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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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A Detroit-area man is facing five years in jail after leaving his date in a restaurant and driving off in her car without paying the bill.
 
According to news reports, Terrance Dejuan McCoy was on a first date with a woman when he told her he left his wallet in her car and needed the keys to get it to pay the bill.  He then sped off in the 2000 Chevrolet Impala.  The woman admitted she did not have much information about her date other than that she met him at a Detroit casino and he told her his name was "Chris."  Police used a cell phone message McCoy sent to her, which included his photo and cell number, to track him down.
 
McCoy pleaded no contest to the charges.  His defense attorney, Terri Antisdale, says McCoy is a "very nice man who made a bad decision."
 
—Source:  The Detroit News

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