An outrage two weeks in a row!

There was an auction yesterday at Christies in New York. According to the Ledger there was a lot that contained "...11 yellowed artifacts, including a thick book that contains the first constitution of the colony of East Jersey and details its settlement from 1682 to 1684. There also are five rare maps, including the first printed map of New Jersey from 1677, and a 1683 map of the planned layout of "Amboy Point," which would become Perth Amboy, the capital of East Jersey. It is described as the first map of an American town."

How excited do you think Jay T. Snider, owner of the documents was? There at the auction was the State of New Jersey! Why, just last week State Treasurer John McCormac had told the Ledger "It looks like we are going to do everything we can to buy them," Link . Well they did.
$656,760 went from poor old New Jersey to Jay T. Snider.

Couldn't Codey and McCormac try to get private donations for these documents? This is not the time to be spending taxpayer money.