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Campbell Brown’s abusive-teachers war preceded Twitter spat

by Geoff Decker

Campbell Brown testified before the state's Education Reform Commission on the issue of teachers found to have abused children last week.

Campbell Brown says she’s done using Twitter to provoke union leaders into a debate.
After a furious 48-hour exchange with AFT president Randi Weingarten, in which the 140-character messages quickly elevated into charges of sexism and conflicted interests, Brown said she wants the next showdown to be face-to-face.
“I’d love to sit down with Randi and have a real debate,” Brown said this morning in a phone interview. But she added a caveat. “There’s nothing to debate.”
In less than a week, Brown, a former NBC White House correspondent and CNN anchor, has gone from largely