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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (39565)	9/25/2000 11:28:19 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 769667

Article...Landmark Legal Foundation Calls on NEA to 'Obey the Law!' Monday September 25, 2000; 4:25 PM EDT newsmax.com From the dearth of mainstream media coverage, you'd never know that the nation's most powerful teachers union has been playing fast and loose with federal election law for years. But that's exactly what the Virginia-based public interest law firm, the Landmark Legal Foundation, says the National Education Association has been doing, in a series of ads that appeared this past weekend in a number of the country's leading newspapers. "Obey the Law!" Landmark headlined the ad. "The leaders of the NEA were apparently absent the day their civics teachers taught that America's laws apply to everyone. For years the nation's largest union has spent millions in tax-exempt funds to influence elections and contribute to candidates - all without reporting a dime of those expenditures to the government or paying any taxes on those contributions as required by law." Landmark currently has complaints about the NEA before the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Election Commission, based on what its lawyers have uncovered so far: A $50 million tax-exempt NEA slush fund, which the union used in 1993 and 1994 to bankroll its political machine around the country. A $2.5 million expenditure in the 1995-96 election cycle alone to recruit NEA-friendly political candidates and mobilize its membership. A 1996 budget of $9.6 million to screen candidates for federal office and conduct political polls. A Boston Globe report cited by Landmark reveals that in the early 1990s: "The NEA spent 10 times as much of its budget on political activity ($34.7 million) as on ensuring excellence in public education ($3.3 million) or improving professional standards and working conditions for all education employees ($3 million)." "Yet, the NEA has not reported any of these political expenditures on its federal returns or paid any taxes on them," says Landmark.