Teacher Union is Major Financial Backer of Gavin Newsom Redistricting Effort
“The California Teachers Association is behind every attack on our kids, pushing confusion in classrooms, protecting only those who fit their narrative, and selling out teachers to back Newsom’s gerrymander”
Surprise! Isn’t it fascinating how teacher unions seem to be in lockstep with whatever the Democrats do?
Campus Reform reports:
Teachers union bankrolls Newsom’s redistricting push ahead of 2025 vote
The California Teachers Association (CTA) has given $3 million to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s campaign for Proposition 50, a redistricting measure that will appear on the state’s Nov. 4, ballot, according to state campaign finance filings.
The CTA contribution, filed Aug. 23, went directly to “The Election Rigging Response Act, Governor Newsom’s Ballot Measure Committee,” which backs Prop 50.
The measure originated from a three-bill package in July, where Democrats used a “gut-and-amend” tactic on A.B. 604 and S.B. 280, along with A.C.A. 8, to grant the legislature temporary control of redistricting for the 2026, 2028, and 2030 election cycles. The state’s independent Citizens Redistricting Commission would resume authority in 2031.
“If this redistricting scheme goes through, voters will have no reason to trust politicians,” Assemblyman Carl DeMaio told Campus Reform. “Politicians will choose their voters; voters will not choose their politicians.”
California State Superintendent of Education candidate Sonja Shaw also criticized the union’s support. “The California Teachers Association is behind every attack on our kids, pushing confusion in classrooms, protecting only those who fit their narrative, and selling out teachers to back Newsom’s gerrymander,” Shaw wrote on X.
CTA’s Issues PAC is one of the state’s largest political spenders, previously funding school funding measures and union protections. The union has not released a formal statement on its Prop 50 contribution.
Progressive groups including Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California have also pledged to support the measure. “You take away our freedoms, we’ll take away your seats,” President and CEO Jodi Hicks said at a rally, promising her group would “go all in.”
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CA state teacher union was single biggest donor to newscum campaign for gov.
I’ll see your ca teahers union and raise you one chicago teachers union:
CTU President Stacy Davis Gates went on X to urge a special session in the Illinois General Assembly to increase funding for education as well as for transit and health care. CTU tried to address those three issues in its 2024 contract negotiations with Chicago Public Schools as well as in its 2025 legislative session agenda.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/how-chicago-teachers-union-acts-like-illinois-newest-political-party/
It’s actually the other way around. For decades now the Democrat Party has been the joint property of the trial lawyer associations and the teacher unions. There are some other minor shareholders, but those are the big two. It does the things that they want, so naturally they support those things.
Eliminate public sector unions.