Just days after the Ohio primary, which fell on National Teacher Day, extremist radio host Carey Coleman is heading into the general election dogged by on-camera remarks from his own campaign launch telling teachers’ unions to “go to hell“ — a direct shot at the more than 91% of Ohio public school teachers who belong to a union.
Ohio has one of the highest unionization rates in the country, but as Tiffin Ohio reports:
“A recording from Coleman’s campaign launch event […] captured him saying he wanted ‘to make damn sure if I have any ability in Congress to enact policy to tell these, for one, national teachers unions to go to hell.’ In the same remarks, he accused the unions of having ‘hijacked our education.'”
This isn’t a one-off. Coleman has also accused public schools of “shaming” students who support Donald Trump and called for sweeping but unspecified “fundamental changes” to Ohio classrooms.
DCCC Spokesperson Riya Vashi:
“Carey Coleman isn’t even a week into being his party’s nominee, and Ohio voters are already hearing exactly what he thinks of their kids’ teachers: they can ‘go to hell.’ This is the same extremism Coleman has spent years broadcasting on his radio show, and it’s why OH-13 voters know he has no business representing Northeast Ohio in Congress.”
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