Did you know that Hilary Rosen, the Democratic operative who attacked Ann Romney for "never

[HiPointDem]

working a day in her life" is the ex-partner of Randi Weingarten (together as recently as spring 2010)? Me neither.

But more to the point, did you know that Hilary Rosen "works for SKD Knickerbocker, which not only advises Christine Quinn but the Michelle Rhee/Joel Klein Student First anti-union operation here in NY State to supposedly counter the union influence ---"

Also "Rosen's firm, SKDKnickerbocker, represents Kaplan, and was instrumental in weakening efforts to rein in student loan abuses by for-profit 'universities.'"

http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2012/04/randi-and-hilary-rosen-and-michelle.html


SKDKnickerbocker is a public relations and political consulting firm. It has offices in Washington, DC, New York City, and Albany, NY. [1]. The firm employs notable figures like former Obama White House Communications Director Anita Dunn and former Recording Industry lobbyist Hilary Rosen...

In 2011, the firm was hired to coordinate a lobbying campaign called "WIN America" calling for hundreds of billions in tax breaks on corporate profits made overseas.[6] The firm was paid by Kaplan University to lobby against regulation of the for-profit education industry...

"It’s an open secret in the Dem consultant community that SKD has been signing up clients based on ‘perceived White House access’ tied to prior relationships and employment...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKDKnickerbocker

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1. wow, that's amazing

do you have a credible link?

[HiPointDem]

5. The link is credible. The blogger is well-known in the NYC education world.

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2. Sorry, who is Randi Weingarten?

[HiPointDem]

3. American Federation of Teachers President.

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6. Okay, thanks.

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4. Hilary Rosen's lesbian partner don't cha know

[HiPointDem]

7. I see you missed the point, which is the fact that the ex-partner of the leader of the AFT

works for the education deform team.

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8. this is fun ...

Ms. Rosen’s current partner is Randi Weingarten who happened to be a powerful union boss as President of the American Federation of Teachers.

Together they are known as a “lesbian power couple”. Both were invited to the White House State Dinner in March honoring British Prime Minister David Cameron in which numerous guests were openly gay.

What is interesting is this entire morning with all the massive media coverage, the press never mentioned Rosen was a lesbian. Now it’s widely reported but in the context of a new battleground, the “war on gay parents who adopt.” According to the Democrats, conservatives are now launching this war against Hilary Rosen because she is a gay parent who adopted.

The plain ole “War on Women” was so this morning.

http://www.redstate.com/6755mm/2012/04/12/who-is-hilary-rosen/



just found some good stuff on freerepuke, you want that too?

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9. I've known Weingarten's gay since she came out. I could give a rip. What I do care about is that

she's been selling out her membership since day 1, and this is just more evidence of same.

You might check my other posts on education, and on Weingarten.

I'll make it easy for you:

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/11241859

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10. not attacking gays, just your source

At a two-day education summit hosted by NBC News recently, the lopsided panels often featured Ms. Weingarten on one side, facing a murderer’s row of charter school founders and urban superintendents. Even Tom Brokaw piled on.

It’s nothing personal, really. Ms. Weingarten happens to be the most visible, powerful leader of unionized teachers, and in that role she personifies what many reformers see as the chief obstacle to lifting dismal schools: unions that protect incompetent teachers.

A combative labor leader who does not shrink from the spotlight, Ms. Weingarten has been fighting back. She issued a written rebuttal to “Waiting for Superman,” and she has publicly debated the film’s director, Davis Guggenheim, arguing that teachers have been made scapegoats. More to the point, the portrait of Ms. Weingarten as a demonic opponent of change — albeit one more likely to appear in a business suit and cashmere V-neck sweater, with a Cartier Tank watch and a red kabbalah string around her wrist — is out of date, according to many education experts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/16/education/16teacher.html?pagewanted=al

i watched them try to destroy her for standing up against charter schools just as your link was trying to destroy her personally, jmho

edit:

Did you know that Hilary Rosen, the Democratic operative who attacked Ann Romney for "never
working a day in her life" is the ex-partner of Randi Weingarten (together as recently as spring 2010)? Me neither.

from your original post above is no where in article you posted, so maybe that may have been why i inferred you were more interested in the gay thing? that you just told me you already knew about since she came out

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11. She didn't stand up against charter schools. Or anything else. Don't know where you got that idea.

"My link" is trying to destroy her "personally"? You mean the blogger, or this particular article?

The blogger makes no secret of his feelings about weingarten's sellout of her membership. Is a retired teacher publicizing the specifics of that sellout an attempt at personal destruction? I didn't realize. I thought it was politics.

And you should know that what the NYT says about education is completely irrelevant to me, as their coverage is bullshit. It sells the storyline that the teachers' unions are protecting incompetent teachers (bullshit) and the union is "powerful" when the leadership has let the education deform train run over them without *once* organizing their membership to resist the nonstop, nationwide attack on teachers and public schools.

They can't/won't even stop their membership from being publicly scapegoated and demonized for all the ills of education. Powerful my ass. Complicit, in multiple ways.

And your initial posts attacked me by implying I was a Republican and a gay-hater, don't pretend they didn't.

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12. only place i can find

Did you know that Hilary Rosen, the Democratic operative who attacked Ann Romney for "never
working a day in her life" is the ex-partner of Randi Weingarten (together as recently as spring 2010)? Me neither.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11241958

[HiPointDem]

13. The significance being? Why excerpt that without the followup: "But more to the point,

did you know that Hilary Rosen "works for SKD Knickerbocker, which not only advises Christine Quinn but the Michelle Rhee/Joel Klein Student First anti-union operation here in NY State to supposedly counter the union influence ---"

Also "Rosen's firm, SKDKnickerbocker, represents Kaplan, and was instrumental in weakening efforts to rein in student loan abuses by for-profit 'universities.'"

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14. the point being...

you wrote the first part and then stated down thread that you knew this since she came out, sorry, my original intent was to ask why you were using a right leaning website, but now we are here

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16. I knew she was gay when she came out. I did not know who her partner was, let alone that her

partner worked for education deformers. It's not that hard to understand the distinction, I think.

The website I linked is left-leaning, not right leaning.

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26. +1. It's a good site, widely followed, esp by NYC area teacher-activists. nt

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15. and now that i see you've edited your original post, i'm not a bit interested in "the gay thing," if

by that you mean the fact that weingarten is gay. weingarten's partner's political activities for the education deform team were the focus of my post.

if weingarten were straight with ex-boyfriend who worked for ed deformers, i would have made the same post. you can replace "hilary rosen" with "hank rosen" and the tone remains the same.

sorry, you can't parry criticism of a gay political figure by pretending that discussion of the political activities of their partners is gay-bashing.

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18. Is this RIAA Hilary?

Is she the same person responsible for the crackdown on downloaders?

[PoliticAverse]

19. Yes...

"Hilary Beth Rosen (born 1958) is an American lobbyist and Democratic pundit. She worked for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for 16 years where she was CEO from 1998 to 2003. In June 2010, during Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Rosen worked to help British Petroleum (BP). She works for the public relations firm SKDKnickerbocker."

(From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Rosen )

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20. So, you're responsible of the acts/thoughts of your spouse and

agree with him/her 100%.

Your world must be sad.

Even worse. you hold her responsible for what the firm her partner works for does, without any indication that any of them agrees with. You may be right, you may be wrong. Right now, this is guilt by association.

[HiPointDem]

21. Interesting how you felt you needed to turn your critique into a personal attack. As for me, yes,

I think it's important that union members should know the kind of company their leaders keep -- especially when that company is working against unionization, public education, and for the privatization of public resources.

And I'll add, if Weingarten was actually representing her membership, it would be easier to give her a pass on her love life. But as she has been selling them out, no pass on anything.

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22. No personal attack. Just a comment on the content of your post.

Though it tells a lot that you consider that as a personal attack.

[HiPointDem]

23. "Your world must be sad" = personal attack. A personal attack = disparaging the poster or

attributing the poster's views to some personal deficit.

"Though it tells a lot that you consider that as a personal attack" = second personal attack.

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24. Yes.

April 14. Zero replies.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11241553

[HiPointDem]

25. That link doesn't say anything about Rosen working for Klein-Rhee and her other anti-union

activities.