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Outrage, civil disobedience and vomiting: Cambridge attempts to pick a school superintendent

By adamg on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 8:29pm

They do things a bit differently across the river.

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By mixylplik3 on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 9:14pm.

The link is 404...

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By alkali on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 9:29pm.

(the author, the editor ... who knows?)

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By adamg on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 9:54pm.

Let's assume they're having problems with their blog software over at Wicked Local (they've had some issues this week).

Fortunately, I still have a copy of the thing in my RSS aggregator, which I can post if it doesn't come back up, but the basics: Cambridge is considering three candidates for superintendent - a white guy from Newton, a white woman from Boston, a black woman from Cambridge.

A white-guy supporter is now having second thoughts - he sent e-mail saying he's so sick over the whole thing that he was throwing up this week. Somebody claiming to represent black parents, meanwhile, claims they are busy organizing for sit-ins if the black woman doesn't get picked.

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By adamg on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 10:01pm.

This time to Wicked Local Newton's take on the "insanity" in Cambridge. If that link disappears, too, I'm going to assume Wicked Local people are under some pressure to stop writing about a superintendent-selection process that makes Boston's (remember the guy they picked, who then promptly quit?) look quite sane.

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By Ron Newman on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 10:33pm.

That part seems to be left out of the Newton version.

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By neilv on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 10:46pm.

"Wayne: Hey! Garth, get it together, man. 'Cause if you hurl, and I catch a whiff of it, man.. I'm gonna spew. And if I blow chunks, chances are someone else is gonna honk, alright? And that's gonna set off a parastolic reaction, alright?"

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By Greg Reibman on Sat, 04/04/2009 - 11:02am.

No one is pressuring us. I'm not sure what link was once there and isn't now because I didn't see this post until now, but we were have been having server headaches so maybe it happened again. This story touches two our bread and butter communities. We're not backing away from anything.

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By adamg on Sat, 04/04/2009 - 11:20am.

Here.

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By NotWhitey on Sat, 04/04/2009 - 11:27am.

We will channel this shock and anger into to acts of civil disobedience and political action. Our groups members, (many are old foggies), have personal track records and histories of political action in the 60’s and 70’s on behalf of civil rights, women’s rights, and social justice

Reminds me of an old Barney Miller episode. A guy comes into the police station and announces that he's wanted by the FBI and he's giving himself up. They run a check on his name and he comes up clean. When Barney asked him what he's wanted for, he says "I ended the Viet Nam war!"

It turned out that he had been issued a ticket at a war protest.

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