[Cincinatus' Wife]

June 2000 - TEACHERS BACK DNC WITH MONEY, MUSCLE [Excerpt]--In Iowa, New Hampshire, and other key primary states, teachers knocked on doors, staffed telephone banks, and helped get out the vote for Gore. In New York, members of the United Federation of Teachers helped distribute more than one million fliers for Gore in one day. In Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Teachers Association contacted each of its 90,000 members three times by phone and by mail, urging them to vote for Gore over Bradley………….

The teachers and their unions have long been a force in American politics. From 1991 to 1999, for example, contributions to the Democratic Party from the NEA, AFT, and the Service Employees International Union, which includes some education workers, totaled $6.7 million, making teachers by far the party's biggest donor bloc, according to the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity. The largest single contributor to Democrats - the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees - gave $3.7 million in that period……..[End Excerpt]

[Cincinatus' Wife]

June 2000 - LANDMARK FILES COMPLAINTS WITH IRS AND FEC AGAINST THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION*** As part of its Quality Schools 2000 initiative, Landmark Legal Foundation has compiled substantial information showing that the NEA uses tax-exempt general revenue to influence the election of candidates seeking public office - for which it has neither paid income taxes nor reported to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), as required by the Internal Revenue Code (IRC). The last several NEA Form 990 federal tax returns, submitted to the IRS under penalty of perjury, disclose no political expenditures whatsoever. The NEA and several of its affiliates have also failed to disclose the full extent of their political activities to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

Landmark has filed formal complaints with the IRS, the FEC and the Inspector General of the Treasury Department detailing its extensive findings. Landmark's asking these agencies to initiate comprehensive investigations of the NEA's political activities and expenditures to determine whether it has violated federal tax and campaign laws. Landmark is also asking the IRS to consider whether the NEA's tax-exempt status should be revoked, and whether the IRS and the FEC should impose fines and penalties on the NEA. You can review the complaints by using the navigator bar to the right.

Some of the key findings in Landmark's complaints include:***

[RippleFire]

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[machman]

Miss Lyons, the NEA spokeswoman, said the IRS conducted an exhaustive audit of the NEA's 1993 Form 990 tax return and "found no irregularities with NEA's reporting in this regard."

Gee, and what political party was in charge of all 3 branches of government in that year? Oh, lets see, maybe the one who GETS ALL THE NEA POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS, perhaps?

[JoeSixPack1]

A 2002 study by the Center for Responsive Politics found that since 1988 the NEA had given $21 million in campaign contributions, 95 percent of that to Democrats.

And the other 5% was spent on destroying documents.

[bimbo]

They're free to do it - they just have to pay taxes on it."

It was a common tactic of Clinton-Gore to sic the IRS on any and all opposing political organizations. Since the Democrats have raised the political sewage in America to new levels, the Republicans MUST regrettably respond in a like manner – that means George W. Bush must make that call to the IRS. I’m afraid that Mark R. Levin of Landmark does not carry much weight with the IRS.

[dennisw]

The retired teachers union in Florida mans their phone banks every Novemember. I know this first hand because some of my relatives are retired NYC teachers who live down in Florida and help out the RATS come elction time.....

[an amused spectator]

DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON SECTION: IRS AUDITS AND TAX EXEMPT STATUS SUBSECTION: ALL Revised 1/18/01

From the archives of Freeper Alamo-Girl. :-)

[thegreatbeast]

Is the NEA the world's largest union? That wouldn't be some union representing some segment of the postal workers?
I remember like back in '80 or '88 that 20% of the delegates to the democrat presidential nominating convention were teachers. What more does one need to know?

[EdReform]

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See reply 28 and reply 29 in the thread The Union That Killed Education

[EdReform]

NEA doesn t show up in court; union fined $800,000 for intentional violations of state law

[JudgemAll]

Ok, so why is the IRS going after the poor shmuck who protests taxes and not the NEA?

[Interesting Times]

"The evidence we've provided to the IRS comes directly from NEA documents and FEC records," Mr. Levin said. "I don't expect the NEA to confess guilt and volunteer the payment of millions of dollars in fines, but we do expect the IRS to audit these activities because the NEA's use of general revenue, collected from membership dues, to influence political campaigns is indisputable. The NEA's dissembling to the contrary."

Mark Levin and Landmark Legal are doing yeoman's work on this issue.

The Left wages political war from within tax-exempt corporations and pours billions in public funds into their crusade against freedom. This will be a long battle, but one that is vitally important.