Republican teachers hold news conference in Central Valley to show support for tax extensions
Fed up with the stonewalling by GOP leaders and the failure by the Legislature to approve tax extensions and pass the state budget, several Republican teachers from throughout the Central Valley turned out on June 9 to urge their GOP lawmakers to do the right thing for schools, students and California by getting behind the governor’s proposed budget.
The teachers, all prominent in the Republican Party and active in CTA’s Republican Caucus, particularly took aim at two local GOP legislators during a news conference at the Visalia Adult School.
“I’ve been a Republican all my life, and I know that Republicans care about California and about our schools,”
