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NEA Endorses Kerry for President
AP ^ | July 5, 2004 | BEN FELLER

Posted on 07/05/2004 5:30:49 PM PDT by Brilliant

WASHINGTON - The National Education Association, the nation's largest union, endorsed Democrat John Kerry for president Monday, the final touch in its campaign to drive up school spending and reshape the biggest education law in decades.

The NEA, a 2.7-million member group composed mainly of teachers, is out to advance its agenda on everything from testing students to halting private-school vouchers. The union is mobilizing its money and forces for Kerry — targeting political staff in 15 swing states, going into schools to rally its members, and joining liberal groups to organize a massive night of political house parties.

Kerry, who is scheduled to speak to the 9,000 delegates at the NEA convention on Tuesday, was endorsed by 86.5 percent of them. The Massachusetts senator offers many teacher-friendly promises the union likes, but he also advances ideas the NEA has long opposed, such as paying bonuses to teachers based on student test scores.

Although a quarter of NEA members identify themselves with the Republican Party, the union has never endorsed a Republican for president and typically spends $9 out of every $10 it raises on Democrats. Its relationship with the Bush administration has been particularly prickly since his education secretary, Rod Paige, jokingly referred to the union as a "terrorist organization" and annoyed members with how he apologized for the remark.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: duh; education; endorsements; kerry; nea; unions; youdontsay
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No surprise that they endorsed Kerry. Our education system stinks. By the time Kerry and the NEA get done with it, we might as well simply abolish public education altogether.
1 posted on 07/05/2004 5:30:49 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

Im SHOCKED! SHOCKED, I tell ya...


2 posted on 07/05/2004 5:32:20 PM PDT by myself6 (Nazi = socialist democrat=socialist therefore democrat = Nazi)
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To: Brilliant
we might as well simply abolish public education altogether.

All in favor, say "AYE!"

3 posted on 07/05/2004 5:33:40 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Brilliant

Great, our educators are all STUPID!

BTW there are some conservative teachers in Lake Jackson Texas where I live.... they have to keep their mouths shut about it!


4 posted on 07/05/2004 5:34:48 PM PDT by buffyt ("D" is for DUMB ~ "R" is for RIGHT!!!!)
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To: Brilliant

Thanks. The suspense was killing me.


5 posted on 07/05/2004 5:34:50 PM PDT by Paul Atreides (Didn't your father tell you that unnecessary excerpting will make you go blind?)
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To: Brilliant

I think there is some misinformation in this article, the NEA is not a "union", it is a professional teachers association. Secondly, the NEA has to have a seperate entity, such as NEA PAC to endores Candidates. I am not sure why NEA is said to be the endorsers of John Kerry. It should be the NEA PAC Endores John Kerry.


6 posted on 07/05/2004 5:35:05 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: Brilliant
I was substitute teaching in April and May and I saw NEA posters in the teachers lounges which called for all to get on bored the Kerry Absess.. or sumphin like dat.

BTW if life begins at conception.....What's Fn's excuse?

7 posted on 07/05/2004 5:35:35 PM PDT by Young Werther
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To: Brilliant
For someone whose name is Brilliant, you sure don't know how to use the search function!
8 posted on 07/05/2004 5:36:07 PM PDT by xrp
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To: buffyt

"Great, our educators are all STUPID!
BTW there are some conservative teachers in Lake Jackson Texas where I live.... they have to keep their mouths shut about it!"

You're right and it is scary how republicans have been intimidated into silence. Something very wrong with that.



9 posted on 07/05/2004 5:37:35 PM PDT by SunnySide
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To: Brilliant
The Power Grab of the NEA

Moo-power grab

...Transformed to militancy during the 1960s, Dr. Moo explains that the NEA has become a “hydra-headed… D.C.-based organization” that aspires to control a singular nationwide education system. In the NEA’s vision, local school districts’ directives should be circumvented, parental values should be undermined, and a good education for children should take a back seat to political power. The NEA’s Executive Secretary Sam Lambert said in 1967:

“NEA will become a political power second to no other special interest group… NEA will organize this profession from top to bottom into logical operational units that can move swiftly and effectively with power unmatched by any other organized group in the nation.”

10 posted on 07/05/2004 5:37:56 PM PDT by walford (http://utopia-unmasked.us)
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To: Brilliant

NEA would endorse Saddam if he was available.


11 posted on 07/05/2004 5:38:47 PM PDT by mombonn (¡Viva Bush/Cheney!)
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To: AmericanMade1776
I dealt with them for 12 years as a school board member, board president and member of our negotiating team. There isn't anything "professional" about them. They act like a union, they talk like a union and they smell like a union. Therefore, I have to conclude that they are a union.
12 posted on 07/05/2004 5:40:54 PM PDT by Russ
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To: SunnySide

I'm from NJ .Teaching 35 years . I constantly break liberal balls with all the anti -Kerry stuff I can find . My door is a shrine to the terror attacks of 9/11 with NEVER FORGET emblasoned on it .I also am the only teacher in the building with an NRA sticker on the window of the door . I call it equal time representation for all the liberal bull$shit they try to stuff down our throats . BIG possibility W could take NJ this time .Keep the faith ..


13 posted on 07/05/2004 5:44:42 PM PDT by Renegade
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To: Izzy Dunne

Aye


14 posted on 07/05/2004 5:44:46 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: mombonn

Only if he is a Democrat.


15 posted on 07/05/2004 5:45:40 PM PDT by wingman1 (John Kerry: "Number F'n Ten GI. Beaucoup dinky dau")
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To: Brilliant

Well this comes as a complete surprise to me. Yep. right. uh uh.


16 posted on 07/05/2004 5:46:38 PM PDT by mrs tiggywinkle (AMERICA, LAND OF THE FREE **BECAUSE** OF THE BRAVE.)
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Russ....

In the early 1970's , I was teacher , and somehow drafted into serving as a delegate to state and national teacher association Convention meetings, and the one thing I learned, is that due to the way the NEA and the local Teacher associations guidelines are written, is that they can not endorse Candidates, technically. So what they have formed are Pac's , Such as NEA PAC, which is capable of endorsing candidates. I am not sure , that the NEA is actually capable of endorsing candidates. They are composed of the same people, but they have different functions. NEA is techically suppose to be a Teachers Professional Organization, Not a Union.


17 posted on 07/05/2004 5:49:19 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: Renegade

" I'm from NJ .Teaching 35 years . I constantly break liberal balls with all the anti -Kerry stuff I can find . My door is a shrine to the terror attacks of 9/11 with NEVER FORGET emblasoned on it .I also am the only teacher in the building with an NRA sticker on the window of the door . I call it equal time representation for all the liberal bull$shit they try to stuff down our throats . BIG possibility W could take NJ this time .Keep the faith .."


I applaud your integrity! Good for you! My prayers are with you and yours. I am a christian and PROUD OF IT!
Never allow the secularists/athiests/socialists brow beat you into submission.


18 posted on 07/05/2004 5:50:22 PM PDT by SunnySide
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To: Brilliant

This is dog bites man.

"NEA endorses A REPUBLICAN" would be man bites dog.

United Church of Christ = Democratic party at prayer.
NEA = Democratic party at school


19 posted on 07/05/2004 5:51:04 PM PDT by lightman
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To: Renegade

I'm going to take the liberty to change your statement just slightly. It would have read better if you had said, "I also am the only teacher in the building WHO HAS A PAIR."

Thanks for standing up.


20 posted on 07/05/2004 5:51:09 PM PDT by wingman1 (John Kerry: "Number F'n Ten GI. Beaucoup dinky dau")
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