28 Apr 2021
Teachers Union PACs are spiking campaign contributions to Democrat congressional candidates and committees as the Congress debates school reopening and money for education, according to a report.
American Federation of Teachers (AFT) PAC and the National Education Association’s (NEA) PAC have increased their donations to Democrat congressional candidates and committees.
Roll Call reports, “The nation’s largest teachers unions sharply increased their spending on political contributions,” adding that “the money overwhelmingly went to Democrats.”
Reportedly, AFT gave $1.6 million to congressional candidates and committees, which also includes $1 million to House Majority PAC, which is the super PAC meant to boost Democrat candidates. This is compared to AFT disclosing they gave only $45,000 to federal committees in the first quarter of 2019.
Joe Biden’s Happy Lies
In his address to Congress last night, President Joe Biden congratulated himself and his administration for lots of things, including bringing teachers back into classrooms.
He described “an educator in Florida, who has a child suffering from an autoimmune disease,” who told the president “that she was worried about bringing the virus home. She said she then got vaccinated at a large site in her car. She said she sat in her car when she got vaccinated and just cried, cried out of joy, and cried out of relief.” He cited “parents seeing the smiles on the kids’ faces, for those who are able to go back to school because the teachers and the school bus drivers and the cafeteria workers have been vaccinated.”
He asked an English class if they had more homework in person or on Zoom, and they said Zoom.
He asked the science class if they preferred LeBron James or Michael Jordan, but few were willing to commit.
He looked at AP art students’ works in progress and asked one to email her work to the Department of Education when she was finished so he could see.
“We can talk about barriers; we can talk about Plexiglas,” he said. “That’s all important, but it’s secondary to what I saw when I walked in this building. There’s a sense of community. There’s open dialogue. There’s relationships. This is a relationships business.”
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