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Title: NEA to Double Member Dues Contribution to Political War Chest (already largest campaign spender)
Source:
Hot Air
URL Source: http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/ ... bution-to-political-war-chest/
Published: Feb 27, 2011
Author: Mike Antonucci
Post Date: 2011-02-27 15:19:02 by Hondo68
Keywords: National Education Association, top campaign spender, NEAs national dues $178
Views: 9449
Comments: 9
Amid substantial membership losses and a $14 million shortfall in its general operating budget, the National Education Association plans to double each active member's annual contribution to the national union's political and media funds. Currently, $10 of each active member's NEA dues is allocated to these special accounts. The more than $20 million collected each year is then disbursed to state affiliates and political issue campaigns -- such as last year's SQ 744 in Oklahoma. A portion of the money also pays for state and national media buys to support the union's agenda. But the most recent numbers show NEA lost more than 54,000 active K-12 members since this time last year. Coupled with less-than-expected increases in the average teacher salary -- upon which NEA dues are based -- the union will find itself with $14 million less revenue than it had planned. This includes about $500,000 less in the political and media funds. Faced with unfriendly legislatures and governors seeking to roll back the union's influence, the NEA Executive Committee decided to double down -- literally. It proposed raising each active member's assessment to $20, effective in September 2011. The union's board of directors ratified the decision, and it will go before the NEA Representative Assembly for a vote this July in Chicago. If passed, NEA's national dues for teachers will total $178. The increase in the assessment has a five-year sunset clause, but this is just eyewash, since the last time the contribution was doubled -- from $5 to $10 in 2004 -- it also had a five-year sunset clause. The 2007 NEA Representative Assembly made the $10 contribution permanent. NEA is already the top political campaign spender in the nation. This increase will give the national union an additional $40 million per election cycle. The increase alone is larger than all but two other groups spent during the entire 2007-08 cycle.
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
This is the problem. They essentially get to choose their bosses. The bosses they choose (Democrat politicians) won't dare put the public interest above the interest of the failed tenured teachers who have given American about the worst public education system in the developed world. The entire public public education system needs to be pulled up by the roots.
Right, because labor hating Republicans who slash education and want creationism instead of science have zero to do with that.
There is no contradiction in creationsim and science. But evolution isn't science. Do you believe in evolution? If you do then you should think fucking monkeys is something normal wouldn't you?
Thanks for proving my piont. No wonder we import so many pharmacists from India.
NEA "pharmacist"
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestNEA is already the top political campaign spender in the nation.
#2. To: jwpegler (#1)
This is the problem. They essentially get to choose their bosses. The bosses they choose (Democrat politicians) won't dare put the public interest above the interest of the failed tenured teachers who have given American about the worst public education system in the developed world.
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#6. To: Godwinson (#4)
No wonder we import so many pharmacists from India.
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