Vote for Candidates Who Support Working People

The Labor Club has endorsed the CPS bond and levy proposals, CPS School Board candidate Rex Cone, and Columbia City Council candidates Barbara Hoppe and Mike Trapp.   Please get out and vote on April 3rd.

Hank Waters III, local protector of the Columbia status quo doesn't agree with our support for Rex Cone (http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2012/mar/25/school-board/ and http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2012/apr/02/voter-guide/).  Mr. Waters apparently believes that labor unions are evil.    We don't know Mr. Waters history with unions, but we do know that he has a closed mind full of misinformation about us.

The Labor Club endorsed school board candidate Rex Cone, because he is the only challenger who has firm positions in support of working families, including teachers, support staff and the children they teach.  He's also the only candidate who understands the prevailing wage and supports it.  To Waters, the fact that Cone is married to a member of the Columbia MNEA (a union, we are doomed!!!)  means that Cone is the, "candidate with the most finely honed ax to grind."  And having a wife who teaches in the district, "If not a conflict, at least Cone's favoritism is obvious."
 
Apparently, Waters only sees a problem in being married to a member of the CMNEA.  He didn't question ex-board member Don Ludwig's marriage to Sally Beth Lyon when she was the Vice Principal at Gentry Middle School.  It is apparently not obvious favoritism in Water's world to have been the local president of the Columbia MSTA before being elected to the board, as Jan Meese was.  Since CMSTA opposes collective bargaining, apparently Meese has no favoritism problem.  Even more bizarre, why didn't Waters ever mention that two time candidate Dan Holt (2008 and 2010) had a favoritism problem, being married to teacher?

It is more important than ever for working people to vote for the candidate who from the beginning has supported us - Rex Cone.  On April 3rd ignore Hank Waters III and vote for candidates and issues that will help the working people of Columbia.  This will be a low turnout election, so your vote can make a difference.