Re Jose Matthews, but true all over.
“comfortable enough margin” true … for today … but I can still remember the days when Jose’s vote total exceeded the standard total for two candidates in a close race. Celebrate, but realize they are mobilizing as fast as they can, and will undoubtedly learn from their mistakes.
Jose Matthews won.
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We won!! All preliminary, but this is a comfortable enough cushion.
Coelho — 1907
Matthews — 2698
English-Wynn — 2576
Shulli — 1943
It is going to be close, all the big ones, Appo, Christiana, Red Clay, Cape… all the big races will be razor thin one way or the other is my prediction.
we HAVE to do something about voter apathy.
Quite the opposite-I witnessed some brisk action at Warner this afternoon. Red clay voters are engaged
Appo too close to call. Fuck Dr Time Johns.
Perennial loser Monique Johns is his ‘Associate Pastor’.
Hill wins in CR, Tyndall re-elected in Cape
Looks like Bobbi Jo Webber will win in Smyrna
Doug Manley and Y. F. Lou win in Christina. More good news!
THE DEGOP’S endorsements page is down. 404
https://delawaregop.com/school-board-candidates/
Too bad – that was the only voter guide that mattered.
Heh. Heh-heh.
Way too close! All the Neanderthals need to do is keep digging in the muck for non participants in the 85-90 % out there. They are improving their losing margins far too well. These elections MUST be a continued priority. A lot of really good organizing talent did great work to achieve the wins yesterday and that needs to redouble as well. With that congratulations to the winners!
Red Clay is the home of the de facto segregated Scott Adams-approved charter/magnet schools, which have now become normalized even by progressives.
Winning means we get to continue current inequities, to prevent giving power to even greater bigotry.
Sorry to say, but if the charters go away progressives w/kids are gone as well. I don’t know anyone with progressive politics whose kids aren’t in some sort of charter or magnet in northern NCCO. They pay lip service to public schools but precious few would send their kids to a “normal”public school. It’s no different than that people who drink bottled water but extol the virtue of public utilities
It’s a huge blind spot for progressives.
Public utilities are needed regardless of whether or not you drink tap water (I do). Would you prefer that people who drink bottled water instead say, “Fuck public utilities, I don’t use ’em”? If for some reason I switched to bottled water, I wouldn’t stop supporting public utilities.
In short, “progressives w/kids are gone as well” is as wrongheaded a conclusion as one could reach.
Par for the course for that dummy.
perhaps you don’t see where I’m coming from. Progressives love the public schools, just like any other public works project. But in practice Ive witnessed a subtle implicit bias – just like the aversion some people have to drinking tap water (it tastes weird/smells funny), they will pony up exorbitant $$ for a product of equal or lesser value. the concept of a public good carries a stigma – “if anyone can have it, is it any good?” this bias is reflected in parents who send their kids to the charters and the magnet schools. Sure, they may be publicly-funded, but there is a subtle tinge of exclusivity.
Don’t underestimate the power of this bias. Busing drove the rise of the exurbs and its no coincidence that real estate listings put the school district and feeder pattern front and center. North Wilmington and the tony parts of newark would look a lot different these days if not for the parochial schools and the charters.
You’re talking about where people live, not how they vote.
They don’t have to send their kids to public school to support public schools specifically, or the progressive agenda generally.
Perhaps I read “progressives w/kids are gone” the wrong way. I thought you meant they would stop voting for progressive policies. If that’s what you meant, I think you’re wrong.
A robo call went out on election day stating how jose matthews voted no on CSW’s renewal five years ago. Voted no on that and cops in schools. That really powered lots of GOP. Dems have to fight hard to GOTV. Rethugs just have to have one article on Frist State Update or a few minutes slamming someone on Jensen’s show to GOTV. Red Clay almost was a disaster this year.
For the record, the Red Clay winners still got 57-59% and won by 600-700 votes. So not all that close to disaster. Given how wide the margins were last time it’s not surprising that some people didn’t feel a sense of urgency.
I will not send money, donate time or vote for Democrats who send their kids to charter schools. I can appreciate that people might spend their own money to send their child to a school that meets their child’s needs. We did so with our daughter from grades 3-8. Big difference–we paid for her education, we did not expect that government would create a privately funded school for her. She graduated from a public (not charter, not magnet) high school, which is her feeder high school, and is doing fine as a freshman.
Just as I am against privatizing Medicare, I am against the privatizing of public education with charter schools. I realize it is a hopeless fight in Delaware but I continue to scream into the wind about this issue. Real Democrats do not send their children to charter schools.
How different things would be if employees of all state and local governments, and publicly-funded institutes of higher learning, were compelled to send their kids to traditional public schools
Yeah, like compelling what kind of school somebody’s kids must attend is a winning move. Not at all authoritarian.
What do I care where they send their kids? The problem is the existence of charters, not the fact that elected officials send their kids to them.