Mulgrew Stumping With Thompson, Attacks Weiner/Spitzer As Too Sleazy To Enter A School

UFT President Michael Mulgrew took a blunt object from his woodshed today and used it on Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer:

At the ferry terminal on Staten Island, Thompson was met by U.F.T. members in blue shirts, who guided commuters over to meet him. U.F.T. president (and Staten Island resident) Michael Mulgrew was there, too.

"The buzz is being created, he's moving up," Mulgrew told me.

Mulgrew also complained about the attention being paid to Weiner and Spitzer.

"You have two candidates for citywide office that couldn't even pass the background check to be a teacher," he said. "And people are debating them as if they are serious candidates who should be given consideration where they wouldn't be allowed to step foot inside of a classroom or a school."

Mulgrew has a point, of course.

Weiner has admitted to texting with a seventeen year old, and while both he and she claim the communications were not sexual in any way, after repeatedly lying to and misleading people about his sexting habits, Weiner's credibility is not exactly at an all-time market high.

As a retired educator told him last week on Staten Island “As a former New York City Department of Education employee, 21 years as a teacher, nine years as an assistant principal, if I conducted myself in the manner you conducted yours, my job would’ve been gone."

As for Spitzer, last time I looked hiring hookers was a felony punishable by jail time and using state cell phones to hire hookers and state cars to drive you to the hotel to meet those hookers is a violation for state employees - even the governor.

Were Spitzer a teacher instead of a politician, he would have been fired from his DOE job when he was caught hiring hookers, arrested and prosecuted along with some of the other johns Spitzer himself put away.

He certainly wouldn't be entering a classroom or working in a school - and yet, if elected comptroller, he could be auditing school data while Weiner, if elected mayor, could be running the school system.

So Mulgrew has a point here about the hypocrisy of Weiner and Spitzer.

Of course, given the Mulgrew/Grady woodshed story that was never fully explained and the conflict of interest involving his sister, the NYCDOE and $11 million dollars, Michael Mulgrew shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a school either, let alone running the teachers union.