National Education Association, PART 2: $$$ MONEY and POWER!

Resource Article about the NEA

...In other words, it is possible that up to $90.5 million (the sum of the latter two categories of expenditures) was earmarked for leftist political candidates, organizations, and causes. Among these expenditures were the following:

• $5,070,192 to various Democratic political consultants and strategists
• $500,000 to Protect our Public Schools, to campaign against public charter schools in Washington state
• $300,000 to Citizens United to Protect Our Public Safety, to oppose property tax limits in Maine
• $25,000 to the National Coalition on Health Care, which supports a taxpayer-funded system of socialized medicine
• $5,000 to the National Conference of Black Mayors, a group representing the ideals of its overwhelmingly leftwing members
• $75,000 to the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, which seeks to help leftwing organizations “more effectively to fight for social, environmental, and economic justice”
• $45,000 to the League of United Latin American Citizens
• $25,000 to the North Carolina Democratic Party Building Fund
• $400,000 to the Fund to Protect Social Security, which seeks to defeat personal investment accounts
• $40,148 to Brazile & Associates, a firm headed by longtime Democratic Party consultant and campaign manager Donna Brazile, which provides diversity training for American businesses, and all types of training for political activists.

“What wasn’t clear before is how much of a part the teachers unions play in the wider liberal movement and the Democratic Party,” said Michael Antonucci of the Education Intelligence Agency, a California-based watchdog group. “They’re like some philanthropic organization that passes out grant money to interest groups.”