Fitz-Gerald Endorsed by CEA

JFG Desperate

JP gets endorsements so JFG annouces old endorsements, lame

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by: bluehotmama @ Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 22:45:38 PM UTC

I agree

It seems funny Polis has good news then you know the Fitz-Gerald camp calls for the CEA to try and kill it. The Joan Camp has been telling everyone they have the CEA's Support already.

Anyone wonder why they are so worried?  Any bets?  Mine is the polls everyone heard about were hers and it shows Polis and Fitz'gerald close and they are in panic mode. Just a guess

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by: Coloradobaywatch @ Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 22:49:36 PM UTC

Adding to my post

I think it is time to revisit the support Polis has from the Ed Community.

Educators for Polis

Mike Merrifield, Chairman of the Education Committee of the Colorado State House
Mike Miles, Superintendent Harrison School district
Angie Paccione, Former Candidate to US Congress, former CSU Professor and Former Colorado State Representative
Jim Martin, Former CU Regent
Mike Carrigan, CU Regent
Steve Ludwig, CU Regent
Gully Stanford, Colorado State Board of Education
Karen Middleton, Colorado State Board of Education
Elaine Gantz Berman, Colorado State Board of Education
Magdalena "Nena" DelVillar , Hispanic Advisory Council Chairperson District 27J and Dean of Students North Elementary
John DeStefeno, Former President of Colorado Association of School Boards and Former President of Jefferson County School Board
Dr. Fred Schaefer, Adams 12 School Board
Dr. Darwin Strickland, Adams 12 School Board
Williams Jones, Adams 12 School Board
Jeanette Lewis, Adams 14 School Board
Richard Ford, Adams 14 School Board
Barbara Yamrick, Former Aurora School Board
Yolanda Sandoval, Former President, Brighton School Board 27J
Helayne Jones, Boulder Valley School Board
Jim Reed, Boulder Valley School Board, district G
Theresa Steele, former Boulder Valley School Board, district G
Laurie Beckel, President, Clear Creak School Board
Jill Conrad, Denver School Board
Vince Chowdhury, Jefferson County School Board
Lorrie Shepard, Dean of the Education School, University of Colorado
Lorenzo Trujillo, Assistant Dean, University of Colorado Law School
Bob Hammond, Chief of Operations, Boulder Valley School District
Shoshi Krongold Bilavsky, Principal, Boulder Jewish Day School
Cyndi Bush Luna, Principal, Colorado High School
Francie Anhut, Impact Education, Boulder Valley School District
Joannie Schaefer, Mapleton Foundation, Adams 1 School District
Susan Churchill, Co Founder of Lafayette Literacy Coalition
Mary Rubadeu, Superintendent of Telluride School District
Ali Sweeney, Director, Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education
Dr. Jason Berv, Principal Watershed School
Dennis White, former Superintendent of Brighton
Mona Sandoval, Executive Director, The Jefferson Foundation
Norma Frank, President, Mapleton School Board (Adams-1)

TEACHERS FOR POLIS

Ardy and Twila Zirakzadeh, BVA
Lynn Zimmerman, CEA Board of Director Central Adams County Uniserv
Diane Alpern, Retired teacher
Beverly Ausfahl, Retired teacher
Gerald Pinsker, Retired Teacher
John Vigil, Adams County Schools
Elisa Love, Teacher, Creekside Elementary Boulder
Sharon Tonsager, Retired Teacher, Skyview
Elementary
Kitty Sargent, Retired Teacher Adams 50
Judith Greeley, Teacher, Anchor Center for Blind Children
Ken Bonetti, advisor University of Colorado
Chris Powel, Teacher, Holy Hills Elementary
Valerie Vigil, Teacher, Adams County Schools
Sheila Groneman, Summit County Schools
Rick Clifford, Teacher, Jefferson County Schools
Eileen Malloy, Teacher, New America School
Suzanne Strickland, Retired Teacher
Linda Cook, Substitute Teacher, BVSD
Jan Whitt, instructor University of Colorado
Michelle Albert, instructor University of Colorado
Mike Sulllivan, Retired Teacher
Ida Halasz, Retired Teacher
Patricia Sullivan, Professor at University of Colorado
W.B Wood, Professor at University of Colorado
Donald Bruns, Adjunct professor, Metro State
Dr. Faye Rison, Retired Professor, Metro State
Martha Dick, Instructor, Front Range College
Lou Ann Dixon, Chair Allied Health at Front Range College
Arlene Stredler Brown, Faculty PERA Retiree-Life Only, Professional Research Asst University Of Colorado
Gale Day, Outreach Coordinator, CU College of Engineering
Linda Foutch, Teacher, Monroe Elementary
Mark Entrekin, Professor, DeVry Unviersity
Michelle Carpenter, Teacher, Boulder High School
JJ Dean, Teacher, West Side
Laura Lewis, Teacher, Sunset Middle School
Joe Shields, Teacher, Vilas
Nickki Del-Pizzo-Schreiner, teacher, Dos Rios
John Cross, Professor, Regis University
Norman Daniels, Professor, Harvard University
Jason Hilliard, University of Colorado
Susan Elenz, Teacher, Dos Rios Elementary
Dennis McCloskey, Teacher, Iver C. Ranum High School
Eileen Starnes, Substitute Teacher, Boulder Valley Schools
Suzie Perry, Regis University
Dave Archuleta, LARASA learning Center Southwest
Elizabeth Martinson, Retired, Saint Vrain Valley
Tamarah Long, University of Colorado
Stephen Stewart, LARASA Learning Centers
Starr Hogan, Cheltenham
Harold Simon, UC San Diego
Barbara Syuck, WCSD
Jessica Loredo, Substitute Techer
Kacy Little Owl, Milliken Middle School
Lisa Escarcega, Aurora Public Schools
Carolyn Kruger, Boulder Valley School District
Diane Brinkman, Retired Public School Teacher
Tom Mayer, Sociology University of Colorado
Mia Thomas Ruzic, University of Colorado  

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by: Coloradobaywatch @ Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 23:01:24 PM UTC

[ Parent ]

don't forget

bob shaffer
alex cranberg
and the folks at the independence institute.

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by: Danny the Red (hair) @ Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 23:17:17 PM UTC

[ Parent ]

Polis support

Money, honey.

 For politics, geezers are golden.
by: BlueCat @ Tue Aug 16, 2011 at 19:19:14 PM MDT

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by: dwyer @ Fri Dec 07, 2007 at 14:56:05 PM UTC

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Relax Felix,

It's called campaigning... any time your opponent tries to get his/her message to the press, you try to kill it, spin it, trivialize it or eclipse it.
 

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by: stirling @ Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 23:15:51 PM UTC

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No surprise...

Polis had the guts to support school choice while with the Boulder school board - so it's no surprise that the teachers union would oppose him now. How dare someone support giving low-income, minority kids the same opportunities as white kids.

It just makes Polis' recent retraction of his support of school choice all the more pathetic, and ultimately spells out exactly why he won't win this election. The toughest label to shake is that of a flip-flopper.

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by: stirling @ Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 23:07:40 PM UTC

JP still supports school choice

 as should any progressive. He doesn't support vouchers not the same thing.

I agree that he was never going to get the teacher union support, all these groups love the status quo even at the expensive of our most venerable.
Let face it, JP is a maverick and it scares the hell out of the establishment

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by: bluehotmama @ Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 23:18:18 PM UTC

[ Parent ]

i mean vulnerable

my bad

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by: bluehotmama @ Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 23:19:33 PM UTC

[ Parent ]

I disagree.......

Joan earned labor support with her positions and beliefs, but that does not discredit Jared. If he wins the nomination, he would have people from labor in his corner. Cannot say labor is the "establishment" and I do not think Jared "scares" labor, but I speak only for myself.  

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by: tallport @ Fri Dec 07, 2007 at 07:30:21 AM UTC

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You almost hit the nail on the head.

But not quite.

JP's education philosophy advocates choice. Always has. And he has NEVER retracted support for it.
Opponents have tried to label him as an across the board supporter of vouchers and that is inaccurate.  
He gave support when funding for an experimental voucher program did not take money from public schools.  Then he pulled it when that changed. And he still is an ardent supporter of charter schools so stop making things up.

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by: NeilJackson @ Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 23:25:41 PM UTC

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And that's why this was totally expected

Where all the cool kids will be on Saturday - Code War!

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by: DavidThi808 @ Fri Dec 07, 2007 at 00:09:10 AM UTC

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Right.

And JP still supports more choice in schools.  

How's the online debate prep comin'by the way?

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by: NeilJackson @ Fri Dec 07, 2007 at 00:15:14 AM UTC

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The issue has never been about choice.

Everybody, including CEA, agrees there ought to be choice in the public schools--although sometimes, there  is disagreement over the details of "choice", chioce has never been the issue.

The real issue has always been who pays for the choice and who is the responsible/accountable party.  Public dollars ought to go to schools accountable to the public.  Public dollars ought to go to schools that have the same requirements and restrictions.  For example, if a private school wants public dollars they ought to take every student showing up at the front door rather than continuing to have admittance requirements excluding some students.  

No need to rehash the arguments  

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by: puddin @ Fri Dec 07, 2007 at 16:57:21 PM UTC

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Did JFG, the CEA, or the NEA announce this TODAY, Pols?

I see no press release info like w/ the JP endorsement so I'm wondering where this came from.

It was a foregone conclusion JFG would win this endorsement.  But Pols, are you just "announcing" it to balance out any positive JP news, or did JFG or one of the aforementioned groups actually make the endorsement official today?  

I'm not going to whine about "bias" like others...but if this isn't actually new info, you've reached a whole new level of lame...

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Anyway, great endorsement for JFG.  Her work on the state level towards improving education has been tremendous and it's no wonder why she recieved the CEA's endorsement.

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by: Dabee47 @ Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 23:22:37 PM UTC

Yes, we're controlling the announcements

This bias bullshit is really getting lame. Call the CEA yourself.  

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by: Colorado Pols @ Fri Dec 07, 2007 at 00:12:59 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

Oh, and we also talked Shafroth into going the petition route

And announcing it today as well. That was all our doing, too.

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by: Colorado Pols @ Fri Dec 07, 2007 at 00:35:12 AM UTC

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If you managed to consistently format the press releases you report on...

I wouldn't have asked the question.

I agree that the "bias bullshit," as you so eloquently call it, is getting lame; which, is exactly why I'm not one of the asshole shills that complains about it.  

Twice I've questioned your motives related to this race...coincidently, one was the first time you "reported" this endorsement and the speculation surrounding it back in September.

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by: Dabee47 @ Fri Dec 07, 2007 at 01:00:22 AM UTC

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It wasn't an official endorsement then

We reported that Fitz-Gerald was likely to receive the endorsement, but according to the press release, it had to be approved by the NEA first.

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by: Colorado Pols @ Fri Dec 07, 2007 at 04:06:57 AM UTC

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There was a CEA press release re: JFG endorsement

The CEA Fund would have voted to make a recommendation to endorse JFG to the NEA Fund for Children and Public Education sometime in September or October.  The NEA Fund meets in early December.  CEA would have brought its recommendation to the NEA at this meeting for the offical endorsement vote by the NEA Fund.  

Therefore, both the September/October and the December announcements are true and factual.  That's the way NEA and its affiliates (re: CEA) have done business since the beginning of NEA recommending federal candidates.

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by: puddin @ Fri Dec 07, 2007 at 16:36:26 PM UTC

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my significant other is a teacher.

The endorsement happened in mid October.

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by: Abraham Van Helsing @ Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 23:28:01 PM UTC

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The list is long but how many actually live in the District. I would bet a majority do not. Rolling out endorsement lists are cool like this if the people can actually vote for you, but I am glad someone at Harvard and in San Diego is supporting him.  

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by: denverfun25 @ Fri Dec 07, 2007 at 00:33:35 AM UTC