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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Jersey Jazzman: Boo-Friggin'-Hoo

Jersey Jazzman: Boo-Friggin'-Hoo

Boo-Friggin'-Hoo

Fellas, you reap what you sow:
A team of Democratic heavy-hitters soundly rejected an advertisement released today by the New Jersey Education Association, calling it “shallow name calling” and holding it up as an example of what has gone wrong with the state’s public school system.
The ad campaign attacked Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester), a lead proponent of proposed reform that would shift more pension and benefit costs to public workers, saying he cared more about appeasing party bosses like South Jersey Democratic powerbroker George Norcross than serving the public.
Norcross told reporters gathered here this evening that the union was making personal attacks because it was afraid of real reform to give parents and