NYC Kids PAC is a parent group formed to advocate for children’s issues.
Vote for Public Education on Election Day!
NYC Kids PAC enthusiastically endorses Howie Hawkins for Governor and Brian Jones as Lieutenant Governor on the Green Party Line.
Why?
Howie and Brian believe, as we do, that NYC kids deserve a quality education, including smaller classes and plenty of art, music and science. They believe our kids should not be over-tested nor be subjected to a rigid and flawed curriculum, tied to standards developed by people who have never taught. They believe that rather than turn our schools over to private corporations run by hedge-funders, our elected officials need to support and strengthen our public schools, the bedrock of our democracy.
In contrast, Governor Cuomo has failed our children, in almost every way. He slashed state aid for education, despite a court decision that found that our public schools underfunded. He pushed for more high-stakes testing, and for a teacher evaluation system based on test scores that will drive good teachers out of the profession. He has imposed a new requirement that any new charter school get space on demand, at city expense, while thousands of public school students sit in overcrowded classrooms, on waiting lists for Kindergarten, or in trailers.
Just this week, Cuomo said he was determined to “break” our public school system, which he called “one of the only remaining public monopolies.”
What about the police and fire departments or public health? Perhaps he is so intent on privatizing our public schools because some of his biggest donors run charter schools. He also condescended to parents by saying that the only reason we protested the flawed curriculum and exams is that we were manipulated by teachers, who got us “upset last year about this entire Common Core agenda.”
It’s time for someone to stand up for our kids and to start respecting parents. Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones will do just that, and we strongly urge you to go out and vote for them on Tuesday.
Our mailing address is:
NYC Kids PAC
1275 First Avenue, Suite 225
New York, NY 10065
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Astorino and Hawkins are going to spit the vote and the election will automatically go to Cuomo. Astorino has far more supporters than Hawkins.
Be that as it may, many of us don’t like Astorino either, and are tired of voting for the lesser of evils.
I REFUSE to vote for the LESSER of two evils, too. I want my vote to count by not throwing it away and voting for either the REPs or the DEMs. The DEMs are no longer DEMs. Need to get a 3rd Party on the ballot or be FOOLS forever with really no choice, except the OLIGARCHY and CORPORATE yahoos.
I’ll be voting in California for a governor that supports public education, Jerry Brown and his state superintendent that supports public education TOM TORLAKSON. Anybody in New York that has contacts in California, please urge them to get out and vote for those candidates! Go GREEN PARTY!
“Poor Little Andrew”
Poor Little Andrew, full of spite
For teachers (who he knows are right)
Because a teacher once chastised
Poor Little Andrew, for telling lies
Cuomo wants to be President, so do Hilary and Gov. Christie. They will all do so on the strength of Wall Street millions put at their disposal, payment for their continuing service to the super-rich at the expense of the rest of us. Cuomo is climbing the Wall Street ladder; his faux Women’s Equality Party is his latest traitor move to knock out the Working Families Party which happened to roll over and embrace him, a lot good it did for WFP. Votes for the Women’s ruse will take votes from WFP–fall below 50,000 and small parties get knocked off their spot on the NYS ballot. Voting for Howie Hawkins and the Green Party is one of the few ways voters now have to eat into Cuomo’s numbers, to cut down his vote, which will damage his public image and national prestige, making his White House grab harder. The other side is to push the Green Party past the 50,000 it needs to keep its ballot line.
“The Rambler”
You got to know when to zip it
Know when to clip it
Know when to walk away
And hold your tongue
You never count your money
When you’re sitting in the office
There’ll be time enough for counting
When election’s done
What describes a vote for the Green Party? Even if we lose we win. Ira Shor is right, and the more people who have the tiny amount of courage it takes to not vote red or blue the better off we will all be. In addition to that, allow me to remind one and all that writing in a vote for the candidate or object of your choice remains a good option, especially for the friends you may have who are so disgusted by the process and the politicians that they have given up on voting.The “silent majority” should find it’s voice again and write in their protest votes for Babe Ruth, Bart Simpson or the mailbox on the corner. Just imagine if our crack stenography corps, the lame stream media actually had the guts to run stories about fictitious or dead candidates who got a significant fraction of the vote. Visualize if you will the panic in the political class as 3rd party candidates start increasing their share of the total and become, in the beginning, a spoiler group and later, a force that must be reckoned with. Don’t go down without a fight.