Dissociating autoionizing states for dissociative recombination of electrons with have been calculated using block diagonalization. Multi-reference CI calculations for collinear and were performed to assess the branching ratio to the product channels. The effects of the strong Rydberg-valence mixing in the excited states were disentangled from the changes in the molecular orbitals arising solely from N2 bond stretching and breaking. The results suggest that should be favored over , because of the absence of a favorable dissociating state for the N2 bond breaking.