Stuff in the ‘Political Spending and Influence’ Category
Is the NJEA’s Super PAC Playing Fast and Loose with the Rules in Camden?
Posted On11/01/2019 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
New Direction NJ Back at It with $2 Million TV Ad Campaign
Posted On10/22/2019 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
NJLeftBehind: Who Is in the Driver’s Seat: NJEA Leaders or Phil Murphy?
Posted On10/09/2019 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
SHINING A LIGHT ON NEW DIRECTION’S DARK MONEY REVEALS SOME DARK TRUTHS ABOUT NEW JERSEY POLITICS
Posted On09/17/2019 by“Dark money” group New Direction New Jersey (NDNJ) is no longer quite so dark. Some nine months after promising to disclose its donors, NDNJ finally did last week. But only after the Sunlight Policy Center of New Jersey (SPCNJ), POLITICO and the Bergen Record dug up the major sources of its funding. And only after…Read More
BuryPensions goes where Jay Lassiter won’t: Look where the NJEA spends teachers’ dues.
Posted On08/14/2019 byInsiderNJ’s Jay Lassiter wrote a column this morning about the influence of special interests over New Jersey politicians. Lassiter rightly questions who these pols are working for. But he curiously failed to mention the most powerful special interest of all: the NJEA. John Bury of BuryPensions posted a piece that looks at how and where…Read More
InsiderNJ’s Lassiter decries special interest influence on politicians but leaves out the biggest one.
Posted On08/14/2019 byInsiderNJ columnist Jay Lassiter rightly calls out the influence of special interests on New Jersey politicians. He mentions New Direction New Jersey (NDNJ), the “dark money” group backing a millionaire’s tax. He also mentions Speaker Coughlin’s law firm, Assemblywoman Lampitt and others sponsoring legislation for special interests , and Senator Lagana’s ties to the insurance…Read More
Another $1 million from the NJEA deepens the governor’s conflict of interest
Posted On08/12/2019 byThe North Jersey Record reported today that the NJEA funneled another $1 million to the dark money group New Direction New Jersey (NDNJ) – this time via its Super PAC Garden State Forward. SPCNJ previously discovered that the NJEA had donated $2.5 million to NDNJ, so the NJEA has now pumped $3.5 million of its…Read More
Why is the Media Ignoring that New Direction New Jersey is an NJEA-funded vehicle?
Posted On07/10/2019 byPolitico ran a story about how Assembly Speaker Coughlin took New Direction New Jersey (NDNJ) to task for attacking Democrats. The article describes NDNJ as “a ‘dark money’ group Murphy does not control but which is run by his allies and promotes his agenda.” As SPCNJ uncovered, and as exposed in an earlier Politico story,…Read More
Whose Side Is the Governor On?
Posted On06/27/2019 byNew Jersey Globe reports that Gov. Murphy has questioned whose side Senate President Sweeney is on when it comes to the various programs and taxes wants in the state budget. But whose side is the governor on? On the side of New Jersey’s most powerful special interest and the lavishly compensated one-percenters in its leadership….Read More
What a Scam!
Posted On06/26/2019 byInsiderNJ reports on a New Direction New Jersey (NDNJ) email blast condemning the legislature’s budget as a “scam” that “screws working people” and benefits millionaires. That’s laughable. Remember that NDNJ is a dark money group funded by the NJEA with $2.5 million of taxpayer dollars. Remember that in 2016 the NJEA supported raising the gasoline…Read More