Teachers Unions Quietly Spend Millions on GOP Primaries in 32 States

Then-Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the National Education Association's (NEA) 150th Annual Meeting and 91st Representative Assembly at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., on July 3, 2012. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

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Though teachers unions are well known for donating huge sums to Democratic candidates, a closer look at donor data reveals that the unions have spent the last six years quietly slipping millions of dollars into the pockets of Republican candidates for state legislatures in contested primary races.