Fearing empty seats, Obamas convention speech moved indoors – NYPOST.com.
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Public Employees and Teachers Unions Deeply Trust Romney’s Bain Capital
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These funds aggregate the savings of millions of unionized teachers, social workers, public-health personnel and first responders. Many would be startled to learn that their nest eggs are incubated by the company that Romney launched and the financiers he hired.
Leading universities have also profited from Bain’s expertise. According to Infrastructure Investor, Bain Capital Ventures Fund I (launched in 2001) managed wealth for “endowments and foundations such as Columbia, Princeton and Yale universities.”
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Bankrupting a State: Teachers Union “Protects” Their Own to Death
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The union has killed or hijacked nearly every reform bill that has popped up in the legislature. In 2010 it even sank a bill to let high school teachers volunteer to be evaluated by students. “Nobody would see [the evaluation] except the teacher, and CTA fought it tooth and nail. They really were of the opinion that we run the place. . . . Their basic argument was that its the nose underneath the camels tent. So you cant do anything, because once you do something,” the lid on reform is “lifted. So they just kill it.”
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via The Weekend Interview with Gloria Romero: The Trials of a Democratic Reformer – WSJ.com.