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NJEA President Sean Spiller’s Run for Governor Is a “Weird Spiller Ego Trip,” Says Noted Journalist Matt Yglesias
Posted On04/24/2025 bySunlight has been calling NJEA President Sean Spiller’s campaign for governor a “vanity run,” but noted journalist Matt Yglesias has a better term: “weird Spiller ego trip.” As Yglesias wrote (as reported in the always excellent NJEdReport): This weird Spiller ego trip is … a reminder that unions sometimes make bad calls due to weird…Read More
Census Data: In 2024, 35,554 NJ Citizens Left for Other States; Since 2020, 192,209 Have Left
Posted On04/22/2025 byNew Jersey citizens continue to vote with their feet and move to other states. That was true for FY2024, when a net 35,554 left, and it was true from 2020 to 2024, when a net 192,209 left. In both cases, New Jersey had the 4th-worst outmigration among the 50 states. Only international immigration kept New…Read More
A TikTok of NJEA President Sean Spiller FINALLY Admitting that Teachers’ Regular Dues are Funding His Run for Governor
Posted On04/18/2025 byThe dam has indeed broken. After the New York Times and NJ.com stated unequivocally that NJEA members’ regular dues were being used to fund NJEA President Sean Spiller’s vanity run for governor, Spiller was finally forced to admit it (see below). Sort of. In a dissembling sort of way. But note that it is April…Read More
NJ.com: Sean Spiller Finally Admits What the NJEA Has Been Hiding: Teachers’ Regular Dues Are Funding His Vanity Run for Governor
Posted On04/14/2025 byThe dam has finally broken: two more news stories on NJEA leadership’s spending $35 million of teachers’ mandatory, annual dues on NJEA President Sean Spiller’s vanity run for governor. These news stories have finally forced Spiller to admit — albeit with much dissembling — what the NJEA has long tried to hide from teachers. Last…Read More
NY Times: NJEA to Spend $35 Million of Teachers’ Annual Dues on a “Blank Check” for Sean Spiller’s Run for Governor
Posted On04/09/2025 byWe are thankful to see the New York Times confirm what Sunlight has been saying for a long time: NJEA leadership plans to spend $35 million of teachers’ mandatory, annual dues on a”blank check” for NJEA President Sean Spiller’s run for governor. Yet NJEA leadership continues to hide this fact from the very teachers whose…Read More
NJEA Prioritizes Politics Over School Safety and Learning Loss: Great for NJEA President Spiller; Terrible for Students and Teachers
Posted On04/03/2025 byAs Sunlight has amply documented, NJEA leadership (including the conflicted President Sean Spiller) wants to spend $40 million of teachers’ regular, annual dues backing Spiller’s vanity run for governor — without teachers’ knowledge or consent. Indeed, Spiller has turned the NJEA into one, big “Spiller for Governor” Super PAC. But while Spiller and a complicit…Read More
New Jersey 101.5: NJ Teachers are “Shocked and Furious” When They Learn the Truth About NJEA President Spiller’s Run for Governor
Posted On03/28/2025 byFinally New Jersey media is starting to discuss the scandal that is NJEA President Sean Spiller’s campaign for governor. Eric Scott of radio station New Jersey 101.5 reported on the backlash from teachers upset about NJEA leadership (including the conflicted Spiller) appropriating $35 million of teachers’ regular dues for Spiller’s personal vanity project. These coerced…Read More
NJEA President Spiller Fails to Qualify for the Gubernatorial Debate, Yet NJ Teachers Are Forced to Spend Millions of Their Dues on His Personal Vanity Project
Posted On03/25/2025 byNew Jersey Democratic voters are clearly not interested in NJEA President Sean Spiller’s candidacy for governor. It’s almost April and Spiller’s fundraising still lags far behind the five other candidates for the Democratic nomination. In fact, Spiller’s fundraising is so far behind that he is the only candidate not to qualify for matching funds, and…Read More
Sweeney Center Projects a Grim Outlook for NJ’s Fiscal Condition: Gov. Murphy Leaves a Mess for the Next Governor
Posted On03/21/2025 byThank goodness for the Sweeney Center for Public Policy at Rowan University. At least there’s one group out there documenting the real world that will confront New Jersey after eight years of Gov. Murphy’s spendthrift governance. The Sweeney Center’s Multi-Year Budget Work Group has published its 5th report with sobering projections for New Jersey’s future…Read More
A Scandal in Plain Sight: NJEA President Spiller Turns His Union into a “Spiller for Governor” Super PAC
Posted On03/18/2025 byMore signs that NJEA President/gubernatorial candidate Sean Spiller has turned his union into one, big “Spiller for Governor” Super PAC, with teachers being forced to foot the bill. And here we thought the NJEA was an “education association.” All in an effort to back a compromised candidate under ongoing criminal investigation who cannot raise any money…Read More