Gubernatorial Malpractice: Sweeney Center Projects Gov. Murphy Will Leave the Next Governor with Big Budget Deficits and No Rainy Day Fund
Posted On02/15/2024 byAs we head into the final two years of Gov. Murphy’s tenure as governor, we must ask: what condition will NJ be in when he leaves office? A new report by the Sweeney Center paints a bleak picture. All told, it forecasts that Murphy’s last state budget — for FY 2026 — will have a…Read More
Will AG Platkin Hold Gov. Murphy’s Pals Sean Spiller and Brendan Gill to the Same Standards as the Wildwood Three?
Posted On02/09/2024 byWill Gov. Murphy’s pals NJEA President/Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller and Essex County Commissioner Brendan Gill receive the same treatment as the three Wildwood officials who were just indicted by Attorney General Platkin? All the above availed themselves of full-time state health benefits under questionable circumstances. But the big difference is that Spiller and Gill have…Read More
The Star-Ledger Nails It: NJ Voters and Teachers Deserve Transparency about NJEA President/Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller’s Ethical Lapses
Posted On02/05/2024 byOnce again, the Star-Ledger steps up to keep NJ citizens and teachers informed about what’s really going on with the New Jersey’s most powerful special interest, the NJEA — this time about the walking conflict of interest that is NJEA President/Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller. As we noted last week, the ethically-challenged Spiller finds himself in…Read More
NJEA President/Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller Pleads the 5th in Whistleblower Lawsuit. Yet NJ Teachers Are Still Forced to Fund His Personal Political Ambitions.
Posted On01/31/2024 byThe news out of Montclair puts a dark ethical cloud over Montclair Mayor/NJEA President Sean Spiller. According to the Montclair Local, in a deposition for whistleblower lawsuit against Spiller and the town, Spiller pleaded his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination and is seeking to keep the transcript secret from Montclair citizens. Sure sounds like…Read More
The NJEA’s Active Role in the Scorched-Earth Politics Aimed at the North Hunterdon-Voorhees School Board
Posted On01/26/2024 byAs intended, Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and his NJEA-funded NJ Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) succeeded in turning a regular North Hunterdon-Voorhees (NHV) school board meeting into a large-scale political campaign — backed and financed by the NJEA. On the other side are NHV parents and school board members. It’s a hugely lopsided playing…Read More
Mendacious Michael Gottesman and NJPEC Want to Turn a North Hunterdon-Voorhees School Board Meeting into a Scorched-Earth Political Battleground
Posted On01/22/2024 byMendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and his NJEA-funded NJ Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) will stop at nothing to impose their progressive education agenda on NJ school districts. NJ citizens should be very concerned about the scorched-earth political campaigns Gottesman and NJPEC (with NJEA help) are bringing down on NJ school boards like North Hunterdon-Voorhees…Read More
More Bullying of School Boards by Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and NJPEC — with the NJEA’s Help
Posted On01/19/2024 byMendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and his NJ Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) are back, once again seeking to intimidate school boards into adopting their progressive agenda, this time at the North Hunterdon-Voorhees school district (NHV). NJPEC gets funding from the NJEA, so it is also the NJEA that is aggressively pushing progressive agendas on…Read More
2022-23 Census Data Shows NJ Citizens Are Voting with Their Feet: a Net 44,666 People Left Other States
Posted On01/12/2024 byMore data shows that NJ continues to have a serious outmigration problem, with 44,666 people leaving NJ for other states from 2022-23, or -0.5% of NJ’s population. NJ remains one of the bottom five states when it comes to domestic migration. Earlier this week, we reported on the United Van Lines (UVL) and U-Haul…Read More
United Van Lines and U-Haul: NJ Continues to Lose People and Wealth to More Affordable States
Posted On01/09/2024 byUnited Van Lines (UVL) and U-Haul came out with their 2023 annual surveys, and once again NJ ranks as one of the states with the most people leaving. A large number of the leavers are older, higher-income retirees, so wealth also continues to leave NJ for lower-tax, lower cost-of-living states — mainly in the south….Read More
If NJ Teachers Had a Choice, Would They Vote to Cut NJEA Political Spending and Executive Pay To Get a 50%+ Cut in Dues?
Posted On01/03/2024 byThanks to NJEA-friendly laws, they don’t have that choice, but Dade County, FL shows what can happen when teachers get a choice about who represents them at the bargaining table. They can choose to certify a new union that promises to get out of partisan politics, allow locals to control their own dues revenues,…Read More