First the disclaimers.
If you think I am a disappointed and a little angry you are right.
I am a union guy today and despite my combination of disappointment and rage that not even a snickers could cure I will be one tomorrow.
The Tiger Cope pac is the political action part of the union, it's a small group that makes the unions endorsements that members have to pay an extra 20 a year, about 75 cents a pay check to be in.
I will be joining the Tiger cope pac tomorrow to make sure a travesty likes this never happens again.
Okay
The union's tiger cope pac let the city and its membership down when it co endorsed Cynthia Smith and Darryl Willie in the district 4 school board race.
They looked at his money advantage which was formidable. Willie raised 73 thousand dollars including a last minute push by super pacs that support charters, almost three times what Smith did.
https://www.voterfocus.com/CampaignFinance/candidate_pr.php?c=Duval
In the primary Willie more than doubled Smith's vote total too. 8.600 to 4,100.
https://ballotpedia.org/Duval_County_Public_Schools_elections_(2018)#District_4
Then there is no doubt Wilie is affable too, have you seen his KiKi challenge video, good God he has moves but the thing is, dance moves seems to be all he has.
It looked like it was going to be a blow out in District 4, a sixty forty race. So instead of doing the right thing and endorsing the teacher, the union's political action committee co endorsed a man who doesn't think teachers are professionals and anyone can do their job, they did so because they thought he was going to win. Well he did but the margin was razor thin and we are all left wondering what would have happened had the DTU tiger cope pac done the right thing.
Willie won the election, by 1,626 votes.
https://enr.electionsfl.org/DUV/Summary/1964/
How many votes was that DTU's endorsement worth? Well if it was worth 814 Smith wins that election and instead of having a man who is anti-teacher as they come, we have an educator on the board.
I am so disappointed in my union, specifically the Tiger Cope pac members that allowed this to happen.
I want people who does the right thing, even if it is hard, even if it defies the expedient thing to do and doesn't take things like the KiKi challenge into consideration.
So Mrs. Smith let me apologize to you, the city and most importantly the district's teachers deserved better.
If you think I am a disappointed and a little angry you are right.
I am a union guy today and despite my combination of disappointment and rage that not even a snickers could cure I will be one tomorrow.
The Tiger Cope pac is the political action part of the union, it's a small group that makes the unions endorsements that members have to pay an extra 20 a year, about 75 cents a pay check to be in.
I will be joining the Tiger cope pac tomorrow to make sure a travesty likes this never happens again.
Okay
The union's tiger cope pac let the city and its membership down when it co endorsed Cynthia Smith and Darryl Willie in the district 4 school board race.
They looked at his money advantage which was formidable. Willie raised 73 thousand dollars including a last minute push by super pacs that support charters, almost three times what Smith did.
https://www.voterfocus.com/CampaignFinance/candidate_pr.php?c=Duval
In the primary Willie more than doubled Smith's vote total too. 8.600 to 4,100.
https://ballotpedia.org/Duval_County_Public_Schools_elections_(2018)#District_4
Then there is no doubt Wilie is affable too, have you seen his KiKi challenge video, good God he has moves but the thing is, dance moves seems to be all he has.
It looked like it was going to be a blow out in District 4, a sixty forty race. So instead of doing the right thing and endorsing the teacher, the union's political action committee co endorsed a man who doesn't think teachers are professionals and anyone can do their job, they did so because they thought he was going to win. Well he did but the margin was razor thin and we are all left wondering what would have happened had the DTU tiger cope pac done the right thing.
Willie won the election, by 1,626 votes.
https://enr.electionsfl.org/DUV/Summary/1964/
How many votes was that DTU's endorsement worth? Well if it was worth 814 Smith wins that election and instead of having a man who is anti-teacher as they come, we have an educator on the board.
I am so disappointed in my union, specifically the Tiger Cope pac members that allowed this to happen.
I want people who does the right thing, even if it is hard, even if it defies the expedient thing to do and doesn't take things like the KiKi challenge into consideration.
So Mrs. Smith let me apologize to you, the city and most importantly the district's teachers deserved better.
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