If money can’t buy you love, then the NJEA’s legislative investments during the previous election cycle shows they spent a whole lotta money for not a whole lotta love, when looking at their 2013 contributions (between the union, their PAC, and locals) in context with the current statewide brawl, having poured nearly $150,000 into the re-election efforts of “Sweeney’s Sweet Sixteen”, those Democratic caucus members who signed onto the letter blasting the union for their escalating-by-the-day war with the Senate President.  Take a look at the numbers:

LD1 – Jeff Van Drew: $8,833.33 (2013 P); $0 (2013 G)

LD3 – Stephen Sweeney: $1,000 (2013 P); $7,200 (2013 G)

LD4 – Fred Madden: $2,000 (2013 P); $6,000 (2013 G)

LD5 – Nilsa Cruz-Perez: not in office yet*

LD6 – James Beach: $1,650 (2013 P); $7,000 (2013 G)

LD14 – Linda Greenstein: $8,200 (2013 P); $8,200 (2013 G)

LD17 – Bob Smith: $1,000 (2013 P); $3,500 (2013 G)

LD18 – Patrick Diegnan (in the Assembly*): $8,200 (2013 P); $8,200 (2013 G)

LD19 – Joseph Vitale: $2,600 (2013 P); $3,500 (2013 G) 

LD22 – Nicholas Scutari: $1,500 (2013 P); $6,000 (2013 G)

LD29 – Teresa Ruiz: $3,250 (2013 P); $0 (2013 G)

LD30 – Sandra Cunningham: $1,500 (2013 P); $3,500 (2013 G) 

LD33 – Brian Stack: $0 (2013 P); $3,500 (2013 G)

LD35 – Nellie Pou: $3,900 (2013 P); $3,500 (2013 G) 

LD36 – Paul Sarlo: $8,700 (2013 P); $8,200 (2013 G)

LD37 – Loretta Weinberg: $3,000 (2013 P); $8,200 (2013 G) 

LD38 – Robert Gordon: $7,534 (2013 P); $8,200 (2013 G)