“These are the typical kind of scare tactics that they involve themselves in. Scaring students in the classroom, scaring parents with the notes home in the bookbags, and the mandatory ‘Project Democracy Homework’ asking your parents about what they’re going to do in the school board election, and reporting back to your teachers union representatives, using the students like drug mules to carry information back to the classroom, is reprehensible.”

– New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, about the 200,000-member New Jersey Education Association, which has been critical of his proposed $820 million cut in school aid and whose members have engaged in venomous rhetoric castigating Christie, even to the point of half-jokingly wishing for his death.