An activist North Carolina judge has ruled the state
must continue to act as an accounting arm for the N.C. Association of Educators,
and that the taxpayers must continue to pay for this money laundering scheme
that funnels its dues to the Democratic Party.
Wake
County Superior Court Judge Paul Gessner issued his order last month in favor
of the North Carolina Association of Educators, which announced the decision
Thursday. Gessner ruled the state’s largest teacher lobbying group was the
victim of “retaliatory viewpoint discrimination.”
State
House Speaker Thom Tillis, R-Mecklenburg, said in 2011 the law cutting off NCAE
from collecting membership dues from paychecks was payback for the group’s
political activity. He called the group a “political machine for the Left.” The
association is a force in state politics and was close to departing Gov.
Beverly Perdue, a Democrat.
Spokesmen
for Tillis and Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, declined comment on the
ruling.
Lawmakers
cut off NCAE’s dues collection while leaving alone payroll deductions for all
other employee associations in the state, including three unions such as the
State Employees Association of North Carolina.
About
80 percent of NCAE’s revenues came from the checkoffs before the law was
passed. The group represents about a third of the state’s 180,000 schoolhouse
workers.
Retaliatory?
Who in the hell does this judge think he is? A legislator?
Our duly elected representatives passed a law putting a stop to this nonsense. If this union wants to collects dues from its
member they can pay for it themselves.
This ruling is an abomination of justice. The state of North Carolina should ignore this
ignominious blathering of a Democratic Party tool.
