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RandySF

(58,776 posts)
Wed Oct 17, 2018, 10:55 PM Oct 2018

NY Senate GOP leader calls teachers union a force of 'evil'

ALBANY – The Senate’s top Republican on Monday slammed the state’s big teachers union Monday as one of the “forces of evil” for backing Democrats trying to wrestle control of the state Senate.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, whose Republican Party’s sole base of power in state government is facing its most serious threat in this fall’s general elections, lashed out at the New York State United Teachers union, saying it has “gratuitously” targeted Senate Republicans for defeat.

Flanagan, a Suffolk County Republican, labeled the union as one of the “outside forces” trying to oust Republicans.

“Almost like forces of evil,” he said on public radio’s "The Capitol Pressroom" on Monday morning.

By the afternoon, Flanagan was calling on the state elections board to investigate what he called illegal coordination between a NYSUT-funded Super PAC, called Fighting for our Future, and Senate Democratic candidates in several battleground contests. The Buffalo News over the weekend reported the PAC has already spent $1.4 million recently trying to elect Senate Democratic candidates in Long Island, Hudson Valley and the Syracuse area.


https://buffalonews.com/2018/10/15/senate-gop-leader-calls-teachers-union-a-force-of-evil/

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NY Senate GOP leader calls teachers union a force of 'evil' (Original Post) RandySF Oct 2018 OP
must be a Limbaugher Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2018 #1
and here I thought most of those teachers were NY voters, not OUTSIDE anything nt msongs Oct 2018 #2
Poor desperate acts of a dying party. ffr Oct 2018 #3
To support his Democratic opponent, Kathleen Cleary. . . DinahMoeHum Oct 2018 #4
The Republicans might get shut out. David__77 Oct 2018 #5

ffr

(22,669 posts)
3. Poor desperate acts of a dying party.
Wed Oct 17, 2018, 11:15 PM
Oct 2018

Bye-bye weirdo republican thieves. The majority of American are going to speak in a few weeks. You can take your rhetoric with you.

David__77

(23,372 posts)
5. The Republicans might get shut out.
Wed Oct 17, 2018, 11:56 PM
Oct 2018

It has long struck me as curious that Republicans controlled the state senate in New York. I hope the Democrats don’t give them built-in advantages in the next redistricting.

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