{"id":5562,"date":"2010-10-19T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=5562"},"modified":"2010-10-19T19:08:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T23:08:52","slug":"aft-afl-cio-shilling-for-hodes-and-porter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2010\/10\/19\/aft-afl-cio-shilling-for-hodes-and-porter\/","title":{"rendered":"AFT-AFL-CIO Shilling for Hodes and Porter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you are union members because you were forced to be as a condition of your work. Well, sometimes people pool their resources &#8212; this is what we do when we buy insurance after all.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is no excuse for our forced union dues to be used to shill for candidates we don&#8217;t like. There is no legal precedent for this and it should be illegal. It comes under the offense called &#8216;compelled speech&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>AFT and the AFL-CIO are calling to ask if their members are supporting Hodes and Porter.<\/p>\n<p>As Jefferson said&#8230;<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n&#8220;To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.&#8221; &#8211; Thomas Jefferson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you are union members because you were forced to be as a condition of your work. Well, sometimes people pool their resources &#8212; this is what we do when we buy insurance after all. However, there is no excuse for our forced union dues to be used to shill for candidates we don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5564,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions\/5564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}