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Article: Florida Senate Panel OKs Bill Targeting Teachers Union's Political Spending.
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- March 12, 2003
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By Sonji Jacobs, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 12--TALLAHASSEE, Fla.--Florida's teachers union got a dose of what its leaders call political payback from Republicans on Tuesday when a Senate committee approved a bill that would ban using dues collected from its members through employee payroll deduction for political purposes.
Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, the bill's sponsor, argued that teachers should have more choice in determining how their payroll deductions are spent.
"When dues are taken out of their paychecks, they don't have a choice of where their money is going to go as far as political ...