Christie cited this stat: a teacher who is in the union, pays $730 a year to join. If a teacher doesn't want to join the union, they pay 85% of the $730 per year, to not join. Christie said:

"It's like the Hotel California. You can check in anytime, but you can never leave."

That money raises $130 million a year to pay for lobbyists, to stare down the legislature. They also spend the money, as well as tax payer money from NJ residents from property taxes and other taxes to buy ads attacking the governor.

Christie compares the NJEA to the school bully. Said other governors run scared of the bully. While the parents and tax payers are the ones bleeding on the ground from all the money they pay to the NJEA. But Christie said he's not running scared instead he said:

"You punch them, I punch you."

The fight is about who is going to run public education in New Jersey. The parents and the people they elect, or the mindless, faceless union leaders who decide that they're going to be the ones who run it because they have the money and authority to bully around school boards and local councils.

If we don't win this fight, there are no other fights left. This is the fight we gotta fight. This is the fight we have to win for our kids. So when they say it's for the kids... Four and five percent increases, free health insurance for life ain't about the kids.

This is about the kids.