Stuff in the ‘The Taxpayer-Funded Political Machine’ Category
The Star-Ledger Steps Up with a Powerful Editorial on NJEA President/Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller’s Deepening Legal Troubles
Posted On04/15/2024 byOnce again, kudos to the Star-Ledger editorial board for their hard-hitting editorial regarding NJEA President/Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller’s apparent retaliation against Sarah Avery, a Montclair citizen/activist who has been critical of Spiller. Despite his legal troubles getting deeper and deeper, Spiller continues to use his members’ highest-in-the-nation dues to back his personal political ambitions. The…Read More
With Student Misbehavior Negatively Impacting Teachers, NJEA Leadership Chooses to Fight the Culture Wars, Not Protect Teachers
Posted On04/11/2024 byMore reports of student misbehavior and the negative impact on teachers, with local association officers sounding the alarm. Where is the NJEA on this issue of obvious importance to teachers? Fighting the culture wars rather than protecting teachers. Thanks to NJEdReport, we learned the Asbury Park Press reported that Lakewood Education Association (LEA) officers are…Read More
Montclair Councilman: “Is the Township Being Weaponized To Go After People” Who Criticize Mayor Sean Spiller?
Posted On04/03/2024 byPer the Montclair Local, we are learning more and more about how NJEA President/Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller conducts himself in office, and it’s not good. Already the subject of a whistleblower lawsuit by Montclair’s former-CFO that alleges malfeasance and retaliation, Spiller and the town council appear to be doubling down by subpoenaing the records of…Read More
Legal Woes Don’t Stop NJEA President Sean Spiller from Spending Teachers’ Dues on His Personal Political Career
Posted On03/07/2024 byDespite NJEA President Sean Spiller’s legal woes and his decision not to run for re-election as Montclair mayor, he’s still pursuing his (post-Montclair) personal political career and using hundreds of thousands of teachers’ dues to do it. That’s the conclusion we draw from an InsiderNJ press release from Protecting Our Democracy, Spiller’s personal dark-money Super…Read More
Bergen County EA President Defends NJEA Transparency But Is Not Transparent About the NJEA’s Super PAC
Posted On03/05/2024 byThe president of the Bergen County Education Association, Sue McBride, penned an op-ed in the New Jersey Globe in defense of the NJEA against “editorials and anti-union propaganda,” meaning the Star-Ledger editorial board and Sunlight Policy Center, respectively. We’ll let the Star-Ledger speak for itself, but McBride evades Sunlight’s main point: that teachers have been…Read More
Will AG Platkin Hold Gov. Murphy’s Pals Sean Spiller and Brendan Gill to the Same Standards as the Wildwood Three?
Posted On02/09/2024 byWill Gov. Murphy’s pals NJEA President/Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller and Essex County Commissioner Brendan Gill receive the same treatment as the three Wildwood officials who were just indicted by Attorney General Platkin? All the above availed themselves of full-time state health benefits under questionable circumstances. But the big difference is that Spiller and Gill have…Read More
The Star-Ledger Nails It: NJ Voters and Teachers Deserve Transparency about NJEA President/Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller’s Ethical Lapses
Posted On02/05/2024 byOnce again, the Star-Ledger steps up to keep NJ citizens and teachers informed about what’s really going on with the New Jersey’s most powerful special interest, the NJEA — this time about the walking conflict of interest that is NJEA President/Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller. As we noted last week, the ethically-challenged Spiller finds himself in…Read More
NJEA President/Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller Pleads the 5th in Whistleblower Lawsuit. Yet NJ Teachers Are Still Forced to Fund His Personal Political Ambitions.
Posted On01/31/2024 byThe news out of Montclair puts a dark ethical cloud over Montclair Mayor/NJEA President Sean Spiller. According to the Montclair Local, in a deposition for whistleblower lawsuit against Spiller and the town, Spiller pleaded his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination and is seeking to keep the transcript secret from Montclair citizens. Sure sounds like…Read More
The NJEA’s Active Role in the Scorched-Earth Politics Aimed at the North Hunterdon-Voorhees School Board
Posted On01/26/2024 byAs intended, Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and his NJEA-funded NJ Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) succeeded in turning a regular North Hunterdon-Voorhees (NHV) school board meeting into a large-scale political campaign — backed and financed by the NJEA. On the other side are NHV parents and school board members. It’s a hugely lopsided playing…Read More
Mendacious Michael Gottesman and NJPEC Want to Turn a North Hunterdon-Voorhees School Board Meeting into a Scorched-Earth Political Battleground
Posted On01/22/2024 byMendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and his NJEA-funded NJ Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) will stop at nothing to impose their progressive education agenda on NJ school districts. NJ citizens should be very concerned about the scorched-earth political campaigns Gottesman and NJPEC (with NJEA help) are bringing down on NJ school boards like North Hunterdon-Voorhees…Read More