School Union Outraged Over Being Called “Thugs” by Superintendent Whose Car They Trashed, Harassed Mother…
As the expression goes, if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
BOISE — Rancor didn’t dominate last week’s legislative debate of education reform, but it certainly ate up a large chunk.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna on Tuesday morning discovered his truck vandalized, its tires slashed and his last name spray-painted and crossed out on its passenger side.
That came after Luna had to tell an unruly man claiming to be a teacher to leave his mother’s house a few days earlier. And later Tuesday, an off-duty police officer escorted a disruptive person away from a coffeehouse where Luna was making a television appearance.
In their entirety, the events meant that instead of talking about issues like student achievement and education standards, debate shifted for a brief spell to questions unrelated to Luna’s proposal — like whether union activism is to blame and whether it’s appropriate for Luna to classify some of the actions as “union thuggery.”
Much was said.
Luna urged the public not to cross the line of civility to involve his family members and damage his property. Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter criticized the harassment of Luna, stressing it’s not the Idaho way to commit such offenses when debating public policy.
The Idaho Education Association, the teachers’ union, denounced the incidents, but also took Luna to task for using the term “union thuggery.”
Luna didn’t back down, stressing he was referring only to the incident that involved his mother.
Debate shifted back to germane issues by Thursday, when the Senate Education Committee heard a final round of testimony on Luna’s reforms and sent the three bills to the Senate floor.
There, discussion re-discovered its home with education reform and questions about whether the bills should pass.
Posted by ZIP on Friday, February 25, 2011, at 8:45 am | 
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But they are a bunch of goonion thugs.. Or is it the wonderful School children they aren’t teaching out there causing the vandalism?
My last kid out of four graduates high school this year. The teachers we had to put up with were self proclaimed scholars. My wife became a certified teacher in MA by simply going and taking the communications and math test in order to go to the school and the school board and demand better math programs, because they kept blowing her and I off since we were just tax payers. We wound up having to home school the kids in math while they were still attending public school.
They are full scholarship winners with the military, with little help from the educational, union, elites. This system is broken and needs to be rebuilt from the ground up, with zero union involvement.
Unions in this country have a strong tradition of violence and mob connections (Hoffa). I’ve been through several strikes where the strikers would jump in front of your car and pound on the hood or put nails in the factory driveway. . After the strike, you are expected to work with them as if nothing had happened.
To hell with unions, most are nothing more than organized criminals.
I agree — union brown-shirtism is more accurate.
Not a problem. The left files such behavior under “freedom of expression;” as long as they are the ones doing the expressing. Had something like this happened at a “Tea Party” rally it would have been headline news for days, with the left calling for incarcerations and banning Tea Party get togethers.
union halls all over this country are filled with lazy shiftless bastards who cry complain and spend more time and effort to not do their job than it takes to do it in the first place.I call it jackass syndrome and afflicts the demonicrat faithful causes foaming at the mouth, halucinations and a strange whining when faced with any physical labor. many die from being to lazy to breath.
union halls all over this country are filled with lazy shiftless bastards who cry complain and spend more time and effort to not do their job than it takes to do it in the first place.I call it Jackass Syndrome and afflicts the demonicrat faithful causes foaming at the mouth, halucinations and a strange whining when faced with any physical labor. many die from being to lazy to breath or from holding their breath waiting on their great leader to tell them what to think and do. most could be replaced with a potted plant.
Under FDR the unions were basically given the “right” to be violent without repercussions – he was so progressive…………..
In my 30 years in the contracting biz,the absolute worst workers I ever was around was union workers.
And they are constantly on unemployment.
They can draw UI funds and still collect a paycheck if they dont get 40 hrs.
And the shit they do for illegals is just plain treason .
You are thugs you dirty-rotten filthy bastards and we’re going to bring you down…all of you!
remember their ultimate goal is world wide communism
He called a spade a spade and this is what he has to deal with on a regular basis? I’ve got two words for ya…….concealed carry. If anyone attempted to terrorize my parents for decisions I made as a part of my employment they would be……dead.
Hey unionist scumbags…….I hold on to my grudges.
Mr. Luna is under constant attack by the union and lunatic liberals.
The Idaho legislature have passed 2 of the 3 measures so far. The third one is being tweaked, but the compromise doesn’t seem to be too drastic – yet.
I didn’t even know he made the union thuggery comment which is strange because most of the local press is against Luna and the education reform. He is always polite and does a great job in explaining/debating the merits of the much needed reform.
I am thrilled to hear that he called a spade a spade. It’s nice to actually be proud of someone you voted for.
The Union thugs are behaving like Muslims….they attack and then claim to be victims…