WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Don’t talk to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie about raising the minimum wage.

“I’m tired of hearing about the minimum wage. I really am,” the Republican, a possible 2016 presidential candidate, told an audience at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington on Tuesday. He said he didn’t think there’s a parent in the U.S. who says their dreams would come true if their child made a higher minimum wage.

The remarks, predictably, earned Christie plenty of scorn on Twitter. But they shouldn’t have been a surprise. Christie vetoed a bill in 2013 that raised the state’s minimum wage to $8.50 an hour, which was “too much, too soon,” in his words. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. New Jersey voters later approved a ballot initiative raising the state’s minimum wage to $8.25 an hour. That rate took effect in January.

Christie’s counter-proposal in 2013 was to gradually raise the state’s minimum wage to $8.25 over three years and boost the earned-income tax credit.

While Christie is tired of hearing minimum-wage talk, Democrats want more of it. They want to boost the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, and are campaigning on just that.

“If we raise the minimum wage, we won’t just put more money in workers’ pockets; they’ll spend that money at local businesses, who in turn will hire more people,” President Barack Obama said in a speech earlier this month in Illinois.

Here’s how Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison answered Christie on Tuesday.