Gee, I wonder if the unions are behind this???

Somebody in Alabama is so desperately scared of school choice, they've launched a stealth campaign to make school choice seem scary. Their goal: to tarnish charter schools by linking them to gays, lesbians, Muslims, Democrats, abortions – and if that's still not frightening enough – to Michelle Rhee and President Obama.

…Who's behind the ads? Who knows for sure.

But it's hardly a shocker that some suspect the powerful state teachers union. The Alabama Education Association is the leading voice against the charter school legislation. It is clearly playing for keeps. It characterizes the bill as a Trojan Horse with for-profit companies hiding inside. "Once they get anchored in the state," Henry Mabry, the AEA's executive director, warned in a recent newsletter, "key charter proponents know there will be hundreds of these pseudo-private schools all over the place as in Jeb Bush's Florida and those unregulated 'schools' will be funded with taxpayer dollars."

None of this means the AEA is behind the ads. But as far as I can tell, the AEA has done nothing to condemn the ads or distance itself from them. I emailed the AEA communications office last Thursday evening and quickly received a reply email that said I would get a response from an AEA spokesman. So far, I haven't.

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