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June 22, 2011 09:47 PM UTC
37 Comments
Sirota has always been thick as thieves with that scumbag Green. He’s on his show all the time.
Would Sirota be able to plug and give airtime to his wife during her campaign? Would he have to give fair access to other candidates?
I think that would be an editorial decision by his station/publications.
Here was my recent observation:
Then I have a pretty good idea where she stands. I don’t think we need more Meridas on the school board.
What would that be, pray tell? Would it be a reaction to the 43.5% grad rate, as linked below?
…and you guys are worried about firing Tom Boasberg? Read on:
http://www.ednewscolorado.org/…
How do you know anyone wants to fire anyone?
Which one are you? You signed up to defend Merida after her ethical scandal was disclosed. Posted some inane, bitchy comments (that would be typical of Green, Merida, and Scott), and have been dormant since.
Since your only interest on here appears to be to defend Merida, Guerin Green, and their shady cabal, I was just wondering which one’s sockpuppet you were.
Or are you only concerned with politics?
By refusing to answer that question, you have achieved zero credibility.
In deference to dwyer’s proposed rule below, I don’t live in Denver and don’t vote in DPS elections.
That doesn’t mean that I don’t regard them as cheap entertainment.
You don’t need to identify yourself–anonymity is important here.
But I think that identifying the cause you’re working for is a legitimate request.
Look at it this way: If you DON’T identify who you’re working for, then the rest of us get to use our imaginations. You don’t want to go there…
I work for no one except for the roof over my kids’ heads.
If you DON’t live in Denver, you have to announce it when you post a comment about the Denver School Board race.
People are entitled to comment on these things, dwyer.
Why the hell is that, dwyer?
Forum guidelines requires that a member can’t solicit personal information from anyone. So hang up your hall monitor sash and accept the anonymity or just don’t play.
The penalty box is loads of fun.
You just doubled the number of people who have ever heard of Guerin Green’s North Denver “News.” I’m sorry to see David Sirota’s wife mixed up with Merida and protective order posterchild cyberstalker Green, but I can’t say I’m very surprised.
If you’re in the “reformer” camp, suggest to Guerin Green that his help isn’t wanted. In fact, given the contentious recent history, you might consider running as an “independent” candidate without current board support or support from anything vaguely resembling Defense Denver…
I didn’t say you couldn’t comment, I said you had to announce that you didn’t live in Denver.
If you don’t live in Denver, your kids are not going to get screwed. Plus, there is the whole question of where and how do you get your information? It is a good rule. I can make more.
What I love is that you all disagreed with the rule, but no one questioned my right to make the rule. That is a good start.
but I will claim my right to completely ignore it.
if I don’t live in Denver?
is that it’s a way of immediately discounting what someone has to say. “Your opinion doesn’t matter – YOU don’t live here.”
Maybe you had some more altruistic motive in proposing that rule? If so, let me know. If not, it sucks. There are lots of intelligent people here whose opinions on DPS I value. Many of them don’t live here. I value them anyway because they have greater experience with schools (doesn’t have to be DPS to apply here) and I can learn from them. Making them affix a scarlet O (for outsider) is a shitty thing to require IMO.
If people like Ralphie want to announce that they have no dog in the fight because they live far from here, that’s their choice. But it’s BS to say that “their kids are not going to get screwed.” EVERYONE in the Denver area, if not the Front Range and the whole state, are screwed when the largest city’s school system is a train wreck. We’re screwed if we have no children at all. We’re screwed because we’ll have to interact with DPS educated people at some point.
That’s why I think your rule stinks.
It does matter where someone gets their information. Fifty years ago I served in the Peace Corps. When I came home, “everyone” KNEW how to “save” the developing world. They were not interested in what I had learned, because they already “knew.” They had not lost their objectivity by actually visiting same. People feed their egos by “knowing” how to fix things. But, they never have to test them out or never have to suffer the consequences of their “solutions.”
We are talking about the Denver School Board election. I believe that people who vote in Denver, pay taxes in Denver, and whose kids go to school in Denver, should not have their opinions watered down or disregarded by those for whom commenting on the election is just a political game.
There are also a lot of agendas floating around, prepaid by foundations and/or reflecting national campaigns. That is why I think Denver voters ought to get a fair shot.
What is fascinating to me is that no one is saying, I’ll just lie.” A motley crew that blog here….
The Denver Public School election means nothing. It doesn’t affect me, nor my children which attend school in some other place.
I love the fact that I’m able to hear opinions on how Denver should run its school district from a bunch of people who don’t live in Denver. They’re smart and, boy, they know what Denver needs more than Denver does, that’s fer shur.
I really appreciate the ones that come out shilling for a certain candidate. They provide such great insight and help facilitate the debate, instead of allowing it to be debased by tired talking points and personality disorders. We’re very lucky to have them here.
One thing about Mrs. Sirota. If she’s half as good as her husband is in making friends and not pissing people off, she’s got my vote (if I lived in the district, which I don’t, so there). Also, if she’s supported by that Guerin guy then add her into the “don’t ask anymore, I’m there” column!
DPS should just tear itself down and rebuild itself in the model of something else. If the graduation rate is low, well, you know, graduate more kids, damn it. It isn’t rocket science!
That’s all – Go Sirota! I love you. I love listening to you talk and I love the people who support you and I love that you’re so anti-establishment-y and all.
And your hubby is a dreamboat.
Because I never said the latter, and never even engaged in a discussion about anyone’s kids getting screwed. Dwyer did.
Having read your post above, one has nothing to do with the other. You’re using something I said to take issue with something Dwyer said. If you have a beef with what Dwyer said, make your point using Dwyer’s words, not mine.
I have enough freakin’ problems without being drawn into some argument I don’t care about.
I believe you’ve expressed that you “have no dog in this fight” in previous DPS threads. And that second sentence is something dwyer said in the comment to which I responded. Perhaps a paragraph would have made it more clear that we weren’t talking about you anymore.
I’m only using you in this example because dwyer specifically named you as agreeing with her. I don’t see why you should have any problem with me about that.
Just leave my freakin’ name out of it if it doesn’t involve something I’ve said.
I might be a man, but I’m not a straw man.
that I’m going to overlook that no straw man arguments were taking place here. 🙂
n/t
yeah, sure you can make rules and all here can greet them with derision, but keep at it little trooper.
Other than that, I don’t like his show nor his extreme left wing politics.
If he thinks that it is news that Denver has aggressive police, then he’s naive. It’s been a problem since the founding.
it’s more than you can say for the newspaper