chamber of commerce

I have been meaning to blog about this all week, but forgot.

Let’s recap.

–We have a school district.  Until recently, it was headed up by Pedro Garcia, whose goal in superintending seemed to be to throw everything against a wall and see what stuck.  He kind of really sucked.

The daily fishwrap makes its school board endorsements:

The Tennessean published this list of the board members of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, and among the names are Ramon Cisneros and Marcela Gomez.

Cisneros is the publisher of the Spanish-language La Campana newspaper and is also the President of the Board of the Tennessee Hispanic Chamber of Commerce*.

Gomez is the President of Diversity Brands and the Hispanic Marketing Group.

A few weeks ago, those upwardly mobile Nashville professionals on Facebook may have encountered a new presence on the social networking site, the Nashville Chamber Of Commerce.

In this week’s Scene, we explore the possibility of a lawsuit challenging the rezoning of public schools. To win, black leaders would need what lawyers call “a smoking gun” to show the decision-makers’ actual intent to discriminate against blacks.

Jeff Woods wonders what exactly possessed the Nashville Chamber of Commerce to endorse Cordenus Eddings over school board member Ed Kindall:

There's more news this morning about one of the fabulous Chamber of Commerce-endorsed candidates for school board. First, we learn Cordenus Eddings isn't following campaign finance disclosure laws. Then we find out why. Her campaign treasurer seems to have a little problem with obeying laws.

Kay Brooks doesn’t understand why it is such a big deal that the Chamber of Commerce may have “an agenda” when it comes to Metro Schools:

Jim Grinstead discusses the Chamber of Commerce’s influence on school board elections:

Progressive Nashville weighs in and cites some familiar names, Sharon and Howard Gentry, who both sit at the receiving end of a lot of campaign finance cash and who are entangled among the benefactors giving that cash.