Web video takes shots at teachers union
BY JASON METHOD • STATEHOUSE BUREAU • OCTOBER 25, 2010
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TRENTON — An undercover video made by the same conservative activist who ripped apart the ACORN community organization purportedly records teachers chanting slogans against Gov. Chris Christie while attending a conference sponsored by the state's largest teachers union.
The video, called "Teacher's Union Gone Wild," is posted on a website run by James O'Keefe, the 26-year-old conservative and controversial film maker who surreptitiously recorded ACORN activists giving tax and money-laundering advice to actors who posed as a pimp and a prostitute.
The teachers video, also posted on YouTube.com, claims to be hidden audio and camera footage from the New Jersey Education Association's summer leadership conference at the New Brunswick Hilton. The video claims to record teachers chanting that they will kick Christie, who has feuded with the union since