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Gov. Chris Christie may claim in places like New Hampshire and Iowa that he has tamed New Jersey’s public employee unions, but you wouldn’t have known it from the smile on the face of one union’s leader. “We had a terrific week,” said Wendell Steinhauer, president of the New Jersey Education Association, as his union gathered…

Christie GOP Loses Explain explains what he thinks led to GOP loses in the New Jersey Legislature. HANOVER, N.H. — New Jersey Republicans have public unions to blame for the recent losses the party was dealt in the state Assembly, Gov. Chris Christie said in New Hampshire. Christie, who’s campaigning for president, said being outspent by…