Whose Side Is the Governor On?
Posted OnJune 27, 2019 byNew Jersey Globe reports that Gov. Murphy has questioned whose side Senate President Sweeney is on when it comes to the various programs and taxes wants in the state budget. But whose side is the governor on? On the side of New Jersey’s most powerful special interest and the lavishly compensated one-percenters in its leadership….Read More
What a Scam!
Posted OnJune 26, 2019 byInsiderNJ reports on a New Direction New Jersey (NDNJ) email blast condemning the legislature’s budget as a “scam” that “screws working people” and benefits millionaires. That’s laughable. Remember that NDNJ is a dark money group funded by the NJEA with $2.5 million of taxpayer dollars. Remember that in 2016 the NJEA supported raising the gasoline…Read More
When You’re In a Deep Hole, You Have to Stop Digging
Posted OnJune 25, 2019 byA WYNC article highlights the fight between Senate President Sweeney and the public sector unions over retiree benefits. Sweeney, who has proposed reforms to pensions and healthcare, has run into staunch opposition from the public unions, and likely from Gov. Murphy, too, who has received great support from these unions. The public union members who…Read More
The Irony of NJEA Members Protesting Pro-Sweeney PAC
Posted OnJune 21, 2019 byThe New Jersey Globe reports that about 50 “progressive” activists protested a fundraiser for the Sen. Sweeney-aligned General Majority PAC. The group’s statement makes it clear that they are part of the “#RedforEd” movement, which is a creation of the National Education Association, the NJEA’s parent organization. How ironic then that they call for greater…Read More
Yes, Governor, It’s a Rigged System Alright – Just Not In the Way You Say
Posted OnJune 20, 2019 by“We are not dealing with a broken system,” said the governor. “This is a rigged system. This was designed by special interests for special interests.” That’s Governor Murphy discussing the report on the EDA by the task force he appointed, as reported by InsiderNJ. Yes, governor, it’s a rigged system alright, but the reality is…Read More
Another large public union rally at the Statehouse: who pays for it?
Posted OnJune 14, 2019 byYou do, taxpayers. $129 million’s worth last year. Your property tax dollars pay for teacher salaries and the union’s dues are withheld from them, so your tax dollars flow through the district and the teachers directly to the NJEA. Of this generous $129 million of funding, SPCNJ estimates that $65 million is spent on politics….Read More
The NJEA Spends $13.99 million Both FOR and AGAINST Sweeney
Posted OnJune 10, 2019 byI guess when you have hundreds of millions of forced teacher dues, derived from siphoned off property tax dollars, you can afford to throw a lot of money around. Even at cross-purposes. In Insider NJ today, Edward Edwards points out that the NJEA’s independent expenditure arm, Garden State Forward, gave a Sweeney-affiliated PAC $5.55…Read More
Sen. Sweeney is right about the appearance of an NJEA-dominated Trenton
Posted OnJune 10, 2019 byIn an article by Dustin Racioppi and Charlie Stile in north jersey.com, Sen. Sweeney makes two good points about the current state of affairs in New Jersey. First, given that our governor appears in NJEA-funded TV ads, calling for NJEA policy priorities in the same language the NJEA uses, and that our governor then vetoed…Read More
Yep, the System is Rigged Alright
Posted OnJune 4, 2019 byThe NJEA-funded dark money group, New Direction New Jersey (NDNJ), is back at it. In a new digital ad that’s part of its $1 million ad campaign, the group states: “There’s no other way to put it – the system is rigged,” as reported by New Jersey Globe. NDNJ is right: the system is rigged. And…Read More
Gov. Murphy Makes Clear that He Routinely Consults the NJEA on Policy
Posted OnJune 3, 2019 byThe governor is remarkably unconcerned about his unusually close relationship with the state’s most powerful special interest. He appears in TV ads paid for by the NJEA that call for one of the NJEA’s main policy goals. He vetoes a bill that would expose the NJEA’s secret funding of political groups that support its own…Read More