Oh, my! NEA spins anti-fraud billboards

They're the ones behind the latest attack against deterring voter fraud.

NEA excitedly reported the removal of “the threatening signs” from billboards owned by Clear Channel Outdoor in the face of a coordinated intimidation campaign, noting that a “counter-effort” would include billboards funded by a group calling itself “Election Protection.”

In addition to the nation’s largest teachers union, Election Protection partners include the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), AFL-CIO, United Steelworkers, American Federation of Teachers, National Council of La Raza, Rock the Vote, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Common Cause, ProgressNow, Sierra Club, and Human Rights Campaign.

Color of Change, founded by former Obama “Green Jobs” Czar Van Jones, and Demos, funded by progressive billionaire George Soros, are also Election Protection partners.

Perhaps most interestingly, the Election Protection coalition includes Project Vote - long an affiliate of the now-defunct Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).

In its October 22 story, NEA sought to tie Clear Channel to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, writing, “Clear Channel Outdoor, an affiliate of the Clear Channel media conglomerate owned by Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital since 2008, claims a salesperson mistakenly sold the billboard spaces to an anonymous ‘private family foundation,’ going against company policy.”

Romney departed Bain in 1999, nearly a decade before “Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital” purchased Clear Channel. When Cleveland liberals first began comparing the billboards to Jim Crow laws early this October, Clear Channel Outdoor responded that “the agency does not have anything to do with language on advertisements.”