Refuting the remarks of those few media elite who mock The Cartel's message, James Bowman of The American Spectator highlights the film's relevance to the people of New Jersey and the incredible impact it is already making:
To those without any personal or political stake in the breathtaking corruption of the New Jersey teachers unions...I would think that it must be impossible to watch [the lottery drawing] scene without being moved. It's not as if nobody before Bob Bowdon knew that, in many inner-city schools, teachers and pupils are alike held hostage to thugs who will allow neither teaching nor learning to take place. Nor is it news to those who are not ignorant a-purpose that masses of those who have spent many years in such schools leave them utterly unprepared for the world of work. Yet you can't blame Mr. Bowdon's movie for acting as if this is all some unheard of outrage and not something that has been a feature of American urban life -- albeit not to the extent that it is now in New Jersey -- for a generation and more, if only people had cared to find out about it. ...That may be changing now as people are finally daring to inform themselves about how more and more money for public schools has only reinforced their failures.
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This movie is just one example, along with the reports of how they are furiously lashing out against Governor Christie, of how the New Jersey teachers are now running scared. This is an excellent thing for everyone not on their gravy train.
To Bowman, it looks like that gravy train is going to come to a halt.