Posted on 10/22/2010 6:17:28 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
TRENTON, N.J.—He says she's a "greedy thug" who uses children as "drug mules." She says he's a "bully" and a "liar" who's "obsessed with a vendetta."
Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, and Barbara Keshishian, president of the state's teachers union, say they want to improve public schools. That's where agreement ends. In speeches, mailings and multi-million dollar TV ads, they've battled over teacher salaries, property taxes and federal education grants. They have met once, an encounter that ended when Mr. Christie threw Ms. Keshishian out of his office.
For Mr. Christie, 48 years old, the fight is part policy, part personality. He quickly has positioned himself as a politician in tune with an angry and impatient electorate, and he's already mentioned as a 2012 presidential candidate. He's well aware that the fate of his fight with the teachers union could determine his own. "If I wanted to be sure I'd be re-elected, I'd cozy up with the teachers union," he says in his ornate state office, decorated with Mets memorabilia and a signed guitar from Bruce Springsteen. "But I want far-reaching, not incremental, change."
The governor already has persuaded many voters on a fundamental point: New Jersey pays way too much for education. Mr. Christie's poll numbers dipped earlier after the teachers union began running TV commercials critical of him. But his numbers have rebounded in recent polls. Frederick Hess, education-policy director at the American Enterprise Institute, a think thank that pushes for market-oriented solutions, says a likely new crop of Republican governors who have promised to slash budgets and reform schools will be watching to see how Mr. Christie fares. "New Jersey is the canary in the coal mine," he says.
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Or maybe, just maybe, he is as angry and impatient at what has been going on as the rest of us.
Mr. Christie, if your POS state is unhappy with you, we, in California, would love to have you be the head politician here. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE
Mr. Christie, if your POS state is unhappy with you, we, in California, would love to have you be the head politician here. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE
Nice pic in #1.
Please notice folks: NO teleprompter, NO notes. I’ve seen him go like this for 30 minutes giving a well thought out speech.
This guy is the real deal.
if the guy doesn’t loose some weight he may blow an artery before 2012
Go CC!
At least he isn’t a Yankees fan!
This below is a nice little nugget in the write up....imagine him in Holders position....now that’s change I could live with!
“During his tenure, Christie’s office won convictions or guilty pleas from 130 public officials, both Republican and Democratic, on the state, county and local levels without losing a single case.”
I don’t believe he would last a week as governor of California. The crazy left out there would have recall petitions going the minute he said the last word of his oath of office. There just aren’t enough folks like you in California...
Bwahahaha LOL
Someone from California calling New Jersey a “POS state”.
I live in California. We stand at the brink of doom. If Brown is elected, well....a leftist democrat teamed with a leftist democrat majority in Sacramento.
Abandon hope, all ye who dwell herein.
Let other States watch from afar and despair.
Our corrupt Education system is one of the biggest issues we face. In my school district, the cost to educate a single student is $23k+ and rising. Citizens are starting to despise teachers and this isn’t good.
I am one of them.
Thanks, GOP_Lady!
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