NJ Assembly renamed the Politburo! School budget elections eliminated!!!!

Commissar John Roberts has lead the Assembly to eliminate school budget elections. From Newsday:

"I know one thing for sure, and that is that our current system that elects school board members is a system that's broken and needs to be fixed," said Roberts, D-Camden.

Well guess what Mr Roberts? What the citizens of this state know is that school board elections are the only actual vestige of control any of us have over out of control spending and corrupt politicians. The citizens didn't ask for this change. So maybe the request came from somewhere else. For example, this article from the New York Times during the budget battles in July 2006:

Many others say — although rarely for attribution — that the real chess match here is between Mr. Corzine and the Camden County organization, personified by Mr. Roberts and by George E. Norcross III, one of the party's most formidable power brokers.

Mr. Norcross, a former Camden County Democratic party chairman, is not only a political ally and former business partner of Mr. Roberts, but the patron of many other South Jersey Democrats. Nor does his influence end there, since the Camden County organization sends money to Democratic candidates all over the state.

Of course Mr Roberts has always taken his marching orders from Norcross in matters not in the interests of taxpayers. How about the other organization that has always been against school budget elections, the New Jersey Education Association(from Newsday):

The state's largest teachers union, the New Jersey Education Association, and school boards support eliminating votes on budgets but oppose moving school board elections to November.

It is bad enough that the voters in this state are served up only a slate of power broker controlled candidates. These power brokers and their puppets in the legislature have circumvented the will of the voters at every turn. The state constitution says that you can't borrow without voter approval? Then why have governors and the legislature routinely increased borrowing for 12 years?

This law was suggested by a single voter in this state. This action was because New Jersey Voters keep voting down ever increasing school budgets. But alas, the newly created People's Republic of New Jersey will not need elections any more soon. We can just ask the unelected Central Committee how things should be run.

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