SURELY this is something we can ALL rally around, RIGHT??? I mean, there's so much VERY SINCERE CONCERN for unions - surely their massively, overwhelmingly, landslide decision.
CHICAGO —The nation's largest teachers union voted Monday to endorse President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election bid, despite teachers' widespread unhappiness with his education policies.
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It should be noted that the union vote on this early endorsement was quite overwhelmingly supportive:
The vote, which came during the annual convention of the National Education Association, was supported by 72 percent of the union’s 9,000-member representative assembly. The assembly is the top decision making body for the union.
It is also worth noting that the largest teacher's union in the country has NEVER endorsed so early, in their entire history:
The endorsement allows the union, which represents 3.2 million teachers, to start working to help re-elect Mr. Obama.
The NEA has never endorsed a presidential candidate this early in the campaign cycle, instead waiting to make the decision during the election year. But union leaders, anticipating a tough re-election campaign, wanted to bolster support for the president early on.
I suppose some might conclude that the teacher's union is simply a supporter of fascist oligarchical corporatism and is a spineless pretty speech empty suit coward.
Those folks, naturally, would be dumbasses.
The campaign to continue improving the country, and to resist the powerful forces seeking to turn the entire country into Wisconsin, has begun.
Which side are you on?