{"id":213,"date":"2008-02-27T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T11:02:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:20:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:20:23","slug":"nea-union-to-dump-up-to-50-million-into-08-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/nea-union-to-dump-up-to-50-million-into-08-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"NEA Union to Dump Up to $50 Million into &#8217;08 Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAccording to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/campaign-2008\/teachers-union-set-to-play-big-part-in-2008-campaigns-2008-02-26.html\">The Hill<\/a>, NEA union officials are gearing up for an effort to dump between $40-$50 million dollars, much of it in compulsory union dues, into the 2008 elections.  NEA chief Reg Weaver leaves no doubt about it:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWe plan to be very aggressive,\u201d said Reg Weaver, the NEA\u2019s president.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nPerhaps many teachers would be better off if the NEA union and its affiliates were not so aggressive.  For instance, the Ohio branch of the NEA told St. Marys district school teacher Carol Katter to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\/Culture\/archive\/200701\/CUL20070125b.html\">&quot;change religions&quot;<\/a> when she asserted her right to divert her mandatory dues from political causes she disagrees with on religious grounds.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, with help from the National Right to Work Foundation, Katter <a href=\"\/press\/2007\/06\/court-strikes-down-ohio-law-forcing-public-employees-pay-union-dues-unless-they-join-c\">struck down<\/a> an Ohio law preventing such <a href=\"\/conscience\/\">&quot;religious objectors&quot;<\/a> from diverting such forced dues to charity unless they belonged to certain state-approved religions.   <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/files\/nrtw\/carolkatter.jpg\" height=\"148\" width=\"115\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: xx-small\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\"><\/span><\/span>&quot;I was not going to give one cent to those causes,&quot; Katter told the Ohio media.  &quot;I know where NEA money goes, and I never wanted to be part of that.&quot;<!--break-->\n\t\t<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nAccording to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/campaign-2008\/teachers-union-set-to-play-big-part-in-2008-campaigns-2008-02-26.html\">The Hill<\/a>, NEA union officials are gearing up for an effort to dump between $40-$50 million dollars, much of it in compulsory union dues, into the 2008 elections.  NEA chief Reg Weaver leaves no doubt about it:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWe plan to be very aggressive,\u201d said Reg Weaver, the NEA\u2019s president.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nPerhaps many teachers would be better off if the NEA union and its affiliates were not so aggressive.  For instance, the Ohio branch of the NEA told St. Marys district school teacher Carol Katter to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\/Culture\/archive\/200701\/CUL20070125b.html\">&quot;change religions&quot;<\/a> when she asserted her right to divert her mandatory dues from political causes she disagrees with on religious grounds.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, with help from the National Right to Work Foundation, Katter <a href=\"\/press\/2007\/06\/court-strikes-down-ohio-law-forcing-public-employees-pay-union-dues-unless-they-join-c\">struck down<\/a> an Ohio law preventing such <a href=\"\/conscience\/\">&quot;religious objectors&quot;<\/a> from diverting such forced dues to charity unless they belonged to certain state-approved religions.   <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/files\/nrtw\/carolkatter.jpg\" height=\"148\" width=\"115\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: xx-small\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\"><\/span><\/span>&quot;I was not going to give one cent to those causes,&quot; Katter told the Ohio media.  &quot;I know where NEA money goes, and I never wanted to be part of that.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NEA Union to Dump Up to $50 Million into &#039;08 Elections - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/blog\/nea-union-to-dump-up-to-50-million-into-08-elections\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NEA Union to Dump Up to $50 Million into &#039;08 Elections - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"According to The Hill, NEA union officials are gearing up for an effort to dump between $40-$50 million dollars, much of it in compulsory union dues, into the 2008 elections. 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