Jamie Weinstein is Senior Editor of The Daily Caller. His work has appeared in The Weekly Standard, The American Spectator Online, the New York Daily News, The Washington Examiner, and FoxNews.com, among other publications. He has served as a columnist for The North Star National and as a Collegiate Network Journalism Fellow at Roll Call Newspaper. Weinstein received a master?s degree in the history of international relations from the London School of Economics in 2009 and a bachelor's degree in history and government from Cornell University in 2006.
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At a Thursday rally in New Jersey protesting Republican Gov. Chris Christie?s pension deal that would cut pensions and benefits to public workers, a union leader charged Christie with acting like a Nazi. And not any ordinary Nazi, but Adolf Hitler himself.
?Good afternoon brothers and sisters. Welcome to Nazi Germany,? Communications Workers of America District 1 Vice President Christopher Shelton is seen raving in a video posted on YouTube.
?We have Adolf Christie and his two generals trying to make New Jersey Nazi Germany.?
The two Nazi ?generals? apparently refer to two Democratic state legislators instrumental in reaching the pension deal with Christie.
After ranting more about ?Adolf Christie,? the YouTube video shows Shelton comparing the pension battle in New Jersey to World War II.
?Brothers and sisters, this is not going to be an easy fight,? he shrieked. ?It took World War II to get rid of the last Adolf Hitler. It is going to take World War III to get rid of Adolf Christie. Are you ready for World War III??
Rally attendees are seen wildly cheering Shelton?s speech in the video.
Gov. Christie?s press office also did not provide a comment by time of publication.
UPDATE: A CWA District 1 official has told The Daily Caller that Shelton will be issuing an apology for his statements.
UPDATE 2: Apology statement.
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