Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman Brings Outside, Partisan, Political Activists to Bully the Elected Colts Neck School Board. Will the NJ Press Corps Join In Again?

NJEA-funded, Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman continues to try to bully the elected Colts Neck school board with staged protests and incendiary rhetoric, and again enlist a compliant New Jersey press corps to help him do it.  This time, Gottesman and his NJEA-funded New Jersey Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) are partnering with outside political activist groups to stage a December 17 protest in Colts Neck to be followed by public comments at the Board of Ed meeting. Given the groups partnering with NJPEC in organizing the protest — all outside, Democrat-oriented political protest groups — the goal is clearly to intimidate Colts Neck’s elected school board and the community that elected them.  It’s astroturf, not grassroots. Once again, Gottesman is counting on the New Jersey press corps to reinforce his bullying. Will they dutifully comply again?

More mendacity from proven, serial liar Gottesman: it’s astroturf, not grassroots. In typical mendacious fashion, Gottesman describes the protest as a “parent protest” over supposed “political indoctrination” in Colts Neck schools. Gottesman wants to create the (false) impression that it’s a local, grassroots effort. But it’s not. The truth is that the NJPEC’s partners in the protest are Jersey Shore Blue and 50501 New Jersey, both nakedly political organizations, and both oriented towards the Democratic Party. So despite his mendacious smoke screen, it is Gottesman who is injecting politics into Colts Neck schools.

Mendaciously attributing his own words to unnamed “critics.” Likewise, Gottesman tries to attribute his incendiary description of the Colts Neck board as “widely regarded by critics as one of the most extreme boards in New Jersey” to some other, unnamed “critics,” but these are Gottesman’s own words, which he has uttered before.  Similarly, as he has done before, Gottesman makes it all about Turning Point USA (TPUSA), describing it as an “extreme conservative and nationalist group,” but again attributes the words to some other, unnamed “critics” when in reality these are Gottesman’s own words, which he has used before. And again, TPUSA’s high school clubs are “a pipeline for political radicalization” and an “indoctrination mechanism” that “normalize[s] extremist rhetoric,” according to unnamed “critics.” Once again, these are Gottesman’s words, which he has use before.

Significantly, the mendacious Gottesman provides no evidence that any of this incendiary rhetoric is true. Will any New Jersey reporter ask Gottesman for proof of what he alleges?

NJPEC partners with outside political protest groups. For his staged protest, Gottesman is bringing outside political protest groups with strong ties to the Democratic Party and the anti-trump “resistance” movement.

• Jersey Shore Blue states: “Our mission is to elect Democratic candidates in New Jersey and across the country.”
• 50501 New Jersey‘s motto is 50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement. It’s an openly anti-Trump organization, listed as a partner of the “No Kings” protests. The No Kings movement has strong links to the Democratic Party.  50501’s website lists partners like Political Revolution, described as “A political action committee dedicated to progressive grassroots activism,” and founded by former supporters of Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, according to Influence Watch.  Another partner is Build the Resistance, described as “A resource hub and megaphone to #BuildTheResistance against Trump, fascism, and plutocracy in America.”

Again, we ask: who is really injecting partisan politics into Colts Neck schools?

Gottesman is a proven, serial bully. Again.  In characteristic, bullying fashion, Gottesman threatens: “Ethics complaints against all Board members and formal complaints to the New Jersey.” Gottesman wants them to know that he can — and will — make their lives miserable. Remember that these board members are mostly volunteer parents elected by the community. And the NJEA — the teachers union — is funding this. How is this acceptable?

Will the New Jersey press corps abet the bullying again? All of this intimidation of a local, elected school board by outsiders is bad enough, but what’s worse is that Gottesman once again seeks to enlist the help of New Jersey reporters with his bullying of a school board. The list of “reporters” who have dutifully complied with Gottesman’s requests includes NJ.com’s Liz Rosenberg, NorthJersey.com’s Mary Ann Koruth, InsiderNJ‘s Fred Snowflack, and the Asbury Park Press‘s Amanda Oglesby, all of whom have published biased “news” articles that read like NJPEC press releases.

What about NJEA funding for bullying elected school boards? Not one of them, nor any New Jersey reporter, has ever asked Gottesman about his NJEA funding. Nor have any of them contemplated whether it is appropriate for the NJEA to be funding a group that repeatedly tries to bully elected school boards around the state. Or to fund a group that is injecting partisan politics into school districts. Is that a proper function for a teachers’ union or an appropriate use of teachers’ highest-in-the-nation dues? It seems we’ll never know if it’s left up to the degraded New Jersey press corps.

Again, we ask the New Jersey press corps: why the bias?