NEA Convention Diary – Final Day
* The mayor showed up to welcome us on the last day!
* NEA Friend of Education Tom Joyner didn’t show up!
* Wisconsin Education Association Council President Stan Johnson agreed to shave off his moustache if his delegates raised a certain level of PAC contributions. They did, and thousands of people watched as he shaved it off. So I owe an apology to education reporters all over the country for my previous criticism of their not covering the NEA convention. With each one you miss, you show better judgment than mine.
* The shave took longer than the debate on Resolution B-10.
* Jim Mordecai of the Oakland Education Association described Oakland as “the Guantanamo of California.” I didn’t understand his analogy. Was he saying:
a) Oakland is an outpost of freedom on the edge of a communist dictatorship?
b) Oakland is a place where people who want to destroy the United States are sequestered?
c) Oakland is a place where people fling feces at U.S. soldiers?
d) Oakland is a place where people are held against their will?
Some of these California leftists delve too deep for me to understand.
