MEA to battle ‘real threat’
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Kennebec Journal: The union that represents 25,000 Maine school employees is retooling its mission until Nov. 3 to focus entirely on defeating a ballot initiative the group characterizes as an "immediate and real threat" to the state's public schools. The Maine Education Association has made defeating Question 4 on November's ballot its "primary purpose" in the runup to Election Day. "We simply must bring to bear the full power, and every resource within our 25,000-member association," officials told members in a recent e-mail.
Question 4 would institute a so-called taxpayer bill of rights, or TABOR, linking state and municipal government tax increases to rates of inflation and population growth. Voters would have to approve larger spending increases. "We're going to fight the people that want to cut funding to education in the state," said Chris Galgay, the Maine Education Association president. The teachers' union fought previous tax cap proposals, which voters rejected in 2004 and 2006.
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