THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, June 14, 2012 MALKIN from 8
the Alaska NEA affiliate pitched in $4,000. Back in the Badger State,
the Education Action Group Foundation caught Milwaukee teacher’s union head Bob Peterson on tape this week bragging about how his school district organized bus runs and stuffed flyers into every K-8 student’s backpack urging them to vote in the recall election. No, this wasn’t a civic, nonpartisan get-out-the-vote effort. It was a purely partisan self- preservation campaign. Peterson preaches that ed- ucators must be “teachers of unionism. We need to create a generation of stu- dents who support teach- ers and the movement for workers rights, oppressed peoples’ rights.” Because, you know, asking teachers to contribute more to their pension plans is just like the crushing of freedom fighters in Iran, Egypt and China. The progressives’ blatant
exploitation of bureau- cratic authority over the nation’s schoolchildren — at the expense of class- room achievement and fiscal sanity — isn’t sitting well with the public. A new Marquette University Law School poll released on the eve of the Wisconsin
recall election showed that “only 40 percent of those surveyed said they had a favorable view of public- sector unions, while 45 percent viewed them un- favorably.” In addition, “three-quarters of respon- dents said they approved of the law Walker signed requiring public employ- ees to contribute to their own pensions and pay more for health insurance, while 55 percent approved of the new limits on col- lective bargaining for state employees that Walker signed into law.” Uncertainty reigned over
Wisconsin as both sides braced for a possible re- count on Tuesday night. But from their first un- hinged salvos 16 months ago in the state Capitol and right up until Elec- tion Day, the union bosses have made one thing clear as a playground whistle: It’s not about the children. It’s never about the chil- dren. It’s about protecting the power, perks and prof- ligacy of public employee union monopolies.
Michelle Malkin is the au-
thor of “Culture of Corrup- tion: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies” (Regnery 2010). Her e-mail address is mal-
kinblog@gmail.com.
METZLER from 9 Nonetheless the young-
er royals such as Prince William and Harry have revived the appeal as wit- nessed by the worldwide reaction to the Prince Wil- liam’s wedding last year to the popular Kate Middle- ton.
Americans love the pomp
and ceremony of the Brit- ish monarchy. But our in- dependence from Britain was rooted in reaction to an overbearing and in- competent King George III , the desire for individual liberty, freedom, and the aspirations that we could
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