Stack honors McGreevey at new high school opening
By Max Pizarro, PolitickerNJ.com Reporter
UNION CITY - When state Sen. Brian P. Stack (D-Union City) ceremonially kicked off the grand opening of Union City High School earlier today, he didn't forget to include an old friend, former Gov. James McGreevey.
"No one was a bigger advocate for Union City than Governor McGreevey and we should never forget that," Stack told the massive crowd, mobilized for a Stack-led walk-through of the massive $200 million facility on John F. Kennedy Boulevard, the first high school built in Union City in 90 years.
The Soaring Eagles' media center is named for McGreevey, who during his short tenure as governor helped secure funding for the fledgling school project through the Schools Facilities and Construction Act.
"From my heart," said the former governor, "Brian came into my office and it was just Brian and myself and he told me, 'My dream is to have a school as good as any school in the State of New Jersey, for the children of Union City.' You know, there are politicians who build monuments to themselves and then then there are those who build monuments to children."
The applause built.
"You'll never have a better mayor and a better advocate than Brian Stack, as strong and as powerful a leader as anyone, who didn't ask for politics and didn't ask for himself," McGreevey added. "He asked for the children of Union City."
The school features a state-of-the-art auditorium, rooftop football field, dance hall, world class gym, weight room and media center.
Gov. Jon Corzine appeared last month at another ribbon-cutting ceremony for the project, an effort that has absorbed seven of Stack's nine years as mayor of Union City.
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What about the airplane pulling the banner?
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$200 Million for a School?
$200 mm for a school - and people wonder why NJ is broke.
But of course, why wouldn't Union City want a Taj Mahal for a school - since it didn't pay a dime for it. The State picked up 100% of the cost. If Union Coty had to pay just 25% of the cost - I bet they would have built the school at half the cost.
It's a gorgeous facility
The campus is laid out like a rest stop and the stalls in the mens' rooms comfortably fit two.
Union City High School
This is the fund where $8 Billion went missing and still no indictments. Union High School is a slap in the face of every NJ taxpayer. A roof top football stadium is over the pail and I for one am sick of seeing money wasted on schools that do not need to be replaced. I went to a 100 year old school and loved every minute of it. I was there to learn. And, McGreevey being asked to be there at the opening is another insult to the residents of NJ; the $8 billion went missing on his watch...and he resigned because of??... oh yes, he was gay which we all knew anyway for years. This is unmetigated gall! Run people, as fast as you can out of NJ.