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
Blatant Hypocrisy from Attorney General Platkin and NJEA President Spiller: What’s the Status of the AG’s Criminal Investigation of Spiller?
Posted On03/14/2025 byHypocrisy is in season for two of New Jersey’s most prominent politicians: Attorney General Matt Platkin and NJEA President/Democratic gubernatorial candidate Sean Spiller. The two are linked by the AG’s ongoing criminal investigation of Spiller for illegally misusing state health benefits as mayor of Montclair. But while three Wildwood officials were indicted for the same…Read More
NJ Monitor: NJEA President Spiller’s “Highly Unusual” Campaign for Governor Is Being Funded by Teachers’ Regular Dues Without Their Knowledge or Approval
Posted On03/11/2025 byKudos to New Jersey Monitor‘s Dana Difilippo for her excellent article on NJEA President Sean Spiller’s “highly unusual” campaign for governor. We commend Ms. Difilippo and the Monitor for not being in the tank for the NJEA the way New Jersey Globe is. Independent journalism is not dead yet in New Jersey. Difilippo provides several…Read More
Another Unsustainable Budget Proposed by NJ’s Status Quo Governor: Record Spending; Higher Taxes
Posted On02/28/2025 byAs we have said many times, Gov. Murphy is a status quo governor. He was elected with the support of New Jersey’s powerful, taxpayer-funded government unions, especially its largest, the NJEA, which spent over $20 million supporting Murphy. Murphy has repaid the favor by largely governing for their benefit. The result is another unsustainable FY2026…Read More
The NJEA Slings Mud and Peddles Falsehoods to Keep Teachers from Sunlight’s Facts
Posted On02/25/2025 byIn a recent ad on InsiderNJ, the NJEA reached a new low. They previously tried to block Sunlight’s emails from reaching teachers, scare teachers from opening Sunlight’s messages by falsely labeling Sunlight’s texts as a “phishing scam” that might infect their phones, and discredit Sunlight by putting us at the top of the NJEA’s “propaganda”…Read More