And a trough here in New Jersey.
The mission of E3CO, a small, non-profit group that received $130,000 in annual state funding to teach kids about growing food in space, was abruptly aborted today, following revelations that much of the money was earmarked for the salary of a woman who is dead.
“We’re going to take this one and send it to the moon, where it belongs,” declared Senate President Richard Codey (D-Essex), who promised that E3CO’s funding was being pulled. “It’s over. It’s buried. It’s dead. Should never have existed.”
Unfortunately, the Democrat-led legislature kept funding the program for years even after Rutgers put a freeze on allocating the money. The only reason Codey is acting now is because the Star-Ledger broke the story on its front page.
