Tuberville’s Past Plagues Campaign as Alabama U.S. Senate GOP Primary Runoff Approaches

MOBILE, Alabama — With eight days to go until Alabama Republicans head to the polls to cast a ballot for their choice for who will represent the GOP in the November general election, former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville is being confronted with his past, both as collegiate football coach and a private citizen.

Last week, the Tuberville campaign had to answer for a Washington Examiner report that as coach of the Auburn Tigers, Tuberville handed down a one-game suspension, a seemingly light punishment, to player charged with rape of a 15-year-old in 1999.

Tuberville was in his first of what would be 10 seasons at Auburn when Tigers wide receiver Clifton Robinson pled guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor to avoid going to trial after being charged with the second-degree rape.

“Clifton is back on the team,” Tuberville said at the time of Robinson’s plea. “He and I will sit down today, and I’ll tell him that we do things right around here, so he can expect there will be some punishment. What it is, I don’t know yet.”

Robinson served the one-game suspension and returned to the team to play in Auburn’s match-up against Idaho Vandals on Sept. 11, 1999.

Tuberville campaign chairman Stan Mcdonald told the Montgomery (AL) Advertiser that Tuberville was being deferential to law enforcement at the time and called the suspension “routine.”

“Just as team doctors had full authority to determine if injured players took the field, Coach Tuberville gave the same kind of authority to the local police, judges, and other law enforcement officials if one of his players crossed a legal line,” Mcdonald said in a statement. “Immediate suspensions for those transgressions were routine.”

Tuberville’s opponent, former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, took exception with Mcdonald’s response. In a statement given exclusively to Breitbart News, Sessions accused Tuberville of “hiding scared.”

“A good coach cannot put winning games ahead of the well-being of a 15-year-old girl, nor ahead of teaching young men important life lessons,” Sessions said. “Instead of telling the truth and taking responsibility, Tuberville is again hiding scared. He claims that he outsourced player discipline to law enforcement. That is absurd. Ducking accountability, just like how he broke a clear promise to debate me before the Alabama voters, is dishonest and weak. Alabama needs a Senator worthy of their trust.”

On Sunday, The New York Times delivered another shot to the Tuberville campaign with a report drawing attention to the former football coach’s involvement in a 50-50 hedge fund partnership with former Lehman Brothers broker John David Stroud.

An investigation resulted in a 10-year federal sentence for Stroud for securities fraud, but no charges for Tuberville. Tuberville was sued in federal court by investors and later settled. However, the terms of the settlement were not made public.

“Coach Tuberville was as surprised as anyone to learn Stroud had lost all the money, including Coach’s,” campaign chairman Mcdonald said in a statement to The New York Times. “He never received a dime; it was a dead loss for him and his family. The Lord humbles us on many occasions, and this was such a moment for Coach.”

Sessions offered his response to the Times report in a statement on Sunday, which called on Tuberville to provide “the complete truth.”

“This is an astounding story. Based on the facts already uncovered, it is clear that Tommy Tuberville was one of two partners in a major hedge fund fraud scheme that bilked large sums of money from hardworking people, including Alabamians,” Sessions said. “His partner was even sentenced to 10 years in prison for the scheme by the court in Opelika, while Tuberville was sued for fraud, paying out a large sum of money that he has kept secret. This can’t just be swept under the rug, and Tuberville can’t just brush it aside by falsely claiming he was some innocent victim. Indeed, he was a victimizer and held himself out as the ‘managing partner’ of the firm. Tuberville must give a full and complete accounting of this scandal. The people of Alabama deserve to know the complete truth now, before the election, about the man who is asking to be their senator.”

That storyline has come up at times for Tuberville on the campaign trail, and Tuberville has consistently said he had committed no wrongdoing.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/06/tubervilles-past-plagues-campaign-as-alabama-u-s-senate-gop-primary-runoff-approaches/

Teachers’ Union to Raise Dues After ‘Significant’ Membership Loss

Now they should be investigated for bribery, extortion and stealing, and being a bunch of commie marxists destroying our children

The National Education Association (NEA) will expect active members to pay more in dues to compensate for the “significant membership decline” linked to layoffs caused by the coronavirus that originated in China, Education Week reported Thursday.

Despite the considerable drop in membership, the report continues, “the union’s revenue will actually increase by about $7 million next year because of a dues increase for teachers and support employees.”

“The value [educators] place in belonging to this union is significant, and they are willing to pay union dues to belong to that community to advocate for their colleagues and to stand up for what their kids need,” Kim Anderson, NEA executive director, told Education Week.

NEA’s virtual Representative Assembly convened on Friday with addresses from Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden and former First Lady Michelle Obama.

In his remarks at the Mount Rushmore Fireworks Celebration on Friday evening, President Donald Trump said the nation’s children “are taught in school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but that they were villains.”

“[O]ur children,” he added, “from every community, must be taught that to be American is to inherit the spirit of the most adventurous and confident people ever to walk the face of the Earth.”

NEA anticipates its membership to drop from 2.42 million full-time members to 2.29 million.

The union reported about $350.4 million in tax-exempt revenue this past year, which it expects will increase to $357.8 million in the next academic year, and then to $365 million by year 2021-22 with its proposed dues increase.

According to its research, NEA has determined the “average annual salary” of classroom teachers for 2019-2020 is $62,877, and anticipates the average salary to increase to $64,449 in year 2020-2021.

Dues for teachers was $196 in year 2019-2020, and is proposed to increase to $200 in 2020-2021, and then to $204 in 2021-2022.

Anderson said NEA did not lose the number of members that was predicted as a result of the 2018 Supreme Court decision in Janus v. AFSCME in which the Court ended compulsory public sector union dues.

Following the ruling, public sector union leaders launched lobbying campaigns in state legislatures to boost their power over workers.

“We thought we could lose anywhere from 150,000 members,” Anderson said. “People are desperate to belong to a community and feel a sense of connectedness.”

Describing its budgetary needs, the nation’s largest teachers’ union states in its “2020-2022 Strategic Plan and Budget” that its “recommended investments” will be those that assist communities “in overcoming the racial, social, economic, political, and educational injustices marked by inequitable conditions and disparate impacts that have been exacerbated by the Coronavirus pandemic.”

According to its plan, NEA’s “strategic objectives” for the two-year period ahead include increasing the “influence” of teachers at local, state, and national levels, and to “advance racial justice in education.”

NEA states in its plan that public schools are the “cornerstone of our republic,” providing students “with the skills to be involved, informed, and engaged in our representative democracy.”

In its work ahead, NEA says it hopes to “increase member capacity as messengers, leaders, and activists.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/06/teachers-union-to-raise-dues-after-significant-membership-loss/

Report: Stanford Accepted $58 Million from Chinese Government

Stanford University is facing criticism over its extensive relationship with the Chinese government. Between 2013 and 2019, the university reported that it had accepted $58 million in gifts and contracts from China and its communist government. Only Harvard, USC, and the University of Pennsylvania have taken more money from China.

According to a report by the College Fix, Stanford University accepted $58 million in gifts and contracts from China between 2013 and 2019. Critics argue that Stanford’s financial relationship with China contradicts its efforts to promote human rights around the world.

Stanford University announced in 2009 that it had partnered with the Confucius Institute to promote Chinese culture and language on campus. Just three years later, Stanford partnered with Peking University in Beijing, China.

Now, the U.S. Department of Education claims that Stanford has accepted more funds from China than nearly any other university or college in the United States. Only Harvard University, the University of Southern California, and the University of Pennsylvania have accepted more from China.

National Association of Scholars Policy Director Rachelle Peterson argued in a short statement that many universities and colleges contradict their self-professed values when they enter into financial arrangements with China’s Community Party.

“Hypocrisy is the price of funding from China. Colleges and universities declare themselves protectors of human rights and a safe place for the vulnerable. Yet they embrace the Chinese Communist Party and are complicit in the stifling of free speech,” Peterson said.

Breitbart News reported in May that the “Biden Center” at the University of Pennsylvania had come under over its financial ties to China. An investigative report accused the center of failing to disclose $70 million in gifts from China between 2017 and 2019.

https://www.breitbart.com/education/2020/07/06/report-stanford-accepted-58-million-from-chinese-government/