{"id":2175,"date":"2012-02-17T20:26:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T20:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svorcan.info\/caindependentteachers\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2012-02-17T20:26:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T20:26:27","slug":"where-is-your-cta-money-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caindependentteachers.com\/?p=2175","title":{"rendered":"Where Is Your CTA Money Going?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0A recently obtained a list of CTA contributions from its Association for Better Citizenship political action committee shows that a proportionally great deal of it \u00a0is going to San Bernadino and San Fransisco.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For November 2011 local elections, CTA donated $14,432 to county party committees, ranging from $80 to the Tehama County Democratic Central Committee to $3,500 to the Orange County Democratic Central Committee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, the union PAC contributed $226,542 to at least 63 local elections. These ranged from $350 to the Chualar Teachers Association to support the school board candidacy of Rosalba Moreno \u00a0to $20,000 contributions each to the\u00a0United Educators of San Francisco PAC<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0San Bernardino Teachers Association PAC<\/a>\u00a0(three of four school board winners).<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s the full list of PAC contributions to local affiliates and their ultimate destination, if available:<\/span><\/p>\n

Alvord – $3,000<\/span><\/p>\n

Baldwin Park – $3,234 ($1,078 each to Jack White, Natalie Ybarra, and Mary Ferrer, school board candidates)<\/span><\/p>\n

Banning – $2,000<\/span><\/p>\n

Beverly Hills – $2,000<\/span><\/p>\n

Brawley – $1,500<\/span><\/p>\n

Burlingame – $600 (Measure E – education parcel tax)<\/span><\/p>\n

Chaffey – $4,250<\/span><\/p>\n

Charter Oaks – $1,800<\/span><\/p>\n

Chualar – $350 (Rosalba Moreno, school board candidate)<\/span><\/p>\n

Citrus – $2,000<\/span><\/p>\n

College of the Canyons – $10,000<\/span><\/p>\n

Compton – $5,000<\/span><\/p>\n

Culver City – $3,000 (Nancy Goldberg, school board candidate)<\/span><\/p>\n

Dixon – $1,400<\/span><\/p>\n

Eastside – $2,000<\/span><\/p>\n

El Centro – $500 (Patricia Dunnam, school board candidate)<\/span><\/p>\n

El Monte Union – $1,500<\/span><\/p>\n

El Segundo – $2,000<\/span><\/p>\n

Empire – $1,000<\/span><\/p>\n

Eureka – $2,500<\/span><\/p>\n

Fairfield-Suisun – $9,466<\/span><\/p>\n

Garvey – $1,450<\/span><\/p>\n

Hacienda La Puente – $4,200<\/span><\/p>\n

Hart – $8,000 ($4,000 each to Gloria Mercado-Fortine and Steve Sturgeon, school board candidates)<\/span><\/p>\n

La Canada – $1,000<\/span><\/p>\n

Laguna Salada – $830 (Yes on L – parcel tax increase)<\/span><\/p>\n

Las Virgenes – $9,000 (Measure K – parcel tax)<\/span><\/p>\n

Lynwood – $5,000<\/span><\/p>\n

Modesto – \u00a0$9,000<\/span><\/p>\n

Mountain View – $1,890<\/span><\/p>\n

Newark – $575 (Measure G – school bond)<\/span><\/p>\n

Newhall – $4,536 (Measure E – school bond)<\/span><\/p>\n

Norwalk-La Mirada – $6,300<\/span><\/p>\n

Oakdale – $4,000 (Synthia Jones – $3,000, Tina Shatswell – $1,000, both school board candidates)<\/span><\/p>\n

Pacific Grove – $2,000 (Measure V – parcel tax)<\/span><\/p>\n

Palmdale – $13,500<\/span><\/p>\n

Perris – $1,000<\/span><\/p>\n

Pomona – $6,000<\/span><\/p>\n

Potter Valley – $1,000 ($500 each to school board candidates Tammie Smith and Diane Johnson)<\/span><\/p>\n

Rio Hondo – $10,000<\/span><\/p>\n

Riverbank – $2,000<\/span><\/p>\n

Riverside – $4,000<\/span><\/p>\n

Rosemead – $500 (Qui Nguyen, school board candidate)<\/span><\/p>\n

Salinas – $1,600<\/span><\/p>\n

San Bernardino – $20,000<\/span><\/p>\n

San Francisco – $20,000<\/span><\/p>\n

Sequoia – $5,000<\/span><\/p>\n

South Tahoe – $1,400<\/span><\/p>\n

Sulphur Springs – $2,200 ($1,100 each to Denis De Figueiredo and Rochelle Weinstein, school board candidates)<\/span><\/p>\n

Sylvan – $3,436 (Steve Miller – $2,000, Chuck Rivera – $1,436, both school board candidates)<\/span><\/p>\n

Temple City – $1,925<\/span><\/p>\n

Ukiah – $3,500<\/span><\/p>\n

Vacaville – $5,000<\/span><\/p>\n

Visalia – $3,000<\/span> googletest<\/a><\/p>\n

Westside Union – $1,400<\/span><\/p>\n

Wilsona – $1,200<\/span><\/p>\n

In each instance, the above money is in addition to whatever money may be raised and spent by the local affiliate. In large cities, this may be substantial. In smaller towns, this may be non-existent, giving the local teachers’ union power over local elections far beyond its numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0A recently obtained a list of CTA contributions from its Association for Better Citizenship political action committee shows that a proportionally great deal of it \u00a0is going to San Bernadino and San Fransisco.\u00a0 For November 2011 local elections, CTA donated $14,432 to county party committees, ranging from $80 to the Tehama County Democratic Central Committee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[83,121,198,191,199,200,127,156],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lower-teachers-dues-cut-in-half","tag-association","tag-california","tag-california-teachers-association","tag-cta","tag-pac","tag-political-contributions","tag-teacher-union","tag-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caindependentteachers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caindependentteachers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caindependentteachers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caindependentteachers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caindependentteachers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caindependentteachers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caindependentteachers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caindependentteachers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caindependentteachers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}