Squadron has been a supporter and apologist for Bloomberg's privatization of our schools, something Joy and I have had to suffer through and which led to a huge fiasco in pre-K registration this very year thanks to outsourcing to a private company in Pennsylvania. Squadron was part of this process and has supported it consistently. Sorry, but when someone brags about his participation in the Bloomberg "reform" of our schools I can't help buy cringe being part of a family that has had to navagate those reforms. So far successfully, but Joy was set back months in her graduate work because she had to take so much time off for the Middle School application process, something working class parents could never do.

Sorry Michael, but what I am saying is not nonsense, but is serious dissatisfaction with a Bloomberg process that Squadron was an active part of and has expressed pride for when he spoke to us at IND. I said nothing about this race before hearing Squadron himself at IND and hearing the comments from people who heard him and Connor at CBID and DFNYC. Keep in mind that the very organizations at the forefront of the challenge against Connor in 2006, DFNYC and CBID, refused to endorse Squadron and came close to endorsing Connor (though both went for no endorsement) because of the very things I am mentioning. CBID was the center of Ken Diamondstone's campaign, and yet Connor almost won their endorsement this time around.

I have never been a Connor fan. I have been in direct opposition to some of what he has said and done. I was completely open to a challenge this time around, and certainly wasn't eager for another Diamondstone challenge. I respect you and what you do, but I think you are dead wrong about Squadron. And you know full well I do not take stands without thinking about them and hearing what a candidate personally says or says through proxies (as in the case of Towns).

As to WFP, they screwed up a chance to defeat a Republican in a State Senate race in 2006. They worship money, sometimes to good effect, sometimes not. I am happy they are out there, I love Tish James, and I even have donated to WFP. But they are more interested in the money a candidate can generate than they are the actual positions that candidate has, within some limits.

I was watching Connor back when you thought such local races were beneath your notice. If I thought Squadron was better than Connor I would have jumped on his candidacy in a second. I also have backed some winners I don't remember you backing, like Eric Adams who won by over 70% of the vote. I backed him early. Don't remember you interested in that race. I know full well the frequet lameness of the left and have railed against it before, to the point of being accused of trolling on Daily Kos. But that doesn't mean accepting someone whose hero seems to be Bloomberg from what I HEARD HIM SAY in person.

We are on opposite sides on this one. I assume we can do so amicably.