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Quote of the day

Coby Loup
5.22.2008

At a news conference yesterday, New York City teachers union boss Randi Weingarten called Joel Klein's protestations over Albany's inflexibility on school funding the "height of chutzpah."

Beautiful. It's alliterative (more or less, depending on how you pronounce the Yiddish/Hebrew "ch"), elegantly cadenced, and well-suited to its demographic context. That's how you do a sound bite.

Tags: Albany Joel Klein New York Randi Weingarten

Coby is a policy analyst for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. He also maintains the Institute's website. By a happy turn of events, Coby landed at Fordham via the Institute for Humane Studies, where he was a Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow. He graduated from Brown University with a degree in political science.A Colorado native, Coby enjoys hiking and running outdoors. He also enjoys the indoors--especially bookstores,…

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