NJEA Endorsements In LD 13: Pending Screening
By Art Gallagher
The once mighty New Jersey Education Association announced their endorsements for the upcoming legislative elections over the weekend. All 120 seats in the State Legislature are up for grabs this November. 40 Senate seats and 80 Assembly seats. The NJEA only endorsed 68 candidates. 66 Democrats and 2 Republicans.
In many districts the teachers’ union did not endorse for all three offices, 1 Senator and 2 Assembly Members. In 11 out of 40 districts they announced they were not endorsing any candidate.
But in the 13th legislative district their endorsements are “pending screening.”
The new 13th is comprised of northeastern Monmouth County; the bayshore towns from Aberdeen east to Highlands, the Two River towns of Rumson, Fair Haven, Little Silver and Oceanport, and the coastal towns of Sea Bright and Monmouth Beach, and Marlboro.
No one would expect the NJEA to endorse the Republicans, Senator Joe Kyrillos, Assemblywoman Amy Handlin and Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon. Why wouldn’t the Democrats screen? If the the screening in “pending” as the NJEA says, why didn’t the 13th district Democrats screen before the rest of the endorsements were announced?
NJEA endorsements come with lots of money and organizational support. Pending the pending screening and the pending endorsement or lack thereof, the LD 13 Democrats are raising money and support with a comedy night next week in Keasnburg.
I imagine the night going like this:
Funny Master of Ceremonies: “Thank you all for coming out tonight. We’re here to help Chris Cullen defeat Joe Kyrillos and to help Kevin Laven and Patrick Short defeat Amy Handlin and Declan O’Scanlon.”
Crowd:
Funny Master of Ceremonies: "You're not supposed to laugh yet!"
Crowd:
Funny Master of Ceremonies: " This isn't the funny part! Really, these guys are going to beat Kyrillos, Handlin and O'Scanlon!"
Crowd:
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I hear that same laugh track anytime someone suggests that Professor Handlin is actually a Republican. Funny thing, the laughs get louder the further one gets away from this liberal swamp that is New Jersey.
That’s because Pat Short endorsed Gerry Scharfenberger’s platform to remove school funding from property taxes. In 2010, Scharfenberger sponsored this resolution to the dismay and jeers of the local Middletown Democratic thuggery. Another example of the Middletown Democrats trying to be Middletown Republicans once again. Just goes to what you have been saying for years Art.