Bridgeaplooza Winding Down
NYT: Woman Says Bridgegate Closings Didn’t Cause Her Mother’s Death
January 10, 2014 – 8:43 am
FORT LEE, N.J. — The daughter of a 91-year-old woman from Fort Lee, N.J., who died on the day of a major traffic jam precipitated by top aides to Gov. Chris Christie said on Thursday that she did not believe the inability of an ambulance to reach her mother’s house was a factor in her death.
“I honestly believe it was just her time,” said Vilma Oleri, whose mother, Florence Genova, died on the morning of Sept. 9, the first day that the closing of local lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge set off the snarls.
A Fort Lee emergency official has said that the traffic jam prevented an ambulance from Englewood Hospital from reaching Ms. Genova’s home.
Christie’s critics have seized on Genova’s death, even calling the traffic jam scandal “Bridgeghazi” in an accidental acknowledgement that Benghazi is a legitimate scandal — now that it can somehow be aimed at a Republican. Some have even suggested that manslaughter charges should be on the table. In the bridge scandal, not Benghazi, of course.
Let’s ban the Democratic party, the Republican party and the Port Authority. All three are useless, corrupt and create more problems than they solve.