The mayor has spent the past two days talking smack about teachers, scolding his potential successors running for mayor that teachers should in no way be given retroactive raises for the years they have gone without a contract.
This two day campaign the mayor has embarked upon, continued on his radio program today on WOR, got me thinking that he's going to use Bloomberg Philanthropies as a propaganda tool against teachers in NYC long after he's gone from office (and perhaps even long after he's gone from this mortal coil...foundations have a longer life than their founders...)
Take a look around the glossy new Bloomberg Philanthropies site and see what you think.
Will Bloomberg continue to hammer NYC teachers long after he leaves City Hall and use Bloomberg Philanthropies to do it?
Will he punish a successor who doesn't follow his wishes on teacher contracts, evaluations, school closures, etc. by using his PAC against her/him the way he has for pols who do not support gun control?
Will Bloomberg, one tiny man with an ego so large and fragile that he needs to put his name on everything he owns, continue to have such an undue and enormous influence on education policy, schools, students and teachers simply because he's got more money than almost everybody else?
More than than use his PAC money to attack, Bloomberg will have the FBI run a funding sting operation against any mayoral candidate that stands against his political views.. BloomBucks does have the connections and friends in the Washington Politburo to get the FBI to discredit his opponents.
ReplyDeleteYeah, they get convictions of Liu's associates for what amounts to penny ante campaign finance fraud while Bloomberg bribed Independence Party officials for three election cycles with millions of dollars. Two of those election cycles, Bloomberg barely won and would have gone down had he not garnered all those votes on the Independence Party line.
DeleteThe answers r yes, yes, yes, and yes-until that lizard face croaks one last time....
ReplyDeleteI don't think even death will put an end to the teacher bashing. Remember, these foundations started by wealthy men take on a life of their own after the oligarch is no longer here. Look at the Ford Foundation or the Rockefeller Foundation. I have a pretty good feeling Bloomberg Philanthropies will be around long after our mayor is enjoying the climate in the eighth circle of hell.
Delete...and Karma's a bitch...
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