ML/NJ
Why is it that no matter if it is good economic times, or bad economic times, the people who continually demand annual double digit increases in their income always seem to work for Government unions?
Funny how no one in Government is ever expected to help pay their “fair share”.
Does this mean the governor won and can hold the line on taxes?
Or the teacher unions “won” and will now force the governor to “tax the rich”?
(and see many more of them move to FL and Delaware!
Tax the rich” COST Maryland $106 million in 2009)
you say you never heard about it, well I bet most of the state never heard about this vote either.
Every time the left want to pass something or have something defeated the news about the vote never gets out except to the far left and the unions.
I remember sitting in a pub when the homosexuals got their way in MA.
Every person just looked and said what these queers can marry now,.
No one even knew about this until it was too late.
The media are in bed with the far left and unions and that is why we need to get more kids into teaching, into the media . This saying no no get away form schools does nto work you cannot fight and win for the outside
Stupid thing passed in my town. The local NJ.com board has a few people gloating how it was a middle finger to Christie and how they won...blah blah blah. I don’t have kids. I LOSE and now I can lose more.
The NJEA (Teachers Union) has a powerful lobby in NJ and as Gov. Christie says, teachers use students like drug mules to spread their lies.
In the town that I live in which has voted Republican in most elections (even 2008), there were a bunch of signs around town from the teachers union saying simply “Vote YES!” for the school budgets. The yes votes prevailed so I get stuck with a 7.5% increase in my already very high property taxes to pay for more wasteful school spending. In 2003 when all the school budgets were approved, every single school in the district had a multi-million dollar expansion. EVERY ONE! And this is a very mature area with no new growth and very steady population numbers.
They sell it with the lies beginning “Lets do this for the kids...”. Teachers unions are such crooks.
Another remarkable fact about yesterday’s elections is that in many, if not most, of the contested school board elections, the incumbents lost. This is absolutely unheard of in school elections.
Yet another ominous sign for incumbents in November.
My township in Morris County surprisingly went NO on 2 school budgets. I was shocked to say the least.
Our town of 25,000 people on the San Francisco peninsula passed a $60 million bond issue about a decade ago which was used to remodel five elementary, two middle and one high school. Now the bond issue is expiring and they are going out with a vote to extend it another decade. Get this! Their marketing strategy is that this huge extension is NOT a tax increase — just an extension of the current taxes which were clearly meant to be retired in the next year or two.
Watched about five minutes of ABC local news last night and there was their reporter gloating about the huge turnout and the bid defeat coming for Christie.
Imagine my surprise this morning when I learned the opposite was true.
What a wonderful way to start the day!!!
Now, if we could only get rid of those illegal aliens who cost NJ taxpayers > $2.1 BILLION per year in three areas: Medical Care, Education, and Incarceration.
This does not include free lunch and breakfast at school, food stamps, housing aid, higher cost of car and health insurance, salary suppression, etc. It has been estimated that the additional costs would easily double or triple the $2.1 Billion.
I bet taxpayers voted against the budgets and tax takers voted for them having no skin in the game.
The teachers were really pushing hard on this, passing out buttons at our local little league games and calling households numerous times to campaign for the passage of these budgets.
I think it might have backfired. Turnout was at an all time high. I think the teachers inadvertently prodded people who normally wouldn’t vote in these elections but are generally opposed to funding increases to vote.