<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Do teacher's unions really have tens of millions to contribute?<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Sep 26, 2012, at 6:18 AM, Sunil Ramalingam <<a href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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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.<br><br>That's what the legislative actions in Wisconsin were all about.<br><br>Sunil<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: <a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a><br>Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 06:11:22 -0700<br>To: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>Subject: [Vision2020] Romney: Unions shouldn’t donate<br><br><div style="">Courtesy of today's (September 26, 2012) Spokesman-Review.</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">------------------------------------</div><div style=""><br></div><div><h1 style="overflow:visible !important;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both"><font size="3"><span style="">Romney: Unions shouldn’t donate</span></font></h1></div><div><span style=""><br></span></div><div><span style="">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.</span></div><div><span style=""><br></span></div><div><span style="">“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.</span></div><div><span style=""><br></span></div><div><span style="">Romney said Democrats reap the benefit from these contributions, and that children suffer because the unions represent the interests of teachers, not students.</span></div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">------------------------------------<br><br>Seeya at the polls, Moscow, because . . .<div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com" target="_blank">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"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!)."</div><div><br></div><div>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</div><div> </div></div></div><br>=======================================================
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