Christie’s Firing of Democrats Spotlighted at Bridge Trial
- Defense begins cross-examination of Wildstein in bridge trial
- Wildstein testified that Christie dubbed him ‘Winston Wolfe’
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David Wildstein had worked at the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey for only two weeks in 2010 when he was called in to see New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in Trenton. Christie held a list of names of Port Authority employees hired by previous administrations and said he wanted to fire Democrats at the agency to make room for fellow Republicans, Wildstein recalled.
“The governor went through the list and said who could stay and who could go and who there was no decision on,” Wildstein testified Wednesday at the trial of two former Christie allies accused of creating gridlock near the George Washington Bridge to punish a New Jersey Democratic mayor who didn’t endorse the governor in 2013.