Lets have right size government with competence. The way to do that is to get intelligent policy wonks instead of demagogues with good sounding sound bites that accomplish nothing.
New video released by the Obama administration contradicts Governor Christie’s account of why New Jersey failed to receive a $400 million dollar educational grant in the Race To The Top program. Earlier today after days of finger pointing, Christie fired New Jersey’s State Education Commissioner Bret Schundler after Schundler refused to resign.
It is looking like Christie’s comments the other day slamming big government and the Obama administration lack credibility after a new video shows New Jersey officials being asked by the selection committee for budget numbers not once but twice. Both times they couldn’t come up with an answer.
Via Blue Jersey:It turns out the United States Department of Education keeps video of the presentations of Race to the Top applicants. And that video, obtained by Star Ledger (that’s it, below) directly contradicts Gov. Christie’s claim that Washington bureaucrats were at fault for not letting NJ just fix a basic error in the application.
Excerpt of N.J.’s Race to the Top interview shows officials with no budget answer
Does anybody in Washington, D.C. have a lick of common sense? Pick up the phone and ask us for the number. – – Gov. ChristieActually, Christie’s characteristic bluster aside, the video reveals that the NJ team was asked directly for that information, and they struggled to answer, and couldn’t provide it. In fact, they apparently never provided it.
Excerpt of N.J.’s Race to the Top interview shows officials with no budget answer
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