that Wisniewski is part of a "partisan witch hunt" and really should step down
On Saturday, Zimmer said Guadagno in addition to a top community development official separately shared with her that recovery funds would flow to her city if she expedited the project.
Hoboken, a low-lying city of 50,000 across from Manhattan, was nearly swallowed by way of the Hudson River during Sandy, with three of their electrical substations and the majority of of the company's firehouses flooded, businesses and houses submerged, the section inundated with water, and other people stored in high-rises because elevators have not and lobbies were underwater. Zimmer has proposed an extensive flood mitigation plan and has now sent applications for $100 million in grants to help with making it happen.
Zimmer said she didn't reveal the conversation with Guadagno previously because she feared no one would believe her. But, with Hoboken having received just $342,000 out of $1.8 billion in Sandy recovery assistance from the state within the first funding round, she said, she is speaking out in hopes her city will never be shut out in a second funding wave, when the state is due to disperse $1.4 billion. Hoboken also has received millions in federal aid.
Christie, meanwhile, is embroiled in another scandal that threatens to undercut his second term and future presidential ambitions. The U.S. attorney's office along with a state legislative panel are investigating allegations that Christie aides engineered traffic jams in Fort Lee by closing lanes to your George Washington Bridge, possibly as payback contrary to the town's Democratic mayor, who didn't endorse Christie for re-election.
Democratic Assemblyman John Wisniewski, the legislator leading the state investigation, told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday that his committee would investigate Zimmer's political payback allegation at the same time.