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Sunday, 27 April 2014

News: Wawa gave $21,800 to Republicans! Not news: The NJEA gave $7.2 million to Democrats

Gee, you spend a week in North Carolina and you miss the fun stuff that makes Page One in the Star-Ledger. While I was walking Sophie's dog on the beach in Hatteras, NC, the jaunty journalists still employed by Rich Vezza were pouring over corporate donation records, eagerly seeking checks made out to Republicans.

And they found Wawa, a convenience store chain from PA that is expanding into the New Jersey market, who gave a whopping $21,800 to the GOP.

This cataclysmic event necessitated a blaring headline, Page One Above The Fold in their Sunday edition.

Convenience store politics: Wawa increases donations to NJ politicians

Next time you buy coffee, a breakfast sandwich or fill up with gas at Wawa, there's a good chance your money isn't only going to the convenience store chain.

It could also wind up in the campaign accounts of New Jersey politicians.

Since 2012, the company has dispensed at least $21,800 to candidates seeking state office and political committees in New Jersey, according to a review of campaign records. That's nearly twice as much as in the previous 27 years.

The company gave $10,000 to the Republican State Committee — unofficially controlled by Gov. Chris Christie. Over the next year, it would also max out Christie's gubernatorial campaign, giving $7,200 to his primary and general election accounts combined.

By contrast, Wawa — whose annual revenue is estimated at $9 billion — made no donations to the Democratic State Committee or Christie's Democratic opponent last year, former state Sen. Barbara Buono.

Stop the presses! A corporation donated to Republicans, while seeking to expand their business. But since they didn't give one thin dime to Babs Buono's doomed gubernatorial quest, it immediately makes them seem shady. Or so we're being led to beleive.

Maybe they read the polls that showed her losing by double digits?

Curiously though, the Ledger's intrepid investigators never tallied up how much money the teachers' union poured into Buono's losing endeavor.

So I Googled it for them.

$7.2 million. The NJEA wrote checks totalling $7.2 million last year, exclusively to Democrats.

The NJEA PAC lists $1,439,772.32 in expenditures and another $353,424.19 in the bank. Of the total, $1.2 million went to legislative candidates or committees.

The report is a fraction of the NJEA's overall spending thus far, with nearly $6 million paid out by its Super PAC, Garden State Forward, much of it to the benefit Buono, the Democratic challenger to Gov. Chris Christie.

The money in the NJEA PAC comes out of voluntary contributions from the union's 200,000 members. It is not derived from dues. The Super PAC, however, is funded from dues.

Apparently political donations form the NJEA are Not News.

So, the next time you pay your school tax, there's a good chance the money isn't going to books, or pencils, or new basketballs. It's going to Union Dues, automatically deducted from every school employee's taxpayer-funded salary, which are then funneled directly into the pockets of Democratic party politicians.

Who, quite coincidentally, always vote to expand the power of unions in New Jersey.

But like I said, that's not news. Because only corporate money in politics is evil. Or something.

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