A former member of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s administration, who unsuccessfully sought Democratic Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich’s endorsement of Christie’s reelection bid, told a legislative committee investigating last fall’s closure of local access lanes to the George Washington Bridge that he was “dumbfounded” that anyone would retaliate against Sokolich in such a way for his decision.
The former official, Matthew Mowers, now the executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party, said he was “disheartened and disappointed” by the closures, allegedly concocted by Christie’s former deputy chief of staff, Bridget Kelly, and David Wildstein, the former director of interstate capital projects for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the bridge.
