Harris Rallies Teachers Union With Dire Warnings About Trump

The New York Times ^ | July 25, 2024, 4:10 p.m. ET | Erica L. Green | Reporting from Houston

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Vice President Kamala Harris rallied thousands of members of the most powerful teachers unions in the country to join her in a fight against what she called former President Donald J. Trump’s plans to roll back their rights, gut their protections and undermine their profession.

In a keynote address at the national convention of the American Federation of Teachers, Ms. Harris blasted efforts by “extremists” who she said wanted to take the country back to a “dark past” that included “failed trickle-down economics,” union busting, slashing social programs and curtailing student loan forgiveness.

And before the crowd of 3,500 people, she assailed fraught policies that flourished under the former president’s administration, such as attempts to ban books about Black history and arm teachers.

“Just think about it: So, we want to ban assault weapons, and they want to ban books,” Ms. Harris said, prompting the crowd to boo.

Ms. Harris, who has been on a blitz of events since announcing her candidacy this week, amplified attack lines against Mr. Trump, her Republican opponent, that have become the centerpiece of her already sharpened stump speech.

Ms. Harris used the platform to continue drawing attention to far-right plans that could come to fruition should Mr. Trump win a second term, pointing to a 900-page document compiled by his conservative allies called “Project 2025.” The document calls for cutting social safety net and education programs like Head Start, which provides preschool for millions of low-income children.

“Project 2025 is a plan to return America to a dark past,” Ms. Harris said. “Donald Trump and his extreme allies want to take our nation back.”

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“Just think about it: So, we want to ban assault weapons, and they want to ban books,” Ms. Harris said, prompting the crowd to boo.

[glennaro]

Trump isn't going to do anything to the teachers union that they aren't already doing to themselves.
Come to think of it, this is not much different that what just about every government-run and government-dependent bureaucracy is already doing to itself!

[NWFree]

Because the phony libtard funding unions were unsure who to vote for

[SpaceBar]

Most people if asked what are the most powerful non-governmental organizations in Mexico, they’d probably answer ‘the drug cartels’ and they’d be wrong. It’s the Teacher’s Union.

[wiseprince]

Man,you’ve fed us a steady diet of leftist drivel today.

[Sarah Barracuda]

For commies having “Freedom” is dire..Ive never seen anything like this..every 8 yrs we have different administrations..8 yrs we will have a Republican, then after that they will put in a Democrat for the same amount of time..but after Trump won in 2016 its like their life depends on it that they have to keep power, no matter what, lie, cheat, murder, doesn’t matter they must keep power

[AndyJackson]

I gotta say that Project 2025 is about the dumbest inside the Beltway policy wonkish detailed drivel written by inside the beltway policy wonkers thinking that because they are quasi-libertarian inside the beltway policy wonks their policy papers will be the ones that sort out the US government.

The problem is partially leftist, sure, but the real problem is people inside the beltway thinking they can solve the problems of the nation and the world if folks just listen to them. The central planning fallacy swings on hinges and is just as bad in the hands of right wing "freemarketeers" who too sadly trip into the crony capitalist camp as it is in the hands of Maoists.

You can't fix the world from DC. You can't see the problem because you are the problem.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"[gut teacher] protections and undermine their profession."

Is there a profession that more needs its protections gutted and it's radical communist leadership gutted, I can't think of it.

"Harris blasted...curtailing student loan forgiveness"

Oh, the illegal student loan forgiveness shot down by the US Supreme Court? Loans taken out by the little darlings who signed LEGAL LOAN AGREEMENTS and failed to live up to the payback terms? The same student loan recipients who expect hard-working Americans who never went to college to pay off their loans? The same deadbeats earning "studies" degrees who will go on to undermining the USA? The same welchers who want hard-working students and parents be suckers and pay off their debts?

"Student loan forgiveness" polls very low. Keep going for it, Harris. It plays well with the commie union and young adults with worthless degrees, but not with anybody else.

[antidemoncrat]

After seeing the two teachers union presidents screeching about how great their unions are I understand why the US students re sofar behind the rest of the world. It’s all about their power, not about making students smarter.

[DeplorablePaul]

Project 2025 is the new Hand Maids Tale. The fundamental problem with the Hand Maids Tale is that the main character should have been hung on the wall for subversion five minutes into episode one. The patriarchs were pu@@ies.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

article: "curtailing student loan forgiveness."

These fools are teaching future generations of Americans that loans are "free money".

No, sister. When you take out a loan, it has to be paid back.

[cowboyusa]

Keep found to your base Kamala, you don’t need moderates!

[MuttTheHoople]

Looking at some of those lardasses in the crowd, they might be afraid of including salads in school lunches.

[eyeamok]

We need a Federal Law mandating every Public Employee Nationwide and Every Officer of the Court Nationjwide be guilty of FELONY Child Abuse for sending their minor children anywhere but the “Public School System” for their primary education. Their children should be removed from the home immediately and put in foster care so they can get a proper Public Education.

[Bullish]

All the democrats ever have is attack their opponent with lies. They never have much to say about how they’ll change anything for the better. People are so damn stupid to fall for them.

[blackdog]

Homeschool your kids like we did. Now Lawyer, Librarian of rare documents restoration, and Electronics Engineer.

Decades of being told I was destroyer of my children's future.

No college loans either.

Eff the status quo. You can do the right thing or you can do the political thing. Your choice. Follow your heart.

[Racketeer]

POTUS Trump should tell that very same teacher’s union that they are responsible for the horrible mess the public school system is in and he will do whatever it takes to take them down once elected. The voters would love to hear that truth and half of that union agrees with that message.

[FlingWingFlyer]

She wants to make our schools just like the Caribbeaner schools. in Jamaica.

[damper99]

Taking the teacher’s union down won’t make a difference. The problem is the teachers. Most of them are woke, mindless drones carrying out leftist policies. The go along to get along with their boards’ of education administrators.

[airborne]

Must have taken a lot of strength to rally a bunch of like minded lemmings!