Senate President Stephen Sweeney, a Democrat from New Jersey, said that Chris Christie, the current Republican governor of New Jersey, was acting like a "bully" and a "punk" with his line-item veto of the budget. He supported Christie's union attacks on pensions and health care and then claims Christie would not meet with him to discuss the budget. Christie says that they met for 11 hours on the 27th of June and then again Tuesday after it was signed.
Chris Christie has been known to play fast and loose with the facts, such as recently saying that the only state that spends more on medicaid than New Jersey is New York. However, he is a very direct person and in the minds of uninformed voters confidence exudes rightness(see Bush 41). The media has failed in many respects when covering him. When he was first elected he was having a meeting with teachers and was asked by one what she was supposed to do when she had to pay for classroom supplies out of her own paycheck, which already wasn't very substantive as it is. He told her she should get another job. Another job?! Instead of saying it's ridiculous that teachers have to go through what they do in some cases to get supplies, he tells her to leave the profession entirely. So much for the kids right? Even though I don't condone violence, comments like that make one empathize a little with Stephen Sweeney's comments.
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