At Bridgegate trial, Fort Lee mayor tells of wooing by Christie campaign [View all]
NEWARK— For nearly a year, they courted Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich.
There were tickets to New York Giants games at the Governor's Box at MetLife Stadium. Private tours at Ground Zero for visiting relatives. An invite to a taping of MSNBC's Morning Joe at Fort Lee High School. A personal gift from the governor of an American flag that had flown over the World Trade Center site.
And despite assertions by Gov. Chris Christie in the aftermath of the Bridgegate scandal that the mayor "was not on my radar screen," and that he had never heard Sokolich's name "until all this stuff happened," there had been a private lunch with the governor at Drumthwacket, the governor's mansion in Princeton.
"Absolutely I went," Sokolich testified on Tuesday. "That's a bucket list item for a small town mayor—to have lunch with the governor."
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