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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I would suggest that one reason that teachers' unions seem to have so much influence is that educational policy is hard, abstruse stuff, and that people who care in the abstract about the issue have a hard time figuring out how to translate their interest into political action. I would vote for political candidates who were going to improve the schools, but I don't think they (a) know how to do it, and (b) know how to sell that in a political campaign.
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You are discounting, of course, the value of the Spanky Third Way Coalition, a motley crew of California politicians gathered to save the day. They may or may not be registered Republicans, but they sure as shit aren't Democrats or unionists.
