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Teachers union takes aim at Steinberg in new mailer to his constituents

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The California Teachers Assn. has sent another mailer to constituents of Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), urging Steinberg’s constituents to back the budget blueprint laid out by Speaker John Pérez (D-Los Angeles).

The mailer is the latest in a growing feud between the union and Steinberg. Last month, CTA sent another mailer to Steinberg’s constituents and took out ads on a pair of billboards in the capital urging Steinberg to hold the line on education funding.

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The newest mailer extols Pérez and urges Steinberg’s constituents to put pressure on the senate leader to back the plan.

‘Democrats in the state Assembly, led by Speaker John Pérez, have developed the ‘California Jobs Budget’ that saves our schools and students from these devastating cuts,’ the mailer reads. ‘You can help by asking your senator, Darrell Steinberg, to join parents, educators and community members in supporting the Assembly’s’ plan.

Steinberg has introduced his own plan, which provides billions less to schools than Perez’s proposal. The two leaders say they are trying to reconcile their proposals to put forward a united Democratic proposal.

-- Anthony York in Sacramento

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