[Vision2020] Romney: Unions shouldn’t donate

[Joe Campbell]

Do teacher's unions really have tens of millions to contribute?

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On Sep 26, 2012, at 6:18 AM, Sunil Ramalingam <sunilramalingam at hotmail.com> wrote:

> This from the man who also notes (correctly, under law) that corporations are persons. So, to put the quote below in context, there should be no labor counterweight to corporate election campaign spending. It should be one-sided.
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> That's what the legislative actions in Wisconsin were all about.
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> Sunil
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> From: thansen at moscow.com
> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 06:11:22 -0700
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Romney: Unions shouldn’t donate
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> Courtesy of today's (September 26, 2012) Spokesman-Review.
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> Romney: Unions shouldn’t donate
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> NEW YORK – Mitt Romney said Tuesday that teachers unions should not be allowed to contribute to political campaigns because their financial backing tips the negotiation process away from the interests of students.
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> “We simply can’t have a setting where the teachers unions are able to contribute tens of millions of dollars to the campaigns of politicians and then those politicians, when elected, stand across from them at the bargaining table, supposedly to represent the interest of the kids. I think it’s a mistake,” Romney said during an appearance at NBC’s Education Nation.
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> Romney said Democrats reap the benefit from these contributions, and that children suffer because the unions represent the interests of teachers, not students.
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> Seeya at the polls, Moscow, because . . .
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> "Moscow Cares"
> http://www.MoscowCares.com
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> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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> "We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students.  The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."
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> - Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)
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