Shocker! Weaver Was for Obama All Along
When you report on an arcane topic like teachers’ unions, you can wait a very, very long time for ultimate confirmation of stories. For example, NEA never publicly acknowledged that retired Rear Admiral John F. Sigler was a finalist for its executive director job back in 2000 (or that I was the one who told him he didn’t get it).
Yesterday, Campaign K-12 interviewed outgoing NEA President Reg Weaver, who said he was for Obama all along “in his heart,” but kept quiet about it because NEA was split between Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Weaver’s support for Obama wasn’t much of a secret, and indeed there was evidence Weaver was instrumental in keeping the door open for Obama back when he was just one of the Democratic pack and Hillary seemed to be a shoo-in. Check out this lead story from October 29, 2007, which was just a few weeks after AFT had endorsed Hillary, and months before Obama’s Iowa caucus victory launched him on the path to the nomination.
August 29th, 2008 at 14:49
Not only was Weaver for BO all along, he apparently thinks EVERY member of the NEA is with him. Please click on the Edspresso link on the left to see what I mean. The “Audacity of Reg” is off the charts.