Stuff in the ‘Network of Allies’ Category
Sunlight Has Struck a Nerve: Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman Tries to “Set the Record Straight” with More of His Habitual Mendacity
Posted On11/04/2025 byWell, it looks like Sunlight has struck a nerve with Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman. The progressive zealot and founder of the NJEA-funded New Jersey Public Education Coalition (NJPEC), Gottesman* wrote an article on Substack claiming to “set the record straight” about Sunlight’s entirely accurate reporting on Gottesman and NJPEC’s conduct. As with everything…Read More
A New Low for Mendacious Michael Gottesman: Going after High School Freshmen and College Kids while Giving the NJEA a Pass
Posted On10/13/2025 byA new low for Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman, progressive zealot and founder of the NJEA-funded, dark-money Super PAC New Jersey Public Education Coalition (NJPEC). Gottesman is a proven, serial bully — as well as a proven, serial liar — but Gottesman used to pick on adults. Now he’s picking on high school freshmen…Read More
Is Mendacious Michael Gottesman’s Reckless Behavior Putting Turning Point USA Supporters at Risk?
Posted On09/25/2025 byMendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman is back at it — more vicious than ever. The founder of the NJEA-funded New Jersey Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) is once again trying to to intimidate and silence those with whom he disagrees and trying to enlist New Jersey reporters to help him do it. This time, Gottesman…Read More
Once Again, Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman Resorts to Falsehoods to Make His Case
Posted On07/15/2025 byWe saw an op-ed in NJ.com by Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and we expected that Gottesman would play fast and loose with the truth, and we were right. In addition to being a proven, serial liar, Gottesman is founder of the NJEA-funded New Jersey Public Education Coalition (NJPEC), which serves as the NJEA’s…Read More
NJEA President Spiller Spends $533 Per Vote to Finish 5th in the Democratic Primary – All Funded by Teachers’ Mandatory Dues
Posted On06/11/2025 byIn the real world, NJEA President Sean Spiller lost badly in Tuesday’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, finishing fifth and garnering only 10.7% of the vote. By any rational measure, Spiller’s poor showing reveals the profligate waste of $45 million of teachers’ highest-in-the-nation, mandatory dues, which were simply appropriated by NJEA leadership (including the conflicted Spiller) for…Read More
Big Questions About the $40 Million in Teacher Dues Being Spent on Spiller’s Vanity Run. Would Teachers Prefer a $340 Rebate?
Posted On06/04/2025 byYou can’t make this stuff up. NJEA Vice President Steve Beatty and Secretary-Treasurer Petal Roberston were in New Jersey Globe today saying they support NJEA President Sean Spiller for governor because he “put[s] working people first.” Spiller is in NJ.com saying the same thing. This is laughable. According to Spiller and his NJEA cronies, teachers…Read More
Once Again, Insider NJ’s Fred Snowflack Flacks for NJEA-Funded Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and NJPEC.
Posted On11/18/2024 byInsider NJ‘s Fred Snowflack continues to flack for Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and his NJ Public Education Coalition’s (NJPEC). Once again, Snowflack’s piece reads like a NJPEC press release, and once again he studiously avoids the fact that Gottesman and NJPEC are funded by the NJEA. We ask for the fourth time; why…Read More
Will NJEA-Funded Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman Remove the Names of School Children from His Open-Records Request?
Posted On11/14/2024 byWhat say you, Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman? Will you remove the names of the 82 Cherry Hill school children from your open-records request so that they are no longer visible to the public? Sunlight was alerted to a recent blog post that accused Gottesman and his New Jersey Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) of…Read More
NJEA 3Q Filing: $7.25 Million Backing Sean Spiller; $550,000 for NJEA-Friendly School Board Candidates and GOTV
Posted On11/05/2024 bySunlight had the opportunity to view another quarterly IRS Form 8872 filing by the NJEA’s Super PAC, Garden State Forward for the July 1 – September 30 period, which was a very busy quarter for Garden State Forward. Here are the notable contributions: Working New Jersey: $7.25 million Education Truth Project: $200,000 (2024 total $300,000)…Read More
Teachers Continue To Show They Do Not Want to Spend Their Hard-Earned Money on Politics, But NJEA Leadership Continues To Spend It
Posted On10/18/2024 byContinuing our perusal of the NJEA’s 2022 IRS Form 990, we looked at member donations to the NJEA’s traditional political action committee (PAC), NJEA PAC. Contributions to NJEA PAC are a good barometer for members’ enthusiasm for NJEA political spending because NJEA PAC is funded by a voluntary, separate dues stream that members must opt…Read More