O'Keefe's latest sordid adventure is the smearing of the reputation of a former Teacher of the Year, Alissa Ploshnick of New Jersey, in a carefully edited anti-union video, "Teachers Unions Gone Wild."
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Ploshnick risked her life to save school children but was suspended for nine days after unintentionally appearing in O'Keefe's video:
In 1997, Alissa Ploshnick received a personal letter from then President Bill Clinton praising her for throwing herself in front of a moving van to protect her students. Ploshnick was hospitalized for broken ribs, a fractured wrist, a badly bruised pelvis, and glass cuts in her eyes.
O'Keefe's attacks on teachers' unions was reported earlier in Kos at:
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Unfortunately, in New Jersey, the current governor is Republican Chris Christie, actively in an on-going battle with the New Jersey Education Association over teacher pay benefits and tenure, who described the video as both "enlightening and enraging."
"If you need an example of what I’ve been talking about for the last nine months — about how the teacher's union leadership is out of touch with the people and out of control — go watch this video," Christie said at a town hall in South Brunswick.
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Ploshnick's sin?:
Ploshnick was secretly recorded by a man working for O'Keefe while they conversed at an East Brunswick bar. The man working for O'Keefe reportedly bought her drinks and pretended to be hitting on her. At one point, while the two were discussing teacher's tenure, Ploshnick described an incident in which a teacher called a student the n-word, but was not fired, only demoted.
"All she did, according to our video, is unwittingly blow the whistle on a fellow teacher who called a black student the 'N' word," said Christian Hartsock, who worked with O'Keefe on the video. "Basically, she had neither done, nor said anything wrong."
After the video was released, Superintendent Robert Holster claimed the incident described by Ploshnick never occurred and suspended her for nine days for using the n-word.
Honestly, will we never be free of this foul beast?
Will it be necessary to drive a stake through his heart? Or wing him with a silver bullet to end his supreme ugliness?