Scott Walker Supporters Air Ad Telling What Teachers’ Union Is About

The speaker says the National Education Association it not effective "because we care about children."

The National Education Association is a pillar of the Democratic Party.

"We have power."

But, most people don’t know what’s in the semi-public statement by former General Counsel Bob Chanin above.

It’s now being aired on Wisconsin television stations by The Economic Freedom Alliance.

The Illinois Education Association is this state’s affiliate.

The speaker brags about the hundreds of millions of dollars in dues paid to the NEA.

Last week McHenry County Blog pointed out where $3.2 million of the dues come from.

Thanks to Illinois Review for running the ad first.


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Scott Walker Supporters Air Ad Telling What Teachers’ Union Is About — 7 Comments

  1. IT’S ABOUT UNION BUSTING TO PREVENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. PLAIN AND SIMPLE.

  2. The only union busting is preventing the unions from further busting everyone in Wisconsin’s checking accounts.

    The Wisconsin unions end up with MORE collective bargaining rights than union employees of the federal government.

  3. I don’t think unions should be able to give money to either Party.

    They should run their own adds that sell their need for the employees based on their own merits and recommend that the public should vote for the candidates that represents their causes.

    Most just give millions to a candidate that says he is on their side. Yaaaa Right.

    Most are on the side of their MONEY. Spending peoples pensions on political campaigns year after year is getting them Knowhere.

    It is all crashing down and they have knowone to blame but themselves.

  4. Mark,

    If unions shouldn’t be able to give money, how do you feel about corporations, etc. that are allowed to contribute millions of dollars since the Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United case?

    I fully agree that anyone who feels the need to contribute politically (be it unions or corporations) should do so in the open and recommend that the public should vote for the candidates that best reflect their beliefs, thoughts, and desires for the country.

  5. Funny how under GW Bush when we had to bail out the corporations who nearly destroyed the US economy, executive contracts were to be considered sacrosanct acts of God, and it would have made us the moral equivalent of Joseph Stalin to not award hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses to the greedy, evil executives who caused the disaster.

    Yet strangely now having a contract and having the nerve to not voluntarily surrender your right to bargain makes you a traitor and an enemy of the United States of America.

    This is nothing more then an attempt to continue the Republican wet dream of murdering the middle class and concentrating as much wealth as possible in the hands of as few people as possible. Nothing makes a Republican grin more then the idea of a desperate worker with low pay, no benefits and no options.

  6. What many people may not know if the huge cost to the tax payer of not only the large salary and benefits packages but also all of the lawsuits brought onto the tax payer by the teachers unions and the huge cots related to teachers being suspended from teaching. In N.Y. there are more than 600 teachers who show up every day and sit in a room for 3 or more years collecting full pay and benefits while they wait for a decision on their teaching future. Same goes on in Illinois. Years and years of full pay.

    In Illinois just 30% of 8th graders read at 8th grade level yet we have 270 Superintendnets of schools who make more than the Governer?/ We could save 100 million dollars if we consolidate schools in Illinois but the problem is we here in Illinois have to then pay ALL teachers the highest wage???of any of the teachers involved in the consolidation..Other States don’t have this rule but the teachers Unions talk about it like its part of the Constitution. We have been sold out by the Republicans and the Dems.

    The reason we should not cut a corporate salary is because it still is a private business. Granted if the company is bailed out by the tax payer then we should have something to say. But with Teachers pay this is a direct tax payer funded program. Very diffrent.

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