Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

[Glenn]

On 4/24/2012 8:54 AM, krf...@aol.com wrote:
How would you answer the rational segment of the group that believes 
that the system of public education in Philadelphia (and elsewhere) 
has destroyed itself with tools ranging from socio-political 
correctness in their permissive attitudes toward children and parents 
alike, to excessive compensation and benefit packages for teachers who 
are not held accountable for their own performance?



Al,

Public education has been sabotaged through decades of funding 
priorities.  Providing a good environment for learning is not rocket 
science.  We know how to do it in public schools, but public schools in 
poor communities don't get close to the resources to provide it.  
Privatization is a goal, not a solution, citing poor achievement 
outcomes which have been deliberately created.


New school teachers, especially in poor districts, leave the profession 
within a couple years through a revolving door.  If teaching had 
excessive compensation for a carefree job, would new teachers flee?  
(Adequate support for new teachers and ongoing professional development 
has not been taken seriously in my lifetime.  The teaching profession 
should have the same professional development structures as a profession 
like medicine, but privatization seeks to make teachers of the middle 
and poor classes into technicians.)




There is a great deal of disinformation about equitable funding between 
schools in poor communities and wealthier communities, even inside the 
same district.  While powerful interests claim that "money has been 
thrown" at public schools, the reality is that many schools don't have 
libraries, nurses, arts programs, reasonable class sizes, etc.  (Detroit 
recently allowed its class sizes to hit 60 pupils).


Many individual teachers, principals, and schools do wonderful work 
despite these enormous deficits.  But the poor aggregate outcomes should 
not surprise anyone.



Over the past decade, even more resources have been siphoned away from 
public education for building scams, other real estate deals, and prison 
security systems while the money is hidden as per pupil spending.   If 
you directly compare a public school in a wealthy community with a "low 
performing" school in a poor one, the difference in per pupil resources 
is obvious and extreme.


"socio-political correctness in their permissive attitudes toward 
children and parents alike"


Again, I see a coordinated disinformation campaign that leads people to 
blame the poor for their situations in life, rather than seeing 
problematic reactions as normal human responses.  When a child or parent 
has a poor and chronically stressful environment, force and coercion are 
advanced as the proper answers.  Force and coercion do not result in 
people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, and often lead to 
helplessness, addictions, or violence.


Schools need a productive and nurturing environment for the best 
educational outcomes.  And given the proper resources, they can be an 
important place for ameliorating the harm of poverty and chronic 
stress.  (We should sponsor adult literacy and child rearing programs 
for the parents too, because having a child is a "teachable moment" for 
adults suffering from poverty.)


Al, education policy is an area that all Americans need to investigate!  
The corporate media is part of a coordinated disinformation and 
distraction campaign.  Their framing of this manufactured crisis, as 
well as their business solutions to it, are a pack of lies.


I believe those pushing "school choice" really believe that only the 
rich and powerful deserve the chance for a quality education.  Kids 
aren't lattes and schools should not be latte markets.


All the best,
Glenn

Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

[wil.phil]

This is the kind of comment one gets from one who has not set foot in a public 
school for quite a long time or has not taught in public schools.No 
one listens to people who are actually there.Sent from 
Xfinity Mobile App

Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

[Amara Rockar]

Live stream here:
http://www.thenotebook.org/blog/124746/radical-district-reorganization-64-school-closings-planned


On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Wilma de Soto  wrote:

> Wait until you see what happens today. Forty schools to be closed in
> Philadelphia, hundreds of personnel to be handed over to private agencies,
> or fired…should be fun.
>
> From: Kimm Tynan 
> Reply-To: Kimm Tynan 
> Date: Monday, April 23, 2012 11:02 PM
> To: UnivCity listserv 
> Subject: Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad
>
> Here’s another excellent article.
>
>
> http://www.alternet.org/story/155076/right-wing_campaign_to_privatize_public_ed_takes_hold_in_pennsylvania/?page=entire
>
>
> On 4/23/12 12:55 PM, "Amara Rockar"  wrote:
>
> Found Muhammad's campaign report:
>
> http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/20120114-2012-2-83.pdf
>
>
> This article does a good job of breaking down the sources of the funding
> in context:
> http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/4/23/21157/2721
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Amara Rockar  wrote:
>
> Muhammad and most of these PACs have not filed their campaign finance
> reports as required by last Friday.
>
> https://www.campaignfinanceonline.state.pa.us/pages/CFReportSearch.aspx
>
> It is looking like the constituents of the 188th won't have the full
> details of who exactly is funding what until after the primary.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Kimm Tynan 
> wrote:
>
> From Friday’s City Paper:
>
> http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/nakedcity/Democrat-backed-by-anti-abortion-rich-people-sends-pro-choice-mailer-decrying-GOP-war-on-women.html?text=xlg&c=y
>
>
> On 4/20/12 1:47 AM, "Kimm Tynan"  http://kimm.ty...@verizon.net> > wrote:
>
> I have been trying to post this to the other list, where a discussion is
> ongoing, but I am transitioning between email addresses and can’t seem to
> post to the other list at the moment.  But I need to post this.  Feel free
> to forward to the other list.
>
> This is fascinating to me.  Disturbing, but fascinating in a kind-of
> accident-gawker kind-of way.
>
> So, after being bombarded all week with Ms. Muhammad’s very expensive
> flyers in my door (FOUR today!) I started noticing who is sponsoring them.
>  This week, several have been from “Friends of,” but I noticed a number
> were sponsored by “Women for Change,” a lame name if ever this lifelong
> lefty activist has seen one.  So I wondered . . . .
>
> I just googled the group, with an Elkins Park address, and came up with
> surprisingly little, other than campaign contribution reports.  One
> attracted my interest for reasons I can’t articulate moreso than others.
>  The link took me to, what appears to me to be, a report from the City
> Controller’s office on campaign contributions.  It took me a little while
> to figure it out but it looks to me like it is a report on contributions
> made by Students First, the provoucher PAC “funded by Pennsylvania
> hedge-fund managers and American Federation for Children, a Washington,
> D.C., pro-voucher group headed by Amway heiress and major right-wing donor
> Betsy DeVos . . . . backed by conservative Bala Cynwyd hedge-fund managers
> Jeffrey Yass, Arthur Dantchik and Joel Greenberg,” according to the City
> Paper article Jim cited.
>
> I am attaching the pdf of the report, and it can also be found at *
> http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/2010165-2012-2-70.pdf
> * .
>
> If you can open the pdf, search the document for “Women for Change.”
>
> I am completely open to being corrected on this, but it looks to me to be
> a report on contributions by Students First to candidates for Philadelphia
> office. There are two contributions of 10K each from Students First to
> Women for Change on March 21, one at page 6, one at page 12.  About when
> Ms. Muhammad’s promotional materials started appearing.  I had to do a
> triple take on that – why make two 10K contributions on the same day,
> rather than one $20K, if not simply to make it harder to track?
>
> I am sickened on multiple levels.  First, just that wealthy individuals
> who have no relationship to this city or state are pouring phenomenal
> amounts of money into the state – even just the city, but this is where the
> strongest opposition to vouchers lives – in this election.
>
> Which is why she can pay for all of these expensive flyers.  She’s not a
> grassroots homeless up-by-her-bootstraps lesbian African-American.  Well,
> she may be a formerly homeless lesbian African-American.  But that does not
> necessarily say anything about whose interests she is representing now.
>  She sold her soul to the suburban hedge-fund manager

Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

[Mario Giorno]

Al,

  Would you rather reform the public education system of Philadelphia
and make it respond to the needs of all children and
have accountability standards for both teachers and students or destroy it
with a slow, painful death of a thousand cuts - school by school, district
by district?

  The private parochial (religious or non-religious) schools, charter
schools and private in-home or other tutoring systems are not a panacea for
educating all of the children in Philadelphia or the country as a whole.
This is the kind of major initiative and coordination that requires a
government-run educational system. If we follow the trend of school
vouchers and the continued removal of funds from the public education
system and follow it to its logical conclusion, we will have a community of
children who, at some point, will only get a basic education if they can
afford it.

  And if parents have to buy a K-12 education for their children
through a retail transaction, who's going to enforce truancy or deal with
children's behavioral problems when they do occur. If schools can just kick
any kid off of the rolls because they misbehave or are disruptive, who in
the end is going to help those kids become more disciplined? In this way it
seems that the private "for-pay" school/school voucher movement doesn't
want to help all kids, only the kids that the "easiest to teach." Private
school companies don't want the hard job of disciplining kids or dealing
with their personal/family life issues which almost always find their way
into the classroom.

  Towns and counties in the U.S. are closing several public
schools because of austere budget cuts in order to deal with the deep
recession we've been crawling out of. It seems they're cutting off their
nose to spite their face. Conservative/Republican governors,
state legislatures and municipal governments are trying to choke the public
school system at a time when educating the children of America should be
one of our highest long-term priorities.


Mario

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:54 AM,  wrote:

> **
>
>
> In a message dated 4/24/2012 8:22:50 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> glen...@earthlink.net writes:
>
> I believe the plutocracy will first use the charter movement to destroy
> public education in Philadelphia.
>
> How would you answer the rational segment of the group that believes that
> the system of public education in Philadelphia (and elsewhere) has
> destroyed itself with tools ranging from socio-political correctness in
> their permissive attitudes toward children and parents alike, to excessive
> compensation and benefit packages for teachers who are not held accountable
> for their own performance?
>
> *-
> *
> Alan Krigman
> KRF Management, ICON/Information Concepts Inc
> 211 S 45th St, Philadelphia PA 19104-2918
> 215-349-6500, fax 215-349-6502
> krf...@aol.com or al.krig...@krf.icodat.com
>



-- 
Mario Giorno
228 S. 45th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
westphi...@gmail.com

Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

[Krfapt]

In a message dated 4/24/2012 8:22:50 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
glen...@earthlink.net writes:

I  believe the plutocracy will first use the charter movement to destroy  
public education in Philadelphia.
How would you answer the rational segment of the group that believes that  
the system of public education in Philadelphia (and elsewhere) has destroyed 
 itself with tools ranging from socio-political correctness in their 
permissive  attitudes toward children and parents alike, to excessive 
compensation 
and  benefit packages for teachers who are not held accountable for their 
own  performance?
 
-

Alan Krigman
KRF Management, ICON/Information Concepts  Inc
211 S 45th St, Philadelphia PA 19104-2918
215-349-6500, fax  215-349-6502
krf...@aol.com or  al.krig...@krf.icodat.com

Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

[Glenn moyer]

Title: Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad























"The SRC recently voted to close eight schools, but at the time it acknowledged it would have to close many more in the future. With more than 50,000 students shifting from district schools to charter schools in the last decade, district classrooms now have tens of thousands of extra seats."
http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20120424_Phila__School_District_plan_includes_restructuring_and_school_closings.html
 
As I roamed about New Orleans over the past week, I saw the skeletons of public schools everywhere.  Before vouchers subsidize upper class families, I believe the plutocracy will first use the charter movement to destroy public education in Philadelphia.  They know how to make us demand privatization lite instead of privatiztion final.  (e.g. We condemn Citizen's United and super pacs, but support its twin, local censorship.) 
While we support charters over vouchers, is anyone speaking for a society based on humanity and a "Marshall plan" for public education?  I think working class parents would choose schools like the Bloombergs, Duncans, and Obamas attend, rather than vouchers or charters. 
Peace,
Glenn
 
-Original Message- From: Wilma de Soto Sent: Apr 24, 2012 7:17 AM To: Kimm Tynan , UnivCity listserv Subject: Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad 
Wait until you see what happens today. Forty schools to be closed in Philadelphia, hundreds of personnel to be handed over to private agencies, or fired…should be fun.

From: Kimm Tynan <kimm.ty...@verizon.net>Reply-To: Kimm Tynan <kimm.ty...@verizon.net>Date: Monday, April 23, 2012 11:02 PMTo: UnivCity listserv <UnivCity@list.purple.com>Subject: Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad


Here’s another excellent article.http://www.alternet.org/story/155076/right-wing_campaign_to_privatize_public_ed_takes_hold_in_pennsylvania/?page=entireOn 4/23/12 12:55 PM, "Amara Rockar" <aroc...@gmail.com> wrote:
Found Muhammad's campaign report:http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/20120114-2012-2-83.pdf This article does a good job of breaking down the sources of the funding in context:http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/4/23/21157/2721 On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Amara Rockar <aroc...@gmail.com> wrote:
Muhammad and most of these PACs have not filed their campaign finance reports as required by last Friday. https://www.campaignfinanceonline.state.pa.us/pages/CFReportSearch.aspx It is looking like the constituents of the 188th won't have the full details of who exactly is funding what until after the primary. On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Kimm Tynan <kimm.ty...@verizon.net> wrote:
>From Friday’s City Paper:http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/nakedcity/Democrat-backed-by-anti-abortion-rich-people-sends-pro-choice-mailer-decrying-GOP-war-on-women.html?text=xlg&c=yOn 4/20/12 1:47 AM, "Kimm Tynan" <kimm.ty...@verizon.net <http://kimm.ty...@verizon.net> > wrote:
I have been trying to post this to the other list, where a discussion is ongoing, but I am transitioning between email addresses and can’t seem to post to the other list at the moment.  But I need to post this.  Feel free to forward to the other list.This is fascinating to me.  Disturbing, but fascinating in a kind-of accident-gawker kind-of way.So, after being bombarded all week with Ms. Muhammad’s very expensive flyers in my door (FOUR today!) I started noticing who is sponsoring them.  This week, several have been from “Friends of,” but I noticed a number were sponsored by “Women for Change,” a lame name if ever this lifelong lefty activist has seen one.  So I wondered . . . .I just googled the group, with an Elkins Park address, and came up with surprisingly little, other than campaign contribution reports.  One attracted my interest for reasons I can’t articulate moreso than others.  The link took me to, what appears to me to be, a report from the City Controller’s office on campaign contributions.  It took me a little while to figure it out but it looks to me like it is a report on contributions made by Students First, the provoucher PAC “funded by Pennsylvania hedge-fund managers and American Federation for Children, a Washington, D.C., pro-voucher group headed by Amway heiress and major right-wing donor Betsy DeVos . . . . backed by conservative Bala Cynwyd hedge-fund managers Jeffrey Yass, Arthur Dantchik and Joel Greenberg,” according to the City Paper article Jim cited.I am attaching the pdf of the report, and it can also be found at http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/2010165-2012-2-70.pdf .If you can open the pdf, search the document for “Women for Change.” I am completely open to being corrected on this, but it looks to me to be a report on contributions by Students First to candidates for Philadelphia office. There are two contributions of 10K each from Students First to Women for Change 

Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

[Wilma de Soto]

Wait until you see what happens today. Forty schools to be closed in
Philadelphia, hundreds of personnel to be handed over to private agencies,
or firedŠshould be fun.

From:  Kimm Tynan 
Reply-To:  Kimm Tynan 
Date:  Monday, April 23, 2012 11:02 PM
To:  UnivCity listserv 
Subject:  Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad
Here¹s another excellent article.

http://www.alternet.org/story/155076/right-wing_campaign_to_privatize_public
_ed_takes_hold_in_pennsylvania/?page=entire


On 4/23/12 12:55 PM, "Amara Rockar"  wrote:

> Found Muhammad's campaign report:
> http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/20120114-2012-2-83.pd
> f 
> 
> This article does a good job of breaking down the sources of the funding in
> context:
> http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/4/23/21157/2721
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Amara Rockar  wrote:
>> Muhammad and most of these PACs have not filed their campaign finance reports
>> as required by last Friday.
>> 
>> https://www.campaignfinanceonline.state.pa.us/pages/CFReportSearch.aspx
>> 
>> It is looking like the constituents of the 188th won't have the full details
>> of who exactly is funding what until after the primary.
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Kimm Tynan  wrote:
>>> From Friday¹s City Paper:
>>> http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/nakedcity/Democrat-backed-by-anti-abortion-ri
>>> 
ch-people-sends-pro-choice-mailer-decrying-GOP-war-on-women.html?text=xlg&c=>>>
y
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 4/20/12 1:47 AM, "Kimm Tynan" >> <http://kimm.ty...@verizon.net> > wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I have been trying to post this to the other list, where a discussion is
>>>> ongoing, but I am transitioning between email addresses and can¹t seem to
>>>> post to the other list at the moment.  But I need to post this.  Feel free
>>>> to forward to the other list.
>>>> 
>>>> This is fascinating to me.  Disturbing, but fascinating in a kind-of
>>>> accident-gawker kind-of way.
>>>> 
>>>> So, after being bombarded all week with Ms. Muhammad¹s very expensive
>>>> flyers in my door (FOUR today!) I started noticing who is sponsoring them.
>>>> This week, several have been from ³Friends of,² but I noticed a number were
>>>> sponsored by ³Women for Change,² a lame name if ever this lifelong lefty
>>>> activist has seen one.  So I wondered . . . .
>>>> 
>>>> I just googled the group, with an Elkins Park address, and came up with
>>>> surprisingly little, other than campaign contribution reports.  One
>>>> attracted my interest for reasons I can¹t articulate moreso than others.
>>>> The link took me to, what appears to me to be, a report from the City
>>>> Controller¹s office on campaign contributions.  It took me a little while
>>>> to figure it out but it looks to me like it is a report on contributions
>>>> made by Students First, the provoucher PAC ³funded by Pennsylvania
>>>> hedge-fund managers and American Federation for Children, a Washington,
>>>> D.C., pro-voucher group headed by Amway heiress and major right-wing donor
>>>> Betsy DeVos . . . . backed by conservative Bala Cynwyd hedge-fund managers
>>>> Jeffrey Yass, Arthur Dantchik and Joel Greenberg,² according to the City
>>>> Paper article Jim cited.
>>>> 
>>>> I am attaching the pdf of the report, and it can also be found at
>>>> http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/2010165-2012-2-70.
>>>> pdf .
>>>> 
>>>> If you can open the pdf, search the document for ³Women for Change.²
>>>> 
>>>> I am completely open to being corrected on this, but it looks to me to be a
>>>> report on contributions by Students First to candidates for Philadelphia
>>>> office. There are two contributions of 10K each from Students First to
>>>> Women for Change on March 21, one at page 6, one at page 12.  About when
>>>> Ms. Muhammad¹s promotional materials started appearing.  I had to do a
>>>> triple take on that ­ why make two 10K contributions on the same day,
>>>> rather than one $20K, if not simply to make it harder to track?
>>>> 
>>>> I am sickened on multiple levels.  First, just that wealthy individuals who
>>>> have no relationship to this city or state are pouring phenomenal amounts
>>>> of money into the state ­ even just the city, but this is where the
>>>> s

Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

[Kimm Tynan]

Here¹s another excellent article.

http://www.alternet.org/story/155076/right-wing_campaign_to_privatize_public
_ed_takes_hold_in_pennsylvania/?page=entire


On 4/23/12 12:55 PM, "Amara Rockar"  wrote:

> Found Muhammad's campaign report:
> http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/20120114-2012-2-83.pd
> f 
> 
> This article does a good job of breaking down the sources of the funding in
> context:
> http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/4/23/21157/2721
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Amara Rockar  wrote:
>> Muhammad and most of these PACs have not filed their campaign finance reports
>> as required by last Friday. 
>> 
>> https://www.campaignfinanceonline.state.pa.us/pages/CFReportSearch.aspx
>> 
>> It is looking like the constituents of the 188th won't have the full details
>> of who exactly is funding what until after the primary. 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Kimm Tynan  wrote:
>>> From Friday¹s City Paper:
>>> http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/nakedcity/Democrat-backed-by-anti-abortion-ri
>>> 
ch-people-sends-pro-choice-mailer-decrying-GOP-war-on-women.html?text=xlg&c=>>>
y
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 4/20/12 1:47 AM, "Kimm Tynan" >>  > wrote:
>>> 
 I have been trying to post this to the other list, where a discussion is
 ongoing, but I am transitioning between email addresses and can¹t seem to
 post to the other list at the moment.  But I need to post this.  Feel free
 to forward to the other list.
 
 This is fascinating to me.  Disturbing, but fascinating in a kind-of
 accident-gawker kind-of way.
 
 So, after being bombarded all week with Ms. Muhammad¹s very expensive
 flyers in my door (FOUR today!) I started noticing who is sponsoring them.
  This week, several have been from ³Friends of,² but I noticed a number
 were sponsored by ³Women for Change,² a lame name if ever this lifelong
 lefty activist has seen one.  So I wondered . . . .
 
 I just googled the group, with an Elkins Park address, and came up with
 surprisingly little, other than campaign contribution reports.  One
 attracted my interest for reasons I can¹t articulate moreso than others.
  The link took me to, what appears to me to be, a report from the City
 Controller¹s office on campaign contributions.  It took me a little while
 to figure it out but it looks to me like it is a report on contributions
 made by Students First, the provoucher PAC ³funded by Pennsylvania
 hedge-fund managers and American Federation for Children, a Washington,
 D.C., pro-voucher group headed by Amway heiress and major right-wing donor
 Betsy DeVos . . . . backed by conservative Bala Cynwyd hedge-fund managers
 Jeffrey Yass, Arthur Dantchik and Joel Greenberg,² according to the City
 Paper article Jim cited.
 
 I am attaching the pdf of the report, and it can also be found at
 http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/2010165-2012-2-70.
 pdf .
 
 If you can open the pdf, search the document for ³Women for Change.²
 
 I am completely open to being corrected on this, but it looks to me to be a
 report on contributions by Students First to candidates for Philadelphia
 office. There are two contributions of 10K each from Students First to
 Women for Change on March 21, one at page 6, one at page 12.  About when
 Ms. Muhammad¹s promotional materials started appearing.  I had to do a
 triple take on that ­ why make two 10K contributions on the same day,
 rather than one $20K, if not simply to make it harder to track?
 
 I am sickened on multiple levels.  First, just that wealthy individuals who
 have no relationship to this city or state are pouring phenomenal amounts
 of money into the state ­ even just the city, but this is where the
 strongest opposition to vouchers lives ­ in this election.
 
 Which is why she can pay for all of these expensive flyers.  She¹s not a
 grassroots homeless up-by-her-bootstraps lesbian African-American.  Well,
 she may be a formerly homeless lesbian African-American.  But that does not
 necessarily say anything about whose interests she is representing now.
  She sold her soul to the suburban hedge-fund managers and Amway heiresses
 who want to eliminate public schools.
 
 And I am sickened by the dishonesty.  It would be one thing if Students
 First was giving $20K to Muhammad¹s campaign in it¹s own name ­ at least
 then we know who they are and what their agenda is.  But to channel their
 money to astroturfed shell entities pretending to some other agenda ­ it¹s
 sickening.
 
 I am also really, deeply disappointed to see that the Liberty City
 Democrats endorsed this woman.
 
 Kimm
>> 
>> 

Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

[Amara Rockar]

Found Muhammad's campaign report:
http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/20120114-2012-2-83.pdf


This article does a good job of breaking down the sources of the funding in
context:
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/4/23/21157/2721


On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Amara Rockar  wrote:

> Muhammad and most of these PACs have not filed their campaign finance
> reports as required by last Friday.
>
> https://www.campaignfinanceonline.state.pa.us/pages/CFReportSearch.aspx
>
> It is looking like the constituents of the 188th won't have the full
> details of who exactly is funding what until after the primary.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Kimm Tynan wrote:
>
>>  From Friday’s City Paper:
>>
>> http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/nakedcity/Democrat-backed-by-anti-abortion-rich-people-sends-pro-choice-mailer-decrying-GOP-war-on-women.html?text=xlg&c=y
>>
>>
>> On 4/20/12 1:47 AM, "Kimm Tynan"  wrote:
>>
>> I have been trying to post this to the other list, where a discussion is
>> ongoing, but I am transitioning between email addresses and can’t seem to
>> post to the other list at the moment.  But I need to post this.  Feel free
>> to forward to the other list.
>>
>> This is fascinating to me.  Disturbing, but fascinating in a kind-of
>> accident-gawker kind-of way.
>>
>> So, after being bombarded all week with Ms. Muhammad’s very expensive
>> flyers in my door (FOUR today!) I started noticing who is sponsoring them.
>>  This week, several have been from “Friends of,” but I noticed a number
>> were sponsored by “Women for Change,” a lame name if ever this lifelong
>> lefty activist has seen one.  So I wondered . . . .
>>
>> I just googled the group, with an Elkins Park address, and came up with
>> surprisingly little, other than campaign contribution reports.  One
>> attracted my interest for reasons I can’t articulate moreso than others.
>>  The link took me to, what appears to me to be, a report from the City
>> Controller’s office on campaign contributions.  It took me a little while
>> to figure it out but it looks to me like it is a report on contributions
>> made by Students First, the provoucher PAC “funded by Pennsylvania
>> hedge-fund managers and American Federation for Children, a Washington,
>> D.C., pro-voucher group headed by Amway heiress and major right-wing donor
>> Betsy DeVos . . . . backed by conservative Bala Cynwyd hedge-fund managers
>> Jeffrey Yass, Arthur Dantchik and Joel Greenberg,” according to the City
>> Paper article Jim cited.
>>
>> I am attaching the pdf of the report, and it can also be found at *
>> http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/2010165-2012-2-70.pdf
>> * .
>>
>> If you can open the pdf, search the document for “Women for Change.”
>>
>> I am completely open to being corrected on this, but it looks to me to be
>> a report on contributions by Students First to candidates for Philadelphia
>> office. There are two contributions of 10K each from Students First to
>> Women for Change on March 21, one at page 6, one at page 12.  About when
>> Ms. Muhammad’s promotional materials started appearing.  I had to do a
>> triple take on that – why make two 10K contributions on the same day,
>> rather than one $20K, if not simply to make it harder to track?
>>
>> I am sickened on multiple levels.  First, just that wealthy individuals
>> who have no relationship to this city or state are pouring phenomenal
>> amounts of money into the state – even just the city, but this is where the
>> strongest opposition to vouchers lives – in this election.
>>
>> Which is why she can pay for all of these expensive flyers.  She’s not a
>> grassroots homeless up-by-her-bootstraps lesbian African-American.  Well,
>> she may be a formerly homeless lesbian African-American.  But that does not
>> necessarily say anything about whose interests she is representing now.
>>  She sold her soul to the suburban hedge-fund managers and Amway heiresses
>> who want to eliminate public schools.
>>
>> And I am sickened by the dishonesty.  It would be one thing if Students
>> First was giving $20K to Muhammad’s campaign in it’s own name – at least
>> then we know who they are and what their agenda is.  But to channel their
>> money to astroturfed shell entities pretending to some other agenda – it’s
>> sickening.
>>
>> I am also really, deeply disappointed to see that the Liberty City
>> Democrats endorsed this woman.
>>
>> Kimm
>>
>>
>
>
> --
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> Red
>



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Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

[Amara Rockar]

Muhammad and most of these PACs have not filed their campaign finance
reports as required by last Friday.

https://www.campaignfinanceonline.state.pa.us/pages/CFReportSearch.aspx

It is looking like the constituents of the 188th won't have the full
details of who exactly is funding what until after the primary.

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Kimm Tynan  wrote:

>  From Friday’s City Paper:
>
> http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/nakedcity/Democrat-backed-by-anti-abortion-rich-people-sends-pro-choice-mailer-decrying-GOP-war-on-women.html?text=xlg&c=y
>
>
> On 4/20/12 1:47 AM, "Kimm Tynan"  wrote:
>
> I have been trying to post this to the other list, where a discussion is
> ongoing, but I am transitioning between email addresses and can’t seem to
> post to the other list at the moment.  But I need to post this.  Feel free
> to forward to the other list.
>
> This is fascinating to me.  Disturbing, but fascinating in a kind-of
> accident-gawker kind-of way.
>
> So, after being bombarded all week with Ms. Muhammad’s very expensive
> flyers in my door (FOUR today!) I started noticing who is sponsoring them.
>  This week, several have been from “Friends of,” but I noticed a number
> were sponsored by “Women for Change,” a lame name if ever this lifelong
> lefty activist has seen one.  So I wondered . . . .
>
> I just googled the group, with an Elkins Park address, and came up with
> surprisingly little, other than campaign contribution reports.  One
> attracted my interest for reasons I can’t articulate moreso than others.
>  The link took me to, what appears to me to be, a report from the City
> Controller’s office on campaign contributions.  It took me a little while
> to figure it out but it looks to me like it is a report on contributions
> made by Students First, the provoucher PAC “funded by Pennsylvania
> hedge-fund managers and American Federation for Children, a Washington,
> D.C., pro-voucher group headed by Amway heiress and major right-wing donor
> Betsy DeVos . . . . backed by conservative Bala Cynwyd hedge-fund managers
> Jeffrey Yass, Arthur Dantchik and Joel Greenberg,” according to the City
> Paper article Jim cited.
>
> I am attaching the pdf of the report, and it can also be found at *
> http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/2010165-2012-2-70.pdf
> * .
>
> If you can open the pdf, search the document for “Women for Change.”
>
> I am completely open to being corrected on this, but it looks to me to be
> a report on contributions by Students First to candidates for Philadelphia
> office. There are two contributions of 10K each from Students First to
> Women for Change on March 21, one at page 6, one at page 12.  About when
> Ms. Muhammad’s promotional materials started appearing.  I had to do a
> triple take on that – why make two 10K contributions on the same day,
> rather than one $20K, if not simply to make it harder to track?
>
> I am sickened on multiple levels.  First, just that wealthy individuals
> who have no relationship to this city or state are pouring phenomenal
> amounts of money into the state – even just the city, but this is where the
> strongest opposition to vouchers lives – in this election.
>
> Which is why she can pay for all of these expensive flyers.  She’s not a
> grassroots homeless up-by-her-bootstraps lesbian African-American.  Well,
> she may be a formerly homeless lesbian African-American.  But that does not
> necessarily say anything about whose interests she is representing now.
>  She sold her soul to the suburban hedge-fund managers and Amway heiresses
> who want to eliminate public schools.
>
> And I am sickened by the dishonesty.  It would be one thing if Students
> First was giving $20K to Muhammad’s campaign in it’s own name – at least
> then we know who they are and what their agenda is.  But to channel their
> money to astroturfed shell entities pretending to some other agenda – it’s
> sickening.
>
> I am also really, deeply disappointed to see that the Liberty City
> Democrats endorsed this woman.
>
> Kimm
>
>


-- 
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Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

[Richard Conrad]

Good points...  Also:  What if the actual goal of her backers is ONLY to knock 
out our current very effective incumbent Jim Roebuck from his State 
Representative's office where he has gained major seniority and governs with 
great skill and clout; and then to abandon her in favor of less intelligent and 
non-democracy minded candidates?  I have heard several times that Rep. Roebuck 
has offered to Ms. Muhammed some kind of access in a position of influence so 
as to prepare herself better for a future in PA. State politics.  Meanwhile I 
feel that Jim Roebuck remains our best choice for State Representative again in 
this election.  

Rick

Richard D. Conrad
rdcon...@verizon.net
4844 OSAGE AVE 
PHILA PA 19143-1713
Home:  215-748-5788
Cell:  215-990-0880

On Apr 21, 2012, at 8:10 AM, Kathleen Turner wrote:

> The cynicism underlying all of this is really appalling. Ms. Muhammad on her 
> own might be a candidate I would be interested in getting to know more about. 
> She was certainly hand-picked with a lot of savvy and skill to appeal to just 
> about every demographic/interest group in our area:
> 
>Concerned about women's issues or gay issues?  she's a lesbian-feminist!
>Concerned about poverty/homelessness?  she was homeless as a child
>Concerned about immigration issues?  she's the child of an African 
> immigrant
>Concerned about representation of religious minorities?  she's Muslim
> 
> Except that, as Ms. Tynan and so many others have pointed out, the money 
> backing her cares about none of these things. The money backing her cares 
> about the profits to be made in shifting funds out of the public school 
> system and exploiting the desperation of parents trying to find adequate 
> education for their children.
> 
> I almost feel sorry for Ms. Muhammad because she's being used in a very 
> loathsome way, but I'm afraid she seems too intelligent to have ended up 
> there unknowingly.
> 
> Kathleen
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Kimm Tynan  wrote:
> From Friday’s City Paper:
> http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/nakedcity/Democrat-backed-by-anti-abortion-rich-people-sends-pro-choice-mailer-decrying-GOP-war-on-women.html?text=xlg&c=y
> 
> 
> On 4/20/12 1:47 AM, "Kimm Tynan"  wrote:
> 
> I have been trying to post this to the other list, where a discussion is 
> ongoing, but I am transitioning between email addresses and can’t seem to 
> post to the other list at the moment.  But I need to post this.  Feel free to 
> forward to the other list.
> 
> This is fascinating to me.  Disturbing, but fascinating in a kind-of 
> accident-gawker kind-of way.
> 
> So, after being bombarded all week with Ms. Muhammad’s very expensive flyers 
> in my door (FOUR today!) I started noticing who is sponsoring them.  This 
> week, several have been from “Friends of,” but I noticed a number were 
> sponsored by “Women for Change,” a lame name if ever this lifelong lefty 
> activist has seen one.  So I wondered . . . .
> 
> I just googled the group, with an Elkins Park address, and came up with 
> surprisingly little, other than campaign contribution reports.  One attracted 
> my interest for reasons I can’t articulate moreso than others.  The link took 
> me to, what appears to me to be, a report from the City Controller’s office 
> on campaign contributions.  It took me a little while to figure it out but it 
> looks to me like it is a report on contributions made by Students First, the 
> provoucher PAC “funded by Pennsylvania hedge-fund managers and American 
> Federation for Children, a Washington, D.C., pro-voucher group headed by 
> Amway heiress and major right-wing donor Betsy DeVos . . . . backed by 
> conservative Bala Cynwyd hedge-fund managers Jeffrey Yass, Arthur Dantchik 
> and Joel Greenberg,” according to the City Paper article Jim cited.
> 
> I am attaching the pdf of the report, and it can also be found at 
> http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/2010165-2012-2-70.pdf
>  .
> 
> If you can open the pdf, search the document for “Women for Change.” 
> 
> I am completely open to being corrected on this, but it looks to me to be a 
> report on contributions by Students First to candidates for Philadelphia 
> office. There are two contributions of 10K each from Students First to Women 
> for Change on March 21, one at page 6, one at page 12.  About when Ms. 
> Muhammad’s promotional materials started appearing.  I had to do a triple 
> take on that – why make two 10K contributions on the same day, rather than 
> one $20K, if not simply to make it harder to track?
> 
> I am sickened on multiple levels.  First, just that wealthy individuals who 
> have no relationship to this city or state are pouring phenomenal amounts of 
> money into the state – even just the city, but this is where the strongest 
> opposition to vouchers lives – in this election.
> 
> Which is why she can pay for all of these expensive flyers.  She’s not a 
> grassroots homeless up-by-her-boot

Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

[Kathleen Turner]

The cynicism underlying all of this is really appalling. Ms. Muhammad on
her own might be a candidate I would be interested in getting to know more
about. She was certainly hand-picked with a lot of savvy and skill to
appeal to just about every demographic/interest group in our area:

   Concerned about women's issues or gay issues?  she's a lesbian-feminist!
   Concerned about poverty/homelessness?  she was homeless as a child
   Concerned about immigration issues?  she's the child of an African
immigrant
   Concerned about representation of religious minorities?  she's Muslim

Except that, as Ms. Tynan and so many others have pointed out, the money
backing her cares about none of these things. The money backing her cares
about the profits to be made in shifting funds out of the public school
system and exploiting the desperation of parents trying to find adequate
education for their children.

I almost feel sorry for Ms. Muhammad because she's being used in a very
loathsome way, but I'm afraid she seems too intelligent to have ended up
there unknowingly.

Kathleen




On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Kimm Tynan  wrote:

>  From Friday’s City Paper:
>
> http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/nakedcity/Democrat-backed-by-anti-abortion-rich-people-sends-pro-choice-mailer-decrying-GOP-war-on-women.html?text=xlg&c=y
>
>
> On 4/20/12 1:47 AM, "Kimm Tynan"  wrote:
>
> I have been trying to post this to the other list, where a discussion is
> ongoing, but I am transitioning between email addresses and can’t seem to
> post to the other list at the moment.  But I need to post this.  Feel free
> to forward to the other list.
>
> This is fascinating to me.  Disturbing, but fascinating in a kind-of
> accident-gawker kind-of way.
>
> So, after being bombarded all week with Ms. Muhammad’s very expensive
> flyers in my door (FOUR today!) I started noticing who is sponsoring them.
>  This week, several have been from “Friends of,” but I noticed a number
> were sponsored by “Women for Change,” a lame name if ever this lifelong
> lefty activist has seen one.  So I wondered . . . .
>
> I just googled the group, with an Elkins Park address, and came up with
> surprisingly little, other than campaign contribution reports.  One
> attracted my interest for reasons I can’t articulate moreso than others.
>  The link took me to, what appears to me to be, a report from the City
> Controller’s office on campaign contributions.  It took me a little while
> to figure it out but it looks to me like it is a report on contributions
> made by Students First, the provoucher PAC “funded by Pennsylvania
> hedge-fund managers and American Federation for Children, a Washington,
> D.C., pro-voucher group headed by Amway heiress and major right-wing donor
> Betsy DeVos . . . . backed by conservative Bala Cynwyd hedge-fund managers
> Jeffrey Yass, Arthur Dantchik and Joel Greenberg,” according to the City
> Paper article Jim cited.
>
> I am attaching the pdf of the report, and it can also be found at *
> http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/2010165-2012-2-70.pdf
> * .
>
> If you can open the pdf, search the document for “Women for Change.”
>
> I am completely open to being corrected on this, but it looks to me to be
> a report on contributions by Students First to candidates for Philadelphia
> office. There are two contributions of 10K each from Students First to
> Women for Change on March 21, one at page 6, one at page 12.  About when
> Ms. Muhammad’s promotional materials started appearing.  I had to do a
> triple take on that – why make two 10K contributions on the same day,
> rather than one $20K, if not simply to make it harder to track?
>
> I am sickened on multiple levels.  First, just that wealthy individuals
> who have no relationship to this city or state are pouring phenomenal
> amounts of money into the state – even just the city, but this is where the
> strongest opposition to vouchers lives – in this election.
>
> Which is why she can pay for all of these expensive flyers.  She’s not a
> grassroots homeless up-by-her-bootstraps lesbian African-American.  Well,
> she may be a formerly homeless lesbian African-American.  But that does not
> necessarily say anything about whose interests she is representing now.
>  She sold her soul to the suburban hedge-fund managers and Amway heiresses
> who want to eliminate public schools.
>
> And I am sickened by the dishonesty.  It would be one thing if Students
> First was giving $20K to Muhammad’s campaign in it’s own name – at least
> then we know who they are and what their agenda is.  But to channel their
> money to astroturfed shell entities pretending to some other agenda – it’s
> sickening.
>
> I am also really, deeply disappointed to see that the Liberty City
> Democrats endorsed this woman.
>
> Kimm
>
>

[UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

[Kimm Tynan]

>From Friday¹s City Paper:
http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/nakedcity/Democrat-backed-by-anti-abortion-ri
ch-people-sends-pro-choice-mailer-decrying-GOP-war-on-women.html?text=xlg&c=
y


On 4/20/12 1:47 AM, "Kimm Tynan"  wrote:

> I have been trying to post this to the other list, where a discussion is
> ongoing, but I am transitioning between email addresses and can¹t seem to post
> to the other list at the moment.  But I need to post this.  Feel free to
> forward to the other list.
> 
> This is fascinating to me.  Disturbing, but fascinating in a kind-of
> accident-gawker kind-of way.
> 
> So, after being bombarded all week with Ms. Muhammad¹s very expensive flyers
> in my door (FOUR today!) I started noticing who is sponsoring them.  This
> week, several have been from ³Friends of,² but I noticed a number were
> sponsored by ³Women for Change,² a lame name if ever this lifelong lefty
> activist has seen one.  So I wondered . . . .
> 
> I just googled the group, with an Elkins Park address, and came up with
> surprisingly little, other than campaign contribution reports.  One attracted
> my interest for reasons I can¹t articulate moreso than others.  The link took
> me to, what appears to me to be, a report from the City Controller¹s office on
> campaign contributions.  It took me a little while to figure it out but it
> looks to me like it is a report on contributions made by Students First, the
> provoucher PAC ³funded by Pennsylvania hedge-fund managers and American
> Federation for Children, a Washington, D.C., pro-voucher group headed by Amway
> heiress and major right-wing donor Betsy DeVos . . . . backed by conservative
> Bala Cynwyd hedge-fund managers Jeffrey Yass, Arthur Dantchik and Joel
> Greenberg,² according to the City Paper article Jim cited.
> 
> I am attaching the pdf of the report, and it can also be found at
> http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/2010165-2012-2-70.pdf
> .
> 
> If you can open the pdf, search the document for ³Women for Change.²
> 
> I am completely open to being corrected on this, but it looks to me to be a
> report on contributions by Students First to candidates for Philadelphia
> office. There are two contributions of 10K each from Students First to Women
> for Change on March 21, one at page 6, one at page 12.  About when Ms.
> Muhammad¹s promotional materials started appearing.  I had to do a triple take
> on that ­ why make two 10K contributions on the same day, rather than one
> $20K, if not simply to make it harder to track?
> 
> I am sickened on multiple levels.  First, just that wealthy individuals who
> have no relationship to this city or state are pouring phenomenal amounts of
> money into the state ­ even just the city, but this is where the strongest
> opposition to vouchers lives ­ in this election.
> 
> Which is why she can pay for all of these expensive flyers.  She¹s not a
> grassroots homeless up-by-her-bootstraps lesbian African-American.  Well, she
> may be a formerly homeless lesbian African-American.  But that does not
> necessarily say anything about whose interests she is representing now.  She
> sold her soul to the suburban hedge-fund managers and Amway heiresses who want
> to eliminate public schools.
> 
> And I am sickened by the dishonesty.  It would be one thing if Students First
> was giving $20K to Muhammad¹s campaign in it¹s own name ­ at least then we
> know who they are and what their agenda is.  But to channel their money to
> astroturfed shell entities pretending to some other agenda ­ it¹s sickening.
> 
> I am also really, deeply disappointed to see that the Liberty City Democrats
> endorsed this woman.
> 
> Kimm