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yurbud

(39,405 posts)
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 04:26 PM Oct 2015

AFT Hillary email and my response:

So I got this email from my union:

If you could ask Hillary Clinton one question, what would you ask?

We asked our endorsed candidate for the Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton, to meet with AFT members in the trenches to discuss public education—the issues, challenges and aspirations they are seeing and feeling in schools and communities right now—and have a conversation about what's needed to help our students thrive.
We will be bringing in AFT members from around the country to attend the event (on us!) and ask Hillary one question they have always wanted to ask. That could be you!

Would you like to join some of your colleagues in this conversation with Hillary Clinton?
Submit your question here for a chance to win.


Oddly, nobody asked me who I wanted my union to endorse, and I don't know what criteria they used to select Hillary, who will doubtless do exactly what Wall Street tells her to do on public education and everything else.

Therefore, this is the question I told them I would like to ask:

Will you stop Wall Street's efforts to privatize public education and dictate education policy for their own financial gain? If yes, what in your record would make us believe you would actually do so?
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