Mortal Again: Christie Blocked at VIP Entrance to Newark Airport

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-18/mortal-again-christie-blocked-at-vip-entrance-to-newark-airport

Police officer sends him to Terminal B with rest of nobodies

Meet Chris Christie, former New Jersey governor and current nobody at Newark Liberty International Airport.

The two-term Republican, who left office on Jan. 16, was blocked from a VIP entrance he had used for eight years, and directed to stand in Transportation Security Administration screening lines at Terminal B like anyone else, according to a person familiar with the incident.

The order came from police for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport, according to the person, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about security matters. The Port Authority also operates the George Washington Bridge, the target of a plot by Christie aides and allies to tie up traffic for political punishment in 2013.

Christie, and the state trooper who accompanied him for his security detail, complied with the instructions, the person said.

The former governor used the entrance, reserved for some airport employees and flyers who need extra security, for his two terms. He spent more than half of 2015 out of New Jersey traveling and campaigning for his failed White House bid.

New Jersey ex-governors are allowed one state trooper to accompany them, at their request, for six months, according to Lieutenant Ted Schafer, a state police spokesman. Two former governors in addition to Christie have used the service, Schafer said. State police declined to comment on the airport incident.



Good riddance!  I hope he flies far, far away and never returns.


this gives me far more pleasure than it should


He should have to commute on NJ Transit.



FilmCarp said:

He should have to commute on NJ Transit.

Nah. He'd be one of the ******** talking loud on the phone in the quiet car. 


It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.


I hope he has to fly coach like the rest of us. 



Red_Barchetta said:

I hope he has to fly coach like the rest of us. 

Oh dear 



ml1 said:



Red_Barchetta said:

I hope he has to fly coach like the rest of us. 

Oh dear 

...  as it would be one tight squeeze.



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