{"id":19472,"date":"2010-05-27T18:34:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T02:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=19472"},"modified":"2010-05-27T20:10:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T04:10:18","slug":"new-jerseys-eloquent-new-governor-chris-christie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=19472","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey&#8217;s Eloquent New Governor Chris Christie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/chris-christie-to-angry-teacher-you-dont-have-to-do-it\/\">He announced a constitutional amendment for November to cap property taxes at no more than 2.5% per year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A teacher complained she should make more money, say, $83,000 a year or $3 per pupil. &#8220;You&#8217;re not compensating me for my education and my experience,&#8221; she complained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then you don&#8217;t have to do it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>She responded: &#8220;Teachers do it because they love it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I love that! It&#8217;s not because you love it, but because you want good compensation, which is fine, just don&#8217;t lie.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Christie: &#8220;People go into it knowing what the pay scale is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unlike the United States of America, New Jersey can&#8217;t print money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I love this guy. He&#8217;s my new hero. Dennis Prager said today he wanted to travel to Trenton and kiss the governor&#8217;s ring. &#8220;Of course I supported him but I did not expect him to turn out great. He is turning out so great he should be considered presidential material. Americans go crazy for forthright speech. He&#8217;s quick. That&#8217;s not common.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He announced a constitutional amendment for November to cap property taxes at no more than 2.5% per year. A teacher complained she should make more money, say, $83,000 a year or $3 per pupil. &#8220;You&#8217;re not compensating me for my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=19472\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[22359,22357,29761,22360,22356,22366,22358,4834],"class_list":["post-19472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","category-education","tag-christie","tag-constitutional-amendment","tag-dennis-prager","tag-new-hero","tag-pay-scale","tag-presidential-material","tag-property-taxes","tag-pupil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19486,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19472\/revisions\/19486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}