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Related: About this forumBroad’s support of Clinton raising concerns within teacher unions
http://laschoolreport.com/broads-support-of-clinton-raising-concerns-within-teacher-unions/With his massive plan to enroll half of all LA Unifieds students into charter schools, billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad is threatening major disruptions at LA Unified, cementing his role as Public Enemy No. 1 to many district and local union leaders.
But Broads enduring support for public charter schools now appears to be contributing to problems for an old friend, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, whom he has long supported financially....
Part of the concern is due to her past support of charter schools and connections to Broad, as well as her connections to Bill Gates and the Walton family, who are also major financial backers of charter schools that directly threaten union teacher jobs. An alternate candidate in the field, Sen. Bernie Sanders, a declared socialist with a track record of full-throated support of unions, makes a better candidate, according to some NEA and AFT members.
(Clintons) labor credentials are significantly worse than her main challenger in the Democratic primary, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, wrote Huffington Post blogger and former NEA member Ben Spielberg, who also pointed out that Clinton once served on the board of directors of Wal-Mart.
But Broads enduring support for public charter schools now appears to be contributing to problems for an old friend, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, whom he has long supported financially....
Part of the concern is due to her past support of charter schools and connections to Broad, as well as her connections to Bill Gates and the Walton family, who are also major financial backers of charter schools that directly threaten union teacher jobs. An alternate candidate in the field, Sen. Bernie Sanders, a declared socialist with a track record of full-throated support of unions, makes a better candidate, according to some NEA and AFT members.
(Clintons) labor credentials are significantly worse than her main challenger in the Democratic primary, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, wrote Huffington Post blogger and former NEA member Ben Spielberg, who also pointed out that Clinton once served on the board of directors of Wal-Mart.
Remember, folks, Broad rhymes with toad.
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Broad’s support of Clinton raising concerns within teacher unions (Original Post)
KamaAina
Oct 2015
OP
"Remember, folks, Broad rhymes with toad." Thanks! I didn't know it was pronounced that way.
Glorfindel
Oct 2015
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Glorfindel
(9,745 posts)1. "Remember, folks, Broad rhymes with toad." Thanks! I didn't know it was pronounced that way.
I would have assumed it rhymed with "fraud," and possibly embarrassed myself.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)5. Good one!
tblue
(16,350 posts)2. Haha! I first read "Broad" as "broad"
as in "Some broad's support of Clinton raising concerns within teacher union"
Anyway, I'm a big supporter of teachers and want their voices heard!
KoKo
(84,711 posts)3. Recommend...and a bit more about "the Broads" from the article:
The Broads and Bill and Hillary Clinton have connections that go as far back as 1983 and as recently as Sept. 19, when Bill Clinton attended the second opening night of the Broad Museum in downtown Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Times quoted Clinton at the gala talking about their friendship, which dated back to when Hillary was Broads lawyer. I looked up one day and Eli was in my living room, and my life has never been the same, Clinton said.
Broad, through one of his corporations, gave $100,000 to Bill Clintons presidential reelection campaign and was one of the controversial Lincoln bedroom donors who gave the then-president some bad headlines due to the perception that Clinton was using the White House to raise campaign funds.
Broad endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in 2008, has donated over $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation and was recently a co-chair of the Super PAC Ready for Hillary that was formed to draft Clinton into the 2016 race. It has since dissolved.
The Los Angeles Times quoted Clinton at the gala talking about their friendship, which dated back to when Hillary was Broads lawyer. I looked up one day and Eli was in my living room, and my life has never been the same, Clinton said.
Broad, through one of his corporations, gave $100,000 to Bill Clintons presidential reelection campaign and was one of the controversial Lincoln bedroom donors who gave the then-president some bad headlines due to the perception that Clinton was using the White House to raise campaign funds.
Broad endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in 2008, has donated over $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation and was recently a co-chair of the Super PAC Ready for Hillary that was formed to draft Clinton into the 2016 race. It has since dissolved.
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)4. as it should
And it makes the teachers union endorsements very troubling.
stillwaiting
(3,795 posts)6. It makes the union Leadership look as corrupted as they certainly must be.
It's crystalline in its revelatory nature.
The union rank and file need to realize this and get new Leadership.
The old "union" Leadership will find good paying gigs, no doubt, in the corporate world.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)7. The Oligarchy doesn't care about unions,
the people, children or the social contract which makes our democracy......... just their power and money
This X union school teacher smells a rat and its drippings destroying education for their economic gain.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)8. I think you're supposed to call them "women"
oh. wait. never mind.