Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Regional News, March 3^rd, 1999

Teachers union is fined $15,000 in disclosure case
from the sssociated press

Olympia - An Olympia judge fined the Washington Education Association $15,000 yesterday for failing to disclose the union's political plan for the 1996 elections as part of a lawsuit, officials said.

The Evergreen Freedom Foundation first sought the political report in November 1997 as part of its lawsuit seeking to declare the WEA a political action committee...

Evergreen Freedom Foundation P.O. Box 552, Olympia, WA 98507 Phone: (360) 956-3482, Fax: (360) 352-1874 Email: effwa@effwa.org

Quotables:

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical." - Thomas Jefferson

"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." - John Stuart Mill