[Fedora]

The NEA represents 3 million members, making it the wealthiest and most influential union in the country. . .Teachers unions donate almost exclusively to Democrats. The NEA contributed $2.3 million to Democratic candidates in 2016, while Republican nominees received $350,000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Somewhat of a tangent on this: during the election campaign, I noticed that one of Hillary's largest donors was the University of California system. I was trying to figure out why--could the NEA have funneled money through them?--anyone have insight into this?

[markomalley]

Somewhat of a tangent on this: during the election campaign, I noticed that one of Hillary's largest donors was the University of California system.

You mean the University of California system that has Janet Napolitano (a/k/a Big Sister) as president?

(In case you didn't notice, I just answered your question)

[kearnyirish2]

People think the teachers’ unions donate to the Democratic Party, but in fact they own it - it is their political arm. It is a perfect gig, by which those unions use their elected representatives to funnel taxpayer dollars into party coffers. They have commissars in EVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT in the country.

Early in his presidency Obama would repeatedly call for more teachers; it fell flat when they realized the money was gone - they couldn’t squeeze anything else from a bankrupt middle class. Here in NJ those unions are the #1 reason nobody wants to buy a home, so those unions support open borders to let foreigners buy them (to pay the high property taxes - 75% of which goes to “schools”).