No Payroll Deduction for AEA Membership

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Originally posted by Elvis Wearing a Bra on Head:
I read Mike Goen's column about business as usual in Montgomery: the same dammed politics.

Specifically, I cannot get overly exercised about some payback to the AEA in the form of no longer doing the automatic payroll deductions. Look Junior, if someone wants to join the AEA, that's his right as a citizen. And bully for him! But, for god's sake, he or she should go to the effort!

Here's the world's smallest violin to play sad music for the AEA:

I bet most people who are in applauding the Republicans for ending payroll deduction for these professional associations didn't even know the dues were collected via payroll deduction.

As an educator, I resent this bill being lumped in with all the others designed to end unethical practices and corruption in Montgomery. But that's business as usual for Alabama Republicans - label teachers and other education employees as the worst people in the world.

This bill had nothing to do with ethics but everything to do with revenge.

Perhaps if the AEA had remained true to it's stated mission...

"To promote educational excellence, the Alabama Education Association shall serve as the advocate for its members and shall lead in the advancement of equitable and quality public education for a diverse population".

and not gotten involved in "dirty politics", with questionable ethics practices, the AEA would not be in the spotlight.
As such, the AEA has only itself to blame for putting its members in this situation.

i agree it not about ethics, its revenge. its silly to waste time on trying to make our educators look bad. what dirty politics you talking about? not supporting the republicans or what?

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Originally posted by electraglide:
i agree it not about ethics, its revenge. its silly to waste time on trying to make our educators look bad. what dirty politics you talking about? not supporting the republicans or what?

Screw the AEA. The AEA cares nothing about improving education or helping teachers. All it cares about is electing democRats to help line the pockets of the AEA executives.

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Originally posted by Jelb87:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Elvis Wearing a Bra on Head:
I read Mike Goen's column about business as usual in Montgomery: the same dammed politics.

Specifically, I cannot get overly exercised about some payback to the AEA in the form of no longer doing the automatic payroll deductions. Look Junior, if someone wants to join the AEA, that's his right as a citizen. And bully for him! But, for god's sake, he or she should go to the effort!

Here's the world's smallest violin to play sad music for the AEA:

I bet most people who are in applauding the Republicans for ending payroll deduction for these professional associations didn't even know the dues were collected via payroll deduction.

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The AEA a professional association?

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Sez electraglide: i agree it not about ethics, its revenge. its silly to waste time on trying to make our educators look bad. what dirty politics you talking about? not supporting the republicans or what?

A group calling itself the "Conservative Coalition for Alabama" began airing an ad that falsely accused Byrne of a host of offenses. It says Byrne "took a 500 percent pay raise" (that’s misleading); steered government contracts to "cronies" (there’s no evidence of that); lost millions of dollars in the state’s prepaid college savings plan (so did nearly all other state plans); and ran up the taxpayers’ tab drinking "expensive wines" (false) and traveling in "style" (not entirely true).

AEA Executive Secretary Paul Hubbert (who also is co-chairman of the state Democratic party) admitted that he used "True Republican PAC" as a front group to attack Byrne during the June 1 primary fight.

The Conservative Coalition for Alabama, which ran its first ad June 24, started running a second one July 1 titled "Reformer" — which seeks to cast doubt on Byrne’s claim to being a "reformer." It distorts the truth in every claim.

As of July 9, a day after the filing deadline for campaign finance reports, the Conservative Coalition for Alabama hadn't registered with the Alabama Secretary of State or disclosed its donors. By law, the group had to file within 10 days of raising or spending its first $1,000, says Elections Director Janice McDonald. That deadline then passed. Its first ad aired June 24. Then again, the law says PACs have to disclose donors but the teachers’ union has raised millions of dollars this campaign cycle and has disclosed only one donor — a candidate who gave $951.42 in January 2009. "That’s typical," McDonald said.

Update, Aug. 4: Paul Hubbert, the executive secretary of the Alabama Education Association, told the Associated Press that the teachers’ association "had an interest" in the Conservative Coalition for Alabama, but he would not say how much his group may have donated. As of Aug. 4, the Conservative Coalition for Alabama had yet to disclose its donors.

Update, Sept. 30: The mystery has been solved. The Conservative Coalition for Alabama has filed IRS records that show its attack on Republican Bradley Byrne was entirely funded by the Alabama Education Association, as Byrne suspected. Read all about it here.


http://www.factcheck.org/2010/...eception-in-alabama/