I'm practicing my Caroling. We will be outside while our pals are inside fighting the Unity machine.
There is increasing evidence that the combination of the growing United for Change coalition (requests to run with UFC have been coming in droves) and the growing leadership ineptitude and loss of faith by even some in the Unity faithful, is leading to some hysterical over reaction.
The video below caused some consternation in the Unity Caucus hackdom world. They had to point to the many Unity fantastic women on Ad Com and on the Ex Bd. We agree - many of them are fantastic. So why doesn't Mulgrew and the other two men in the room consult or even inform them when it comes to fundamental decision making?
But don't you worry. The Unity team has a solution: Get some of these women up in front for photo ops with Mulgrew during the upcoming Delegate Assembly.
I will be outside huddled with other retirees trying to listen to the meeting on a phone. Maybe we can get a repeat of the bullhorn incident and have Mulgrew freak out and threaten to cancel the meeting because 8 retirees are outside listening at the same time the DA is being broadcast to thousand.
Last month I reported on this LOL moment at the Nov. DA:
....a group of retirees were huddled together outside listening to the DA with some mild amplification through a bull horn - we are old and the UFT leadership opposes medicare for all which would pay for our hearing aids. In addition, the 19th floor, where we usually watch the DA, was closed. And despite Retiree Advocate winning 30% of the vote in last spring's chapter election - roughly 7000 disenfranchised voters -we have NO representation at the DA as Unity takes winner take all for all retiree 300 delegates. This is dues taxation without representation. For the record, before the election we asked for at the very least some token representation at the DA for 5 out of 300 and Unity said NO.
Apparently this unnerved Mulgrew enough to interrupt a great speech by Daniel Alicea on why mayoral control has been so bad and Mulgrew stopped the DA and threatened to shut it down entirely because there are supposed rules about broadcasting the DA outside the building, an LOL moment since they were broadcasting outside the building to thousands of delegates.They sent 3 Unity staffer goons out to yell at us: Queens HS Dist Rep James Vasquez, Wilma Soto and Good old Bill Ruff Ruff, who raced out to yell at us after yelling at Daniel. I yelled back to show us the rule and that if there were a rule about broadcasting outside the DA, they were the ones violating the rule --
All of them are on the UFT payroll while also acting as delegates. Nice gig if you can get it -- and you can if you agree to be a Unity Caucus hack.
I'm trying to get a hold of 3 bullhorns.
This post is mistaken. There are not 3 people in the room. There is one person. Mulgrew. Sill and Barr have no power. The UFT president answers to nobody. He has more power in his sphere than any leader, be it Pope, US prez. Head of corps, you name it. He answers to no one.
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