Democrats Should 'break Up' With Randi Weingarten, Ex-harris Campaign Aide Argues

The Democratic Party should "break-up" pinch American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten, ex-Kamala Harris run adjutant Ben Austin wrote successful an sentiment portion connected Monday.

"Democratic leaders should convey Weingarten for her service, past fastener nan doorway down her arsenic she makes her measurement out," Austin wrote successful The Hill. "As a statement leader, Weingarten gaslit Democrats into believing that nan champion consequence to nan Republican free marketplace smorgasbord of schoolhouse prime pinch loosely regulated vouchers is to make judge location is nary prime of immoderate kind."

Weingarten announced that she would beryllium leaving nan Democratic National Committee owed to a disagreement pinch statement activity successful June. 

Austin, nan founding head of Education Civil Rights Now and a beardown protagonist of unions, besides called retired an connection of AFT for wielding "considerable powerfulness to bully politicians and defiant parents into fealty during nan schoolhouse closures." 

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The Democratic Party should "break-up" pinch American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten, ex-Kamala Harris run adjutant Ben Austin wrote successful an sentiment piece. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

The affiliate, United Teachers Los Angeles, powerfully opposed Austin's community-organized effort to get teachers backmost successful nan schoolroom passim nan COVID-19 pandemic.

"Weingarten’s connection initially opposed school complete zoom. And while United Teachers Los Angeles trapped Los Angeles Unified School District students astatine location indefinitely, trim disconnected from learning, they rooted their guidance to reopening schools successful bizarre group ideology, not science," he wrote.

"These Los Angeles Unified School District parents encountered endless Kafkaesque roadblocks erected by Weingarten’s union. And arsenic it happened, I watched a group of smart progressive parents I’d been organizing pinch toggle shape into Trump voters one-by-one. It was for illustration a real-time attraction group of nan harm Weingarten and her friends were doing to my party’s credibility," Austin continued.

Austin said Weingarten's activity had been "tragic" for American children. 

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"Democratic leaders should convey Weingarten for her service, past fastener nan doorway down her arsenic she makes her measurement out," Austin wrote successful The Hill. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz (Reuters)

Austin accused nan Democratic Party of "offshoring" acquisition argumentation to teachers unions.

"Here’s a instruction scheme for my party: Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama won because they had nan courage to situation statement orthodoxy connected behalf of nan American people. Democrats for illustration Harris — on pinch each nominee since Walter Mondale who mislaid successful nan wide predetermination — ran arsenic avatars of statement orthodoxy and offshored acquisition policymaking to Weingarten and nan teachers unions," he wrote.

He said erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris ne'er talked astir schools successful her run speeches and said it was by design.

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a run rally astatine Jenison Field House connected nan field of Michigan State University, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, successful East Lansing, Mich.  (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

"Democrats became nan statement of nationalist acquisition because they had nan courageousness to conflict for it. That courageousness is needed again coming — to situation grounded leaders, guidelines pinch parents, return backmost powerfulness and conflict for democracy," Austin concluded.

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AFT did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.