Friday's Campaign Round-Up, 5.14.21
Today's installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
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Today's installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
There's a lot to keep track of. Here’s today’s list of news updates and stories you may have missed.
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 gav...
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 kid...