Posted on 09/06/2022 7:09:17 PM PDT by lightman
A California teachers union is being accused of spying on parents after emails reveal the union was conducting opposition research on parent groups fighting for schools to reopen during the height of the COVID pandemic.
The California Teachers Association (CTA) employed a researcher who emailed a parent arm of the local union in April 2021, hoping to dig up information on the motives of San Diego County parents who had successfully sued the state to reopen schools a month earlier.
According to emails obtained through a public records request, the union was seeking to uncover “some of the ideological leaning of groups that are funding the reopen lawsuits.”
The researcher, Ann Swinburn, appeared to at least speculate that the parent groups suing for California schools to reopen were funded by right-wing political groups and big money interests, according to archived tweets she shared.
The California Teachers Association conducted opposition research on parent groups who sued to reopen schools during the COVID pandemic.
Emails show that CTA was looking for information on any ideological motives behind the parents’ desire to reopen schools.
Parent groups successfully sued the state of California to reopen public schools in March 2021.
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And you all thought Stalking was a crime.
Looks like Ann didn’t get redacted very well.
California is a train wreck. God is bringing judgement too on them..so they have that going for them
There are no historical parallels, are there? It’s not like East Germany and other Soviet Bloc counties had snitches that worked everywhere and for all sort of organizations/agencies. This crap is coming to a lot of American neighborhoods. There will be snitches for pronouns, CRT, green energy, guns and whatever state sanction issue of the day. Remember the phrase: stitches for snitches. Just don’t get caught.
Evil.
I wonder who this Michele is.
The little snitch organizer.
Ann Swinburn speculated that parents were funded by right wing big business groups yet doesn’t identify them. Tell them what they want to hear, right Ann, even if you can’t name them.
Lucky snitches get stitches.
The rest “nap” in ditches.
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Not exactly the moves of Snow White.
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Come on! "Spying?!" Really!
This was simply a case of illegally using union funds (probably diverted from a secret account labelled "Nothing To See Here! Move Along!") to conduct covert operations to collect sensitive intelligence on individual parents who were suspected of wrong thinking!
All perfectly innocent! Nothing that Mr. Phelps and his IM Force mightn't have done!
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