Sure MORE garnered 40% of the votes in the high schools.
Sure voter returns in the election fell 10,000 from the last time around.
Sure more retirees voted than active members.
But the important thing is, Mike Mulgrew won re-election with 84% and now it's time to party.
Mulgrew issued a victory statement on ICE-UFT blog via his spokesperson, Raving Lunatic.
Here it is:
What's important here is we win, you lose. 40% of high school votes yields you nothing, yet earns me another three years at 52 Broadway. Tomorrow, while you're all teaching five classes, I'll be going out to lunch. I will remain out to lunch until you vote us out, at which time I shall retire, collect two pensions, move to Boca, and continue voting for Unity.
Actually this was his real victory statement:
“I’m honored that thousands of UFT members have supported my reelection,” Mulgrew said in a statement. “I look forward to working with them for the next three years as we continue to fight for the best for our students, their families, and our schools.”
Those of us who teach our five classes and do our hall patrols and bathroom watches and sit through weekly Common Core PD's and have our preps taken for "common planning time" and worry about Danielson and APPR and getting VAMMED know that Raving Lunatic's victory speech, while not the factual one Mulgrew gave, is actually the more accurate one.
So sad. I wish MORE had run a more aggressive campaign. Very few teachers knew who they were. 84% of what actual numbers voting???
ReplyDeleteIt's okay, the election was never in play this time around. The point was to develop n electable alternative for the next time around, and I think Julie and the other MORE candidates did just that. People in my building voted MORE who would have NEVER voted for an opposition party in the past - very conventional, mainstream people. Quite a few who checked out the MORE site said the party was very appealing. They have set themselves up as a credible opposition. There is still a LOT of work to do, but APPR and Danielson will do some of that work. We'll see how this plays out after one, two three years of APPR and Danielson.
Delete43000 voted out of 173,000 ballots sent out, with 22400 of them retirees. So even with a more aggressive campaign the chances of overcoming the retiree gap -- and with New Action even with low totals drawing some votes to Mulgrew -- subtract the NA from Mulgrew % and it comes in under 80%. Why did people vote NA and for Mulgrew? Did they all realize what they stand for?
ReplyDeleteFile this under "Idiots"!!! This is digging their own graves. But the apathy is even worse. The percentage of voters seems lower than the last election. So did they get 80% with approximately 25% voting???
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