WealthyIndustrialist

Do you really believe that you can beat a long-serving African-American incumbent in a congressional district comprised mostly of African Americans?

On that note, do you think that your hip-hop career will give you street-cred with the voters in Queens?

Confirmation bias

And it’s management (e.g. principals, school boards, superintendents) who hire and evaluate teachers and grant tenure – not teachers unions.

This is a cop-out. Tenure is negotiated by the unions. Why did the California Teachers Union spend $50 million to defeat a proposition from Gov Schwartzenegger that would've pushed automatic tenure from 2 years to 5 years?