Posted on 07/09/2002 11:28:34 PM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:55:14 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Two House members have asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the National Education Association's political campaign expenditures.
Republican Reps. Charlie Norwood of Georgia and John Culberson of Texas sent a letter last week to the IRS's commissioners demanding they look into whether the nation's largest teacher's union uses its general treasury funds
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You must be a mindreader, you're beating me to all these threads.
Couldn't agree more, beside the rats, the NEA is the greatest threat to education this country has known.
God bless these good men....this is the stuff dreams are made of. LOL
Two "nobodies" in the eyes of IRS!
The documents state that the union since 1994 has budgeted or spent money from its general account -- funded by about $200 million a year in teachers' dues -- on activities ranging from recruiting teacher-friendly candidates to helping state affiliates raise political action committee funds.
A July 1999 strategic plan states the union budgeted $4.9 million for the 2000 election for such things as ''organizational partnerships with political parties, campaign committees and political organizations. ***
June 2000 - TEACHERS BACK DNC WITH MONEY, MUSCLE ***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. ***
Nah. Teacher unions and other shadow tax-exempt political organizations like the NAACP aren't evil - big corporations are. /sarcasm
What no Dingle? How can Norwood operate without his Dingle??? Look for Al Gore to bring this up!
Sorry but Charles Roselli is going to turn his blind eye to this. He only goes after Conservative groups, not Liberal groups.
It's a shame that you have to do the work that our elected officials are suppose to do. What a bunch of cowards, liars and crooks. We are suppose to believe they will clean up Wall Street? ROFLOL!
They've ignored Jesse Jackson for too many years already. But, I can guarantee if that were anyone else they would have been in jail by now. It's so blatant it's ridiculous. Again, our wonderful cowardly elected officials think we're all stupid. It must be nice to be a protected class of citizen while crying racism.
Also, the same people who make the damn laws should have to live by them.
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