tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post5798281605625151585..comments2024-03-07T15:25:26.971-05:00Comments on ICEUFT Blog: LATEST DA GIVES EVEN MORE PROOF UFT IS PART OF DE BLASIO-FARINA ADMINISTRATIONJeff Kaufmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11728874415155394751noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-21069907216686689512015-11-22T12:25:55.266-05:002015-11-22T12:25:55.266-05:00If only people would start listening.If only people would start listening.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-50824895702459949762015-11-19T18:24:19.004-05:002015-11-19T18:24:19.004-05:00Who the hell heard of DiBlasio before he won? Ther...Who the hell heard of DiBlasio before he won? There's just no way he's is getting in again. Bozo the clown could beat him handily. Every working class person in the 5 boroughs will be out in force to vote him out. He has economically shafted just about every municipal union member, including us. Every fireman, cop, correction officer, sanitation, transit worker that I know hate him. The only reason I wouldn't vote him out is because I know we will get much worse with someone else, but at least with someone else the UFT wouldn't give away the store - that's if there still is a union. (I'm not saying he's a bad guy. He seems to have good intentions, but has no experience. Things are much worse in the schools.) I'm retiring the day he's voted out. I'm making my preparations now. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-42894159091432066322015-11-19T16:10:25.102-05:002015-11-19T16:10:25.102-05:00The poll is a result of thin criticisms repeated b...The poll is a result of thin criticisms repeated by the tabloids over and over. But, they are simply style points. Such criticisms do not last four years. In fact, the negative propaganda peaked too soon to prevent his re-election. <br /><br />Fact is, DeBlasio has rung up a string of policy victories (Pre-K, reduced stop and frisk, better academic improvements than Bloomberg, and potentially creating more affordable housing). He hasn't needed to advertise them because he doesn't want to start his campaign too soon. Let them fire their ammo at him early, mitigate the damage while they run out of bulelts. Meanwhile, rack up some big victories on nuts and bolts. Then, when the angry critics are all tuckered out, start selling your victories.<br /><br />De Blasio is going to skate to a 2nd term. I was worried. But, not anymore. Cake walk. Who's going to oppose him? Who the hell has really heard of Hakeem Jefferies? Everyone is afraid of him because he could split the black vote. Okay, that would suck, but that strategy won't get him past the primary. Maybe Jefferies will land some billionaire donors who will tidy up his image and sell him, but, owing your soul to the 1% is a bit of a political liability - hasn't been in the past, but, is now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-61620560315396039222015-11-19T15:48:47.678-05:002015-11-19T15:48:47.678-05:002 years until DeBozo's out and then it's a...2 years until DeBozo's out and then it's all over for NYC teachers. I despise him, Cuomo, Bloomberg, Klien, Moskowitz, the DOE, the UFT, Mike and Randi and most of all what teaching has turned into. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-81973526224966140622015-11-19T04:37:04.886-05:002015-11-19T04:37:04.886-05:00Harris that is a big part of the problem. We are ...Harris that is a big part of the problem. We are continually asked to choose between bad, worse and worst. If de Blasio is as good as it gets on education, we are in even deeper trouble than most of us think. I agree with RBE that we are pretty much the company union now.James Eternohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13578647381229034792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-34097711785710908952015-11-18T21:51:30.046-05:002015-11-18T21:51:30.046-05:00Very fine analysis, James.
For better or worse, I...Very fine analysis, James.<br /><br />For better or worse, I think the problem with the de Blasio/UFT link will be a self-limiting one.<br /><br />The NY Times was out today with a poll that showed de Blasio "underwater" white voters in the City 25% approve/59% disapprove. Overall, 52% of New Yorkers think the City is going in the wrong direction--62% of whites, 51% of Latinos and 50% if African-Americans. <br /> <br />His overall approval rating is 44%, with 38% disapproval, down from 52% in December.<br /><br />Yes, the 2017 re-election is two years away. But Andrew Cuomo and our adversaries among the hedgistas and reformistas will take all this as an open invitation to run Hakeem Jeffries--New York City's answer to Cory Booker--de Blasio in the primary and Jeffries would win.<br /><br />I am not lovin' BDB, by any means, but we all need to be careful what we wish for because the alternative to Hizzoner will not be someone who is any "better" on education and schools than BDB is now.Harris L.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-64362004161866376462015-11-18T20:39:18.452-05:002015-11-18T20:39:18.452-05:00The UFT is union in name only, and not in heart an...The UFT is union in name only, and not in heart and soul.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-30919368089509777132015-11-18T19:36:39.505-05:002015-11-18T19:36:39.505-05:00DiBlasio is much smarter than he looks. He owns th...DiBlasio is much smarter than he looks. He owns the UFT - lock, stock and stinking Mulgrew!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-43204881299317950632015-11-18T12:26:47.058-05:002015-11-18T12:26:47.058-05:00More proof of the DOE/UFT honeymoon: OSI substanti...More proof of the DOE/UFT honeymoon: OSI substantiated my complaint against former Brooklyn DR Tom Bennett who physically and verbally assaulted me after a chapter meeting at the School for Legal Studies in '13. <br /><br />"I'm gonna get Mulgrew to come down here and he'll beat the s**t out of you,"<br />Bennett yelled, climaxing his freakout that was preceded by calling me "a f***ing pile of manure."<br /><br />Hoping to read OSI's report, I wrote to the author, Deputy Director Chris Dalton, who replied: "The allegations that you brought forth have been substantiated. If you wish to receive any further information, you may file a Freedom of Information Law request. You may email your request to ... ." But my request went nowhere because, surprise, there was no such report according to DOE Chief Counsel Courtenaye Jackson-Chase: "Your complaint to SCI was referred to OSI, and OSI did conduct an investigation. I then reviewed their findings. Because your complaint concerned an incident which occurred during a UFT meeting and concerned the business of the UFT, I believed it was appropriate to refer the findings to the UFT's General Counsel."<br /><br />Thereupon I asked UFT head shyster Adam Ross to refer OSI's findings to me, the victim. Surely my union would extend such courtesy. But whom am I kidding? Ross flatly refused, thus confirming the Gentlemen's Agreement between <br />Tweedledum and Tweedledee.Philip Nobilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01056036270116730837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-41111637360553109442015-11-18T06:52:00.363-05:002015-11-18T06:52:00.363-05:00The UFT is, for all practical purposes, a company ...The UFT is, for all practical purposes, a company union.reality-based educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.com