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Saturday, February 5, 2011

NYC Public School Parents: Lynne Winderbaum on Michael Bloomberg’s version of democracy

NYC Public School Parents: Lynne Winderbaum on Michael Bloomberg’s version of democracy

Lynne Winderbaum on Michael Bloomberg’s version of democracy

“This is not democracy—letting people yell and scream," the mayor declared on his weekly radio show. "That's not freedom of expression—that's just trying to take away somebody else's rights."

How positively Orwellian hearing Mayor Bloomberg lecture us on what is or is not democracy.

  • This is the man who fired every member but one of the Panel for Educational Policy who didn’t agree with him on grade retention and replaced them with members who did—and always will.
  • This is the man who said he strongly supported term limits until he came to the end of his second term,