Lighten up, folks. It was a joke.
The war of words between Chris Christie and the Garden State’s teachers unions took a strange turn yesterday, with publication of a memo from the Bergen County teachers union that included a facetious prayer whose punch line, essentially, wished Christie dead.
The governor was not amused.
Then the president of the statewide parent union apologized, declaring the joke unfunny. (No kidding.)
“They said they didn’t want it to be public,” said Christie. “So private prayer for my death would have been OK?”
Now, Christie and the teachers have been at war ever since he made it clear that he’s serious about forcing schools to live within New Jersey’s means.
Of course, teachers (think they) are very special people, and deeply resent being told that the folks who pay their salaries deserve some respect, too.
Hence the dead-governor joke.
It wasn’t funny.
Let’s leave it at that.