{"id":3559,"date":"2008-10-02T08:05:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T12:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2008-10-02T08:05:59","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T12:05:59","slug":"union-echo-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3559","title":{"rendered":"Union echo chamber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Virginia Education Association was so sure that their members are so solidly pro-Obama, they sent out an email the other day encouraging them to campaign for Obama in the classroom according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/news\/2008\/oct\/02\/teachers-union-e-mail-touting-obama-draws-backlash\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The VEA is an affiliate of the National Education Association, the country&#8217;s largest teachers union.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Schools should be perfectly neutral,&#8221; Virginia resident Julie Aurora said Wednesday. &#8220;They should teach students how to think, not what to think.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The e-mail said teachers should wear blue Tuesday for &#8220;Obama Blue Day&#8221; and to &#8220;register two voters or talk to two people who may be on the fence\/or a McCain supporter and sway them to become a Obama supporter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The e-mail also states: &#8220;There are people out there not yet registered. You teach some of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Delegate Jeffrey M. Frederick, Prince William Republican and chairman of the state party, said: &#8220;It is an outrageous breach of public trust and an abuse of taxpayer resources that teachers chose to use school grounds as a political base.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What brain surgeon thought that up? That&#8217;s typical of the echo-chamber effect, though. I&#8217;m sure they figured that since everyone THEY know supports Obama, everyone else must also. There are going to be some disappointed Democrats in November, I&#8217;ll tell ya what.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virginia Education Association was so sure that their members are so solidly pro-Obama, they sent &hellip; <a title=\"Union echo chamber\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3559\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Union echo chamber<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}