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Hey, Gov. Christie, are these kids drug mules too?

by: Rosi Efthim

Thu Dec 01, 2011 at 06:09:52 PM EST



Yellow school buses were stacked up and down West State Street as far as the eye could see. Looks like NJ Spotlight called it right, predicting that the vast majority at today's pro-voucher rally at the State House steps were Catholic school students bused in for the day.

School-choice-rally-1.jpeg nj101.5.comI wonder. Do you think our pro-voucher, Catholic school parent Governor thinks these kids are drug mules too?

You remember this, right? Back from when Christie was gleefully building his national street cred as a bullyboy. Before he blamed that same reputation on the press. The Guv sure didn't have any trouble calling public school kids drug mules for being the unwitting, cute little messengers of what their teachers and schools needed them to push. In his opinion.

This is big-time stuff, in case you mistook it for some kind of grassroots movement. Today's rally was coordinated by a PR company called Jaffe Communications, who brag about the expensive-sounding advertising buys in targeted legislative districts, including billboards, bus advertising, and posters. To say nothing of the firm's coordinated pitch of Op-Eds to news outlets.  

Rosi Efthim :: Hey, Gov. Christie, are these kids drug mules too?
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So appropriate (0.00 / 0)
As far as I'm concerned, the "drug mule" comment made by the Governor was the most outrageous and offensive of his many others. Thank you for pointing out another hypocrisy.  

just suppose... (0.00 / 0)
What do you think CC would be saying if the NJEA bussed in hundreds of Public School kids to support public schools and Public school teachers?...He would be on the moon if they did the same....  

Public school teachers (4.00 / 1)
and public schools, have to have a different standard of accountability. They can't just call no-school for the day, queue up the school buses, and take off with the kids on their own say-so. Catholic schools can do that, because they don't have to answer for what they do in quite the same way. That's fine, if that's what the parents want, and pay for.

Not fine, if it's the taxpayers' dime.

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  


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Rosi (0.00 / 0)
Thanks for writing your comment.

I was thinking about the topic yesterday when you posted the diary.

I think the public school year still means 180 days.  In my northern Passaic school district the kids may lose their spring break because so many "snow days" were used up because of Hurricane Irene and actual snow.

Irene may have been the worst.  There were so many downed trees and (especially) downed wires that the school buses couldn't get through.

And Christie is skeptical about global warming?

PS - who are those kids in the photo and what do they know about school choice?  They didn't have a choice.  Their parents put them into these schools.

Rant over.


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School kids (0.00 / 0)
Well, I can certainly believe those kids were sincere. I have no reason to doubt them, or for that matter to doubt public school kids and parents who feel as strongly on the other side.

The difference is that Catholic school families and the schools themselves (to say nothing of the big-money people behind this) have a lot to gain from this, so the self-interest is more than just enthusiasm. Big money's at stake. Struggling Catholic schools get to stay open with considerable help from the taxpayers. Those kids' parents get what used to be private school tuition underwritten by us. And the big-money people get an investment opportunity.  

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  


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If you force them, they will come (0.00 / 0)


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