Good News/Bad News Monday
The good news: Obama continues to kick ass. “Obama to win” positions hit new highs in both major trading markets over the weekend. (71% Intrade & 70 IEM).
The bad news: Republican billionaires are committed to a strategy of harassment and intimidation of Democratic voters while bankrolling huge GOTV efforts among conservatives.
Lee Fang explains the threat at the polls from a Koch group that is engaged in a massive voter mobilization campaign:
Koch is now financing more than 200 organizers and paid political staff in thirty-one states. Its likely much of the money Koch now donates to the NRA and groups like the Faith and Freedom Coalition (run by Tim Phillip’s longtime business partner, Ralph Reed), will also be spent on organizers on the ground. Using the Wisconsin model, Koch hopes to partner with local conservative groups to build a rapid mobilization system that can compete on Election Day, in every critical state.Too much attention is given to the television ads. The Koch network, which is actively training Tea Partiers, via a partnership with True the Vote, to harass and intimidate voters, may tip the scales in this election. And you won’t see their work on television, or through FEC disclosures (they refuse to register their grassroots electioneering as independent expenditures). Like Wisconsin, liberals might see the ground shifting beneath them, and wonder what happened.
Check out Mike O’s blog – Red Clay admin is actually threatening him and parents who might attend the school board meeting tonight in response to his meeting announcement post.
WTF.
https://seventhtype.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/oh-my-now-you-have-to-come-to-the-rcpac-meeting-on-monday-night-at-baltz-elementary-at-600-pm/#comment-813
It isn’t a school board meeting but a Parents Involvement committee meeting (as far as I could tell).
Anyway… the question seems to be, are Red Clay parents involvement efforts real, or just a sham to satisfy a couple of title I and RTTT mandates?
True, I missed that the first time around and came back to make a correction.
Mike will be thoroughly challenging the evident shamminess.
Red Clay actually has a pretty good assortment of committees and entry points for parent involvement. It’s just that most of them are locked down and controlled by the District, whether by written or unwritten rules, so they don’t really reach their potential. Plus some of them are aimed at providing basic supports for high-need families, which I wholeheartedly support.
But there’s practically no place for informed parents to have an extended policy discussion in any meeting where it matters. There’s just nothing in the District culture to support it. RCPAC (Red Clay Parent Advisory Council) is well-placed and has a lot of untapped potential, so I was hoping some like-minded parents would show up.