You just can’t make this stuff up…
by jonpelto
Earlier today, StudentsFirst – yes, that’s right — Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirst… (The organization that IS NOT LOBBYING in Connecticut) issued a press release attacking the opponents of Governor Malloy’s “Education Reform” bill.
In their press release, Tim Melton, the Vice President of Legislative Affairs for StudentsFirst argues that “since the facts aren’t on their side, they are resorting to negative and false political attacks.”
Apparently he believes that the work that the Connecticut Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers and the rest of us pro-public education people are engaged in, as we tell the truth about Malloy’s bill, is “resorting” to attacks.
Now, just to be clear, Tim Melton IS NOT the same StudentsFirst Vice President who was listed on the official State of Connecticut lobbyist filing forms as the “Principal Officer or Director” of GNEPSA (which IS the group that is lobbying in Connecticut).
That StudentsFirst Vice President was Woodhouse Enoch.
This StudentsFirst Vice President is Tim Melton.
So we now have StudentsFirst’s CEO, the “other” Vice President, the Chief Operating Officer and the Chief Legal Counsel all lobbying on behalf of Malloy’s bill – but the “other”
