NEA Funds Alito Opposition

This comes straight from the Family Research Council email newsletter. I post it so people understand that the NEA cares about more than just education. Teachers are forced to pay dues to the NEA and they have almost no say in how the power bloc distributes them.

The Wall Street Journal has done some solid research on how left-wing groups get their money. The National Education Association (NEA) is the nation’s largest teachers union. NEA gives to the Human Rights Campaign, the largest gay advocacy group in the world. It also funds the National Women’s Law Center, an anti-Alito feminist group. The NEA got $295 million of last year’s $341 million annual income from member dues. Many teachers are required by law to join the NEA and pay dues. The Journal reports that People for the American Way (PFAW) last year got $51,000 from the NEA. PFAW has led opposition to conservative judicial nominees since Judge Robert Bork was named nearly twenty years ago. To this point, at least, Americans don’t seem to be buying what the NEA’s liberal grantees are selling. A pre-Christmas Washington Post poll showed 54 percent of Americans favor confirming Judge Sam Alito for the Supreme Court. Still, we expect to face hostile protestors at Philadelphia’s Greater Exodus Baptist Church for Justice Sunday III this Sunday. I expect all their fury to be unleashed against Judge Alito next week–and against any who stand up for a fair hearing for a fair judge.

Tough to be a conservative and a teacher and not feel taken advantage of.