See also my latest post on April 2: The Paul Egan Story, Redux: Commentary
This has been edited with some updated information:
Another reason to vote Unity in the elections? Not. There are a lot more reasons to vote against Unity.
Look at the ballot and you won't see Paul's name - which means they knew before the ballots were printed.
This has been edited with some updated information:
Another reason to vote Unity in the elections? Not. There are a lot more reasons to vote against Unity.
Look at the ballot and you won't see Paul's name - which means they knew before the ballots were printed.
“Rumor: Paul Egan Out at UFT - Everyone is Mum,” read the headline of an item published March 19 in city education blog Ed Notes. “It would be a funny time to remove Paul,” the blog post mused. “Maybe someone will contact Ed Notes with the full story.”
.... The Daily News
Well, today the story is finally out -- Good reporting Ben -- and thanks for the mention - but how about a hot link?When Paul Egan wasn't at last week's UFT Executive Board meeting we never got the latest updates on the Chelsea soccer team.
Now all we need is the other names of the UFT staffers who ratted him out. Are they out too? And holy crap - Paul threw away 200 grand - he should have taken some testosterone suppressors. And by the way -- not the first sex scandal at the UFT - remember Jerry Goldman who was fired for some shenanigans at a NYSUT convention at the Hilton?
Come on guys at 52 - send me some leaks.
Some clues:
Notice that Mulgrew announced these replacements at the Ex Bd meeting:
New Director of Grievance—David Campbell
New Political Director—Cassie Pruh
New Attorney—Beth Norton
Thanks people who took new positions.
Here is the DN story.
NYC teachers union honcho ousted in office sex scandal: sources
A burly teachers’ union official with a taste for naughty behavior has been fired for carrying on messy sexual trysts with junior staffers, sources say.Former United Federation of Teachers Political Director Paul Egan, a political powerbroker whose influence once extended from lower Manhattan to Albany, was let go from his high-flying post Feb. 15 amid jealous accusations hurled by one of his spurned paramours, according to sources with knowledge of the matter.Egan, 52, who worked in city schools before joining the UFT more than a decade ago, first grabbed headlines after city officials accused him of encouraging his students to cheat on standardized exams in 2001.In 2011, he made the news again for throwing a fit during a boozy lobbyist dinner in a swank Albany bistro, claiming the quail he was served — and finished — wasn’t a generous enough portion, sources said.
Police were called to quell the quail fracas, but Egan still held onto his high-paying gig.A source familiar with Egan’s final ouster said that he had been carrying on a passionate inter-office affair with a comely UFT lawyer.The couple used UFT cell phones to sext and office computers to relay saucy photos of each other. The relationship soured, according to the source, when Egan started some sex-tracurricular activities with another union staffer.The two-timed lawyer went to union officials with the information about her affair and the lurid pics on union equipment, prompting them to fire Egan for his philandering.“They found the photos on the UFT equipment,” the source said.Egan, who earned a salary of $192,102 in 2018 plus $25,757 in expenses, according to union filings, didn’t respond to requests for comment.He was a seventh-grade teacher at Bronx Intermediate School 113 when he allegedly left the answers to 11 questions near the pencil sharpener in his classroom in an attempt to boost pass rates on a citywide math exam, according to the special schools investigator.“Teacher Paul Egan used several different methods to cheat,” the investigator reported.The probe found he would tell students before a test to sharpen their pencils — and then depart, leaving the answers to the first 11 questions near the sharpener.“Don’t tell anyone that I helped you or you’ll be the ones who get into trouble,” one student quoted Egan as telling the class.But one girl ratted Egan out to her mother, who told school officials.Lawmakers said the incident should’ve been enough to cost Egan his job.But Egan held onto his city paycheck until 2005 when he joined the union as a special representative.
He was promoted quickly in the union, earning four promotions over the next decade, according to his LinkedIn profile.He was working as the UFT’s Director of Legislation & Political Action when his next brush with notoriety occurred in an alcohol-fueled banquet at Albany’s posh Marché bistro in 2011.Big-eater Egan got rowdy while ringing up nearly $2,000 on dinner and drinks at the posh restaurant, which is now closed.
A patron at the bistro said restaurant staffers complained that the UFT group took up three tables in the the outrageous dinner involving the portly rep and 24 union comrades.The liquored-up educators “were yelling and screaming the whole night,” a source said at the time.After devouring his quail dinner, Egan — who was listed in the 1990 Guinness Book of World Records for the longest after-dinner speech — began yelling about the small portions in his three-course prix fixe meal, and refused to pay the group’s bill.
When the owner couldn’t calm him down, cops were called. The restaurant eventually chopped the group’s bill from $2,000 to $1,500.Reps for the influential teachers’ union, which represents roughly 118,000 current members, confirmed Egan’s departure to the Daily News this week but wouldn’t give a reason.Founded in 1960, the UFT is a local division of the 1.4 million-member American Federation of Teachers and wields a powerful political force across New York, often serving a foil to Gov. Cuomo and friend to Mayor de Blasio.
News of Egan’s departure prompted confusion among the union’s membership.“Rumor: Paul Egan is out at UFT – Everyone is Mum,” read the headline of an item published March 19 in city education blog Ed Notes.“It would be a funny time to remove Paul,” the blog post mused. “Maybe someone will contact Ed Notes with the full story.”
Attempts to glean more details of Egan’s ouster were unsuccessful, with union members refusing to speak to a News reporter who approached staffers outside UFT headquarters at 52 Broadway in lower Manhattan.
16 comments:
The article is BS. He was fired for misbehavior. Ho hum. Pass the salt. Then, a long winded rehash of ancient history. Good reporting? Norm, you're senile. It was a typical hatchet job.
LOL. Above anonymous must be either a Star Bellied Sneetch or aspiring to be one.
One less person looking at my supposedly "Secret" ballot before I'm allowed to seal and cast it.
The guy is a bum. Should never have been given a job by the union. Another reason not to vote for Mulgrew
The article made it up? Do people at the UFT have the right to date? What is wrong with that? Laws against dating two people at the same time? So why was he fired? And of course I'm senile. Why else would I bother with this crap?
Unity hack and slug attack.
The problem with this and the comments, is that the rumors, which became this article, are not true. Very little of that story is truth and your hatred of Mulgrew and unity is blinding you to the fact that this effects real people. TRe UFT tends to be a factory for rumors, but a lot of people assume things and run with it, without ever verifying it is true. Almost everyone who works at the union for any length has had to damp down on rumors about them, that are not true. Unfortunately this was in the newspaper. I grieve for all involved parties.
I don’t know about the Paul Egan situation but calling for people to “out” potential victims is scary, vindictive and counterproductive.
Ok, Norm, I'm sorry about the senile comment. You redeemed yourself with your last comment. Why though did u say it was good reporting if you see all the problems with this story. I wonder if any of it is true.
So....once an individual sits in a particular seat in the union, dating is off limits????
Whatever the TRUTH may be....funny how the story comes out NOW
Funny how nobody in any leadership position has any news.
We don't know why Paul left or where he went. Something that we usually hear about when a high level person leaves.
His name was not on the ballot so people knew he left some time ago and figured....no one would ask where Paul went????
Rumor of him being led out by NYPD??
Just tell the people who paid his salary what happened!
He was not led out by NYPD. I know that for a fact. And that falsehood should inform the entire affair, all of which is based on rumor, of unknown source and dubious credibility.
AnonymousSunday, March 31, 2019 at 1:10:00 PM EDT knows for a fact, "He was not led out by NYPD."!?!?!?!? Apparently Anonymous knows what happened. How is this Anonymous NOT another, "unknown source and dubious credibility."
OK, what day did he leave? Why did he leave? Where did he go?
AnonymousSaturday, March 30, 2019 at 12:21:00 PM EDT, What misbehavior can one get fired for?
Dues paying members should know when and how the Political Director & Director of Chapter Organizing & Development was, "relieved of his duties"
I'm agnostic on this particular story, but if you want us to accept your argument that Paul Egan is being maligned and/or the reporting is false, then please supply some alternative facts and evidence.
poor paul he has to behave as if he could really be worth the money paid for a hooligan..
he sounds transhuman
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