SOUTH RIVER — A group of Rutgers University students, as well as union representatives, were kicked out of a town hall meeting with Gov. Chris Christie today.

The group rose up in unison after Christie finished answering a question about why parents who send their children to Catholic schools have to pay taxes to support public schools and started shouting at the governor, blasting him for his handling of Hurricane Sandy relief aid.

One of the protestors called out a chant and the rest echoed it, line by line.

"Governor Christie, we are here to demand, you stop your corrupt uses, of Hurricane Sandy money," they said. "There are still families without homes who have received no aid."

"Be quiet," one woman in the audience yelled at the protesters chanted.

The hecklers specifically took aim at a housing project in New Brunswick that received federal Sandy relief aid.

Outside of the St. Mary Coptic School, where the meeting was held, Rutgers University student Frangelin Pozo said 23 students from the Rutgers Student Union attended the meeting.

"We are here solely trying to ask and hold Christie accountable for all of the millions of dollars that Hurricane Sandy victims have not received," said the 21-year-old from Hamilton."How come the money is going to luxury apartments in New Brunswick but not to the victims of Sandy?"

Before Christie began to take questions from the crowd today he included what he called an addendum to the usual four rules he gives at town hall meetings.

He said to expect people organized by the state chapter of Communications Workers of America to disrupt the meeting.

"The state workers union has decided that one of their goals and missions in life is to recruit people to come here to the town hall meeting and when you begin to ask questions they will stand up and start to scream and yell over you and over me," he said. "They are recruited by the people who we, we collectively, have been standing up against for the last four years and a half years."

Seth Hahn, the CWA's legislative and political director for New Jersey, said blaming CWA "insults all the students, environmentalists, housing advocates, civil rights organizations and community groups whose legitimate questions about Sandy corruption and Bridgegate are being ignored."

"Perhaps Christie should spend less time complaining and blaming others, and instead listen to what his constituents are upset about and answer their legitimate questions," Hahn said.

Pozo said the students from Rutgers were not organized by the CWA.

Another group of protesters disrupted a town hall meeting in Mount Laurel last week.

As police officers escorted the protesters out of the meeting today, Christie said, "I'm a soothsayer."

Carol Gay, the president of the New Jersey State Industrial Union Council, was among the protesters kicked out of the meeting.

Gay called for Christie to resign for his "abuse of power and misuse of our tax dollars."

She said she was "highly offended" by Christie's "attack on workers and unions."

"These are hard working people and he attacks them every day he goes out," she said.

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