Teachers Union Spent $40M+ in Leader’s Futile Run for Governor

Teachers union spent $40M+ in leader’s futile run for governor

Sean Spiller, NJEA president, received about 11% of votes cast in Democratic primary The post Teachers union stands by splashing out over $40M on Spiller’s bid for governor appeared first on NJ Spotlight News.

NJEA President Spiller Spends $545 Per Vote to Finish 5th in the Democratic Primary - All Funded by Teachers' Mandatory Dues - Sunlight Policy Center

In 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 Spiller’s vanity run.  Yet Spiller and NJEA leadership c…

Spiller Got Crushed. Five Guesses at NJEA's Endgame. - NJ Education Report

Here are five possible benefits they imagine Spiller's campaign will benefit NJEA members and NJ schoolchildren.