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AEA Unhappy with Bright and Griffith Posted by Danny, on February 12th, 2009, at 8:24 amAEA leadership is not happy with Alabama’s Democratic freshmen in Congress, Bobby Bright and Parker Griffith. Below is the article and caricature from the front page of AEA’s latest newsletter. (Click to see it larger.) Something about the poses assigned by the cartoonist is amusing. I guess that is… shame? Maybe defiance on Bright’s part? Phillip Rawls of the Associated Press has the story.
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Now the question is, if things continue, will AEA recruit and finance their own candidate or get in line and go with the flow, next election cycle?
I wonder how much Bright and Griffith had to pay Hubbert and Reed to put out this crap so they’ll have cover against GOP attacks calling them liberal in two years.
Anon, do you realize that most Alabamians do not see the AEA as liberal boogeyman? In fact, although it may be a Democratic-leaning organization, most members of the AEA vote Republican for everything but maybe the state legislature. When Republicans finally realize that villifying Alabama’s teachers is not not very good politics is the day that they actually have a shot at getting a legislative majority.
As for the article, Bright and Griffith are looking more and more like one termers. Democratic leadership and interest groups understood from the outset that Bright and Griffith were never going to support gun control or an expansion of abortion rights or gay rights. These are socially conservative men from socially conservative districts. However, I don’t think anyone expected them to vote against equal pay for equal work, making it easier for kids to get health insurance (to be fair, Griffith voted for sCHIP), and the jobs bill. Mike Rogers has been a better Democrat than either of these two thus far into the session.
samforddem, no republican is “villifying” alabama’s teachers, something you very well know but are content being an idiot. so carry on, but you have zero credibility when you make statements like that.
This is anon who posted comment #2, not #4, and, for the record, I was “villifying” the two vice-chairmen of the Alabama Democrat Party – Hubbert and Reed. If they don’t want AEA to be identified as an arm of the Democrats, perhaps the two leaders of AEA should step down as vice chairs of that political party.
Bobby is a smart man and loves his new job. He is a politician, not a Democrat. He will switch parties before the 2012 election cycle.
What do you think AEA stands for, anon? The state GOPers throw around the term AEA every election cycle, just like their national counterparts throw around terms like ACLU and ACORN, except people down here by and large don’t have a problem with the AEA.
They should.
>>What do you think AEA stands for, anon?
Two different levels here:
1) The AEA is a union. They are advocates for their members. They are not for education. They are for teachers. As one teachers’ union official once said when asked when are you going to help school children, he answered, “When they start paying union dues.”
2) The AEA is also the vehicle Paul Hubbert uses to advance his agenda both personal (his golden parachute retirement plan) and political (sometimes he has to do things unrelated to education just to keep the black caucus and others happy).
There is a lot for the average Alabamian to dislike here.
samforddem, i’ll spoon feed you then, you will never here anyone say “the AEA and its members told seth hammett sue schmitz would be dropping in and he needed to provide the money for her to have a job in the two-year college system…”
you will, however, here folks say “the head of the AEA, paul hubbert, who is also a powerful lobbyist, went to seth hammett and told him that sue schmitz would be coming by and he needed to provide the money for her to have a job in the two-year system”
there is a difference. the fact that you choose to ignore that difference, most likely because of that “dem” after “samford” and hubbert’s financial role in keeping said party afloat, does not mean that those who criticize the AEA and it’s crooked leader are “villifying” teachers
or rather, “hear” anyone say
The AEA and it’s political allies are and have been ruining our state for some time. Regardless of your political leanings, no unelected official should have the kind of power that Paul Hubbert has. It is undemocratic and shameful that we allow it.
I very much hope the state GOP continues to follow your line of thinking. If Hubbert was as powerful as everyone says, he would have been elected governor and we would have much smaller class sizes. He is powerful and he is influential with most Democrats and a few Republicans in the legislature, but he does not run the show.
As evidenced, samforddem, by how he got his tail handed to him in the school board gop primaries. That million he pumped in would come in handy for the “teachers” that hubbert cares so very much about. But curious as to who you think “runs the show?” Definitely not joe turnham…so who samforddem runs the show in your party?
Well I guess Twinkle “earned” paid postion. If Main doesn’t want to make the meetings, there were plenty of staff folks that could have. I think he has about 3 assistants. I am sure the hiring of Twinkle had nothing in comon with the hiring of Schmitz..
Are you really comparing a career staffer like Twinkle Andress to Sue Schmitz? Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but Twinkle has been Riley’s appointment secretary, deputy chief of staff, etc…to hire her in the Finance Department to work directly with Riley seems fitting regardless of the timing.
On the other hand, Sue Schmitz had to leave her job as a teacher because she never showed up for work and then was given a job that she never showed up for just because she was an AEA bought legislator. She then tried to fabricate work logs to justify her salary.
Apples to Zebras.
I’ve heard that Twinkle was actually back in the governor’s office now and is not even working in the finance department any more.
whoa nelly, you must have been at “bud’s” when you rattled that off on your blackberry, b/c it makes no sense. easy on the booze prior to posting.
So this slap on the wrist is intended to scare Griffith and Bright? What will AEA do when they both win their primaries? The likelihood of AEA supporting the GOP opposition is nil, so are they prepared to eat crow? More liberal Democrats in the 2010 primary winning in either of these districts is unlikely.
Was this a warning call to the state legislature then? Otherwise this looks like a bluff from a lobbying arm who wasted a lot of money helping elect Bright and Griffith. Most Alabama citizens are tired of the AEA and Paul Hubbert. Take some of those campaign checks and buy craft supplies for schools instead. Money better spent.
I think it’s a decoy. What do the AEA union bosses care about sCHIP and equal pay? Like they care about kids or women.
William, you might want to look at what sex is 80% of the dues paying AEA membership.