Florida trip is no reprieve for Chris Christie A swing through Florida proved no sunny retreat for Governor Chris Christie on Saturday, as well-organized protesters hounded him outside a Republican fundraiser here, a powerful ally in the New Jersey state House rebuked the governor's office and new allegations emerged that his administration tried to intimidate a New Jersey elected official. Governor Christie's trip, which was supposed to showcase his political resilience after the rockiest period of his governorship, was overshadowed by claims from the mayor of Hoboken, N.J., Dawn Zimmer, a Democrat. In a television interview Saturday, she said that two high-ranking aides to Governor Christie had threatened to withhold money for Hurricane Sandy recovery to her hard-hit city if she did not support a real estate development that the governor wanted built in her jurisdiction. Speaking on MSNBC, she accused the administration of holding the recovery money "hostage," and produced journal entries that she said documented conversations in which Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno and Richard E. Constable, the commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs, told her that if she wanted the money, she had to approve the project. She recalled documenting her disappointment in Governor Christie the day of her meeting with Mr. Constable. "I thought he was something very different," she wrote at the time. This week I found out he's cut from the same corrupt cloth that I have been fighting for the last four years. Despite being almost submerged during the hurricane, Hoboken has received a fraction of the recovery money it requested from the state, Ms. Zimmer said. In a statement, Governor Christie's office described its relationship with Zimmer as "productive" and said that she had been supportive of the governor. Ms. Zimmer hinted at the pressure many mayors felt not to speak out against the governor, saying, "This is probably the hardest thing I've ever done." A spokesman for the governor, Colin Reed, denounced MSNBC as "a partisan network that has been openly hostile to Gov. Christie and almost gleeful in their efforts attacking him." Soon after the interview aired, Stephen M. Sweeney, a Democrat, the president of the New Jersey Senate and a key ally of Governor Christie's, issued an unexpected rebuke to the governor's office. Calling the allegations "extremely disturbing" and promising an investigation, Mr. Sweeney said that Ms. Zimmer's experience, combined with the lane closings on the George Washington Bridge, "suggest a pattern of behavior by the highest ranking members of this administration that is deeply offensive to the people of New Jersey."