After stinging loss, teachers' new pension plan may begin with revenge
TRENTON — With a ballot question asking voters to constitutionally guarantee state payments into the public worker pension fund dead on arrival this year, the head of the state's largest teachers' union suggested that Senate President Stephen Sweeney's likely 2017 gubernatorial campaign will meet the same fate.
Wendell Steinhauer, president of the New Jersey Education Association, stopped short on Monday of calling Sweeney's refusal to post the measure for a vote ahead of a Monday's deadline to get it on the ballot this year a deal breaker.
But he was also clear about the NJEA's priorities — more specifically, its top agenda item.
"Our No. 1 priority has been passing this constitutional amendment," Steinhauer said.
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