New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie stopped by the Today show, on Wednesday morning, to educate viewers and NBC’s Ann Curry about the problems of public employee unions and explained that when it comes to getting government costs under control sometimes you just have to say no. Curry mostly questioned Christie from the left, as she asked if there was “a coordinated” GOP agenda to make unions “scapegoats” for a problem “created by Wall Street” and the “banks” and suggested that “in some ways it doesn’t sort of make sense…that the unions really are to blame.”
For his part, Christie responded: “It’s an issue of wanting to say yes all the time as a public official. You know you never want to say no to anybody because ‘Oh you’re much more popular if you say yes.’ Well you know what? It’s time we have to start saying no to certain things to be able to say yes to the things that will help to grow our economy and create a more prosperous future.”
Curry began her interview by citing the New York Times editorial page to the governor, as she asked if in states like New Jersey, Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana there was “a coordinated Republican political agenda to this attack or this effort, this pointed effort at unions?” To which Christie pointed out government spending is so out of control that even Democrats like Governor Jerry Brown in California were being forced to make cuts.
Geoffrey Dickens is the Senior News Analyst at the Media Research Center. You can follow him on Twitter here
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