Bret Schundler is not going quietly.
A day after Gov. Chris Christie said he considered the flap over the state’s failed application for a $400 million education grant to be over, Schundler offered a different take.
The fired state education commissioner presented his version of the events that led to his ouster last week _ a seven page statement that included statements like this: “The governor called me a liar this week for something he knows I did not do. That was the last straw. I have no choice now but to defend my name through this chronology of facts and the attached evidence.” The thrust of Schundler’s point was that he was honest with Christie about the application and that the governor’s initial criticism of the Obama Administration was unsupported by facts.
In response to Schundler’s lengthy defense, the governor’s office released a mere one paragraph statement that said Schundler “acknowledges that he told both the governor and the U.S Secretary of Education that he verbally confirmed for Race to The Top judges that New Jersey satisfied spending criteria on education for the period 2008-2009.”
There are still political matters to unfold. For instance, how much of an irritant will
Schundler be to Christie in the weeks ahead? Schundler long has been popular among the state’s more conservative Republicans, a group that has not been totally sold on Christie. While political junkies await any political fallout, we came across a more important bit of news about New Jersey education that surfaced at this week’s state board of education meeting.
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