I guess when you have hundreds of millions of forced teacher dues, derived from siphoned off property tax dollars, you can afford to throw a lot of money around.   Even at cross-purposes.  In Insider NJ today, Edward Edwards points out that the NJEA’s independent expenditure arm, Garden State Forward, gave a Sweeney-affiliated PAC $5.55 million in 2013 and $3.64 million in 2015.  That’s $9.19 million FOR Sweeney.

But then in 2017, Garden State Forward dropped $4.8 million in a effort AGAINST Sweeney.

That’s a total of $13.99 million both FOR and AGAINST Sweeney.

One can’t help but wonder what teachers would think of this wanton use of their hard-earned dues.

Read Edwards’ full piece in Insider NJ here.