“It’s outrageous and bullying behavior.”

Editorial Board, Published: February 1 

ANYONE WITH a passing familiarity with politics understands that interest groups support and contribute to candidates as a means of advancing their agendas. As far as we know, the only place in the United States where that arrangement has been turned on its head is Montgomery County, where one particular lobby — the local teachers union — wields such outsize influence that politicians shower it with money in return for its support.
Under this ethically perverse setup, state and local elected officials essentially outsource their campaigns — mailings, fliers, even polling — to a single lobbying group. The result is that, once in office, they are beholden to the union and incapable of balancing their support for teachers against potentially competing interests...

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