A national teachers union boss who has been criticized by conservatives said she now needs security because of threats that followed disparagement by former Kansas congressman Mike Pompeo.
American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten was in Topeka on Wednesday, visiting the Kansas Statehouse for a rally with labor leaders and Gov. Laura Kelly organized by the Kansas AFL-CIO. The AFT, which is part of the AFL-CIO, is the country’s second-largest teachers union.
In November 2022, as Donald Trump’s former cabinet member was mulling a run for president, Pompeo told Semafor that a top issue for Republicans in 2024 would be “making sure we don’t teach our kids crap in schools.”
“The most dangerous person in the world is Randi Weingarten,” Pompeo said. “It’s not a close call. If you ask, ‘Who’s the most likely to take this republic down?’ It would be the teacher’s unions, and the filth that they’re teaching our kids, and the fact that they don’t know math and reading or writing.”