Chris Christie: Where My Kids Go to School is None of Your Business

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Conservative Byte

Chris Christie last night, in New Jersey on public TV, “Christie on the Line.” This is why people like the guy. In a prerecorded videotaped question, a woman named “Gail” says (sniveling), “You don’t send your kids to public schools, you send ‘em to private schools. So I was wondering, Governor, why do you think it’s fair to be cutting school funding to public schools?”

CHRISTIE: Hey, Gail? You know what? First off: It’s none of your business. I don’t ask you where you send your kids to school; don’t bother me about where I send mine. Secondly: I pay $38,000 a year in property taxes for a public school predominantly in Mendham that my wife and I don’t choose to utilize because we believe — we’ve decided — as parents that we believe a religious education should be part of our children’s everyday education. So we send our children to parochial school. Third: I, as governor, am responsible for every child in this state, not just my own, and the decisions that I make are to try to improve the educational opportunities of every child in this state. So with all due respect, Gail, it’s none of your business.

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  • Roger

    Oh my goodness! A politician that tells the TRUTH!!!!!!!! Maybe he SHOULD run for Pres.

    • Randy131

      We all wish he would, but he is stubbornly sticking to no to that request, and many are not only asking, but are begging.

      • DTumbleweed

        Everyone just needs to write his name in! He can’t refuse if he is written in and enough vote for him and he wins!

        • Joseph Hovanec

          He is not running for President because unlike the inexperienced Obama (hows that working for us) he knows and is honest enough to readily admit he is not ready for that position at this time. We should however look for him in 2016

    • Joan

      Bravo Christie—– — Obamas childern go to private school!! whats the diff

      • adam

        The difference is Obama does not advocate cutting public education funds.

        So it’s incredibly different.

  • Margareth Constant

    Fantastic!! It is so refreshing to see a politician speak the truth and not hem and haw around the questions!! I LOVE THIS MAN!! I’m 75 yrs. old, and have NEVER been so impressed with a politician!!

    • PAT GLASS

      I’M 74 AND I LOVE HIM MORE! WANNA FIGHT? LOL

    • Cherry

      MEGADITTO!!

    • Frank

      YOU ARE SO RIGHT MARGARIE…YOU GO GIRL ! By the way, I’m eighty. Are you
      available ????? Where you been all my life?????

  • Are You Serious

    I do wish he would run for President. This is the kind of guy we need in office.

  • Brocky 60

    Right on, but to all the other conservatives who think that Mitt is not pro life enough, what is Christie’s stand on abortion?

    • ML

      Not sure, but he’s for civil unions. That knocks him down in my book.

      • Are You Serious

        It’s a whole lot better than gay marriage.

      • Dr Craig Holoboski

        Whether Christian conservatives like it or not, “civil unions” are coming. Better to call it that than to call it “marriage.”

    • ladykroft

      Seeing as how Christie thinks about what’s not someone’s business… ABORTION is nobody’s business other than that of the woman who wants it. And it’s especially not the business of any MALE…period. It’s not your business, it’s not my business…it’s the business of the woman.

      • Curtis Deen

        Not if I help make the baby, then I do have a say!!!!!

      • DBak61

        Let’s ask the more than 2 million aborted children, (that’s fetus for you libs), if abortion is anyone’s business besides the would-be mother, or what they think about education for that matter. Oh, we can’t. They are dead. Big difference here, kroft. No need to reply. I won’t be back to see any typical femi-nazi response. Good evening.

        • hijinx60

          kroft: What if Einsteins mother has felt that way? or Edisons? or Fords? or Pasteurs? or Jonas Salks? or …..the list is endless. If their mother had felt that way we just might be living in the dark just as you are.

        • Luis

          hey Dbak, where did you get the two million aborted babies figure? Since Roe v Wade in 1973 the number is more than 50 million. Figures used are 3,000 per day, that is PER DAY, one million per year roughly.

      • Bob

        It is the woman’s business? I think not, murder is society’s business and abortion is murder. If Christie is pro-abortion, he is a murderer and will never get my vote.

      • Honoria

        Sorry to correct you, however abortion is everyones business!! Especially with Planned Parenthood putting in abortion clinics closest to minority areas. Planned Parenthood has for too many years under the guise of womens health services, put the agenda of abortion front and center. This includes abortions to minors without parental consent. Too often men who have “taken advantage” of young girls, want to end the unwanted pregnancy so they can dance out of the consequeces. Too many young women are brain washed to believe there will be no lasting consequeces by aborting the unplanned for pregnacy but find out too late otherwise. This is everyones business!!!

      • ARMYOF69

        I am glad that the woman who decided NOT TO MURDER YOU when you you were not yet born, did not think of you as a fetus.
        AND, the man who is the father has the same rights to have that baby born as any woman has.
        If you not want to have the baby: KEEP YOUR DAMN LEGS CLOSED.

        • Jstarusa

          Amen!

      • Reasonable Doubt

        Lady…K wishing it were so…does not make it so. 3 lives intersect here. Absent rape or incest -2 of them vountarily initiated the third…the one that cannot speak for him or herself.

      • RivahMitch

        You’re wrong at a number of levels:
        You’re wrong when you force everyone else to pay for it.
        You’re wrong because it is a moral issue that goes to the nature of our society. I do believe that an individual abortion is and should be between the woman, her doctor and her god(dess) if she has one. However, governmental abortion policy goes to the fundamental nature of our society and how we define and value human life. That does call for public discussion.
        Finally, you’re wrong because millions of Americans were adopted by loving parents (as I was in 1946), raised and became productive (even valued) citizens who pay taxes and make other contributions to this society. Perhaps you’d be much happier if we were all dead but our families (parents, children and grandchildren) feel differently. Sorry to be an inconvenience to your argument but we too have a stake in this issue and very real “skin in the game”.

        • adam

          No public monies are spend on abortion. There are GREAT arguments against abortion, but stop lying and learn some facts

      • http://CanObamabebeat? d rash

        Ladykroft, quite frankly, you’re full of shit! It’s the business of the MAN who fathered that child. You shouldn’t be able to have it both ways, ie: if the woman says ABORTION, then the father has no rights to counter that. But if a woman says BIRTH, then the man is on the hook for at least 18 years. Why is it ALWAYS the woman who gets to decide. Why can’t the father say, “sorry you might be inconvenienced” for 9 months, but bitch, you ain’t murdering my child, and that carry some weight? AND, you ignorant bitch, WHO THE HELL IS SPEAKING FOR THE CHILD? WHO INTERPRETS THE FEELINGS OF THE CHILD WHEN IT COMES TO ABORTION? THE BABY JUST MIGHT OBJECT, YOU “F” ING MURDERER! YOU WILL BURN IN HELL BITCH, FOR AGREEING WITH MURDERING BABIES!

      • Common Sense

        I believe in a woman’s choice too.
        I have never understood how “murder” is allowed to be a “choice” and in many cases, the government and the lady take MY tax money to pay for that murderous “choice”. I may be able to understand it in the case of rape, incest or the woman’s health.
        But…Your choice, the one that is all about you and nobody elses business, …is to choose to keep your legs together. Don’t make us or the baby pay the price for your mistake.

        • Darcey

          Right on! Women have a choice to engage in sex or not. Murdering another human being is NOT a choice! That fetus (unborn baby) in her womb is a SEPARATE human being with DISTINCT DNA apart from her own. Murdering of innocents is has NOTHING to do with “women’s health”!!

        • Jstarusa

          Absolutely Correct!

      • 1REBEL

        “Lady” ? You wish.

        • 1REBEL

          Why is this being moderated?

      • T Nich

        First of all, call abortion what it REALLY is okay…lets face it, its premeditated termination of a life….deal with it and own up to it.

        Second of all, don’t hide behind the words “pro choice” and trying to define it as your God given right to commit an act of murder. A woman who wants an abortion is making a conscience choice to end a life.

        At least have the courage to clearly define what it is and own up to your defense of the will to commit an act of murder because of an inconvenience….and whatever the case may be, tax dollars should NEVER be used to subsidize the facilities who do it.

      • Charie

        So you think women have a right to commit murder? That baby that was started by her and a willing partner, for the most part, has a right to be born. The baby has an entirely different DNA than she does and only has half of its characteristics from her. Because it’s located in her body, makes no difference, it is a totally separate entity.

        If she wants to have choice, she has the choice to either get pregnant or not pregnant and don’t give me all the crap about incest and rape. Those are an infinitesimal part of abortions committed each year.

        If a woman doesn’t wish to become pregnant I suggest an aspirin………….. it should be placed between her knees and held there, permanently!!!

      • http://qu Diane

        Unless she’s financing the abortion, it’s the business of every taxpayer.

      • Luis

        So, lady, murder of a person outside of your body is not ok, but murder of a person inside of your body is ok? So what is the difference between a fetus one day before birth and that same fetus one day after his birth? Kill him before he is born, that’s ok because the health of the mother exception allows that, but kill him the day after his birth and you go to the slam or the chair. YOU KNOW PERFECTLY WELL THAT THAT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE.

        Plus, now that the abortion-breast cancer link is out and being discussed, not to mention the higher incidences of lower birth weight in subsequent babies, of premature birth of subsequent babies, of mental problems, divorce, financial problems, suicide, alcoholism, drug use in post abortive women–those are all health problems that we all pay for. BUT YOU KNOW THAT.

      • Luis

        hey, lady: Someone said let’s ask the aborted babies how they feel about having not been given a chance at life, whatever that life involved, but better yet, LET’S ASK THE SURVIVORS OF ABORTION, A COUPLE OF WHICH ARE VERY ACTIVE IN THE PRO LIFE MOVEMENT AND GIVE VERY MOVING TALKS. One of them is Gianna Jessen and I can’t remember the names of the others although it should be hard to find them. If you want a great laugh at the pro aborts in the Colorado making perfect asses out of themselves go to http://www.truemanhood.com/great-pro-life-story-gianna-jessen. YOU WILL LOVE IT!!!!

      • doug

        I agree that it isn’t the right of others to tell a woman if she should or not KILL her baby..because she doesn’t want to get fat, or waste her time with her child or take her time away from more important matters…but being a man….I should not have to pay for it through some Baby Killing Factory under the name of Planned Parenthood!! I have talked with women that aborted and they wish they hadn’t after the fact…some turned to drugs and others lost their self pride. But we only hear about the rights of young girls, or women…not the reports of how they are now dealing with their mistake!! I can’t help but wonder how this all would have worked out for those supporting Baby Killing Factories…if their own mothers had decided to abort? I guess abortion wouldn’t be an issue….LOL!!! Being a man..I don’t support or want to pay for some young girl or woman to KILL her baby! In God I Trust!!

      • RC

        And there’s probably one of the biggest reasons the Christie’s chose NOT to send their children to public school.

      • dave

        Ladycro0ft

        You are DEAD WRONG!!!!!

        NO person who elects to carry a child that God created to bring into the world has any right to destroy that life!!!! It is not about you anymore at that point and it is all about the precious life of that child and the person carrying it is commissioned by God to be the steward of that precious life!.

      • http://www.thecharsigroupllc.com jeff Sheaffer

        Ladycroft:
        Abortion is my business if my tax $ pay for it. It is my business when Planned Parenthood makes $billions off brainwashing kids on abortions. It is my business when countries like China FORCE abortion to limit families to one kid.Keep Planned Parenthood out of public schools!

      • Jim Warner

        Abortion, like any other form of murder, is the responsibility of all the society. Abortion is not just a personal choice, its a decision that effects the whole fabric of society. Arguments that defends a “woman’s right to chose” as a constitutional privilege, ignore the very basic question of the baby’s constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

    • Honoria

      Chances are if he is as Christian as I believe him to be (he mentions he sends his children to parocial schools) he is morally against abortions. As civil unions for same-sex couples are recognised in all states the need for “marrages” for those couples should not be on the table. As we all know the law of unintended consequences, the writers of the law are too ambiguous and before you know it we will be able to “marry” with too many options open for abuse.

    • Joan

      At this point who the hell cares!!!

  • Barb

    Before voting for any candidate find out how they stand on the issues that are important to you. Don’t vote on just one issue. Our country has many issues that need to be addressed.

    • Luis

      Nope, you are flat out wrong: Abortion is fundamental, that is FUNDAMENTAL. A pol who has no regard for the most vulnerable, babies in the womb, will have, sooner or later it will show, no regard for the aged or incapacitated. And we are here talking about the most important components of this republic: PEOPLE.

      Once the pol proves he is pro life, then we can talk about his economic and foreign policies. This country made a mistake in not rebelling, somehow, everyhow, against Blackmun’s wife and daughters’ Roe v Wade decision and for 38 years have allowed the abortion mill butchers to slaughter 50 million babies, babies among which there could have been very creative and productive people, not to mention who would have fulfilled Roosevelt’s social security program actuaries’ projections so that Social Security would not be failing us now–don’t bother telling me tha the pols have raided the Social Security ‘lockbox’ and that is why it is failing.

  • Mary

    Good for Christie. People get too involved in other people’s business. We need him in the White House.

    • roseanne

      Mary, I agree with you. Wish he would throw his hat in the race.

    • Joan

      Mary Christie gets my vote!!

  • JoeV

    I admire an individual who tells it like it is! No B.S. but straight talk.

  • Eileen In Idaho

    GUN CONTROL?? Where does he stand on GUN CONTROL? In 2005 at the age of 66, I had to use a pistol to save myself from an intruder in my home. Most people in NJ do not think I ought to have that right. ASK HIM WHERE HE STANDS! I will never vote for anyone who would take away my right to defend myself.

    • Nellie CA

      WOW! Good for you! I am for guns also! I think our governmnet is making a big mistake! Everyone that can pass a 10 finger back ground check and learn how to use the gun of their choice should be able to carry a conceled weapon. CA don’t have that choice. If more people in AZ would have had their guns there would not have been the lost of lives and a congresswoman injured.
      I have a gun and I am like you! I will protect myself! my home! There has been home invasions in my area, illegals. They beat our tow truck driver with a tire iron and left him for dead. He lived and they did catch some of the people who did this crime.
      The reason Japan didn’t invade us, they knew that the American people were armed in their homes.
      If Obam is president much longer we will look like Cuba. I had Cuban neighbors, they were kicked out of Cuba when Castro took over. The Castro Military came to their door in the middle of the night, kicked the door down, took them out at gun point. cleaned out their house of everything. Casto cleaned out their bank account, stole their home. Castro only gave them the clothes on their back when they were forced out of Cuba. They were the wrong age to keep in Cuba.
      Castro used the household items to pay Russia for the guns, his take over of Cuba. These two people didn’t speak English, they came to FL, lived with family, learned English while they worked as dish washers and janitor. They moved to CA when they got a job with telephone company. They were great neighbors.
      He came over to talk to me about the color of his house. He wanted to paint the house and wanted me to pick the color. His reason was “I would look at his house more than he would”. I miss them as neighbors!

    • ARMYOF69

      Good for you .

  • gratia plena

    Bravo,Chris! Now they can start picking on him for having a religious tendency! I know several Indians who sent their kids to Catholic parochial schools to protect them from racial abuse.

  • http://aol.com Ilene Burwick

    I love Chris Christie: a real man who tells it like it is!

  • kermit dupre

    Public education has become like our postal service, laden with high dollar executives who belong to Washington.

  • Towncar07

    There are many “Chris Christie’s” in this great land of ours…it seems like the Governor of NJ has the supreme fortitude to tell it like, not only it “is”…but how it should be, and his boldness should be encouraged, not denigrated.
    We are going into the dumper as a nation because there are too many “sucklings” that is draining the Mother Pig dry…and when those teats runs dry…you can almost see the riots and smell the smoke…and what’s next, but a Supreme State, cookie-cutter to all, and George Soros will replace Lincoln’s statue in the Memorial in DC. Include me out.

  • William Hays

    I was rooting for Christie. I’m not so sure now. His kids are getting a “religious” education? That is sick, like the Hassidic Jews from Bensonhurst and New City! Damn! Look at the crooks we have had in New Jersey that went to parochial schools! What is with the cuckoos?
    Don’t tell anyone I was born in Plainfield! Please!!!! Anyway, the “welfare” crowd shut down Muhlenberg Hospital…

  • Chris Floyd

    A religious education is sick? The hell? No what is sick are the public schools shoving sex onto kindergartener’s and teachers rewriting history. My kids don’t go to public school either. Good for Christie.

  • Michelle

    Good for Christie! Whether he sends his kids to private (parochial or not), homeschools them, or sends them to public school, it’s his choice, his money, and his childrens future at stake. I, too, pay a small fortune in taxes every year for a local school system that’s worthless and spends more time differentiating between the haves and have nots and pushing kids to visit the in-school clinic for sex paraphernalia and advice than it does helping kids get a good education. It’s bad enough that I had to help pay for this farce of an education while coming up with the dough to pay for a decent one elsewhere, but knowing they’ll keep taking it out of my pocket for the rest of my life without being made to get back to the basics really ticks me off! So what if his kids are learning religion too? I bet they don’t have birth control and abortion literature plastered all over the place and I bet they don’t have near the violence or lack of respect I’ve seen in most of the public schools my child’s been in and I see that as a pretty fair trade-off. Yeah, accidents happen and kids screw up – even in religious families, but it’s time to let the responsible parties suffer the consequences instead of making society pay for it. Shoving sex, condoms, abortions, welfare if you get knocked up, etc. at a young kid just makes the problem grow. First time shame on you, second time – shame on us for letting you stick us with the tab. Want an abortion? Pay for it yourself! My taxes are already paying for free birth control and it ain’t my fault if you’re too dumb to use it. Want a kid? Get a job and support it yourself like the rest of us do. Welfare’s supposed to be TEMPORARY so use it to improve yourself and then get a job!

  • Steven in CA

    Although I’m a conservative and generally do support Gov. Christie, I happen to think that once you’re in an elected office, where you send your kids to to school is a fair question. After all, aren’t conservatives always calling out liberal politicians who tell us how we don’t need to base public school teachers’ pay on merit or give poor kids vouchers but then send their own kids to private schools? If I had a nickel for every nasty comment about some liberal politician in Washington DC sending their little darlings to Sidwell Friends School inst, I could have retired by now . . . .

  • Steven in CA

    Apropos the abortion issue, I also suggest that whoever says it needs to be both mommy’s and daddy’s decision and not just mommy’s should realize that, if their position is followed to its logical conclusion, it means if a guy knocks up his girlfriend and both of them drive together to the local abortion clinic, or he breathes a sigh of relief as he hands her the money to pay for it, then it’s o.k. ! My observation is that there are far more single guys out there who want the girl to get the abortion and not have to pay child support than ones who get upset if she has the abortion.

  • doug

    Getting back on point. Chris is Right on with his comments, and let’s hope more people stand up for what is right. Government has decided that Americans can’t raise their own children, or guild them in the right directions…they are telling teachers at all levels to inform Children about sex, and being Gay is OK. Even though children at 5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16 truly don’t understand what is happening to their bodies, or how they feel about sex…Government wants to force them into more questions about their body’s changes…Maybe what your Feeling is Gay emotions!! Some Gay teachers want to help them along by giving them their phone numbers to call them when they have these feelings…Ya Right!! So rite-on Chris…Tell the Federal Board of Education to go to he–!! When this mess in Washington has changed and we no longer support special interest groups like, Planned Parenthood, ACLU, La Raza, EPA, Federal Board of Education (One school fits all mentality)….maybe we will have a better America!! In God I Trust!

  • Steve

    Christie of course is right on.
    Anyone who believes the public school system is not funded well enough is a dope.
    The same for anyone who believes it does a good job with the money it gets.
    And the same for anyone who believes more money is the answer to better results.

  • Richard Brian johnson

    Allen West and Chris Chritie Houw about that for a ticket?

  • Doug

    Gail, pound sand. Good going, governor!

    Ladykroft:

    Abortion is a very serious situation. It takes two to tango, so the male DOES have something to say. He shares equal responsibility for creating the pregnancy.

    I have no problem with abortion when it comes to rape, incest, or the life of the woman being in imminent peril due to the pregnancy.

    If a woman enjoys being laid like a rabbit, that’s her affair; but, know this. She will never forget her act. And the woman will never wash clean the blood on her hands. There is a consequence a woman making that choice never will escape.

    My approach to elective abortion is this: the first elective abortion gets the woman a warning, and the second results in the woman’s tubes being permanently tied. If a woman can’t be responsible with creation, why should she be trusted with motherhood?

  • tweety

    I saw at my local book store a display of “Required Summer Reading” for our local high school. Couldn’t recognize one single author on the display rack except, you guessed it, Barack Obama. (Dreams of My Father). Heck, that book probably wasn’t even written by him, but by Bill Ayers, so we are learning. What happened to Hemingway, Harper Lee, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Frost, and so many other classic American authors. No, we’ve got to give the students books that they seemingly want to read instead of what they should read.

  • JQ

    Fat strikes again! Why is it that so many conservatives, like Rush and Neil and so-forth, have such a weight problem? Did the fat get to their heads?

    And he doesn’t send his kids to the very system he apparently tramples by attacking it’s custodians, teachers? Sounds to me like the fat man that criticizes a fat person, a women especially, for being fat. Let’s take it a little further, if we may. Sounds like some of the cops and firefighters that work and play in cities like New York, yet live elsewhere, like the suburbs, and are just there to monetarily squeeze it for what it’s worth.

    Now that’s better….

  • conservadiva

    Chris and Mary Pat Christie support a religious education as part of their children’s everyday school life. This used the be the birthright of every American until the public schools threw out God and the Bible because of Madeline Murray O’Hare’s lawsuits. Why was one woman able to control the outcome of the entire American school system? Every American citizen is under the thumb of O’Hare and her crazy left-wing ideology. Read, My Life Without God, by O’Hare’s son who left his mother’s atheism behind and embraced God. You will shudder to read about his life with this monstrous woman, and it made me thank God for my parents who love Jesus Christ. O’Hare’s legacy needs to be reversed along with every left-wing nut job who has tried to destroy America. Until then, private school and homeschooling can provide the godly education your children need. Good choice, Gov. Christie!

  • AB

    Why wasn’t Christie saying “get her name – get her name” included in this discussion? When this woman asked this question he demanded that her name be obtained. I love how you conservatives conveniently omit the most important truths . . .

    • Pay

      I also “love” how the questioner (Gail) is characterized as sniveling. Asking questions about the budget is very much her business. He is a public official on a show to answer questions such as hers.
      She did not ask why his kids went to private school. She asked why he thought it fair to cut budget to a school system that his own kids have the privilege of not attending. Way to derail the question Christie!

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