There have been rumors that the Douglas County teachers union has been trying to get it’s collective sh!t together for a while, but a recent press release announcing that they have hired Strategies 360 makes the rumors somewhat more substantial. The press release notes:
“The Douglas County Federation hired Strategies 360 (S360) to conduct an anonymous survey of teachers and staff during the 2014/2015 school year.”
In case you are not familiar with Strategies 360, the firm also represents the Jefferson County Education Association as noted in this Chalkbeat article which quotes Lynea Hansen, employee of Strategies 360, as a spokesperson for the union. In short, Douglas County teachers want to import the disgusting attacks levied by the JCEA and other outside groups. In case you are not familiar with the types of racist, sexist, and just plain cruel attacks this group has engaged in, a short trip to MeanGirlz.com should suffice.
According to Complete Colorado, which broke the story, hateful and anonymous spoof accounts have put forth all sorts of racist attacks on Jeffco Chief Communications Officer Lisa Pinto, who is Hispanic, suggesting that she wants to eat burritos and guacamole. By the way, if a Republican levied these attacks, it would be a front page story (anyone remember the fried chicken debacle?). We’re looking at you, Denver Post (your lack of reporting on this is shameful). These offensive tweets were favorited and retweeted by union members, and, as a matter of fact, union members, including Colorado Education Association President Kerrie Dallman, were some of the anonymous accounts’ first followers. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to put two and two together.
This press release isn’t the first indication that the Douglas County teachers union and JCEA are working together. According to a 2015 strategy document presented by teacher Beth Low sent to the Peak by a disgruntled union member, the JCEA lists organizing meetings in DougCo as a key achievement over the past few months. See below.
Teachers should be disgruntled when they fork over their hard-earned cash and the union uses it to organize in an entirely different county. It’s noteworthy that Craig Hughes was the previous operative assigned to agitate in Douglas County. Guess that did not work out as well as planned. Douglas County has had every liberal organizer thrown its way, and apparently will have to endure this again. All we can say is get your rain slickers out, DougCo. There’s a lot of mud about to be slung your way.