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NJ Teacher Union Boss Making $300k Tells Poor ‘Life’s Not Fair’

With all due respect to the job New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is doing, perhaps his popularity in haranguing the excesses of liberal spending is made easier by Dickensian villains like Vincent Giordano.  Giordano, the Director of the New Jersey Education Association (i.e. teacher’s union), had this exchange with a news anchor over the injustice of denying poor families vouchers to escape failing schools.

During the interview, he was challenged by the host on why low-income families should not have the same options as other families when their child is in a failing school.

"Those parents should have exactly the same options and they do. We don't say that you can't take your kid out of the public school. We would argue not and we would say 'let's work more closely and more harmoniously…[more]

February 08, 2012 • 03:00 pm

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Fishy Is As Fishy Does, Mr. President Print
By CFIF Staff
Thursday, August 06 2009
Citizen Alert! President Obama needs your help, and we want to help you help him.

Citizen Alert! President Obama needs your help, and we want to help you help him.

Although we do not usually involve ourselves in causes that may require stooling on neighbors and relatives, this is a special White House request, and we are thus sure that all civil liberty and privacy concerns have been adequately vetted by Justice Department counsel.

This nation faces an August crisis, you see. Unruly mobs are being bused around the country by villainous insurance companies to spread “fishy disinformation” about the President’s health care reform plan and disrupt the town hall meetings of hapless Congresspeeps who had to attend a seminar to find out what is in the legislation before they went home, but really don’t care since all they want is a ride on the new Gulfstream G5s that Speaker Pelosi has ordered up for congressional travel.

Even though it is never explained how Big Insurance gets such unruly mobs on the bus, HHS Secretary Sibelius has admonished us not to sweat the details, so we won’t. These are really, really insidious unruly mobs, because as Senator Barbara Boxer has observed, they are way too well dressed to be legitimate citizens peaceably assembling to seek a redress of grievances.

At any rate, the President requests that “if you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to

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