Massive Unity failure in GOTV
....Unity also has the school by school data and can tell which of their
district reps and chapter leaders actually did the work. The outcomes
were so poor for the Unity GOTV effort I bet the leadership is plenty
pissed at their own people. Don't be shocked to see some heads roll.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
The
shock and awe of only the second ever TRS election for UFT trustee (the
last one was over 30 years ago) to the UFT/Unity cult and to the DOE is
still reverberating on multiple levels. The DOE clearly
violated the law
with its electronic voting plan and the turnout was very poor. I'm
trying to get totals but roughly Ben got over a third despite a heavy
Unity campaign for his opponent. The Unity failure may be the major
takeaway from this election. No wonder they were so perturbed at being
forced to run an unexpected campaign. They knew they were not prepared.
And very upset that this is an election controlled by the DOE, not them.
Which leads us to this:
The
late breaking news is that UFT legal eagle, Rude Beth Norton, has
contacted Ben and Daniel Alicea (the alternate) about joining a union
complaint about the election.
An interesting development, given Unity won by two thirds.
Why
protest an election they won? Lots of speculation, including the low
turnout as a condemnation of the Unity machine which went all out. Do
they want a redo?
I
wouldn't be shocked to see the UFT use this election as a way to try to
change the law in ways to tip future elections in their favor -- like
maybe "offer" to take the running of the election off the hands of the
DOE. Make sure electronic voting is NOT on the table. And how do they
argue that in next year's UFT election they should continue to use the
massively expensive paper ballots? And how about letting retirees vote
in a TRS election?