Leftist NEA Tries to Sink Utah School Voucher Law

Congratulations to our right-thinking pals in Utah who've recently passed and signed into law a new voucher bill that will extend educational freedom of choice to Utah's kids. But not everybody's happy about this. Let's trot out the usual suspects:

Despite accusations by voucher advocates that the newly formed Utahns for Public Schools is hiring a firm to recruit 92,000 signatures to place the question of vouchers on the state ballot, leaders from the group say that, so far, it's going to be a volunteer effort.

Though the petitions won't be available until the middle of next week, organization leaders say they have about 800 volunteers poised to start collecting signatures.

Friday, leaders of Parents for Choice in Education, the group behind the voucher law, said Utahns for Public Schools has hired a California firm to recruit signatures, using money contributed by the National Education Association.

"As far as I'm concerned, they are just spreading rumors. It's not true," said Pat Rusk, spokesman for Utahns for Public Schools. She added the group currently doesn't have the money to hire anyone or even open a bank account. "It's going to be a lot of work. But never underestimate the power of a small group of people."

There they go again, either lying or deploying "plausible deniability." Never underestimate the power of anti-education, anti-competitive leftist thugs funded by the vast coffers of the NEA. (Watch the ACLU get in on this, too.) And never believe anybody who tells you that the NEA is not involved in anti-democratic antics like this. DiscovertheNetworks notes that:

...the NEA certainly doesn't believe in diversity when it comes to schools. The NEA is positively paranoid about any kind of competition, passing resolutions against voucher plans, tuition tax credits, parental option or choice plans, sectarian schools, for-profit schools, distance learning, and home schooling.

One of the great political stories that remains to be written (because it will never be touched by the MSM) is how organizations like the NEA often employ front groups, contractors, and other organizations to channel their funds into political activities without leaving fingerprints behind.

After reading this story, Wonker attempted to use Internet search engines to track the source of this funding for a group that "currently doesn't have the money to hire anyone or even open a bank account." Dead ends all over the place. Plus, pro-union stories rise quickly to the top in Google, indicative of aggressive placement efforts that drive anti-union, pro-American stories down so far they're hard to find without a complicated search algorithm. The old CPUSA types were good at hiding stuff. The lessons have been well learned by NEA and similar entities. We'll keep digging, but don't expect anything soon. It took the publication of the CIA's Venon

You can read a good general account of NEA's socialistic agenda here, but tracking down the way it funnels its money to the "progressive" (read "socialist") cause gets very tricky. These dudes are good at not leaving tracks. They employ front groups or contractors to do their dirty work for them.

Think for a minute. If the Utah front group, "Utahns for Public Schools," is truly grass-roots, it would in no way be able to quickly or efficiently fund such a massive anti-voucher signature effort in a state that obviously does not support this point of view. Ergo, you can bet that the funding is coming from out of state from the likeliest usual suspect, the NEA, which is fiercely anti-competitive and thus fiercely anti-voucher as we've indicated above. Its activities are strikingly similar to the way that the ACLU schemes and plots to eliminate religion entirely from public discourse.

The reason the issue of vouchers is a death-battle for the NEA is quite simple: voucher-supported non-public schools will, in general, not be unionized. Thus, teachers won't be forced to fork over significantly large union dues to an organization that will use most of the money either to fund the high-life for its leadership or to buy off liberal Democrats who allow the union to maintain its near monopoly on the educational system.

This monopoly, in turn, has permitted NEA, for half a century or more, to indoctrinate kids into the leftist-socialist, "progressive" agenda, which is anti-intellectual, anti-knowledge, anti-religion, anti-U.S., and anti-family. In so doing, the NEA looks to guarantee that the majority of each successive generation will vote Democrat and NEA: i.e., anti-intellectual, anti-knowledge, anti-religion, anti-U.S., and anti-family. I.e., pro-socialist. I.e., New World Order run by the U.N. since, after the Berlin Wall fell, Moscow no longer cuts the mustard. You get the picture.

People think I'm kidding, but I'm not. I actually wish I were. But look at the record. If the NEA were truly interested in educating our kids, they'd try to improve the public schools and turn all their resources to that end rather than denouncing George Bush and "No Child Left Behind" 24/7 dumping millions of union dollars into the coffers of leftist Democrats who aren't interested in educating the kids at all, since uneducated kids will vote emotionally, not rationally. In other words, they will vote reliably Democrat and pay through the nose to have their families destroyed and their income, such as it is, redistributed. To Democrats.

Utahns, though, bless their little hearts, happen to remain stubbornly pro-family and are wise to this agenda. Which is why their legislature passed, and why their governor signed the voucher bill. This drives the left apoplectic.

The left has been taking this country down, one state at a time. But we're confident that Utah will never allow itself to fall. It is fast becoming the last bastion of real Americans, and that's why the left is constantly looking for ways to take them out.