Wednesday, April 9, 2014

4-9-14 Perdido Street School Week

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Cuomo Gets Beaten Up At WFP Teleconference
From Dan Janison at Newsday:Without being present, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo became something of a piƱata during a town-hall style teleconference call hosted tonight by the Working Families Party in which the organization’s officials from around the state took part. Cuomo ran in 2010 with WFP support but that is far from assured this time out after the party, which made comprehensive public campaign fi

Howie Hawkins To Seek Green Party Line To Run Against Cuomo
My sense is the Working Families Party functionaries are talking a good game about getting a candidate from the left to run against Cuomo this year but in the end will not do so.Howie Hawkins, who ran on the Green Party line against Cuomo last time around, may be the best third party candidate/protest vote we're going to get against Cuomo this time around:Howie Hawkins today announced he will seek
NYSUT President Magee Strikes Conciliatory Note In First Conversation With Governor Cuomo
Here's your tough-talking new NYSUT president from that tough-talking Revive NYSUT slate that ousted not-so-tough talking Richard Iannuzzi for not talking or acting tough enough in the face of attacks from Governor Cuomo and the state's education reform establishment:Gov. Andrew Cuomo today called the new president of the state’s teachers union after she was elected to the post over the weekend. K


4-8-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Is Chris Christie Toast?It has been fairly quiet on the Chris Christie scandal front since Christie crony David Samson resigned from the Port Authority a while back and Christie is going around the country raising money for the Republican Party like nothing's the matter, that all is on schedule for his 2016 run for president.Jeff Smith at Politico says pay no attention to wh