The NJEA’s agitator-in-chief Barbara Keshishian took to the podium earlier today at a Trenton union rally and – if you can believe it – accused Governor Christie of trying to inaugurate a “middle-class civil war.”
And do you know what the funniest part of all this is, Save Jerseyans? After years of bilking the people of New Jersey to fatten her personal bank account, Ms. Keshishian can no longer speak on behalf of the middle class. Her salary as head of the New Jersey Education Association is $263,000, not counting other accrued perks and benefits. That makes Ms. Keshishian “rich” by President Obama’s own calculus.
Watch out, Ms. Keshishian! Shirley Turner is coming for your money!
The truth is that thanks to people like Barbara Keshishian, the only people who can get rich anymore living in New Jersey are those who actually work for the government!
Most middle class New Jersey residents don’t have a powerful union behind them that can spend PAC money (financed by tax dollars through public employee union dues) and de facto SELECT the person with whom they negotiate their salaries.
She’s definitely not the first union goon to lie on the taxpayers’ dime, but yes, today’s ridiculousness from Barbara Keshishian is a whole new level of hypocrisy from the kooky left.
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[...] 263,000 Reasons Why Barbara Keshishian is Liar [...]
NM Student Alumni consensus, so many students looking back now are saying how they were not happy with the way Barbara Keshishian treated and taught her students. Just to let her know this now, so many years later, and that’s if she’d even reads these things, ever… Oh and btw, some of us knew about the Vodka bottles in Barb’s desk, too.
A NM school math teacher now making 263g’s a year? That’s not bad Barb, not too shabby.
The salary is unreal. How can it be? Who pays it? You know who. The job certainly isn’t worth that much.
I could watch Scihdnler’s List and still be happy after reading this.
[...] NJEA chieftain Barbara Keshishian stood on the State House grounds last month and accused Governor Christie of instigating a “civil war” between members of New Jersey’s middle class, we here at The Save Jersey Blog couldn’t [...]
[...] What does a hardworking, 36 year old math teacher have in common with a union executive director who earns $263,000 a year while her members lose their shirts? Not [...]
[...] $263,000 … the NJEA president’s annual compensation. [...]
[...] and expect to be taken seriously? Moreover, how can that union’s chieftain earn over a quarter of a million dollars for a salary (Remember: financed by publicly-subsizied union dues!) and credibly claims that [...]
[...] union bosses. That’s because bosses can presently spend their members’ union dues on millions of dollars worth of political advertising targeted at electing the politicians with whom union lawyers (and this is the key part – pay [...]
[...] voice” in the state education debate. Who can argue with that after years of the likes of Barbara Keshishian (the six-figure NJEA chieftain) and Chris Shelton (the CWA VP who compared Governor Christie to [...]
The salary is a little outrageous, how can it be? Who pays it? You know who. The job certainly isn’t worth that much.
Another NMHS alumni here. While not a fan of Christie in the slightest….Barbara Keshishian was not a teacher. If you did not understand what she was doing it was up to you to get a tutor or fail. There was no help given from her.
[...] As you may or may not know, the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) operates out of a couple dozen regional offices. From here, they attempt to “organize” member-volunteers for pro-union candidates and causes. It’s usually easy to do since they raise roughly $130,000,000 per year from taxpayer-subsidized union dues. Imagine how stable the pension system would be if this money went towards membership retirement instead of anti-Republican political advertisements and HUGE salaries for union bosses? [...]
[...] apples? Harry Potter wands? I have one idea: Barbara Keshishian (the NJEA chieftain quoted above) brings home over a quarter of a millions dollars annually. That’s from union dues. Union dues come out of teacher salaries. Teacher salaries [...]
[...] Millionaires like Giordano, a man who earns somewhere between $300k and $500k per year. And his boss, NJEA President Barbara Keshishian, who takes home more than $250,000 annually. [...]