Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, is expected to endorse Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren for president at a rally Saturday night in Houston, according to a source familiar with the endorsement.
Weingarten is backing Warren in her personal capacity. The 1.7 million-member AFT has encouraged local unions and members to support either Warren, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders or former Vice President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination to challenge President Donald Trump.
Is anyone going to call BS on this except us?
Mayor Pete and Amy Klobuchar just happened to drop out right before Super Tuesday but Elizabeth Warren, who has virtually no chance of securing the nomination, stays in and Randi supports her. It's all to take votes away from Bernie and make sure Bernie does not get the nomination. The Democratic establishment has made up their mind that they want Joe Biden and will use every trick in the book to make sure he wins. Randi's move is a cynical attempt to have a say in the rigging of this process.
Any AFT member who takes the AFT process seriously or thinks Randi is on the level here is deluding themselves. She is part of the stop Bernie crowd.
Crystal Ball takes Warren apart in this video.
Why are they doing this?
ReplyDeleteBernie is unacceptable to the establishment Dems. They will do anything to beat him.
ReplyDeleteAnd why do you think that is?
ReplyDeleteRandi is a part of the Democratic establishment. They want status quo where they do well.
ReplyDeleteThe AFT and UFT absolutely do not want Bernie in office. They would much prefer Trump. Bloomberg was at another town hall meeting last night blowing his horn about how generous he was to NYC teachers and how great his education policies were. I’m sure he has a coordinated plan with Randi, in which he gets a brokered nomination. There’s also an article in The Chief that is worth reading. https://thechiefleader.com/opinion/columns/razzle_dazzle/uft-leader-bloomy-s-memory-unbelievable/article_6ba6400e-5973-11ea-bfbb-6f48e0748777.html#utm_source=thechiefleader.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletters%2Fheadlines%2F%3F-dc%3D1583195403&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline
ReplyDeleteAll while Mulgrew was in Florida plucking the dollars off retirees, of course.
Why am I picturing devil Pelosi pulling the evil strings behind he curtain..Pelosi is one ego maniac who has fallen to the times but the evil ego will not let go in her quest to defeat Trump. In my view a the dem party is representative of their leadership like any other organization and rest assured this is pelosi at the wheel.
ReplyDeleteHowever, she has made a fool of herself time and time again and probably ending with her hoards of make up melting down her face in the end as she will crash and burn with her zany I am a powerful woman mentality.
Will someone please buy Schumer bifocals...This guy is one complete jerk and to watch him time and time again at the podium with those glasses hanging down his nose is just nausating.
ReplyDeleteThe dem leadership is crumbling and evident of their party and this is the root of the problem.. Look any where is society whether it be business, sports, education and leadership is the main factor (for the most part) in the way any organization works, acts and ultimately whether they are successful or not.
The Democratic establishment is acting precisely as predicted.
ReplyDeleteThey are convinced Bernie would lose in a landslide so massive it would wipe out the brand for 16 years and kill the other Dem candidates up for election in 2020.
The notion that Bernie could win - because polls show him winning nationally head to head v Trump - is discounted (because the same polls show Warren [for example] winning nationally head to head v Trump. And Warren is about to lose her home state of Massachusetts).
The speculative head-to-head polls mean nothing given our state-by-state electoral system and a host of other factors.
Bernie would not (the conventional wisdom holds) even retain all of Hillary's states...and Hillary was slammed by Trump pretty soundly (304-227). (Folks distracted by the irrelevant popular vote have particular difficulty grasping this.)
But keep paying dues?
ReplyDeleteTheir world is threatened by Bernie who knows they are full of shit. I hope Bernie does well today.
ReplyDeleteState polls in battleground states do not reflect what 9:12 is arguing. Bernie does well in them. Bernie has very high favorability ratings, much higher than Hillary did. The Republicans have played the socialist card with every Democrat including Obama who clearly is not a socialist. It is old. The anti-Bernie plot has very little to do with down-ballot races and much more to do with the different DC the establishment fears with Bernie in power. Biden is not a very good candidate as the people in the first three primary/caucus states figured out.
ReplyDeleteHaha. Finally blaming the dems.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they really dont want him taking every working person's money and providing welfare with it.
ReplyDeleteEveryone says the Democratic Party is a joke. Look at what Trump did to the Republican Party.
ReplyDeleteIn Florida, Mulgrew was saying Bernie ‘could’ be terrible for retirees because of universal health care. Retirees would have to look far and wide for a decent doctor and have to wait long periods of time. Anything could happen while waiting. As a Biden delegate, he implied that Biden was the best possible candidate to insure retirees income and lifestyles are protected. Stop paying dues until the UFT starts representing teachers. Biden is a brain damaged piece of shit. Bernie or I’ll burn my UFT membership card.
ReplyDeleteHow dare we have more people covered for health insurance? Let the poor people drop dead.
ReplyDeleteBernie done?
ReplyDeleteI agree that there is a problem with the cost of health care in the US.
ReplyDeleteAny kind of universal health care, single payer health care, government run health care, would only make things worse. Government run anythings are just big, corrupt money pits.
Bernie not in good shape now in the race but at least Bloomberg did terribly last night. Warren hanging around is just to take votes from Bernie. Thanks for nothing as usual Randi.
ReplyDeleteGovernment runs Social Security and Medicare. Very low administrative costs. Medicare for All is polling well by the way.
If everyone gets free medical, EVERYONE must be able to get it. If I quit the doe, by choice, at 40 years old, i want it for free. Dont tell me i have savings or i chose to quit or i am able bodied. Cant have it both ways. He cant pick and choose who the freeloaders are. Doesnt matter, it will be biden vs trump.
ReplyDeleteDozens of Asian-American parents filtered into a Queens auditorium in January, gathering to protest a local school desegregation plan that they said would drive their children to low-performing schools in far-off neighborhoods. But their anger was really directed at one person: Richard A. Carranza, the leader of New York City’s schools.
ReplyDeleteThey chanted: “Fire Carranza!” and accused the schools chancellor of forcing integration and of discriminating against their children.
The scene — groups of parents venting frustration with Mr. Carranza and his vision for the nation’s largest school system — has been repeated in recent months, from City Hall Park to a dim sum restaurant in Brooklyn.
Those rallies are led by a small yet highly organized group of mostly Asian-American families who travel to the school chancellor’s appearances, wearing T-shirts emblazoned with anti-Carranza messages and holding signs with messages like, “Carranza breeds racism in the name of diversity.”
Mr. Carranza’s focus on racial inequality in city schools has drawn ire from prominent conservatives across the country, many of whom are white. But the Mexican-American chancellor has faced his strongest critics closer to home, from some of those in the city’s Asian community.
That rift, which is at the center of an emotional debate among families of color about merit and fairness in city schools, threatens to undermine the chancellor’s remaining two years as one of the most influential education officials in the country.
“You have this chancellor and this mayor who have all these great ideas, but the ideas don’t include Asians,” said Amy Tse, a Queens mother who frequently attends anti-Carranza rallies.
“They never even mention Asians. It’s always a white-black thing.”
Bounce-back for Biden but the establishment media is hyping the number of states he has won. That is not how this is scored. Just one example:
ReplyDeleteThe much-hyped Texas win for Biden yielded a whopping 56 delegates for Biden v 50 for Bernie.
(Ironically it is the same establishment media who pretended not to understand the electoral process when Hillary was trounced by Trump.)
Mr. Carranza’s handling of a 2018 fight over how to enroll more black and Hispanic students in the city’s top public high schools offended and alienated many Asian-Americans — and not just parents.
ReplyDeleteSen. John Liu, a Democratic state senator who represents a large Asian population in Queens, helped ensure that the specialized school plan failed in Albany this past summer. “It’s important to be a chancellor for all school kids,” Mr. Liu said. “Two years in, Carranza is falling behind on the curve on that.”
The chancellor has also faced criticism from Representative Grace Meng, a Queens Democrat, along with other Asian-American Democrats in the New York City Council and State Legislature.
And the chasm continues to deepen.
Since the start of this school year, Asian-American parents have accused Mr. Carranza of prejudice over a range of issues, from his decision not to fire an elected parent leader who called Asians “yellow folks” to the fact that the city considered relocating one of the chancellor’s upcoming town hall meetings from Chinatown to Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, before reversing course.
The vitriol and racial division that defined the battle over the so-called specialized high schools have now begun to color a series of seemingly unrelated issues — and stand to influence the school district for years to come.
Shortly after Mr. Carranza arrived in New York in spring 2018, he and Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a plan to get rid of the admissions exam for eight specialized schools, in an effort to boost the number of black and Hispanic students.
Asian students make up a majority of the schools and would lose about half their seats under the city’s proposal. Asian-American parents and politicians were not consulted about the plan before it was announced.
Mr. Carranza’s striking defense of the plan that summer — “I just don’t buy into the narrative that any one ethnic group owns admission to these schools” — galvanized Asian-American parents to oppose the plan and the chancellor himself.
In an interview with The Times, Mr. Carranza said he regrets not reaching out to Asian-Americans sooner, but said he will continue to push for the elimination of the entrance exam.
Mr. Carranza insisted that integration would benefit “all cultures and all ethnic groups,” but said he would continue to speak bluntly about inequality — even if doing so continues to land him in trouble.
“In a leadership position you have a choice to make, you can go along and get along and incrementally make some changes, or you can actually take a stand for what you believe in,” he said.
He added, “I’m not a politician, I’m really not, I just want to be honest with people as a chancellor.”
But Mr. Carranza’s ability to push forward a still-hypothetical integration agenda that requires broad support may have already been seriously compromised: Some Asian-American families now believe that desegregation would not include or benefit their children.
“Carranza comes from an immigrant family, you would think he would be a little more understanding of the immigrant experience,” said Ms. Tse, who immigrated from Hong Kong as a child. Mr. Carranza is the grandson of Mexican immigrants.
Asian-Americans across the country have said they feel ignored or misunderstood in charged debates about merit and fairness in education.
Some families have protested affirmative action policies in higher education, most prominently at Harvard University, arguing that they benefit black and Hispanic families at the expense of Asian students.
“Our community, as diverse as it is, remains highly invisible in discussions around race,” in New York and around the country, said Vanessa Leung, the co-executive director of the New York-based Coalition for Asian-American Children and Families.
In recent conversations with the chancellor, Ms. Leung said she felt heartened that he was “learning” more about the community.
Asian-Americans are the poorest immigrant group in New York, and about 70 percent of the city’s Asian public school students live in poverty.
Exit Poll: “A Govt Plan for All Instead of Private Insurance?”
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72% Support
27% Oppose
N CAROLINA
56% Support
40% Oppose
VIRGINIA
52% Support
46% Oppose
#MedicareForAll is WINNING. VOTE the candidate who has supported #M4A for decades: @BernieSanders
#SuperTuesday
Trumpian behavior is not pretty not on Trump or anyone else. It is a mob like action and stance to kick an individual when s/he is down. As educators what kind of an example do we set? Bloomberg’s withdrawal is a lesson in wasted time, money and effort that could have helped NYC’s homeless population. It’s truly sad how degenerated society has become.
ReplyDeleteMaine is an interesting case.72% for medicare for all but Bernie loses to biden by a hair - 33%- so where are all those people when it comes time to vote - half chose Biden.
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ReplyDeleteOne would think now that after seeing Bloomberg perform in the dem debates and the way he handled his presidential run the writing is on the wall that Bloomberg is a bozo. Further Bloomberg was caught on camera picking pizza from a box at his campaign headquarters and then ripping off a piece and putting the rest of the pizza back into the box. To make matters worse Bloomberg was caught licking his fingers while eating the pizza in open space in these corona virus times.....And this is the guy who was lecturing every one on what to eat, how to eat it and how much to eat or drink for that matter. Maybe now people will realize that Bloomberg is really some guy who struck it rich with one great idea and by no means is he a brilliant mind and his policies destroyed our livelihoods here at the nycdoe. People thought because he was rich that he knew better but in reality we all knew better. Maybe now the atr pool will cease and sensible policies can be re-implemented into our system
I paid for my college by working and i took out student loans which i paid back in less than ten years by scrimping on other things. Why is it fair that we just cancel all student loan debt? Don’t they owe at least something for taking out loans?
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