Christie touts teacher union partnership on pension plan with Florida Republicans

[Omaha Steve]

Source: NJ.com

By Matt Arco

WEST PALM BEACH — Gov. Chris Christie isn't done touting his newly established working relationship with New Jersey's largest teachers' union.

Less than two weeks after declaring in the Garden State during his annual budget address that the New Jersey Education Association "reached an unprecedented accord" aimed at tackling the state's pension woes, Christie touted the partnership - which the union criticized for being "overstated" - with a national audience.

The governor, speaking tonight to about 600 Republicans in the presidential battleground state of Florida, trumpeted his new relationship with the NJEA.

"If you can really believe it, we have been negotiating with the teachers' union for months to solve our pension and health benefits problem once and for all," Christie said.

FULL story at link.



Gov. Chris Christie file photo. (Aris Economopoulos/NJ Advance Media)

Read more: http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/03/christie_touts_teacher_union_partnership_on_pensio.html

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Also see:
Christie Overstates Pension Accord With Union, Sweeney Says: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026316070

[Android3.14]

1. What was the payoff?

A deal with the devil, teachers.

[Hoppy]

2. --last I heard from the N.J.E.A., there is no deal. There is communication but no deal.

He's trying to blow smoke up the asses of Florida Repubs.

[rocktivity]

3. "If you can really believe it"? That can be taken two ways.

HE said it -- WE didn't!


rocktivity

[bigdarryl]

4. He's full of shit there is no deal with the teachers union I know because I live here

[libdem4life]

5. !Well, at least we already knew the first half of that. Best of luck. Went through it in CA in

1975. No raises for 2 years, so we struck for a measly 2%. That and 4 third grade ADHD boys in my classroom of 32 was my last year teaching. Individualization? Hell, half my time was spent keeping those guys inside the classroom.

[6000eliot]

6. Wasn't he FORCED by the courts to pay up on the pension fund?