The Newark Star Ledger has a story out entitled Christie scandal: New allegations emerge from Zimmer lawsuit. A New Jersey Assemblyman named Carmelo Garcia who is also the director of the Hoboken Housing Authority is accusing Dawn Zimmer of strong-arming him to use contractors to her liking, aka, politically connected. He is suing Zimmer, claiming:
In the lawsuit filed last week in Superior Court in Jersey City, Garcia claims Zimmer pressured him to award contracts to her political allies. When he resisted, Zimmer and her husband, Stanley Grossbard, “began to subject Director Garcia to an unlawful pattern of harassment, threats, intimidation and extortion,” the suit claims.
It is an interesting article and I recommend reading it. Below the fold I will explain the title of the diary.
It is simple why she waited to come forward, actually. In addition to people most likely not believing her during an election campaign where Christie was crushing his opposition, Zimmer knew that Christie and company would try to destroy her. Not just destroy her credibility, but destroy her politically.
Garcia is an ally of Governor Christie and he is being represented by an attorney named Zayas. The SL states in the article:
The lawsuit, first reported by NJTV, was filed by Zayas, the same attorney who last week claimed Zimmer lied about keeping a diary. A similar suit was filed in August but was dismissed.
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Zayas also claimed that Zimmer had attempted "ethnic cleansing" in Hoboken. Lt. Gov. Guadagno has already attempted to attack Zimmer's credibility as have others in the administration.
Zimmer opened up the can of worms that is the Christie way of business. Now they are going to do everything that they can to destroy her.
8:45 AM PT: NYT has a huge story out. On my phone so cannot link or add anything.
Booted up the computer. Here is the link to NYT story