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Corzine Camp Slams Christie For Calling Pre-K "Babysitting," Denying It Was Pejorative


Gov. Jon Corzine (D-NJ) and Former US Attorney Chris Christie (R)

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The Corzine campaign is going after Chris Christie for trying to back away from some very strong language he used when he was tacking right during the Republican primary -- attacking Corzine's pre-school programs as "baby-sitting."

Corzine jumped on that in one of his ads, which slammed Christie on education. In an interview Tuesday night with New Jersey political pundit Steve Adubato, Christie said that the attack was "out of context." When Adubato asked whether Christie did in fact use the term "babysitting," Christie responded: "I used it in an answer, but I did not use it pejoratively, as they're trying to make it sound in the ad."

Check out the new Web video from the Corzine campaign, where you can see Christie attacking Corzine's pre-K funding, "because he decided that the government should babysit for children. It's simply wrong."

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October 8, 2009 1:57 PM   

Chris, if you close your eyes and wish real hard, maybe you can make the videotape go away!

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October 8, 2009 2:51 PM   

'i did not use it perjoratively' 'out of context'

both self-evidently false.

christie is a lying sack of turds.

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October 8, 2009 3:04 PM   

Every study of early education shows it offers benefits way beyond 'babysitting.' Kids who have early childhood education do better all the way thru school, are less likely to drop out, more likely to go to college, less likely to commit crimes, and earn more over a lifetime than children who do not attend school until age 5 or 6. Duh, that's why well to do and middle class folks send their kids to preschool. My daughter teaches 1st grade and she says the difference is obvious from the beginning.

But then, democracy lovin' Republicans are usually hostile to our most democratic institutions: public education and public libraries.

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