News Flash: Mayor Finch and “Education Reformers” spend record amount to take away Bridgeport voter’s rights! - Wait, What?

News Flash: Mayor Finch and “Education Reformers” spend record amount to take away Bridgeport voter’s rights! - Wait, What?:

News Flash: Mayor Finch and “Education Reformers” spend record amount to take away Bridgeport voter’s rights!

by jonpelto

Mayor Mike Bloomberg and The Money Fairy  have visited Bridgeport 

Welcome to 21st Century America

Lennie Grimaldi, Bridgeport’s leading political pundit, and author of the blog, Only in Bridgeport, broke the news today that Mayor Mike Bloomberg gave $20,000 to Residents For A Better Bridgeport, the political action committee behind the campaign to support Mayor Bill Finch’s power grab to eliminate a democratically elected school board and replace it with one appointed by him.

But the $20,000 donation from Bloomberg is only the tip of a much bigger iceberg and Residents for a Better Bridgeport is only one of a series of corporate funded political groups spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to make sure Bridgeport’s parents and other voters don’t get a direct role in selecting who sets education policy in Bridgeport.

Here are just a few of the companies and organizations that are funding the anti-