The pervasive dishonesty of teacher union buster and Hillary supporter Dmitri Melhorn

[brentspeak]

This human weasel's name is Dmitri Melhorn, and some, uh, individual decided it would be a brilliant idea to post on GD-P one of Melhorn's social media smears of Bernie Sanders.

An old repost of mine concerning this Democratic party infiltrator:

Dmitri Mehlhorn (yes, that really is his name) is a venture capitalist and private equity attorney who is the author of the Daily Beast hit piece, "Bernie’s Socialist Dreamland Is BS". A self-described "Democratic activist", his "activism" largely revolves around being the co-founder of the pro-charter school, teacher union-busting group, StudentsFirst -- which is, to say, he fronts a small group of venture capitalists who are chomping at the bits to grab a share of your tax dollars which would otherwise go towards public schools.

StudentsFirst's cornerstone goal is the total abolition of teacher tenure, and its secondary goal is the replacement of educator's defined benefits retirement plans (guaranteed retirement benefits) with "defined contribution plans" (non- guaranteed retirement benefits). These defined contribution plans would be managed, naturally, by Wall Street hedge funders such as Dan Loeb, whose name might be familiar to you as one of two major players (the other being vulture fund villain Paul Singer) who shook down American taxpayers for several billions of TARP bank bailout-designated dollars -- and then used the money to ship every single Delphi union job overseas to China.

But back to Mehlhorn himself. Some of this "Democratic activist's" recent personal musings:

1) "The #TPP is good for progressive causes and social justice."

2) "The evidence in favor of charter schools is becoming overwhelming."

3) "You know, Julie, government-run monopoly schools reinforce residential segregation."

And though Mehlhorn posts Kabubi-style "Let's laugh at the Koch brothers" blurbs and makes fun of Donald Trump, he also writes papers for the American Enterprise Institute, his StudentsFirst group employs ALEC bullet points, and he retweets Cato Institute propaganda.

This Stanford, Harvard, and Yale-educated venture capitalist likes to portray himself as though he were a character out of The Grapes of Wrath:

http://dropoutnation.net/2014/10/07/why-teachers-have-no-voice/

"In many of my early memories, my mom told me about her work as a teacher as I sat on a makeshift wooden platform between the front seats of my family’s Volkswagen van. As we drove through the tough neighborhoods of Richmond, California in the 1970s, she told me she became a teacher to work for a world where people were no longer judged by the color of their skin. She also told me she was in a union, like her grandmothers who’d been seamstresses in New York City in the early 1900s."

Can't you just smell those homecooked grits? Picture the moonshine brewing in the tub? That's Mehlhorn's setup for this:

"Unions are structurally biased against student interests...the hope is that eroding traditional union power will empower pro-student teachers"

[noretreatnosurrender]

1. Saw the thread earlier

that used this disgusting person's bile to try to smear Sanders. It's pretty clear where the pervasive dishonesty is coming from and it's not Sanders.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511634100