Christie vs. Bolaris vs. Teachers
Gov. Christie lumped meteorologists and teachers together last week, and guess who's angry? Meteorologists. Or at least one meteorologist.
Christie vs. Bolaris vs. Teachers
Matt Katz, Inquirer Staff Writer
Gov. Christie lumped meteorologists and teachers together last week, and guess who's angry? Meteorologists. Or at least one meteorologist.
During an appearance at the Union League last week, the gov said: "I'm picking on public sector unions because they have lived in an unreal world with runaway salaries, runaway benefits and worse yet, no accountability. There's only two professions left in America where there is no reward for excellence and no consequences for failure, (and) weathermen don't work for me. But teachers do."
Philadelphia's Fox 29 weatherman, John Bolaris, who once infamously predicted a "storm of the century" that never materialized (resulting in death threats that sent him packing to a New York station), responded to Gov. Christie on the air the other day:
"I've got a little beef here. Gov. Christe, Gov. Christie! I like Gov. Christie, I do....Believe me, if we fail enough, we're out of a job. Out of a job. Out of a job, governor!"
Bolaris added that he doesn't have tenure. But it should be noted - Bolaris eventually got rehired in Philadelphia.
If Bolaris makes a mistake, it inconveniences us for a couple of days. We will be suffering from the consequences of Christie's mistakes for many years to come.- No Deciminyan, we already are suffering from the consequences of previous administrations. Christie is working hard and taking a tough line to correct those mistakes. Don't try and revise history, Christie isn't responsible for getting us into an ..itful of debt and he didn't tax us into oblivion, he's trying to right those wrongs of the tax and spend liberals of the past.
— Muffin - Christie does care about us, our problems, or fixing anything. If he did he would have corrected the crime that every governor has committed for the past two decades and at least made some of the State's pension contribution. All Christie cares about is his run for the White House in 2012 or 2016. Under Christie my taxes have gone up as a result of his actions and my services have gone down ... are we any closer to solving our problems? NO. If Christie was really doing "Big Things" nobody would like him. All he has done is pointed out the problem and blamed someone for it. — NJ_Engineer
- Christies mistakes will cause a generation of failures.....— shady24
- Oh really, shady24, and you know this how? — Muffin
- "... runaway salaries, runaway benefits and worse yet, no accountability ..." sounds more like politicians than teachers. It's the Governors of New Jersey that have "runaway" with pension money and they have not been accountable.— NJ_Engineer
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