Corzine Camp Slams Christie For Calling Pre-K “Babysitting,” Denying It Was Pejorative

Gov. Jon Corzine (D-NJ) and Former US Attorney Chris Christie (R)
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The Corzine campaign is going after Chris Christie for trying to back away from some very strong language he used when he was tacking right during the Republican primary — attacking Corzine’s pre-school programs as “baby-sitting.”

Corzine jumped on that in one of his ads, which slammed Christie on education. In an interview Tuesday night with New Jersey political pundit Steve Adubato, Christie said that the attack was “out of context.” When Adubato asked whether Christie did in fact use the term “babysitting,” Christie responded: “I used it in an answer, but I did not use it pejoratively, as they’re trying to make it sound in the ad.”

Check out the new Web video from the Corzine campaign, where you can see Christie attacking Corzine’s pre-K funding, “because he decided that the government should babysit for children. It’s simply wrong.”

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