Stuff in the ‘Political Spending and Influence’ Category
On Cue, NJ.com’s Liz Rosenberg Helps Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman Bully the Colts Neck School Board
Posted On12/05/2025 byEarlier this week, Sunlight asked which New Jersey reporter would be the next to dutifully comply with Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman’s call for New Jersey reporters to help him bully the Colts Neck school district and board. This time, Gottesman — the proven, serial bully and founder of the NJEA-funded New Jersey Public…Read More
Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman Tries to Bully the Colts Neck School Board and the Asbury Park Press’s Amanda Oglesby Helps Him Do It
Posted On11/21/2025 byMendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and his NJEA-funded New Jersey Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) are once again trying to bully a local school board and enlisting a compliant New Jersey press corps to help them do it. It’s not the first time that Gottesman — a proven, serial bully and a proven, serial liar…Read More
Tax Foundation 2026 Competitiveness Rankings: NJ Is 49th Out of 50 States and in the Bottom Two for Every Year of Gov. Murphy’s Tenure
Posted On11/14/2025 byThe Tax Foundation came out with its 2026 State Tax Competitiveness Index and once again New Jersey has one of the least competitive tax structures in the nation, coming in 49th out of 50, with only New York as less competitive — exactly as badly as New Jersey has fared for the last four years….Read More
NJEA Spends Teachers’ Dues to Tilt the Scales in the Cinnaminson School Board Race, Creating Potential Conflicts of Interest
Posted On10/29/2025 byA friendly teacher alerted us to what’s happening in the town of Cinnaminson, NJ. Once again, NJEA leadership is using its Super PAC, Garden State Forward, to tilt the scales in a local school board race in favor of its preferred candidates. Once again, the NJEA is backing candidates with potential conflicts of interest, which…Read More
A Small Pension Win for Teachers but Truth In Accounting’s “F” Grade for NJ Shows Why NJ Cannot Afford More
Posted On10/16/2025 byDesperate to change the subject from wasting $45 million of members’ dues on former-NJEA President Spiller’s vanity run for governor, the NJEA is claiming a “huge” pension victory for teachers. But the victory is small and incremental, and the NJEA’s touting it shows how badly the NJEA wants to show that they actually have teachers’…Read More
More Questionable Use of Teachers’ Dues: Another $7 Million in Political Spending and a “Violent, Anti-Semitic, and Anti-Christian” Editor of NJEA Review
Posted On10/08/2025 byDespite the recent lawsuit filed by two teachers against former-President Sean Spiller and the NJEA for misusing $45 million of teachers’ dues, NJEA leadership brazenly continues to spend millions of dues on politics without the knowledge or consent of the very teachers’ whose dues are paying for it. Now it looks like those dues are…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
New Study: NJ’s Downward Spiral Continues with 522,288 People and $31 Billion in Income Leaving for Other States Over the Past Decade
Posted On08/27/2025 byAnother study, another confirmation of New Jersey’s enormous outmigration of people and wealth. Over the past decade, New Jersey lost a total of -522,288 people and over $31 billion of personal income to other states, the 4th-worst totals in the nation. Only New York, California, and Illinois were worse. New Jersey’s overall population kept stable…Read More
NJ Gets a Bond-Rating Upgrade But the Rating Is Still the Second-Lowest and the Path Ahead Remains Difficult
Posted On08/13/2025 byS&P Global upgraded New Jersey’s bond rating to A+, the latest of several upgrades from its nadir at BBB+ from 2020-22. This is good news as far as it goes, but not nearly as good as Gov. Murphy proclaimed. S&P cited improvements in the overall debt load, mainly due to the reduction in the state’s…Read More
A Lose-Lose for Teachers: NJEA Wastes $45 Million of Their Dues and Diminishes the NJEA’s Political Clout When It’s Really Needed
Posted On07/25/2025 byNot only did NJEA leadership waste $45 million of teachers’ dues on NJEA President Sean Spiller’s vanity run for governor, they also have hurt their ability to influence policy decisions that really matter to teachers. Both teacher health benefits and pension plans require political solutions just when the NJEA has lost political clout due to…Read More