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NEA moves to endorse Obama, and I react
- 05-10-2011
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Blog by Kenneth Bernstein/Daily Kos
The National Education Association makes its formal political endorsements at its Representative Assembly, which occurs each year around July 4. In 2011 the assembled Representatives will have a motion to endorse Barack Obama for reelection in 2012. The union's Political Action Committee made that decision this past week. Sam Stein provides good detail of the background of the decision in this Huffington Post piece. In short, the decision is in part payback for the number of teacher jobs saved by the stimulus, and also is because so far no one even remotely likely on the Republican side comes close to Obama on issues that matter to the NEA. There is one more consideration. Had the state presidents not proposed a resolution for this year's assembly, formal endorsement would not have been possible until July of 2012. (more...)
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