Stuff in the ‘The Taxpayer-Funded Political Machine’ Category
Gubernatorial Candidate Sean Spiller Was Strongly Rejected By Those Who Know Him the Best: Montclair Voters and NJEA Members
Posted On06/13/2025 byWe learned a very important truth about NJEA President/gubernatorial candidate Sean Spiller from the results of Tuesday’s Democratic primary: he was strongly rejected by the very people who know him the best: the voters of Montclair and members of his own union. MONTCLAIR: Former-Montclair Councilman and Mayor Spiller received a shocking 2.5% of the Montclair…Read More
NJEA President Spiller Spends $545 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 $46 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
Under President Spiller, the NJEA Has Brazenly Spent $42.5 Million of Teachers’ Dues on His Vanity Run for Governor.
Posted On06/02/2025 byKudos to Joey Fox of New Jersey Globe for an excellent report on the news that NJEA leadership has already spent a staggering $42.5 million of teachers’ regular dues on NJEA President Sean Spiller’s vanity run for governor. And the campaign isn’t over yet! The $42.5 million includes $37.5 million via pro-Spiller Super PAC Working…Read More
Montclair Local: Sean Spiller Was a “Controversial” Mayor with a “Tumultuous Tenure” and Questionable Ethics. Why Are NJ Teachers’ Being Forced to Fund His Vanity Run for Governor?
Posted On05/30/2025 byOnce again, the excellent Montclair Local is providing factual, unintimidated coverage of former-Montclair Mayor/NJEA President/gubernatorial candidate Sean Spiller. The Local knows Spiller well from his 12 years as a Montclair elected official, and its recent article, entitled “All Eyes on Montclair’s Controversial Ex-Mayor in Bid for Governor,” delves into Spiller’s “controversial,” single term as mayor….Read More
Courageous Roselle Teacher Asks NJEA President Spiller About Spending $40 Million of Dues on His Vanity Run for Governor. What say you, President Spiller?
Posted On05/22/2025 byNow that New Jersey teachers have finally learned the truth, many are not happy with the fact that $40 million* of their hard-earned, regular dues are funding NJEA President Sean Spiller’s vanity run for governor. We see many comments from unhappy teachers on Sunlight’s Facebook feeds but none have gone public with their anger for…Read More
Stunning Hypocrisy: Funded by $40 Million from the Wealthiest Donor of All, Sean Spiller Decries His Opponents’ Wealthy Donors; the Most Non-Transparent Candidate Calls for Transparency.
Posted On05/20/2025 byConfronted with the reality that he was the only one of the six Democratic candidates absent from the debate stage for Sunday’s gubernatorial debate, NJEA President Sean Spiller is trying to turn his obvious weakness as a candidate into a virtue. As Spiller’s poor polling shows, the reason for Spiller’s anemic fundraising is that he…Read More
US News Says NJ Schools are #1 but Urban Institute Accounts for Low-Income Students and Says NJ Schools Are #16
Posted On05/09/2025 byThe NJEA, its president/gubernatorial candidate Sean Spiller, and Spiller’s pal Gov. Murphy wasted no time in trumpeting New Jersey’s ranking as the #1 K-12 school system in the most recent US News & World Report study. New Jersey’s top ranking is good news so far as it goes, and New Jersey educators (rather than the…Read More
NEA Misleads NJ Teachers into Believing They Have a Big Salary Premium, but NJ Cost of Living Erases It
Posted On05/06/2025 byOnce again, the NJEA’s parent, the National Education Association (NEA), is misleading teachers into believing they are better paid than they really are — thanks to the teachers unions. In New Jersey, the NEA wants teachers to believe that they are paid 15% more than the average teacher nationally. But in the real world, New…Read More
NJ Monitor: “Slippery” Sean Spiller Dodges Questions While Attorney General Platkin Sits on the Criminal Investigation of Spiller
Posted On04/30/2025 byThe dam really has broken. First, it was the recognition by the New York Times that NJEA leadership was indeed spending teachers’ mandatory, annual dues backing NJEA President Sean Spiller’s ego trip run for governor. Soon all the major New Jersey news media followed with similar stories.* As a result, after two-and-a-half years of hiding…Read More