Eager to score points with the Republican base voter while he wastes his state's tax dollars on a futile campaign for the Presidency, the pile of toxic waste that calls himself Chris Christie lambasted teacher's unions on Sunday, volunteering in an interview that teacher's unions should be "punched in the face."
"At the national level, who deserves a punch in the face?” CNN's Jake Tapper asked the New Jersey governor during an interview. The question was a callback, he said, to Christie's affinity for saying during his first term that "you can either sidle up to [bullies] or you can punch them in the face."
"The national teachers union, who's already endorsed Hillary Clinton, 16, 17 months before the election," Christie replied.
Christie's solid reputation for nasty, bullying outbursts is well known, so his hostile attitude towards the people who spend their lives in an effort to educate our children is as unsurprising as his abysmal poll numbers. The American Federation of Teachers, as well as the New Jersey Education Association, called him out on his statements immediately, demanding an apology:
Randi Weingarten, president of the AFT, and Wendell Steinhauer, president of the New Jersey Education Association -- the state's largest teachers union -- have both condemned Christie's comments.
"That [Christie] would threaten to punch teachers in the face -- mostly women seeking to help children meet their potential and achieve their dreams -- promotes a culture of violence and underscores why he lacks the temperament and emotional skills to be president, or serve in any leadership capacity," said Weingarten's statement.
However, the most effective response came today from an actual teacher, who offered to take Christie up on his blowhard threat. Russ Walsh, a 45-year teaching veteran and curriculum director for schools in Pennsylvania and New Jersey wrote a letter back to the New Jersey Governor and Presidential candidate (reprinted here in full from the Washington Post and also available on Mr. Walsh's Blog):check it out in article
Christie gets called out on his feeble attempt to compete with Trumps blustering billy badazz persona seems if he was genuine he would have called Trump outside to settle their little pissing match not attack those who are entrusted with our children's education, not to be mistaken with republicans trying to change curriculum's to teach a more slanted and selfish right wing agenda.
it proves to me at least that those to are more concerned with showing the base who has the bigger sack but in the hissiness of it all Christie wants to punch the face of teachers women and men to prove he's the better bully???????????? well let's see if he takes the guy who called his bluff up or will he just be exposed for being a bloviator who's afraid to bring a real fight, sitting across a table screaming insults and blowing out your nose is for real bulls not fake bullies.
