Union targets Sweeney as deadline on pension vote passes

New Jersey's powerful teachers' union vowed to retaliate against the state's top elected Democrat on Monday as a deadline to put a question on November's ballot that would make state payments into the pension system a constitutional requirement passed without action.

At a protest outside the Statehouse, New Jersey Education Association president Wendell Steinhauer faulted Senate President Stephen Sweeney - a Gloucester County Democrat expected to run for governor in 2017 - for not posting the amendment for a vote.

"If I can't work with you . . . I don't need you," Steinhauer said, to a crowd wearing red "Pension Activist" T-shirts that periodically broke into chants ("We need a leader, not a liar!&quot .

"If that's who you are, then it's time to find someone else to work with," Steinhauer continued.

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