Corey DeAngelis
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There is a bill in Florida right now moving, so I think more of the magic happens at the state level.
And the bill in Florida is actually up โ they might have just had a vote at their final committee stop in the House, but it's House Bill 995.
There's a Senate companion version I want to say is Senate Bill 1296.
But it's definitely House Bill 995, and it does two simple things.
One is if you want to recertify your union each year, you have to have at least 50% of your members vote to recertify the union.
Okay, you have to have a majority vote.
And the thing is a lot of the union members don't vote to recertify the union, and so that would kind of โ
put a stake in the heart of some of the teachers unions in florida and the second piece is that it would prohibit taxpayer funding of union activities like campaigning going and lobbying on certain things and engaging in political activity which why why in the world are taxpayers funding that directly anyway
If you want to go do that as a teacher voluntarily when you're not supposed to be teaching, fine.
But why should taxpayers have to support this additional kind of advocacy that goes contrary to what the parents want?
I mean, you're basically forced to pay the political activity of people who hate you, or at least causes that go against everything that you stand for.
So I think the...
That's probably going to pass in Florida.
And that's why the unions are freaking out right now after that press conference, because they went viral for saying that the anti-ice protests are required.
Yeah, I think the teachers unions are doing a bad job of representing their everyday members.
So I mentioned earlier, 99% of their money goes to Democrats, but not 99% of teachers are Democrats.
I saw a poll recently from Education Week that showed that about a third of teachers were conservative, or a quarter of them were conservative.
A little more than that were Democrats.
And then the rest were independents.
And, you know, most of them voted for Hillary Clinton in that survey.