To say we had some preconceived notion isn’t fair to us. We look at all the facts.

Joyce Powell, President of the NJEA, on whether Chris Christie was over-reading the tea leaves in deciding it was not worth his time to woo the teachers union for an endorsement. From the Star-Ledger: “Powell disputed the conventional wisdom on State Street that Christie stood a better shot of getting Barack Obama to headline a fund-raiser than of scoring the NJEA endorsement.”