The Stronger Together Caucus has authored a letter to the NYSUT officers, Board of Directors, and members. The letter addresses NYSUT’s seeming reluctance to push back against Governor Cuomo and Merryl Tisch regarding their APPR agenda.
Click here to view the letter.
Click here to contact the Stronger Together Caucus.
Via principal and public education advocate Carol Burris…
The Governor and Chancellor Tisch are proposing an overhaul of the already flawed APPR system. They propose that the system be designed to find MORE teachers and principals ineffective and developing, in order to be in better alignment with the high percentages of students who are below proficient on the Common Core exams.Their plan would also strip away local school board, superintendent and principal input into evaluation systems, putting more power in Albany’s hands to determine the fate of our teachers and principals.Please read and share Carol Burris’ Washington Post blog which describes Chancellor Tisch’s proposed changes.There are other strategies that the Governor and Mrs. Tisch propose that would severely undermine public education, including the expansion of charter schools. The New York State Allies for Public Education has now published sound, research-based and pro-public school responses. You can read their letter here:Please share this widely as well.Now is the time to contact the Board of Regents, and your legislators, including your assembly member and senator to make it clear that you do not want 1) a state-wide APPR plan imposed from Albany 2) that the doubling of test scores in APPR will cause this system to be even more unreliable and have terrible effects on your students and your schools 3)that you oppose the lifting of the cap on charter schools and 4) you support the evidence based responses of NYSAPE to the governor’s questions – rather than those of the chancellor. Here is a link to a very easy way to do just that. It allows you to easily personalize the beginning and end if you wish.We must all work together to help the members of the Board of Regents and the legislature understand that the Cuomo/Tisch agenda of more privatization and high stakes testing will harm kids and our public schools.Thanks!
Happy New Year to our PJSTA members along with any other readers of our blog. Hopefully you had an enjoyable vacation and return to school well rested. You’ll need it. We have a number of developing battles on our hands.
For those of you who may have missed it, New York State’s Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch sent a New Years Eve letter to Governor Cuomo’s aide Jim Malatras detailing what she sees as the necessary changes to the New York State APPR. Carol Burris did a great job breaking it all down on Valerie Strauss’ blog.
Via The Washington Post (emphasis mine)…
New York Chancellor Merryl Tisch has announced her New Years resolution—revise the teacher evaluation system so that Common Core 3-8 test scores can trump all.
Yup. Tisch’s response to the tremendous push back against the Common Core tests has been to add further weight to the test scores.
The short version of what she wants to do now is this—double down on test scores and strip away the power of local school boards to negotiate the majority of the evaluation plan. Tisch would get rid of the locally selected measures of achievement, which now comprise 20 percent of the evaluation, and double the state test score portion, to 40 percent. She also recommends that the score ranges for the observation process be taken out of the hands of local districts, and be determined by Albany instead. Dr. Lederman, start packing up. Merryl Tisch and Andrew Cuomo, whom you have never met, know your talents better than your local school board, your principal and the parents of the children you teach.
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Although Tisch claims that this is about teacher improvement and mentoring, the letter discloses her true intent. She opines that if a teacher is ineffective in the growth score portion, as Sheri was, she should be rated ineffective overall. In addition,if a teacher has two ineffective ratings they “should not return to the classroom.” Whether those ratings, which are based on a highly discredited model, are accurate or not is moot. They produce a bell curve.
You read that correctly. Regardless of what 60% of your evaluation says, if the growth score says you are ineffective, your entire rating will be ineffective. If you receive two ineffective ratings you will no longer be allowed to teach.
Meanwhile, the evidence has continued to accumulate that evaluating teachers by test scores simply does not work.
In April of 2014, the American Statistical Association, joined other research organizations, such as the American Education Research Association and the National Academy of Education, in cautioning against the use of student test scores, commonly referred to as VAM, in teacher evaluations. The ASA clearly outlined how unreliable this methodology is and noted that teachers’ impact on test scores is minimal–between 1 percent and 14 percent. Understand also that these VAM and “growth” ratings are all relative—pitting each teacher against all others. Even if every child scored in the mastery range on the test, there would still be a percentage of teachers rated Ineffective. It is a sorting mechanism based on an algorithm, which most researchers agree is flawed.
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The Tisch plan is a power grab designed to snatch away the right of elected Boards of Education to determine what is quality teaching, by shifting it to a formula produced in Albany based on flawed tests. Ironically, these are the same tests which the Governor and legislature say, in law, should have no consequential effects on students. But there is no problem using those tests to boot Sheri Lederman and teachers like her out the door.
Be sure to read the entire article. Burris is always a voice of reason and logic in a debate that all too often is filled with nonsensical attacks on us.
We know that Tisch’s APPR agenda is also Cuomo’s. We know that Cuomo has the support of the Republican controlled, Wall Street funded senate. That includes our local state senator John Flanagan, the chairman on K-12 education who is on the take from noted ed deformers Students First, his top campaign contributor.
Via Capital NY…
Senate education chair John Flanagan said lawmakers should consider limiting school districts’ control over their evaluation plans. “Maybe we should be having a discussion about a statewide protocol,” he said on “The Capitol Pressroom,” a public radio program. “Instead of having 700 disparate agreements, let’s have a menu where you have 10 or 12 options for school districts to get involved in, because all of these things have to be negotiated, and one of the things that the unions jealously guard, which I understand and respect, is the concept of local control. They want to be able to negotiate everything. And yet, I don’t really see anyone out there who is … jumping up and down and saying everything is working really well.”
Voters in the Comsewogue community should take note that their state senator, John Flanagan, supports stripping our district of local control over teacher evaluations and farming it out to Albany.
Our friend Reality Based Educator covered Flanagan on his Perdido Street School Blog on Christmas Eve.
Finally that brings us to this from Governor Cuomo…
Albany has been too concerned with protecting the pension rights of teachers and not enough with the future of students. #NYGov2015
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) January 1, 2015
Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post followed up with this op-ed. I am not sure that Cuomo has the juice to launch a pension attack, but it sure seems as though a warning shot’s been fired.
To say we didn’t see any of this coming would be wrong. Much of this was entirely predictable, particularly the APPR stuff. Unfortunately NYSUT leadership has not shown the willingness to fight any of this. Nor will they in the coming weeks and months. To be clear, the fight for public education will have to come from students, parents, and rank-and-file teachers. We’ll have more on the role of NYSUT coming up. In the meantime lace up your boots. There’s a lot of work to be done in 2015.
The state’s largest and most powerful teacher’s union on Saturday issued a declaration of “no confidence” in state Education Commissioner John King, a symbolic but unprecedented gesture calling for King’s removal from his post by the state Board of Regents.
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The resolution states that the board declares “no confidence in the policies of the Commissioner of Education.” Earlier this month, NYSUT president Richard Iannuzzi announced that he would seek the action in an interview on Time Warner’s “Capital Tonight” program.
NYSUT’s board also withdrew its support for the state’s new Common Core learning standards “as implemented and interpreted in New York” until the State Education Department “makes major course corrections” and “supports a three-year moratorium on high-stakes consequences from standardized testing.”
“SED’s implementation plan in New York state has failed,” said Iannuzzi in a statement. “The commissioner has pursued policies that repeatedly ignore the voices of parents and educators who have identified problems and called on him to move more thoughtfully.”
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UPDATE: Education Commissioner John King and state Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch issued a statement Saturday afternoon in response to the NYSUT vote. The statement follows, in entirety:
“Every year more than 140,000 New York students leave high school without the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in college or the workplace. Many are essentially trapped in a lifetime of economic despair. Together with the Board of Regents, the Governor, and legislature, we will make necessary adjustments and modifications to the implementation of the Common Core, but now is not the time to weaken standards for teaching and learning. Our students are counting on us to help them develop the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in life. The higher standards the Common Core sets will help them do just that.”
This is a huge step in the right direction for NYSUT. Of course Tisch and her puppet John King don’t care. We have known for quite a while that they are not listening to anybody and that they are planning to steamroll forward with their agenda. Tisch and her plutocrat cronies, after all, have far too much money to lose should this privatization scheme fail in New York State. She isn’t going to let hoards of teachers, students, and parents get in her way. Which of course is why it is exceedingly important to keep the pressure on your state legislators and the governor. Let them know that if there is not a full withdrawal from Race to the Top, they will pay with their jobs in November.
Reality-Based Educator says, “While these moves will not make the Andy Cuomo contingent of the state union happy – namely Mike Mulgrew and the UFT leadership – they surely will make many in the rank-and-file around the state happy.” Be sure to check out his reaction at the Perdido Street School blog.
A few things you may be interested in…
Reality Based Educator comments on Empress Merryl Tisch’s refusal to back her puppet Ed Commish John King.
While he attempts to escape “Bridgegate” and now an investigation into how he misused Hurricane Sandy relief funds, Chris Christie is “screwing teachers, students, and schools.”
The Gates Foundation is threatening to pull back $40 million if Pittsburgh’s teachers don’t surrender to a junk science APPR plan.
Finally, this story has been kicking around for a few days, but we hadn’t mentioned it yet here. From the same people (NYSED) who brought you a phone sex line this fall, now bring you to the “Sexy Bitch” quiz in order to “make test prep fun”. Via the Washington Post…
Student resources that are linked to vulgar and offensive Materials
Anna Shah is the mother of a kindergarten student. While looking on the Engage NY site for materials on the Common Core, she encountered highly offensive materials on the Student Services Page. The NYSED link called “Make test prep fun,” took the student to a site with quizzes to determine if they are a “sexy bitch”, “evil”, “freak” etc. The site also included racist and homophobic slurs. Some quizzes were supposed to determine if “you were a true Mexican,” a “slut,” or gay. Ms. Shah immediately notified the department and they took the site down. Apparently the link had been up since October 2012. Prior to its removal, I took screen shots of some of the pages,which you can see here. Please be warned, it contains offensive language.
After nearly two months of stops across New York State, the King & Tisch “We’re Not Listening Tour” finally rolled into New York City last night. This time the dynamic duo split up, with Tisch visiting the Bronx and her puppet John King stopping by Brooklyn.
Mark Naison of the Badass Teachers Association has the story of Queen Merryl’s trip to the Bronx.
John King’s Brooklyn visit was quite a bit different from most of his other stops. It was a meeting that was well attended by John Flanagan’s pals from Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirstNY. Additionally it had numerous charter school operators in attendance. These people, of course, benefit from the harmful reforms being pushed through by SED and the regents. So naturally it became a glowing report on how swimmingly things are going. Interestingly enough these people truly are representatives of special interests groups. Yet John King wasn’t complaining about the meeting being co-opted by special interests tonight, as he did when parents lambasted him at the PTA Town Hall Meeting in October. MORE‘s Katie Lapham writes of her experience there last night. Capital New York with the story here.
The Albany Times Union published a comprehensive report about how wealthy “donors” in New York State use their money and influence to essentially run the New York State Education Department. The major donors include the Gates Foundation, the GE Foundation, and many of the other plutocrats who we typically see funding education reform in the United States. The most egregious name on the list, however, is none other than Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch.
Via the Times Union…
A team of two dozen well-paid analysts embedded in the State Education Department is having a dramatic impact on a reform agenda that’s causing controversy throughout New York.
None are public servants.
Supported with $19 million in donations from some of the nation’s wealthiest philanthropists, the Regents Research Fund team makes up a little-known think tank within the education agency. It is helping drive reforms that affect the state’s 3.1 million public school students and employees of almost 700 school districts.
So people paid for by private entities, not NYSED, are making policy decisions about education reform in New York State.
Barely heard of outside education circles and a mystery even within them, the “Regent fellows” are paid from entities such as the Gates Foundation and some salaries approach $200,000 a year. The arrangement is stirring concern in some quarters that deep-pocketed pedagogues are forcing their reform philosophies on an unwitting populace, and making an end run around government officers.
“We’re a public education system,” said Carol Burris, principal of South Side High School in Long Island’s Rockville Centre. “Having the wealthy pay for it, you’re seeing an agenda that is being pushed … at a rapid pace, and outside the system of public accountability.”
As Burris correctly points out, this is how the plutocrats get their way in regards to New York State education without having to be held accountable by the public as normal operatives of the state would. Sean Crowley from B-LoEdScene describes it quite nicely as well…
The idea of creating a merry band of edupolicy wankers and dressing them up as helper elves who operate outside of the state, the law and any real department is yet another of those clever shuck and jive maneuvers our oligarch class likes to use to put them and their wealth in a position to call the shots with no annoying checks, balances or any of that other quaint democratic process nonsense. They are charitably called the Regents Fellows and they are none of your business thank you very much. Tisch and her hubby kicked in the first million or so and soon after came the flood of cash from all the usual selfless altruistic billionaires. In short they work the will of Tisch and Co. and are accountable to nobody in State Ed or Washington or in any of the local school districts.
The Times Union continues…
What was envisioned as a short-term, relatively small augmentation to SED staff has grown exponentially. Fellows operate independently and communicate regularly with King and many interact regularly with state workers, but are not bound by Public Officer’s Law or ethics rules imposed on government officials.
The Regents appear serious about expanding the group. Fellows who signed on for two-year stints have been extended, new research and policy analysts have been hired, and state officials cannot say if or when the experiment will end. Fellows say they don’t know when they’ll be done, but expect their assignments will run their course.
So things are progressing so swimmingly here in New York State that Merryl and her minions want to expand this group!
What have these “fellows” been responsible for?
The fellows have been involved in mapping teacher and principal evaluations, redoing student exams and working through the state’s implementation of the Common Core standards — reforms that have moved with a speed that many parents and teachers across the state have protested as hasty and harsh.
Ah yes, successful reforms such as teacher evaluations, standardized testing, and Common Core implementation… all the hallmarks of what is wrong with public education today.
So what does Queen Merryl think about all of this?
“Any state would be proud to have people of this capacity working as an arm of the state education department,” said Tisch, emphasizing her regard for staff staffers. “They couldn’t do it without the leadership, without the people who work for the department.”
Yes, we should be proud to have these people pushing an agenda that abuses children and aims to destroy public education! After all our primary goal for education in New York State should be to further line the pockets of the Tisch family and their cronies. Who are those people you may ask? Let’s refer back to this 2009 article from the New York Times, titled “Advancing Education, Through Work Ethic and Connections”…
… her rank in New York’s ruling class as the wife of James S. Tisch, the chief executive of the Loews Corporation, a conglomerate that includes hotels, insurance and oil-drilling operations.
She has enjoyed a decades-long friendship with her Upper East Side neighbor Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. She has celebrated Passover Seders with Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein. She counts among her closest friends Iris Weinshall, the wife of Senator Charles E. Schumer.
And then there is this…
It is such social connections that make Dr. Tisch’s influence difficult to quantify.
“When she needs something, she’ll pick up the phone and call the mayor or governor,” Mr. Fliegel said. “Merryl is not reluctant to intercede if she thinks it’s the right cause.”
Those aren’t the only people she calls. Who does Queen Merryl call when her refrigerator isn’t working?
“When my refrigerator is broken, I don’t call the service department,” said Dr. Tisch, the newly elected chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents and, by marriage, part of one of New York’s wealthiest families. “I call the head of G.E.”
Oh right, the head of GE. That’s who I typically call too.
So what do the other members of the Board of Regents think about these fellows? This New York Times article from 2011 gives us a look…
“Private people give money to support things they’re interested in,” said Roger B. Tilles, a lawyer and longtime education administrator who has been a regent for six years.
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Betty A. Rosa, who spent 23 years as a teacher and principal before becoming a New York City regional superintendent and a regent, said it was “absolutely wrong” that the fellows had spent what she considered to be so little time working in schools. Six of the 11 have never taught. The five others have a total of 10 years in the classroom and one as a principal.
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Saul B. Cohen, a former president of Queens College who retired in December after 18 years as a regent, is angry that the board was not consulted about selecting the fellows. “They’re supposed to be advising us, but we had no role,” he said.
Dr. Cohen was also upset that the state’s Race to the Top application — which included major policy decisions like using student test results to evaluate teachers and principals — was not shown to the Regents before it was submitted to Washington. “The board had to rubber-stamp it after the fact,” he said.
Dr. Rosa said the Regents saw only “bits and pieces” of the application beforehand.
Several board members said they had been marginalized under Dr. Tisch, who took over in 2009 and is widely considered to be the most powerful, controlling chancellor in memory.
Tisch’s agenda has become crystal clear. Use private money to hire outside “help”. Use that help to marginalize the people who New York State has appointed to handle matters of public education. Allow the “help” to recommend and push a reform agenda that makes considerable amounts of money for the very people who “donated” money that pays for the help. Laugh all the way to the bank.
So tonight, if you are attending Senator LaValle’s dog and pony show at Eastport High School, speak your mind. Let Dr. Tisch know how you feel about her actions as Regents Chancellor. LaValle, King, and Tisch think they can control the agenda by pre-selecting the speakers and questions. It is a situation that begs for civil disobedience. Tisch has skated away for too long without having to answer to anyone. Make her answer to you tonight.
Peter DeWitt addresses the Regents fellows in this September article from Ed Week.
Reality Based Educator says that Tisch and King should be forced from power. He then wonders if Tisch has been subpoenaed yet?
We are entering an important period of time in the push back against the education reforms in New York State. Fearing for their jobs next November, we are beginning to see some movement from state legislators on the school reform agenda. This is to be expected, as they have been hearing more about this agenda than anything else. Recently Senator Flanagan indicated that when the legislature convenes in January we should see quick action on the student privacy issue. Make no doubt, this is excellent news and it shows that finally legislators are starting to listen.
This, however, is not nearly enough. It became fairly predictable a couple of weeks back that there would be some movement in this direction. Legislators are fearing for their jobs and Commissioner King has had enough vitriol directed towards him that the state is now willing to throw us a bone. But as we have stated time and again, nothing but a full withdrawal from Race to the Top in New York State is acceptable. That is the message our legislators should continue to hear until they have delivered it.
There is a danger that with the passage of legislation restricting the data sent to inBloom people will be appeased. That is what John King and Merryl Tisch are hoping. That is what Andrew Cuomo is hoping for. That is what John Flanagan, Ken LaValle, and the rest of the legislature is hoping. That they can offer up the privacy issue in the hopes that the public will thank them, jump into their holiday season, and forget all about the rest of the abusive reform agenda.
There have been signs that some people are ready to head down this road. Here is No Kids Data NY:
Thank you Senator Flanagan…. The late night hours are starting to pay off! We have been heard http://t.co/8r4BAKcnTA
— NoKidsDataNY (@NoKidsDataNY) November 22, 2013
And NYSUT’s Kyle Belokopitsky…
Thank you @NYSenate Flanagan and @NYSA_Majority Nolan and ODonnell for your leadership! We must protect our children http://t.co/cw1RUjTqFQ
— Kyle M Belokopitsky (@kbelokopitsky) November 22, 2013
Again, let me be clear, limiting student data that is passed on is a win for our movement. It is something to be thankful for and a feather in our cap. But I am not ready to throw too many plaudits in Senator Flanagan’s direction yet. Keep in mind, Senator Flanagan is a major reason we are in this mess to begin with. Along with Andy Cuomo, puppet John King, and puppet master Merryl Tisch, he has been at the forefront of pushing the abusive reform agenda in New York State. Senator Flanagan has a long way to go before I am sending him a thank you card. A lot needs to be accomplished before I can be assured that the money that his chief campaign contributor, Michelle Rhee, gave him is not being spent to continue to harm students and teachers in New York for the benefit of private corporations.
The Smithtown News recently published a great editorial, titled “Change course on King/Flanagan agenda”, about Flanagan’s role in harming public education in New York State. It’s behind a pay wall so I’ll only give you the highlights. All bolded emphasis is mine.
On the organized opposition against the reform agenda…
Call it the King/Flanagan agenda, and it stinks.
The opposition has become so angry that wherever Senator Flanagan, SED Commissioner Dr. John King and Regent Chancellor Dr. Merryl Tisch go from one end of the state to the other, people start screaming at them.
On what may be part of Flanagan’s motivation (though the Rhee bucks help too)…
Ever since NYSUT refused to endorse him for re-election in 2010, Mr. Flanagan has been out to get public school teachers and he is hell-bent on taking the public school system down with them. He has jumped to the center of the charter school bandwagon, which drains money from public schools, he has fostered implementation of an inherently unfair and flawed APPR system, he has ushered in the misguided and premature implementation of the Common Core Learning Standards and he has allowed the implementation of the abusive testing of students.
After commenting on the $1 billion in state aid that Long Island districts have lost while Flanagan has either been the ranking Republican or Chairman of the Senate Education Committee…
Never has Long Island faired so poorly in terms of state aid as it has under the educational leadership of John Flanagan, and now his failed policies are threatening to destroy the quality educational system that we have enjoyed here on Long Island for generations.
On Flanagan’s hearings around the state that are dedicated to the reform agenda…
The hearings should have been held before implementing these new policies, not after. The intent now is only to act as political cover for Mr. Flanagan, who will try to emerge as if he resolved this difficult problem.
Remember though, he is the root cause of the terrible situation facing public school education right now. He needs to be replaced whether the problem is ultimately solved or not.
It really was a great article that reminds us that John Flanagan is one of the primary reasons we are in this mess. So I will hold my thank you until the entire agenda is repealed.
A few good links to check out…
Reality-Based Educator wonders “Where Is Cuomo On His Education Reform Agenda Now?”
Dr. Rella’s letter to puppet Arne Duncan.
Presidents from two of our parent unions, Randi Weingarten of the AFT, and Dennis Van Roekel of the NEA, sit on a board with noted ed deformers Michelle Rhee, Joel Klein, and others. Whose side are they on anyway?
Ed Deformers play the race card in regards to the ire towards John King.
From the same article is this quote from Queen Merryl Tisch…
“John is doing a yeoman’s job, staying cool, focusing on the policy issues,” said Merryl H. Tisch, the chancellor of the State Board of Regents, who has served as one of Dr. King’s psychological bodyguards at the forums. “People are asking complicated questions, but I haven’t seen him miss a beat.”
He hasn’t missed a beat. He has stayed the course with his mission to destroy public education.
It is well known in these parts that John King is merely a puppet for Merryl Tisch and Andy Cuomo. A mouthpiece to spout off their talking points and take the heat coming their direction. He is nothing more than their marionette as they pull the strings. The same can be said for Arne Duncan, who plays the puppet to puppet masters Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Jeb Bush, and a whole host of ed deformers. It’s not that guys like King and Duncan have skills or are at a superior intelligence level that has helped them to rise to their positions. They simply make good lap dogs. Stroke their egos, give them scraps of good food and they will be happy. More than willing to be loyal to your agenda, even if that agenda is one of child abuse.
For years this sort of existence has worked like a charm for both the deformers and their puppets. The deformers have gotten to use the media to spout their propaganda about how bad our schools are, how we need accountability and choice, even going so far as to say that our schools are so terrible that they have become a threat to our national security! The media of course has eaten it up at every turn and have feted Duncan and King as though they could do no wrong.
But this year a funny thing happened. Parents stopped buying the nonsense they were being fed by Fox News. They stopped paying attention to the plaudits that MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough heaped upon Duncan. They no longer paid attention to Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post as it pounded our state’s public schools. This all started to change, of course, because their kids started to be picked on. Their kids were the ones who wanted to stop going to school. Their kids were the ones who were slamming their heads against their desk during last spring’s ELA or breaking down into tears in the midst of the math test. All of a sudden their children were the vicitims of bullying. That’s where the tide began to turn.
Since that time a lot of questions have started to be asked. A lot of motives have been called into question. The parents, whose children are being abused, are no longer content to sit idly by as they listen to rehearsed talking points. That’s when things begin to fall apart for the deformers. Because stooges like King and Duncan are ill prepared to offer any real defense of the Common Core. Because there really isn’t a good defense for it. Instead you get John King complaining of “special interests” and taking his ball and going home. Or you get Arne Duncan crying about “white suburban moms” whose children “aren’t as brilliant as they think.” Of course anyone with half a brain would know not to incite an angry mob. But this is King and Duncan we are talking about. They don’t have half a brain combined. So their words have only served to fan the flames and in New York State we now have a full blown revolution on our hands.
It is now time for us to move our focus to the bigger guns. Move on to the puppet masters. In New York State Andy Cuomo and Merryl Tisch are behind the curtain, writing the script for John King. They are the ones to go after now. Tisch is put in place by the state legislators who are all up for re-election next year. So is Andy Cuomo who has his sites set on the White House in 2016. It’s time to ratchet up the pressure. To put the full court press on. Make sure the deform agenda is attached to the people who are really pushing it and make them pay next November.
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