Mitt Romney

Dear Commons Community,

A large field of presidential contenders in 2024 could lead to a redo of the 2016 presidential race and help make Donald Trump the Republican presidential nominee once again, according to Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah).

“The only way that [scenario] could be prevented is if it narrowed down to a two-person race eventually. That means donors and influencers say to their candidate ― if they’re weakening: ‘Hey, time to get out,’” Romney told HuffPost in an interview on yesterday.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Tuesday became the first Republican to declare a candidacy for the White House after Trump, who launched his 2024 campaign in November. Haley, who also served as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. during Trump’s administration, called for “a new generation of leadership” in a video announcing her candidacy.

Romney said he viewed Haley as an “underdog” in the race. Trump, the senator added, is “by far the most likely” to become the GOP presidential nominee given his popularity and name recognition with a devoted slice of the GOP electorate. (Romney is decidedly not a fan: He voted to convict Trump in two successive Senate impeachment trials).

Trump is expected to face a crowded field of contenders for the GOP presidential nomination as he did during the 2016 election. In that race, a large roster of candidates split support among GOP voters and donors alike, leading to Trump clinching the nomination.

Much has been written about Trump’s “diminished” influence within the GOP, especially after his party’s weak performance in the 2022 midterm election. Polls show he’s still way on top when it comes to the race for the 2024 presidential nomination, but potential candidates like Florida GOP Gov. Ron Desantis are nipping at his heels.

Although GOP leaders aren’t in a hurry to embrace a Trump 2024 run, he still has plenty of support on Capitol Hill, including from several newly-elected lawmakers. Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) last week became the fifth GOP senator to back Trump’s campaign, calling the man who sought to overturn democracy in the days leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol “exactly the president we need to lead this country through the tough road ahead.”

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said he believed the 2024 race will be “wide open” despite the fact that he’s backing Trump’s campaign.

“President Trump is going to have a base of 25-30%. He’s got a lot of work to grow on that. DeSantis has built a name on conservative menus,” he said, adding that it’s “good for our party” if many candidates jump run and there is healthy competition for the presidential nomination.

Trump has ramped up attacks against DeSantis, sharing wild accusations about the conservative heartthrob on his social media platform TruthSocial that suggested DeSantis was “grooming high school girls with alcohol” when he was a teacher. The former president has also been testing nicknames for DeSantis, including “Ron DeSantimonious” and “Meatball Ron.” DeSantis has chosen to ignore the attacks, saying he isn’t focused on “smearing” fellow Republicans.

“That’s how he does things,” Tuberville told HuffPost when asked about Trump’s TruthSocial posts. “He tries to get a doll out of people. That’s probably what he did as a contractor in New York. You get into arguments, you complain, you fight with each other, and then you go to dinner at night. We’re all on the same team.”

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who voted to convict Trump over the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, suggested that a large field of presidential candidates would narrow relatively quickly due to a lack of resources.

“Although there might be a number of people who announce, how many people will have money? If you don’t have money, you can’t buy name recognition. If you can’t buy the name recognition, you falter early,” Cassidy said.

Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), who supported Trump in the past but who has held off on making another endorsement as he runs for governor in Indiana, predicted an eventual showdown between Trump and DeSantis. The Florida governor hasn’t yet announced whether he will launch a bid for the White House.

“No one else is registering above one [percent]” in early polls of the race, Braun said.

Democrats, meanwhile, are treating the odds of another showdown between Trump and President Joe Biden in the 2024 general election as quite serious, even though they believe it would ultimately benefit their party if last year’s midterm election results are any sign of Trump’s unpopularity with swing voters.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), the 2016 Democratic vice presidential nominee, said all signs were pointing again to the same dynamics that initially propelled Trump to the GOP presidential nomination.

“A name ID edge in a multi-candidate field is even more powerful than a name ID edge in a two-candidate field,” Kaine said. “[Trump] was able to be in a lane of his own and then everybody else was competing in a non-Trump lane. I think that same dynamic could well hold in 2024.”

“Each new entrant is going to make him happier and happier,” Kaine added of Trump and the 2024 GOP race.

Romney and Kaine have it right!

Tony

Nikki Haley

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Samuel Thompson

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New Jersey State Senator Samuel Thompson was a Republican delegate for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020 and hailed his presidency a “success.”   He is now is crossing the political aisle — to become a Democrat.

Thompson said he was quitting the GOP because local party leaders questioned his fitness for office because of his age.

Thompson is 87.

“The betrayal by so many of my friends — that was too much for me,” Thompson told the Associated Press on Monday. “I am not leaving my party.  My party leadership has left me.”

Thompson will run for reelection later this year as a Democrat. He would have faced a “tough” GOP primary, reported the New Jersey Globe.

He served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1998 to 2012 before four terms in the state senate.

In a statement, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) welcomed Thompson to the party.

“A former U.S. Army veteran and research chemist who served for over 20 years in the New Jersey Department of Health, Senator Thompson has built a reputation as a tireless public servant who prioritizes constituent services,” he said. “The Democratic Party has always been a big tent party and I welcome Senator Thompson to our ranks.”

The Democrats now have 25 of the chamber’s 40 seats.

Tony

Dear Commons Community,

My colleague, Patsy Moskal from the University of Central Florida, alerted me to the above.

Tony

“We think before we shoot”

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In the past eight days, the  US military has down four identified objects that have flown over North America. The U.S. military decided not to shoot down a Chinese spy balloon over Alaska immediately because the recovery of the downed balloon would have been much riskier, defense officials told a Senate panel on Thursday.  The military waited five days until the balloon was shot down on February 6th. Three other objects were shot down almost immediately after detection over Alaska, Canada and Lake Huorn during this past weekend.

The Biden administration has faced intense criticism over its decision to allow the surveillance balloon to transit over the U.S. for nearly a week before it was shot down in the Atlantic Ocean near the South Carolina coast. Administration officials have said that decision was made because of the risk to civilians on the ground. But lawmakers, who have become increasingly frustrated over the decision, have questioned why it couldn’t have been brought when it was over water on Alaska’s coast.  As reported by CBS News.

“A key piece of this is the recovery. For us to be able to exploit and understand this balloon and its capabilities fully, if we had taken it down over the state of Alaska … it would have been a very different recovery operation,” assistant Defense Secretary Melissa Dalton testified at a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense hearing.

Conditions off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands are “very dangerous” compared to those on the coast of South Carolina because the water depths in the Bering Sea quickly plunge from 150 feet to 18,000 feet, winter water temperatures are in the low 30s and the some parts are covered in ice, Dalton said.

“A key part of the calculus for this operation was the ability to salvage, understand and exploit the capabilities of the high-altitude balloon,” Dalton said, noting that she would share more with senators in a classified hearing.

But Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska expressed frustration with the Pentagon that the balloon was not shot down sooner. She said her state is the “first line of defense for America” and “the message to China is we’ve got free range in Alaska.”

If the balloon was brought down over land, the debris could have covered a 20-mile-by-20-mile space, said Lt. Gen. Douglas Sims, the director for operations of the Joint Staff.

“Although Alaska is in places not as inhabited as other places, it is inhabited. … And without being able to clear that — we wouldn’t do that in combat,” Sims told senators.

“We think before we shoot. And in this case, we thought before we shot,” Sims said later. “Once you shoot, you can’t take it back.”

The U.S. is continuing to collect debris from the ocean nearly a week after the balloon was shot down. Senior FBI officials familiar with the operation said bad weather could extend the collection process. The Navy has weighted down debris still on the ocean floor to prevent it from being moved by the rough seas, a U.S. official said.

A U.S. official said underwater pictures of the debris field show the wreckage remarkably intact given its fall from 60,000 feet.

Much of the most fruitful and substantial pieces of evidence remain deep underwater, the FBI officials said. The FBI’s lab in Quantico has received the balloon’s canopy, wires and other electronic components that were collected from the water surface.

Thank God there are rational leaders in our military who think through each situation before taking action.

Tony

Dear Commons Community,

Maureen Dowd in her column this morning says unequivocally that Joe Biden is running for president.  Entitled “Scranton Joe Is Ready to Go,” she comments:

“Everyone is frantically hunting for clues about whether Joe Biden will run again.

His State of the Union speech was dissected for intimations. When he kept using the phrase “finish the job,” was that a hint?

…

Asked about his decision in a Telemundo interview on Thursday, the 80-year-old president replied, “I’m just not ready to make it.”

When my colleagues Frank Bruni and Michelle Goldberg, and I write “Hey, Joe, Don’t Give It a Go” columns suggesting that he bow out on top, is the president listening and pondering what we say?

Nah. Guess what, political sleuths? It’s not really a Scooby-Doo mystery. No need to consult a soothsayer and tremble on the edge of your seats.

Joe Biden is running. And that’s no malarkey.”

I think Dowd is right but I am still of a mind that he might give it up while he is on top!.

Below is the entire column.

Tony

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The New York Times

“Scranton Joe Is Ready to Go”

By Maureen Dowd

Feb. 11, 2023

WASHINGTON — Everyone is frantically hunting for clues about whether Joe Biden will run again.

His State of the Union speech was dissected for intimations. When he kept using the phrase “finish the job,” was that a hint?

Where is Daniel Craig’s “Knives Out” detective when we need him?

Asked about his decision in a Telemundo interview on Thursday, the 80-year-old president replied, “I’m just not ready to make it.”

When my colleagues Frank Bruni and Michelle Goldberg, and I write “Hey, Joe, Don’t Give It a Go” columns suggesting that he bow out on top, is the president listening and pondering what we say?

Nah. Guess what, political sleuths? It’s not really a Scooby-Doo mystery. No need to consult a soothsayer and tremble on the edge of your seats.

Joe Biden is running. And that’s no malarkey.

He has no intention of following Lear’s lead, “to shake all cares and business from our age/Conferring them on younger strengths, while we/Unburdened crawl toward death.”

In his vertiginous career, Biden has felt the sensation of power slipping away, and he didn’t like it. Let Lear howl at the moon; Joe wants to strut in the sun (with his shades).

I’ve spent my career studying Biden and other pols who are grasping for power, clinging to power, brandishing power and squandering power. And I can tell you this: Nobody likes to give up power. Donald Trump is the grotesque example: trying to overturn the government to keep his grip on it.

Congress and the Supreme Court are replete with candidates for early-bird dinners. Ruth Bader Ginsburg made a huge mistake by staying on the court until the end, bequeathing us Amy Coney Barrett and a reversal of Roe. Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Grassley, both 89, are still in the Senate.

Biden thought he could be president from the moment he hit town as a new senator in 1973. People debate now whether he’s too old to be president; but back then, he was too young to be a senator. He was 29 when he was elected, turning 30 and reaching eligibility shortly after the election.

The handsome young senator told Washingtonian magazine in 1974 that he understood why he was “a hot commodity”: his youth and his “tragic fate” — his wife and baby daughter were killed in a car crash shortly after his election. The magazine compared him to “Robert Redford’s Great Gatsby in natty pinstriped suits.”

“I know I can be a good president,” he said, adding, “My family still expects me to be there one of these days.”

The neophyte was very self-confident, while blithely conceding his flaws. “I’m not the kind of guy everyone likes,” he said. “My personality either grabs you or it doesn’t.”

His quest was a bumpy one. I wrote the stories about cribbing from Neil Kinnock and Robert Kennedy that helped knock Biden out of the 1988 race. I also wrote about his well-meaning but ham-handed performance during the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings.

But just when it seemed as though Biden’s best days were behind him, Barack Obama chose him for a running mate, seeking foreign policy experience. And in a well-meaning but clumsy move that actually turned out to be brilliant, Vice President Biden managed to bring President Obama and most of the country along to the idea of embracing gay marriage.

Obama shoved Biden aside for Hillary, which turned out to be a huge mistake that resulted in the execrable Trump. After being treated dismissively by the Obama team, Biden, Rocky-like, finally won the presidency, nearly half a century after he first talked about it.

After that slog, he’s not about to kiss it away because some polls and pundits fret about his age.

He thinks he’s doing great. There’s a spring in his step because he feels that he has outwitted the dimwitted Republicans. On Tuesday night, he made them look rude — with Marjorie Taylor Greene’s fur flying — and put them on the defensive. Republicans spent the whole week trying to get out from under his criticism that they always want to cut Social Security. But it’s a hard criticism to rebut because Republicans always want to cut Social Security.

Biden has gone bigger than Obama, who was supposed to be the transformational one. The president has pushed big job-creating bills and gone after Big Pharma and big corporations. (He has also gone smaller with some crowd-pleasers, like promising to get rid of junk fees on hotel bills.) Unlike Obama, who had an aversion to selling his policies, this guy loves a good groundbreaking.

In the State of the Union, the president began trying to reconnect his party to its blue-collar roots. Hillary thought she could win in 2016 with the new Democratic coalition of minorities, the elite and students. She refused to give a speech at Notre Dame and never bothered to go to Wisconsin.

Wisconsin was Biden’s first stop Wednesday in his post-State of the Union blitz. He remains unapologetically Scranton Joe.

So, we know, Joe. You’re in the race.

Dear Commons Community,

The Berkeley Research Group investigated Donald Trump’s assertion that the presidential election was fraudulent, but its findings were suppressed because they found nothing to support his claims, The Washington Post reported citing four sources familiar with the matter.

The Group, hired by the former president’s 2020 campaign, gathered a team of a dozen people to look into alleged voter fraud and irregularities in six states, according to the Post.

The team reportedly briefed Trump, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and others on a conference call held in the last days of 2020 — before Trump held a rally urging his supporters to march on the Capitol preceding the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection. The call reportedly became contentious.

But the researchers had looked at “everything,” one source told the Post.

“Literally anything you could think of. Voter turnout anomalies, date of birth anomalies, whether dead people voted. If there was anything under the sun that could be thought of, they looked at it,” the source said.

Trump still claims that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged” or “stolen” from him, pushing various conspiracy theories about voting machines and election workers.

He has made these claims even as dozens of lawsuits filed by Trump’s campaign or his allies were tossed out for lack of evidence in the weeks after President Joe Biden’s victory.

Trump continued to make his claims throughout the House select committee’s monthslong investigation, which revealed that people close to Trump repeatedly tried to tell him there was no evidence of fraud.

And apparently, he made them despite knowing that a team of professional researchers he paid to try and find evidence of fraud came up empty-handed.

The Post’s source added: “Just like any election, there are always errors, omissions and irregularities.” But the person stressed that they were not nearly enough to sway the election.

“It was nowhere close enough to what they wanted to prove,” the source said.

More lies and deceit on the part of Trump!

Tony

Rick Scott and Mitch McConnell

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-K.Y.) said in an interview on Thursday a proposed initiative to sunset Social Security and Medicare was not a “Republican plan,” but one proposed and supported only by fellow Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.).

Scott, who was unsuccessful in his run against McConnell for the top seat in the National Republican Senatorial Committee, proposed a plan in 2022 to sunset all federal legislation after five years, forcing Congress to reauthorize them. As reported by The Hill.

“Unfortunately, that was the Scott plan, that’s not a Republican plan,” McConnell told Terry Meiners on his self-titled podcast, noting that Republicans never planned to implement Scott’s policy, even if they had won the majority in November.

“So it’s clearly the Rick Scott plan, it is not the Republican plan,” McConnell reiterated. “And that’s the view of the Speaker of the House as well.”

McConnell said that because he and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy were in GOP leadership positions, they had more authority to “state what the position of the party is than any single senator.”

Calling Scott’s plan “a bad idea,” McConnell echoed McCarthy’s promises that the programs wouldn’t be touched, drawing attention instead to the Florida senator’s upcoming election.

“I think it will be a challenge for him to deal with this in his own reelection in Florida,” McConnell quipped, adding that it is “a state with more elderly people than any other state in America.”

The issue was brought back to light on Tuesday night when President Biden criticized the Republican Party for Scott’s proposed plan in his annual State of the Union address.

Scott, in response, invited Biden on Thursday to debate the issue while the president was in his home state.

“Since you can’t stop talking about me and lying to Floridians about Social Security and Medicare, I’m sure you’ll accept my invitation to debate the issue,” Scott wrote on Twitter. “I’ll be back in Florida tonight. You pick the time and place.”

House Republicans also spoke out against the president’s comments, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who could be heard calling him a “liar” during the Tuesday night address.

“I’m not one that’s into catcalls, but I understand the emotion that’s involved in that when you hear the president of the United States saying something that he knows is simply not true,” Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) said following Biden’s speech.

“There is no Republican that I know of, and certainly not one on Capitol Hill, who has ever suggested sunsetting Social Security and Medicare,” he added.

The Republicans have to get on the same messaging here!

Tony

Dear Commons Community,

The City University of New York has ordered colleges to slash budgets by an average of at least 5 percent and implement a hiring freeze, according to an internal memo obtained by the Daily News.

The cutbacks, ordered by CUNY Chief Operating Officer Hector Batista, will likely be felt most sharply by students, faculty and staff and could lead to larger class sizes, increased fees and reduced library hours, among other changes.

Each of the system’s 25 campuses will be required to develop plans that cut costs and increase revenue by March 3. Colleges closing out the fiscal year in a negative position, including many of the community colleges, will need to cut more.

“CUNY students deserve a quality education,” said Salimatou Doumbouya, CUNY Student Trustee and chair of the University Student Senate. “This quality education will be lost with a decrease in the amount of lecturers and professors. We are already seeing this with the drastic amount of students who are having troubles with registering for class.”

The cuts come as CUNY is in a tight spot. Federal pandemic aid to the public college system is running out, while Mayor Eric Adams cut city funding and Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget proposal did not meet CUNY’s funding request. Students could also face 3 percent or lower tuition hikes next year, if included in the state’s final budget.

At the same time, student enrollment took a nose-dive during the pandemic and has yet to bounce back. Enrollment has fallen by more than 10 percent over the past couple of years to fewer than 243,400 students in fall 2021 from a high of 271,000 in Fall 2019.

CUNY has lost more than 350 faculty members over that time, data show.

“The City University of New York continues to look for cost-saving measures without cutting student services, efforts that will become increasingly important as federal pandemic stimulus money dries up,” said CUNY spokesperson Joseph Tirella, who pointed to enrollment-boosting initiatives already underway like an outreach program for former students to complete their degrees and advertising campaigns.

While the full impact of the cuts will not go into effect until next school year, the system’s budget crunch is already being felt in a number of ways.

A writing center at Hunter College previously staffed with three full-time faculty is now run by two part-time adjuncts, who barring new hires could remain in those roles.

At John Jay College of Criminal Justice, chair of the political science department Susan Kang told The News she had to cut sections of required classes this semester, forcing professors to over-enroll classes and students to scramble for other ways to finish their coursework.

“The directives don’t match the realities — our students need these classes so they can graduate, so they can succeed,” said Kang, an associate professor of international political economy and human rights. “A lot of them are the first in their families to graduate from college, and they want to walk [at the ceremony] this spring.”

Lehman College librarian Robert Farrell said colleges across the system will need to reduce library hours. The Bronx campus already has needed to rid of 24-hour schedules during finals season as a result of previous cuts.

“That’s as direct an impact as you can imagine on our students, who often have no other place to go to do work,” said Farrell, coordinator of information literacy. “Our students live complex lives — family lives, work lives. College libraries throughout CUNY have been refuge, a quiet place to concentrate, to meet with their classmates.”

Farrell added that cutbacks over the years have meant fewer funds for textbooks and other resources.

“A lot of the costs of materials have been offloaded onto the shoulders of students,” said the librarian. “Technology fees probably will have to go up, and that will negatively impact already financially strained students.”

The fee is $125 per full-time student this semester.

“Students are struggling with non tuition expenses and these expenses make it harder and harder to be a full-time student which results in the unfortunate effect of many having to choose alternatives instead of attending school,” said Doumbouya, who attends the New York City College of Technology.

The hiring freeze includes carveouts for more than 500 new positions funded in last year’s state budget. College presidents and deans can also sign off on requests for exemptions through a centrally managed vacancy review board.

“Reaching the fiscal year 2024 targets will require courage, creativity, perseverance, and discipline,” read the internal memo. “Overcoming the financial challenges at each college is a campus wide, shared goal and identifying and achieving savings while also ensuring continued excellence can happen only through close collaboration among the leaders and members of the campus community.”

A similar directive last year is projected to shrink the CUNY’s structural deficit by 17 percent to $194 million, Batista said.

Though presidents and deans could propose “one time” measures at the time, this year colleges will have to come up with long-term savings and revenue sources, according to the memo.

“The university is looking for additional savings,” said James Davis, president of the Professional Staff Congress, the CUNY faculty and staff union, “and our members are saying where are we supposed to cut? There’s no place left to cut.”

Below is a message from CUNY Professional Staff Congress President James Davis discussing the budget.

Tony

Dear PSC member,

CUNY college administrators ended last week with an email memo from Executive Vice Chancellor Hector Batista instructing them to prepare for a hiring freeze and additional “savings targets” beyond the current year, averaging 5-6% per campus for Fiscal Year 2024.

As word of these austerity measures has spread through our membership, they have expressed anger and exasperation. They know that enrollment has not recovered from the pandemic declines, and that CUNY’s federal stimulus funding will end with Fiscal Year 2023. They understand that Mayor Adams has cut City funding for CUNY and proposed further cuts. But they also know that CUNY received $240 million in new operating funds from Albany last year and nearly $1 billion in capital funding. While the Governor’s budget proposal for next year isn’t as ambitious as it should be, it is still a funding increase, not a cut. This budget cycle is just beginning, so cutting our college budgets preemptively sends the wrong message to Albany and City Hall and the wrong message to faculty, staff, and students. Many legislators stand with us as sponsors of the New Deal for CUNY and advocates in the budget negotiations. City Council leaders have named protecting CUNY funding as a top priority in their budget struggle with the Mayor. The state budget deadline is April 1. The City budget is finalized in June. But management is imposing another round of destructive belt-tightening at CUNY by March 3. We feel strongly that this is the wrong decision.

Like enrollment at CUNY, ridership is down in the City’s transit system because of the pandemic. But the MTA and Governor Hochul agree that greater public support is needed to maintain quality and services. Why is CUNY signaling that we absorb possible budget shortfalls at the beginning of a budget cycle? CUNY produced an ambitious budget request for the state—how does embracing austerity at this moment support their vision for expanded funding? As one department chair told us, “There is no fat for us to cut – it’s now a question of the bone and muscle.”

CUNY’s mid-year financial report acknowledges the loss of hundreds of full-time positions across faculty and staff. Offices across the university are severely understaffed, with CLTs and HEOs taking on the work of their departed colleagues. As recently as 2017, CUNY employed 7,546 full-time faculty, but by Fall 2021 that number declined to 6,745 and remains below 7,000 today. This is a year to fight for real gains and enlist the University community in that fight, but management seems to be throwing in the towel in advance. The memo’s directive, to review adjunct budgets and student collection rates, indicates the intention for savings to come from those who can least afford it—adjuncts and students—and through increased class sizes, which will accelerate the downward spiral that many campuses are already experiencing.

The PSC urges an alternative: instead of rolling out austerity plans, why doesn’t the CUNY administration publicize its budget request and the acute needs of the institution? Organize high profile events of CUNY supporters who will express the needs and tremendous potential of our students and our system? Partner with other public institutions to educate New Yorkers about the value of our public sector and the necessary expansion of public goods? The operating funds that were used to add five-figure increases to senior administrator salaries and hire new vice chancellors are better spent directly supporting the needs of faculty, staff and students.

Our contract expires in less than 20 days, and we will be bargaining with CUNY in the coming months with a radically different vision of the future of our institution in mind. We will not thrive being cut to the bone. Our students will not return to colleges placed on life support. We need CUNY management to advocate openly and vigorously for fully funded public higher education, just as we in the union do, not to preemptively cut and invite further austerity. And we need PSC members and allies to unite behind A People’s CUNY, the vision towards which our bargaining demands are aimed.

Add your name to the PSC’s petition demanding that CUNY management come to the bargaining table.

Stand with us as we rally outside CUNY Central the morning of Monday, February 27 for a Fair Contract for a People’s CUNY that supports better working, teaching and learning conditions, and a a better life for PSC members, CUNY students and the communities that we serve,

James Davis, President