The Alabama Education Association's political action committee is using more than $1 million in loans to help support candidates after spending on primary races earlier this year.
The Montgomery Advertiser reports a campaign finance report filed last week shows AEA's political action committee took out a loan of more than $1.2 million in addition to borrowing $500,000 in July.
Earlier this year, the Alabama Department of Education directed school districts to enforce a law blocking AEA from receiving contributions directly from educators' paychecks. The contributions were a major source of the group's funding.
AEA spokeswoman Amy Marlowe says the group taking out loans is a standard practice during election cycles. The newspaper reports that AEA took out $2.5 million in loans when it spent $9.4 million on 2010 elections.
