Roddy Stinson, who writes on city and state issues for the San Antonio Express-News had an excellent column Sunday about how the Alinsky/IAF network in Texas is meeting in Austin to "educate" taxpayers about how we need a big tax increase to fund public education in our state. Here is what Stinson has to say about the local San Antonio affiliates of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF):

"There was a time when Communities Organized for Public Service (COPS) and Metro Alliance educated the public about one issue or another, but that's no longer true. Years ago, the leaders of the quasi-religious organizations stopped educating and started propagandizing and browbeating to get their own tax-and-spend way……it would be refreshing — and considerably more honorable — if the COPS/Metro Alliance crowd would end the pretense of being purveyors of knowledge and wisdom and simply proclaim, ‘Our way or hell to pay!’"

You can bet that the IAF network will be doing all that they can to pressure the legislators in the upcoming special session into supporting an open-ended, higher tax solution to our flawed Robin Hood system of funding public education.

To read the entire Stinson column, link here.

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