Teacher Unions a $6.6M Lobby
Posted on May 8th, 2009 by Admin
May 8, 2009
NY Post
ALBANY — Powerful teachers unions spent $6.6 million to push their political agenda in Albany last year, according to a Post analysis of new state lobby data.
The United Federation of Teachers and its parent, New York State United Teachers, burned a combined $5.3 million in 2008 to bus hundreds of teachers to Albany, pay some 20 lobbyists and run ads bashing Gov. Paterson.
The teachers last year also doled out more than $1.3 million to various political candidates, according to a report by the New York Public Interest Research Group.