Comments on: Dear PoP – Fenty is Already Campaigning Door to Door

By: anon

anon — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:52:45 +0000

let us pray for a real fenty contender. believe me, connections between crime and education are too plentiful. we’d all be safer and better off with better a better school system in place

By: Petworth Teacher

Petworth Teacher — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:11:06 +0000

I am what some of you might call a longtime Petworth resident, over 15 years in our rowhouse. Actually, it feels like we just moved here. I’m also a DCPS teacher who used to support both Rhee and Fenty, albeit moderately. If you mostly hang around with educated, new to DC white people, you may have a distorted view that Fenty has strong support. However, among the black people I live near and work with (and I am not black), there is little support for either of the two. Teachers I know can’t frigging stand the sight of Rhee and these are not deadbeat freeloading DCPS as a work program type of teachers but educated professionals. And they can’t stand what Rhee is doing to the schools. They would vote for anyone vaguely credible who would run against Fenty vowing to dump Rhee, kind of like how Fenty fired Janey, the former head of DCPS. I am not saying I agree with my colleagues’ views, just what they are. If Fenty sews up the liberal white vote and they all go to the polls, he’d win unless there’s a strong candidate running election day.

By: CH Dude

CH Dude — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:13:36 +0000

I think one thing people can do is seriously consider working for the DC gov. The system needs new blood in it, especially the folks that comment here.

VOR, I bet you could make a difference as a social worker in DC.

By: JohnGalt

JohnGalt — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:43:26 +0000

Ragged Dog,
Seems like you think the bench of black electable officials is pretty slim. I have said all along that black people do not have a deep enough bench to run a city. Just too much dysfunction in our families and friends to allow it to happen. When it does occur, look what happens. The mayor brings along his cronies like Skinner et al to leech off the city.

People speak of Newark and Booker as if he is working miracles there. that is so not the case. Booker may not be corrupt. He may be a bright guy. But he can not change a broken gov’t where there is not enough talent to head and run all the city operations.

Next time you see a job opening on DC gov’s website, ask yourself who is getting most of these jobs. It usually isn’t the most qualified candidate. It is usually a friend of a friend. That’s fine as long as they get the job done right. But in so many cases in black cities, they don’t get the job done on time or correctly.

As for Rhee. She may have the best of intentions. But intentions without know how does you no good. Rhee has less experience than most of the teachers in DCPS. Not that experience makes you qualified. But you can’t be qualified without experience. Rhee is neither. I have no kids in DCPS. But I one day may have kids. I think it is so unfair that I may have to move from a city I love because of the terrible schools.
Fenty was smart to choose her though. While we were caught up lambasting her, Fenty and Skinner were walking out the back door with truck loads of our money.

I am speaking from inside info here. I know Skinner. I know him from undergrad and when he used to live on GA Ave. He was thrown out of his initial college (Tuskegee University). The guy went from living on GA Ave to Crestwood overnight. Driving a porsche. Rumor has it that he is pulling down ~1M a year from the shady contracts outlined in the Post. All this for a guy with no discernible skills, no work experience.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:26:34 +0000

Fenty versus Jumbo Slice on KFC. That would be even better.

By: Ragged Dog

Ragged Dog — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:16:25 +0000

Gold Star.

By: ThisMacKillsFascists

ThisMacKillsFascists — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:38:33 +0000

Fenty versus Kimbo Slice on UFC. That would be a mighty duel.

By: Darrel

Darrel — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:08:49 +0000

The only the Fenty cares about is using this as a stepping stone to another political office. He in unemployable in the private sector due to his low intelligence and poor work ethic.

We need to let him know that he’s sucked so far as mayor and will have to do much better next time around if he thinks he has a chance to move on to a higher office.

By: WashingTRON

WashingTRON — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:02:34 +0000

and Ragged: did i graduate?

By: WashingTRON

WashingTRON — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:01:26 +0000

Dirty- the challenges for schools are very complex. you are right, all of those things are the problem, and more. that’s one reason i have such a big problem with those who would throw teachers under the bus and no one else. and i was wrong to bring the funding issue into this debate–where i come from, most of the parents point fingers at the teachers, never themselves, and cripple the entire system at the ballot box. i’m used to having this debate over funding for my own damn high school.