Corey DeAngelis
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There are other co-sponsors too, like Mary Harris, I believe her name is, or Mary Miller out of Illinois.
They're both Republicans.
And there's another bill that's similar that I think could have more impact, which is I think it's called the Student Act.
And I believe the main sponsor is Senator Cynthia Lemus out of Wyoming, another Republican.
And the bill says, OK, you want to keep your federal charter fine.
But if you want to keep it, we're going to say you can't engage in political activity anymore.
And you know the union would fight that one even harder than getting rid of their โ because if you just get rid of the charter, what it does is basically kind of gets rid of their false sense of kind of legitimacy that's bestowed to them by Congress.
And it kind of gets rid of some of their tax benefits that they get in D.C.
But otherwise, they would still be able to engage in politics.
They'd still be able to do lobbying and campaigning.
And so the more influential bill, which is โ
kind of counterintuitive because people think that if you just get rid of their federal charter, that'll do more.
Using it against them is actually the more powerful tool.
And so the thing is, I tried to mention earlier is that you need 60 votes in the Senate to do anything.
And the Democrats,
And it's going to be really hard for them to vote against the people who give them all these campaign contributions.
The teacher union has basically turned into an arm of the Democrat Party, and it's worse than that.
Becky Pringle is still an at-large member, the NEA president of the DNC.
So it's an incestuous relationship between these two groups.
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