IT'S TIME to support 10 primary
challengers for the WA. state legislature every 2 years. Every 2 years over 100
Washington State Representatives and Senators are up for re-election.
IT'S TIME to put up 1000 yard signs for 10 primary
challengers on the 2 weeks after the deadline for candidates to file for
office. At Boruck Printing &
Silkscreen in Seattle, for $5000 you get 1000 plastic 2 sided 2 color signs and
the metal thingies the signs go on. What candidate wouldn’t love to have their
name on 1000 signs around a legislative district in the short window between
filing and the primary? WEA spends hundreds of thousands of dollars every year
in Olympia – what is 50 grand for 10 primary challengers?
IT'S TIME to evaluate all
legislators all the time. Did they vote for anything that made things worse for
our kids? Yes or No. Did they stand by while some legislation made things worse
for our kids? Yes or No.
IT'S TIME to quit playing these
insider games about who is electable and who is a lessor of two evil – did s/he
help or stand by while our kids were hurt? How many people on WEA-PAC’s 2014
endorsement page betrayed us working stiffs with their votes for tying test
scores to junk evaluations in SB5748? (Senators Kohl-Welles, Habib and
Frockt!!)
IT'S TIME ORGANIZING WORKING EDUCATOR
COMMUNITIES
1. BY LOCATION, 2. BY ACTIVITY, 3. BY
CANDIDATE / ISSUE
IF we the little working people are
going to have sustainable influence on the decisions juggling the trade-offs
which are made in our communities, we need to organize ourselves differently.
http://organizingteacherswa.blogspot.com/2014/06/organizing-working-educator-communities.html
IT'S TIME 4-3-2
IS NEEDED FROM YOU.
IF our unions are going to matter to
the decision makers, the decision makers are going to have to be scared of us.
When they're scared of us, they'll work with us. When they work us, they'll
stop pulling the kind of garbage they've pulled on Washington State educators
over the last 5+ years: denial of citizen approved cost of living raises,
denial of citizen approved smaller classes sizes, a multi-billion dollar Boeing
give away in the fall of 2013 in an emergency 3 day session.
They'll be scared of us when 4 times a
year, during 1 of the 3 important political seasons of the year, each of us
does something political for at least 2 hours.
http://organizingteacherswa.blogspot.com/2014/08/4-3-2-is-needed-from-you.html
