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In reply to the discussion: The Republican who beat the NJ Senate president on a shoestring budget turns out to be a monster [View all]NJCher
(35,662 posts)he's low man on the totem pole, right?
And this from the Slate article puts it into perspective:
Its a little hard to draw any specific ideological lesson here because in New Jersey Sweeney was generally considered an obstacle to Democratic Gov. Phil Murphys agenda rather than a supporter of it. (The state teachers union hates this guy so much that they actually spent $5 million supporting his Republican opponent in 2017.) Meanwhile, your New Jerseybased correspondent is hearing secondhand that Sweeney is calling members of his caucus and blaming progressives for his loss, as one does. In any case, he counted his chickens before they hatched, and Edward Durr drove over them with a semitruck.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/11/new-jersey-senate-president-losing-to-truck-driver.html
Not my teachers union but the one for the public school teachers did indeed spend that money.