What do they call it when they tell members not to come to Lobby Day in Springfield? “Back home Lobby Day.” Seriously.

In an email blast from IEA Communications Director Charlie McBarron:

The Illinois Statehouse is under renovation, but IEA members cannot let the limited access to the State Capitol Building stop them from lobbying their state senators and representatives on school funding, pensions and all the other issues so important to public education.

 IEA leaders are urging members to participate in “Back Home Lobby Days.”

What do you call it when you cancel the annual Lobby Day in Springfield, where thousands of IEA members head for Springfield to meet with their state legislators en masse?

Cancelled right in the middle of the fight to keep teacher pensions.

They name it “Back Home Lobby Days.”

Shameless.

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