(Guest post by Greg Forster)
That’s right, it’s yet another union sock puppetry scandal.
ALELR draws our attention to a cease-and-desist letter sent last week from the California Faculty Association (CFA) to the California Teachers Association (CTA). The CFA represents the faculty and staff of the California State University system; the CTA is of course the state K-12 teachers’ union.
Both organizations are affiliated with the NEA. Apparently CTA thought that this mutual affiliation gave them the right to do a little vicarious sock puppetry with the CFA – to promote a position that CTA supports but CFA opposes.
CFA is not amused.
You see, in California’s May 19 special election, voters will have the opportunity to vote on Proposition 1A, which will extend some of the state’s recent “temporary” tax hikes and divert a chunk of revenue into its alleged “rainy day fund.” CTA wants Prop 1A to pass because Proposition 1B contains a provision to take up to $9 billion out of the “rainy day fund” and blow it on the educational equivalent of coke and hookers (I’m paraphrasing), but this provision of Prop 1B doesn’t take effect unless Prop 1A also passes.
CTA has been calling CFA members to urge them to support Prop 1A. The CTA callers identify themselves as calling on behalf of “your union.”
That’s bad enough, because if you’re a member of CFA then CTA is not “your union.” But it gets better.
The California State University system isn’t invited to the $9 billion “Rainy Day Coke and Hookers Party” proposed in Prop 1B. So CFA opposes Prop 1A on grounds that it would take money away from their coke-and-hooker fund in the state’s general budget (I again parapharse).
Isn’t this fun?
Come on now, everybody sing along!
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Any dollars or drachmas or dinars,
Any rubles or rand or rupees!
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It’s true that my conscience is tattered and worn,
It’s all full of holes and I do feel quite torn,
But I’d sell my mother on the day I was born!
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Any euros or yuan or yen,
Any pesos or pounds or pennies!
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I’m making a phone call, it’s totally cold,
All my talking points are amazingly old,
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