Student confronts Christie over schools merger plan

    Gov. Chris Christie has created what’s sure to be a YouTube video, mixing it up with a law school student at one of his signature town hall-style events.

    Christie got into a heated exchange with 34-year-old William Brown, who is unhappy with the governor’s plan to merge Rutgers University’s Camden law school with Rowan University.

    The exchange began when the former Navy Seal questioned the governor’s plan to merge the two South Jersey schools yesterday. It ended with the governor berating the Mount Laurel man, who attends Rutgers-Camden and interrupted Christie several times before being escorted out.

    The governor said: “Let me tell you something, after you graduate from law school, you conduct yourself like that in a courtroom, your rear end’s going to be thrown in jail, idiot.”

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