of newly disclosed e-mails and text messages suggesting a senior aide and appointees of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) forced a major traffic jam as political retribution against a Democratic mayor has brought a cloud of scandal over the Republican Party’s leading 2016 presidential hopeful.

The communications suggest that Christie’s deputy chief of staff and two of his top appointees at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey closed a pair of access lanes from Fort Lee, N.J., onto the George Washington Bridge into New York, causing days of gridlock in Fort Lee last September.

Christie had flatly denied that his office had any role in shutting down the access lanes, but the e-mails show otherwise, illustrating for the first time the lengths to which Christie’s lieutenants went to bully a local politician who turned against the governor during a campaign that was never particularly close.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...5f6_story.html

So much for be a straight-shootin' above-the-fray politician. He's phucked.