Playing politics with principle

I would applaud the governor if I thought he would go to bat for a school board member who was censured for being critical of the state’s education cuts. He’s right that the board should have let the school board member have her say, even if I disagree with what she had to say.

My suspicion, unfortunately, is that the governor is not interested in defending the rights of school board members to speak their minds, but only of those members that speak their minds and back his causes.

Gov. Chris Christie is nothing if not brutally political, to a degree well beyond any governor in my memory.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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  1. Christie is the worst governor in my memory, he's worse than McGreevey. At least McGreevey had the decency to resign after his foul ups.Christie is nasty, vindictive, divisive and a frothing at the mouth hard right wing demagogue. He's out to destroy the unions and destroy the public school system so he can replace it with charter schools and vouchers. Lesniak, Obama and billionaires back up this \”free choice\” debacle.The low information Fox News lunk heads and the hate mongers on NJ101.5 love Christie. He has managed to demonize the teachers, state workers and their unions. He hasn't trashed police and fire fighters as much………so far.

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