Working Families Makes A Lot of Noise But Remember Whom They Speak For
Posted OnNovember 20, 2019 byInsiderNJ reports that Working Families Alliance head Sue Altman had to be removed from a legislative hearing on the Economic Development Authority. Altman issued a statement after her removal, calling it “the dirty underbelly of a machine that will subvert democracy in its ruthless goal to accumulate and maintain power.” But whom is Working Families…Read More
Is the NJEA’s Super PAC Playing Fast and Loose with the Rules in Camden?
Posted OnNovember 1, 2019 byThere’s a hotly contested school board race going on in Camden on. News accounts have described it as a contest between two slates: “Camden Votes” backed by the NJEA-affiliate Camden Education Association, and “Education for Everyone” backed by the Camden County Democratic Committee. SPCNJ doesn’t typically get opine on local politics, but we have been…Read More
NJ’s Taxes Are the Worst in the Country for Businesses – for the Fifth Straight Year!
Posted OnOctober 24, 2019 byThe Tax Foundation has come out with its annual review of business tax climates in the 50 states, and the news for NJ is not good. For the fifth straight year, NJ is dead last. Here are the major tax categories: Corporate: 49 Income: 50 Sales: 42 Property: 47 Neighbors NY and PA – with…Read More
New Direction NJ Back at It with $2 Million TV Ad Campaign
Posted OnOctober 22, 2019 byAccording to InsiderNJ, formerly “dark money” group New Direction New Jersey (NDNJ) is back at it with a $2 million TV ad campaign leading up to the Assembly elections in November. It’s nice to have a lot of property tax dollars to spend. How much of the $2 million comes from the NJEA? Is this…Read More
Assemblyman Hal Wirths Is Right About NJ Citizens’ Massive Tax Burden
Posted OnOctober 17, 2019 byIn today’s Star-Ledger, Assemblyman Wirths correctly highlights the inexorable rise of NJ’s property and other taxes and the insatiable appetite of the state’s special-interest-dominated status quo for more spending and more taxes. Wirth also wisely points out our state’s vulnerability to a recession. Wirths does NJ citizens a service by stating this clearly and succinctly….Read More
NJEA Ends Silence, Announces New Executive Director
Posted OnOctober 10, 2019 byAfter some prompting from the SPCNJ and others, the NJEA has announced that Ed Richardson is out and Steve Swetsky is in. The NJEA says Richardson is retiring, which is an ordinary reason for leaving a position, so it’s still a little odd that the NJEA was caught so flat-footed. Without the prompting, one wonders…Read More
NJEA Admits Richardson Is Leaving But Still Refuses To Say Why
Posted OnOctober 9, 2019 byThe strange saga of the NJEA’s ouster of executive director Ed Richardson continues. After SPCNJ dug up the fact of Richardson’s removal and noted the NJEA’s strange silence on the matter, NJ Spotlight at least followed up with NJEA Communications Director Steve Baker. All Baker would say was that the NJEA would provide more details…Read More
NJLeftBehind: Who Is in the Driver’s Seat: NJEA Leaders or Phil Murphy?
Posted OnOctober 9, 2019 byWe re-post NJLeftBehind’s excellent piece on the continued and remarkable similarity between Governor Murphy’s policy agenda and the NJEA’s policy agenda: Who Is in the Driver’s Seat: NJEA Leaders or Phil Murphy? Two weeks ago Governor Phil Murphy was the guest speaker at Rider University’s Rebovich Institute for Politics’ “Governing New Jersey” series.* As reported…Read More
Truth In Accounting: NJ Ranks Last in Fiscal Health – for the Fifth Straight Year
Posted OnOctober 8, 2019 byShowcased in a NJ101.5 report, Truth in Accounting (TIA) is one of many research outfits that analyze New Jersey’s dire fiscal condition. Mercatus Center and Pew Charitable Trusts do so as well and make similar findings. SPCNJ’s recent report “Beware the Downward Spiral” provides a comprehensive look at New Jersey’s fiscal and economic woes, and…Read More
Ed Richardson (Very Quietly) Out as NJEA Executive Director
Posted OnOctober 4, 2019 byThis month’s NJEA Review revealed that Ed Richardson is no longer the executive director of the NJEA, having been replaced by another long-time political operative, Steve Swetsky. So the dominance of the executive office – and of the NJEA – by political organizers continues. But what is strange is that Richardson’s removal was done very quietly….Read More