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Posted By: Carla Marinucci | July 28 2010 at 02:18 PM

California Working Families for Jerry Brown, the independent expenditure group working to help the Democratic State Attorney General’s 2010 gubernatorial campaign, just got a powerhouse ally — the 325,000-member California Teachers Association.

CTA President David Sanchez, in announcing the move, called Brown “the education candidate for governor.”

“He gets that California’s future depends on a world-class, quality public school system,” Sanchez said in a statement today. “We believe Jerry Brown can lead this state of of this fiscal crisis, and bring collaboration back to Sacramento.”

The CTA, in making the move to join the California Working Families group, becomes part of a coalition aiming to boost Brown that involves labor, healthcare workers, construction workers, engineers, teachers, environmental and women’s groups, among others, says CWF spokesman Roger Salazar.

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