By Mike Schneider
Managing Editor
The sounds of a scandal. Tonight, for the first time, we’re hearing the emergency calls that came in when those lanes to George Washington Bridge were suddenly closed last September. Motorists couldn’t move and the tapes demonstrate how many emergency officials were caught by surprise and simply didn’t know what to do about it.
These tapes were released just a day after we got a deeper look at some of the texts and emails exchanged by two figures close to Gov. Chris Christie, messages that show David Wildstein and Bridget Ann Kelly joking about causing a traffic jam in front of a prominent rabbi’s home. Or — in their words — delaying all flights to Tel Aviv and also joking about whether or not the so-called traffic study would cost them their jobs.
And it comes a day after Gov. Christie’s Press Secretary Michael Drewniak was interviewed by federal prosecutors investigating the lane closures.
Meantime, one member of the legislative investigative committee is now calling on the governor to step down.
“And this really is what they’re all about, transactional deals, dismissiveness, remarks that are totally unacceptable in a civilized society. Then you know what the governor needs to think about resigning and he needs to take all of his friends with him,” said Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman.