Activist who sued Christie plans run for governor

Bill Brennan, the Wayne activist who filed a citizen's complaint accusing Governor Christie of official misconduct in the George Washington Bridge lane-closing scandal, announced at a protest rally in Wayne on Monday that he is running for governor.

About a dozen people who held signs and chanted at the rally outisde Wayne Town Hall said they were protesting a decision by a Superior Court judge denying the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate Christie’s involvement in the so-called Bridgegate case. Two former Christie allies, Bridget Anne Kelly and Bill Baroni, were found guilty last month on seven criminal counts for their roles in the scandal.

Brennan, 50, signed a criminal complaint charging Christie with official misconduct for not taking action to re-open local access lanes to the bridge, which federal prosecutors alleged were closed over five mornings in September 2013 to punish Fort Lee’s Democratic mayor for declining to endorse Christie’s re-election bid.

During the rally, organized by Our United Revolution New Jersey, an activist group founded by former supporters of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, Brennan announced that he had introduced a motion for reconsideration of the judge’s decision. Brennan said he will take his complaint to federal court if the state Supreme Court declines to take up his appeal and appoint a special prosecutor. He said a special prosecutor is necessary because the Bergen County prosecutor, Gurbir S. Grewal, is a Christie appointee.

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