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" This is the fourteenth post of a series by Scott Raab, an Esquire writer at large and New Jersey resident who has covered the Port Authority for years. Read the entire series here. Chris Christie has been hiding in plain sight for nearly two months now, ever since his January 9 press conference. He has granted a single interview -- to a hack whose New York Times Magazine profile of Christie in 2011 kissed such ass that the governor even tweeted him an attaboy when it was published. Christie&amp;#039;s town hall sideshows -- where audience members, but not media, are permitted questions -- have been staged on weekday late mornings in locales where both his political support and Hurricane Sandy damage are centered. They have always been charades, pure political theatre; now they are also respite from his stuttering road revue, leaving New Jersey behind to give suck to those national donors, all men in the business of buying laws, elections, and civil servants like Chris Christie. The New York Times has a lovely follow-the-money story today; it&amp;#039;s so good to see them paying such sudden attention to the gambling going on in Casablanca-by-the-Bayonne, but their refusal to connect the dots linking New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to Chris Christie isn&amp;#039;t a good thing for either side of the Hudson. Cuomo and his staff at the Port Authority aren&amp;#039;t blushing ing\u00E9nues; if they&amp;#039;ve put up little or no fight against Christie and his crew, that&amp;#039;s not for lack of power to resist. It&amp;#039;s because Andrew Cuomo has let Christie have his way. Whatever the reasons for his complicity, Cuomo insists that everything that happened at Fort Lee was a New Jersey problem, not his. Cuomo wields as much power at the Port Authority as Chris Christie, but risked none of it betting on himself against Christie. He played it safe, wet his beak, and is trying like hell to stay out of the line of fire now. I&amp;#039;ll give credit to PA executive director Patrick Foye, Cuomo&amp;#039;s top man, for opening the bridge, but not until Foye explains how he and his staff got bum-rushed and beat down. As for Andrew Cuomo, he needs to come out of hiding, too, and explain how he and Chris Christie colluded on PA toll raises and stuffed the PA bank -- a petty cash drawer the governors can use for unspecified projects -- with almost a billion dollars in Port Authority funds. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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