The standing rule change would apply to superintendent and school board candidates
When the Alabama Republican State Executive Committee convenes for its 2023 Summer Meeting on Saturday, Party members will be considering a ban on campaign contributions from state and national education unions for some of its candidates.
Currently, the Alabama Republican Party’s bylaws only strongly admonish candidates who accept donations from the National Education Association (NEA) and its state affiliates, such as the Alabama Education Association (AEA). The proposed standing rule change – introduced by ALGOP Chairman John Wahl – would significantly strengthen party rules by prohibiting Republican candidates for state school board, county school board, and county superintendent from accepting these contributions.
“The Alabama Republican Party is strongly committed to protecting our children from indoctrination in the classroom by left wing groups like the NEA and its affiliated organizations. Parents should decide what their children learn about divisive concepts, not education unions that have lost touch with the values of the American people. Transgender ideology and other woke policies have no place in our schools, period. So many of our parents and local teachers want to see change in our education system, but how can we expect our superintendents and school board members to stand up against teaching these woke concepts if they are afraid of the money and financial power coming from liberal unions responsible for pushing this type of curriculum? It’s a blatant conflict of interest, and something that needs to be addressed. Our elected school representatives must be responsible to Alabama parents, not special interest groups. My proposal would stop this conflict of interest, and is no different than state’s prohibition on members of the Alabama Public Service Commission accepting donations from the utilities they regulate. The bottom line is it’s time to get woke agendas out of our curriculum and out of our classrooms,” said Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl.
Other items the ALGOP Executive Committee will take up at the meeting include the 2024 Presidential Primary Resolution, which will outline how Alabama’s presidential delegates will be apportioned in the Super Tuesday Primary.
Nearly 500 men and women from all 67 counties make up the State Executive Committee, which is the governing body of the Alabama Republican Party. The meeting will gavel in at 10 a.m. at the Montgomery Renaissance Hotel on Saturday, August 5th.
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