Mother Crusader: Would Pete Seeger Perform At An Eva Moskowitz Rally?

Mother Crusader: Would Pete Seeger Perform At An Eva Moskowitz Rally?:

Would Pete Seeger Perform At An Eva Moskowitz Rally?

I seriously can't believe I just had to write that title.


Please, don't blame me, blame Laura Waters.


In her latest opinion piece for NJ Spotlight she posits that Newark mayoral candidate Ras Baraka may activate the reformy base in New Jersey as she claims Mayor Bill de Blasio has in New York City. 


She cites the recent Eva Moskowitz rally as proof positive that de Blasio has "unified and energized" the school choice movement.

Parents, children, teachers, and community members who value school options other than their assigned neighborhood schools are unified and energized. If Pete Seeger were still around he’d be writing ballads about Eva Moscowitz and singing “We Shall Overcome.”

(Let's all just ignore that Waters spells MosKowitz's name incorrectly throughout her entire piece, OK?) 



We've all seen Waters engage in this type of inane rhetoric before, most notably when she invoked the late Albert Shanker and claimed he'd be a supporter of New Jersey's school choice movement.

Here's a fact. 

If Albert Shanker was alive today he'd still be an education reformer and would support NJ's efforts to expand school choice for poor urban students.

I guess Waters didn't learn not to just make sh*% up about iconic figures, even after she was called out by Albert Shanker's daughter Jennie, who informed her in no uncertain terms that her