When it comes to unions or “the children,” they’ll kiss the unions’ asses and sacrifice the children’s interests every time (Tony Williams excepted):
State senator Tony Williams, a Democrat from Philadelphia, is a strong proponent of the Lifeline Scholarship Program and crossed party lines to vote for it. “Guess what? Those of us who have means, who are elected, send our kids to private schools, parochial schools, and magnet schools,” said Williams in a June 29 speech in the senate, pointing out that not one neighborhood high school in Philadelphia meets average levels of proficiency. “I express myself as only a humble plea that, tonight, we do something on behalf of those thousands of parents [who] can’t afford to do it themselves.”
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But when it came time to actually take a stand, Shapiro did what a typical Democrat would do: He sided with the unions. The Pennsylvania affiliates of the National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers, AFSCME, the AFL-CIO, the SEIU, the United Food and Commercial Workers, and the Pennsylvania Building and Construction Trades Council ganged up on Shapiro and released a letter denouncing the school-choice program.
Shapiro announced he would resolve the budgetary impasse by line-item-vetoing the Lifeline Scholarship Program, despite saying that he still supports it.
