AFT’s Weingarten Supports Malloy, and Likely, Cuomo
On June 16, 2014, I wrote a post in which I wondered what American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten would say on June 17 at the official AFL-CIO endorsement of the re-election of blatantly-anti-teacher, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy.
Here is what the Connecticut Mirror had to offer by way of Weingarten’s participation in endorsing an undeniably public-education-destroyer Malloy:
Randi Weingarten, national AFT president, makes a plea for Malloy.
Wow.
But there’s more.
After endorsing Malloy for re-election, AFT-CT takes this lame, tepid, incredibly sad action by way of a feeble effort to pacify the CT rank-and-file it just sold out with its Malloy endorsement:
Before formally endorsing Malloy, the statewide labor federation adopted a resolution Tuesday calling for a requirement that an education commissioner hold the same credential as a school superintendent, a standard that Pryor does not meet.“We’re hoping the governor’s listening,” said Melodie Peters, the president of AFT-Connecticut, one of the state’s two major teachers’ unions.The resolution drawn up by the AFT, which separately endorsed Malloy ahead of the AFL-CIO convention, was a message to a Democratic governor and to labor’s rank-and-file. It was meant as a gentle rebuke to Malloy, not a rejection; a way to soothe educators, not provoke them. [Emphasis added.]
Peters “hopes” the governor is listening?? She just endorsed the anti-teacher, anti-traditional-public education, pro-charter man for a second term as CT governor.
And there is Weingarten, cheering.
In February 2014, I wrote a post in which I piece together events and predict that Weingarten will have an active hand in offering the AFL-CIO endorsement to another anti-teacher governor, New York’s Andrew Cuomo, for the upcoming democratic presidential nomination.
Some folks think I am really far off in my prediction.
I’m thinking some of those same folks would not have thought Weingarten would be in Connecticut on June 17, 2014, enthusiastically endorsing Governor Dannel Malloy for AFT’s Weingarten Supports Malloy, and Likely, Cuomo | deutsch29: