From April of 2023:
A woman who ran for office on a platform of being pro-public schools.
For someone who was as accomplished an educator as she was, her move to a party that is embracing the dismantling of public education is rather sadistically ironic. At that time she had retweeted a pro-school choice blurb from Corey DeAngelis, well-known for being a Betsy DeVos hired hand to promote privatization.
Cecil Brockman, a Democratic representative from Guilford was quoted as saying he did not “blame her a bit.”
Pushback for not showing up to vote on an important issue? Interesting that it take just that to switch someone who at one time was called the “darling of the progressives.”
From that same (rather conservative) report, Cotham had been quoted as saying on record and staunchly being on a certain side of issues that make one scratch his head at the switch to another party. (Oh, by the way, she is running again).
She joined a party that was pushing a six-week limit on abortions, pushing legislation that targets LGBTQ people, giving more tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations, and has now steered even more money to unproven charters and opaque voucher schemes.
I wonder what the people at East Mecklenburg and Independence High Schools think of what their former administrator is helping to do to their schools.
I know what I think of her.
