(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
In what might be the best overall indictment I’ve seen yet, Deroy Murdock brings it:
Follow the money: Teachers’ unions’ paid $55,794,440 in political donations between 1990 and 2008, 96 percent of it to Democrats. Senator John Ensign’s (R – Nevada) March 10 amendment to rescue DC’s vouchers failed 39-58. Among 57 Democrats voting, 54 (or 95 percent) opposed DC vouchers.
As the late Albert Shanker, former American Federation of Teachers president, once said: “When school children start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children.”
When poor, black school kids start making political donations, Democratic politicians will start fighting for them.
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When affluent, Republican school parents start agreeing to send their tax dollars to fund schools their own children may not attend, there will be a glimmer if hope that excellent schools may one day exist for all children.
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Affluent Republicans, and everyone else, send their tax dollars to such schools every day. Taxes aren’t voluntary.