How Alabama
Daily Caller – Jeff Poor –
3/7/2013
The newly elected Republican
legislature and Republican Gov. Robert Bentley enacted measures to prohibit
public employees from having dues for political activities paid through payroll
draft. That measure is
much like what Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker and that state’s
Republican-led legislature pushed in 2011.
But perhaps the biggest blow
to the AEA came last week when the state legislature passed the Alabama
Accountability Act of 2013, which made school choice, private or another public
school, possible for the family of a student, if he or she is attending a
failing school.
Alabama Senate President Pro
Tem Del Marsh, the mastermind behind the legislation, sees the court ruling and
other efforts to thwart its passage as the teachers’ union’s last gasp.
“They look at this as an
issue that’s a do-or-die issue thing,” Marsh told The Daily Caller. “They go to
do all they can to defeat it. It’s unfortunate. But you know the AEA works for
their union. They don’t work for the children or the parents of this state. We
do. And this legislation was designed from day one to give those parents and
children of those failing systems a shot. And that’s what it’s about.”
AL.com politics writer
Charles Dean described it as “perhaps the single greatest defeat for the
AEA in the last 44 years” for the once all-powerful entity.
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