Sean Spiller’s “campaign” for governor is nasty
If you’re not familiar with Sean Spiller consider yourself lucky. This guy (former Montclair mayor btw) has been spamming people with mailers and ads for months about his run for governor. But here’s the kicker: it just came out that despite spending $35 MILLION on this campaign (yes, $35 million), Spiller couldn’t even qualify for the debate stage…. All that money, and he didn’t even hit the basic fundraising threshold (580k…)
How’s this even possible? Well because he has no real campaign. No staff, no fundraising operation, no team—nothing. Seriously. It’s all coming straight from a $35 million slush fund set up by the NJEA, the teachers union that he is the current president of.
He’s literally running a ghost campaign. No employees. No real ground support. No grassroots donors. Just a giant pile of union cash funding an artificial campaign to make him look legitimate.
Seriously, what the hell is going on here? Do NJ teachers even realize their union dues are bankrolling this guy’s vanity project? Does anyone actually support this? We’ve got plenty of corruption in this race already (Sweeney, Gottheimer say hi). But at least those guys have actual campaigns.
He’s not gonna win, obviously, because he has no genuine support. But this whole thing needs more eyes on it because it’s just sick and exactly what we need to boot out of public office.
If you’re not familiar with Sean Spiller consider yourself lucky. This guy (former Montclair mayor btw) has been spamming people with mailers and ads for months about his run for governor. But here’s the kicker: it just came out that despite spending $35 MILLION on this campaign (yes, $35 million), Spiller couldn’t even qualify for the debate stage…. All that money, and he didn’t even hit the basic fundraising threshold (580k…)
How’s this even possible? Well because he has no real campaign. No staff, no fundraising operation, no team—nothing. Seriously. It’s all coming straight from a $35 million slush fund set up by the NJEA, the teachers union that he is the current president of.
He’s literally running a ghost campaign. No employees. No real ground support. No grassroots donors. Just a giant pile of union cash funding an artificial campaign to make him look legitimate.
Seriously, what the hell is going on here? Do NJ teachers even realize their union dues are bankrolling this guy’s vanity project? Does anyone actually support this? We’ve got plenty of corruption in this race already (Sweeney, Gottheimer say hi). But at least those guys have actual campaigns.
He’s not gonna win, obviously, because he has no genuine support. But this whole thing needs more eyes on it because it’s just sick and exactly what we need to boot out of public office.