The general counsel for the National Education Association (NEA), America’s largest teacher’s union, complained of conservative and right-wing groups that are “after” the NEA. “We are not paranoid, someone really is after us,” said General Counsel Bob Chanin in an address to NEA affiliates on the occasion of his retirement. “Why are these conservative and right-wing b****rds picking on NEA and its affiliates? I will tell you why: it is the price we pay for success. NEA and its affiliates have been singled out because they are the most effective unions in the U.S.” Chanin also noted that NEA is effective “because we have power. And we have power because there are more than 3.2 million people who are willing to pay us hundreds of millions of dollars in dues each year because they believe that we are the union that can most effectively represent them.” Although the Obama administration is friendlier to the left-leaning NEA than the Bush administration was, lamented Chanin, “attacks by conservatives and right-wing troops will continue.” At the convention in San Diego, the NEA rejected a proposal that would have ceased their abortion advocacy and went on record in support of same-sex “marriage.”

Source: OneNewsNow.com, 7/21/09

NEA COUNSEL COMPLAINS OF ATTACKS FROM CONSERVATIVES