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MIAMI (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie faces one of his first major tests since his backyard political scandal erupted: reassuring top Republican donors that he has taken steps to address allegations of political payback in his home state and that he remains a viable presidential contender for the party's establishment. 
  
 In this Jan. 16, 2014, photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie addresses a gathering of home owners in Manahawkin, N.J., who were affected by last year's Superstorm Sandy. Christie faces a big test this... (Associated Press) 
  
 Christie, who leads the Republican Governors Association, will travel to Florida this weekend for a series of fundraisers to help Republican Gov. Rick Scott. It will be his first out-of-state trip since the scandal involving lane closures at the George Washington Bridge escalated. 
  
 The itinerary listing some of Florida's most exclusive addresses will give Christie an opportunity to convince longtime financial supporters and wealthy newcomers that the scandal has not hurt his stature as a potential 2016 presidential contender. Many Republicans have come to Christie's defense and credited him with taking responsibility, although some GOP leaders say his future will depend on whether his account of what happened is accurate. 
  
 "I have heard from a few donors and their general feeling is that Governor Christie is being truthful, has fully accepted responsibility and has acted decisively in firing those responsible for this awful act," said Fred Malek, the governors association's finance chairman. "Their enthusiasm and support for Christie is only heightened by his display of leadership under duress." 
  
 Christie plans to raise money for Scott at an Orlando luncheon whose host committee includes John D. Rood, a Jacksonville real estate developer; Orlando attorney Pat Christiansen; and businessman Bill Heavener, a co-chairman of Mitt Romney's Florida fundraising team in 2012. 
  
 A second event is planned at the Palm Beach home of Pepe Fanjul Jr., executive vice president of Florida Crystals, a prominent U.S. sugar producer. It's being followed by a fundraiser at the Fort Lauderdale home of Bill Rubin, the president of a lobbying firm and a longtime friend of Scott's. 
  
 On Sunday, Christie will attend two fundraisers in Palm Beach and meet with top financial supporters at a gathering organized by Ken Langone, the billionaire co-founder of Home Depot, who urged the governor to consider a late entry into the 2012 presidential race. The event, which was first reported by The Washington Post, will allow some of Christie's longtime supporters to huddle following the governor's sweeping re-election in November. 
  
 As Christie spends time along Florida's coast, the U.S. attorney's office in New Jersey and the state Legislature are looking into a scheme that shut down lanes to the major bridge connecting New York and New Jersey for four days in September, creating massive traffic jams. The plan apparently was hatched by Christie's aides as a political vendetta, possibly because the city of Fort Lee's Democratic mayor wouldn't endorse the Republican governor's re-election. 
  
 The governor apologized and fired a top aide but told reporters he had "no knowledge or involvement" in the incident. He has not been implicated in the case, yet the scandal could dog him in the weeks ahead and cause consternation for his financial backers. 
  
 Scott, one of the nation's most vulnerable Republican governors, also will receive help on Friday night at a Naples, Fla., fundraiser headlined by Indiana Gov. Mike Pence. Scott is expected to face a formidable challenge this year from former GOP Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running as a Democrat. 
  
 As the New Jersey incident gained national attention earlier this month, Scott's campaign contemplated canceling the fundraisers but ultimately decided to go ahead. 
  
 During the private meetings, how Christie addresses the imbroglio could be critical for financial rainmakers who are beginning to take stock of a potentially large Republican field. Two prominent Florida Republicans — former Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio — are viewed as potential candidates. 
  
 "Is Governor Christie someone I would consider? Absolutely. Yes. But I would consider other people," said Ned Siegel, a Boca Raton, Fla., developer and prominent Republican donor who is helping Scott's campaign. 
  
 The 2016 presidential campaign will begin in earnest following November's midterm elections. Insiders suggest that any prospective candidate will need to raise $50 million to $100 million by the end of the 2016 primaries. Separately, aspiring presidential candidates will need wealthy donors willing to fund super PACs that will advocate for the candidate outside the confines of a presidential campaign. 
  
 Democrats have tried to use the bridge scandal to tarnish Christie, who cruised to re-election against an underfunded Democratic opponent. 
  
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 Thomas reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Steve Peoples in Boston contributed to this report. 
  
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 STAFF PHOTO Christie’s former campaign manager Bill Stepien, left, his former deputy chief of staff Bridget Kelly, center, and spokesman Michael Drewniak. 
  
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 Twenty subpoenas were directed at key members of Governor Christie’s administration and campaign on Thursday, demanding that documents related to the George Washington Bridge controversy be given to a legislative panel investigating the origins of a traffic jam apparently manufactured out of spite. 
  
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 Among those issued subpoenas, according to a source: Christie’s former Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly and his former campaign manager Bill Stepien, as well as spokesman Michael Drewniak, Director of Communications Maria Comella, chief counsel Charles McKenna, Chief of Staff Kevin O’Dowd and director of the authorities unit Regina Egea. Port Authority Executive Director Patrick Foye, a New York appointee, was also issued a subpoena along with several other agency officials. The governor was not on the list of 17 individuals and three organizations. 
  
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 The subpoenas went out on Thursday evening, after a day of rapid developments in the escalating scandal: the formal creation of two state legislative panels that each have subpoena power and are conducting parallel investigations; the announcement that Christie’s office had hired its own legal counsel; and a preliminary finding by a powerful U.S. senator that there is “zero evidence” the lane closings had a legitimate purpose. 
  
 Still unknown is what motivated Kelly, who was fired by Christie last week, to send the message, “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” to a Christie loyalist at the Port Authority, apparently setting off the closure of two of the borough’s three local access lanes for four days in September. One of the aims of the investigation is to determine if others in the governor’s office were involved in the planning or a coverup, as questions arose. Last week Christie also cut ties with Stepien, who in private messages directed insults at Fort Lee’s Democratic mayor, who declined to endorse the governor for reelection. 
  
 Several of the others issued subpoenas are still working in the governor’s office, and no evidence has surfaced that they were involved in planning the lane closures. 
  
 Christie on Thursday, attempting to regain his footing after a bruising week of speculation about his political future, highlighted rebuilding efforts in a Shore community devastated by Superstorm Sandy. His original visit to Stafford Township was canceled last week on the same day his office was linked to the closings. 
  
 Back in Trenton, some of his Republican allies said the web of investigations — one in the Assembly and another in the Senate, in addition to reviews by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Port Authority inspector general and a U.S. Senate Committee — would prove costly. They also worried that Democrats would turn it into a purely partisan exercise. One Republican called the two state legislative investigations “baffling.” 
  
 The special counsel hired by the Assembly panel, the former federal prosecutor Reid Schar, will be paid $350 an hour, an agreement released on Thursday showed. That’s much less than the rate normally charged by his Chicago law firm, said the Democrat leading the Assembly inquiry, John Wisniewski of Sayreville. Schar successfully prosecuted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. 
  
 Christie’s office announced it had hired its own legal gun, another former federal prosecutor who was also the onetime chief of staff for former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani has been one of Christie’s most staunch defenders during the controversy, saying he believes the governor had no involvement. Records show the attorney, Randy Mastro, has also represented the Port Authority, the agency that operates the George Washington Bridge and that Christie jointly controls with New York’s governor. 
  
 Thursday’s legal maneuvering coincided with the results of a preliminary inquiry by Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. It was based on information provided by the Port Authority showing the extensive protocols bypassed by David Wildstein, the Port Authority executive who ordered the lane closings after receiving Kelly’s message. Rockefeller said there was “zero evidence” in the Port Authority’s responses to his questions that there was a legitimate traffic study, the initial reason given for the lane closings, and one repeated by the Christie administration for months. 
  
 “No formal approval process to conduct the traffic study … was sought,” the Port Authority said in its response to Rockefeller. 
  
 Wildstein appeared before the state Assembly’s Transportation Committee last week, after receiving a subpoena to testify, but he refused to answer questions, citing his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Wildstein’s lawyer Alan Zegas told The Associated Press on Friday that there has not been any offer of immunity from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which is reviewing the matter. “If he has immunity from the relevant entities, he’ll talk,” Zegas said. 
  
 The Port Authority also told Rockefeller that former Deputy Executive Director Bill Baroni did not get approval from the authority’s board before testifying before the same Assembly committee in December. During that hearing, Baroni brought photographs and charts to make the case that there was a legitimate traffic study. Some of the subpoenaed Christie administration officials apparently thought Baroni’s testimony was “great,” according to documents released last week. Baroni was not under oath. 
  
 The subpoenas issued on Thursday are for documents and do not require testimony under oath. Sworn testimony is a likely next step in the investigation, after members of the panel sift through documents. The deadline for turning over the documents is about two weeks from Thursday, Wisniewski said. 
  
 “We need to understand the circumstances that created the atmosphere that led that email to be sent,” he said, referring to Kelly’s email about traffic problems in Fort Lee. 
  
 The Republicans on the 12-member Assembly committee complained that the enabling legislation passed earlier in the day gave Wisniewski too much power over the panel, including the authority to issue subpoenas and control who can review the documents received. 
  
 “This sort of seems to constitute a committee of one,” said Assemblyman Michael Patrick Carroll, whose district includes parts of Morris and Somerset counties. 
  
 The wide net cast by the Assembly committee’s latest round of subpoenas is not an indication that the committee has reason to believe a broader conspiracy exists, Wisniewski said. 
  
 “Twenty sounds like a large number,” he said. But, he added, “it is entirely possible on some of those subpoenas there will be absolutely no reason to go forward or ask any more questions.” 
  
 There were also concerns that the Assembly and Senate panels will step over each other. The Senate created its own committee on Thursday, headed by Loretta Weinberg, the Teaneck Democrat who doggedly attended Port Authority commissioner’s meetings for months when the controversy was barely on the radar of most officials in Trenton. 
  
 When asked what will happen if the Assembly and Senate committees both request the same people or documents Wisniewski said, “We will cross that bridge when we get to it.” 
  
 Staff Writers Michael Phillis and John Reitmeyer contributed to this article. |||||
Three organizations and 17 members of Chris Christie's current and former staff—including former deputy chief of staff Bridget Kelly, ex-campaign manager Bill Stepien, and press secretary Michael Drewniak—were last night slapped with subpoenas demanding they hand over any Bridgegate documents to a legislative panel looking into the mess, the Bergen Record reports. The governor was not included in the list. The news comes as a preliminary inquiry by Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chair Jay Rockefeller found "zero evidence" that the lane closures on George Washington Bridge were tied to a legitimate traffic study, the Asbury Park Press reports. The number of investigations into the traffic scandal are racking up—one each in the state Assembly and Senate, plus US Attorney's Office, Port Authority inspector general, and Senate Committee reviews. Christie's office will conduct an internal review with the help of Randy Mastro—the onetime chief of staff for former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani—who "will bring an outside, third-party perspective to the situation," Christie said. Meanwhile, the governor will head to Florida this weekend, where he'll need to convince GOP donors that, amid the scandal, he's still a contender for president, reports the AP.