According to Spokeswoman Samantha Smith, Christie accidentally took a seat in in the quiet vehicle, but then left when he realized what he had done.
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Amtrak reserves at least one “quiet car” on most Northeast Corridor trains on which cell phone use and any other noise-making devices are prohibited. After 5-10 minutes of this, a conductor, alerted by irate quiet auto passengers, approached Christie and asked him to relocate.
Christie had one security guard, who was not a Secret Service agent.
The New York Democrat took the New Jersey Republican to task over his noisy slip up on an Amtrak train a day earlier.
So when the New Jersey governor reportedly exited his Amtrak seating area Sunday morning after being told by train staff he was in a “quiet auto”, the what’s-wrong-with-this-picture images were popping up aplenty. Let me share something I never revealed to anyone before: I once went to the conductor and ratted out a guy who had been talking on his cell phone in the quiet auto. Well, according to an eyewitness, it all started when the Republican presidential candidate entered the quiet auto in a decidedly unquiet way. Especially since – on a non-express train – the first vehicle past first class wouldn’t be a quiet auto.
The presidential candidate and New Jersey governor was apparently talking loudly on his cellphone. Christie was definitely yelling on his phone in the quiet vehicle.
Do you think removing the governor from the train was the right thing to do? It is meant to gently, but directly, suggest to obvious noisemakers that they sit elsewhere-large groups of travelers, businesspeople who have to jump on that important conference call, families with small children, loud governors.
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But when pressed on whether the Black Lives Matter shouldn’t be justified at all, Christie said: “I don’t believe that movement should be calling for the murder of police officers”.
