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Right-wing anti-union stalker apologizes. Promises to work for collective bargaining rights. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Right-wing anti-union stalker apologizes. Promises to work for collective bargaining rights. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Right-wing anti-union stalker apologizes. Promises to work for collective bargaining rights.

You can only imagine my surprise when I received the following email this morning:

Hi Fred,

I’m writing you to apologize.

When I filed the FOIA request with your school district, I was really out of line.

It was a total misuse of the law, which as you have pointed out numerous times since then, was meant to make government more transparent. It was never intended to snoop around elementary school teachers’ emails.

Frankly, I did it to scare you and other teachers from being so outspoken in defense of the rights of