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Friday, August 3, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: Unions Need To Claim Their Victories!

Jersey Jazzman: Unions Need To Claim Their Victories!:


Unions Need To Claim Their Victories!


More like this, please:
Gov. Chris Christie has yet to sign the hard-fought teacher tenure reform bill that sits on his desk, but the state's largest teachers union says he's already claiming all the credit for historic change. 
"He's taking full credit for it when in fact this bill doesn't reflect what he wanted to do," said Steve Wollmer, spokesman for the New Jersey Teachers Association. "He wanted to basically eliminate all due process laws for teachers. What's the old saying? When you're being run out of town you pretend you're leading a parade." [emphasis mine]
As I've said before: when this whole jihad against tenure started, Chris Christie was talking