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Tue Mar 08, 2011 at 14:42:44 PM MST
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| The thing about being particularly defensive about education or any of the other issues around the mayoral race this year, is that Denver has great potential and I don't want to see it squandered because some Mayoral candidate who is a power-hungry sell-out has it in mind that they really want to be governor, or that they ultimately want to get their foot in the door with the lobby for education privatization because it's job security.
Speaking of which, you should really check out this .pdf of education-related responses from five of Denver's mayoral candidates. The most agenda-revealing question is:
If DPS is proven to be going in the wrong direction, the Mayor should take responsibility and work towards shared governance or Mayoral control of the city's public schools (like Chicago, DC, NYC, Boston, LA(partial) and a growing number of cities).
Now, if that isn't a loaded question, I dunno what is. First, what's proof? Who gets to decide? Second, it assumes that concentrated Mayoral power is a viable option which indicates that organizations that would support such takeover are more than willing to compromise community power and input so as to further whatever agenda they have. Third, big city name-dropping pressures candidates into thinking well FUCKSTICKS! I don't want Denver to not be like those big cities. Everyone who's anyone wants Denver to move away from being a cow metropolis and more towards a massively-sprawling-rent-too-damn-high-perpetual-importer-of-resources-at-the-expense-of-the-natural-world-killing-machine! I have to say yes to concentrated Mayoral control now or I'll look like a dirty hippie!
Anyhoo, below the fold is a related comic from Salon which I found via Joel's Hindbrain: |
| Fong :: Governors, Mayors, and organizations that support unconstitutionally concentrating power |
If you prick us, do we not ooze? |
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