NJEA Spends Millions on Gubernatorial Ambitions of Its Union President. How is this Legal?

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3: 5:05pm- According to a report from NJ.com, the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) has contributed $22.25 million to benefit Sean Spiller’s NJ gubernatorial campaign. Spiller, who didn’t have enough state-wide support to qualify for two upcoming Democrat primary debates, is a former high school science biology teacher who also leads the NJEA. He earns $370,000 per year. Rich wonders: how is this legal? 5:25pm- Montage: Every year, since 1993, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has warned that America’s evolution toward an oligarchy is imminent. But he doesn’t seem to have any concerns over George Soros’s massive contributions to progressive figures. PLUS, Sanders lectured an audience at Coachella about economic justice. Notably, Coachella tickets cost between $600 and $1,400… 5:40pm- Gerald Posner—Award-Winning Investigative Journalist & Author of the book “Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK”—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his latest article, “Fighting Each Other: How U.S. Intelligence Rivalries Hampered the Battle Against Islamic Terrorism.” You can read the full article here: https://www.skeptic.com/article/how-american-intelligence-rivalries-hampered-the-battle-against-islamic-terrorism/. Weekday afternoons on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT, Rich Zeoli gives the expert analysis and humorous take that we need in this crazy political climate. Along with Executive Producer Matt DeSantis and Justin Otero, the Zeoli show is the next generation of talk radio and you can be a part of it weekday afternoons 3-7pm.

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr. with Osperity Private Wealth.
0:05.4	Hi, I'm Mike Vaneria Jr., wealth management specialists. Make your retirement dreams a reality by creating your retirement plan today. Call me at 856-252-0107.
0:16.2	It's a busy day. You know, this president keeps us on our toes. Obviously, we're also learning more
0:22.2	about the nut job who tried to burn down the governor's residence in Pennsylvania. He was off
0:27.8	his meds, apparently, according to his mother, deeply deranged man, but does not seem to be politically
0:33.5	or religious motivated. It just seems to be the guy's office freaking rocker.
0:38.5	But we'll find out more details, obviously, about him as we go along.
0:42.1	And there's a Democrat running in New Jersey, known as the $35 million candidate,
0:50.1	a Democrat running for governor, because the teachers union is entirely behind this person running for governor.
0:58.6	And this is the problem that I have with teachers unions.
1:01.3	And why it is it Democrats who at one time, like Cory Booker is a great example of this, who embrace school choice.
1:06.5	Josh Shapiro is a great example of this, who at one point embraced school choice.
1:10.4	The minute that they eye
1:12.1	national ambition or statewide ambition, all that goes aside. All that goes aside. And NGA.com
1:20.2	has a really good piece on this. The $35 million candidate. New Jersey teachers are funding.
1:26.3	There's a man named Sean Spiller, who's running for governor. New Jersey teachers are funding. There's a man named Sean Spiller, who's running for governor.
1:30.9	New Jersey teachers are funding his campaign whether they want to or not.
1:36.7	And this guy portrays himself as a working class guy, as a working class father of two and high school biology teacher he's like a blue
1:46.9	collar that's like a normal guy he has a 35 million dollar war chest made possible by one thing
1:54.1	alone the coffers of the powerful union that he's in charge of because spiller leads the the state's largest union, the nearly 200,000 member New Jersey
2:05.0	Education Association, a mover and shaker in Trenton that has for decades used its financial
2:13.4	largesse and organizational heft to win outsized influence.
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