I like NJ Gov. Chris Christie a lot. He's been kicking a lot of ass and taking a lot of names. And he should continue to do so, for the good of the people of NJ.
But on this issue, I think he's totally wrong:
NJ Transit was right to can Koran-burning creep Derek Fenton, says Gov. Chris Christie
BY PETE DONOHUE | DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, September 16th 2010New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Wednesday backed the controversial firing of a transit worker who burned pages of the Koran outside a planned mosque near Ground Zero.
NJTransit fired assistant train coordinator Derek Fenton Monday, just two days after he ripped pages from the Koran and torched them with a lighter on the ninth anniversary of 9/11.
"We're supportive of the action taken by NJTransit," Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak told the Daily News.
But one New Jersey state senator defended Fenton's constitutional right to free speech and criticized his firing.
Fenton was not in uniform and apparently not on the clock when he staged his protest in front of news photographers and reporters covering demonstrations marking the anniversary of the World Trade Center attack.
"So long as his actions, however misguided, took place on his own time, and he was not acting in his capacity as a representative of NJTransit but as an American exercising his constitutional rights, then the agency is clearly in the wrong," Sen. Raymond Lesniak (D-Union) said in a statement. ...
Yup. Sen. Lesniak is right.
So here you have it one record, people: I am hereby disagreeing with a Republican and agreeing with a Democrat.
Yes, that was a pig you just saw flying past your window.
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