Supporting Our Recommended Candidate-Darin Preis!!

Dear CMNEA members,

Last month, our association voted to recommend to YOU, our loyal member, a candidate for school board.  After screening interviews and conducting a forum with candidates Christine King, Darin Preis, and Derek Wade, the  CMNEA PAC team recommended ... DARIN PREIS as our recommended candidate.

This is a wonderful step in our association's history.  We took this step so that we may have a closer working relationship with the school board, and we took this step because many of our members have asked over and over, "Who should I vote for?"

Darin was selected because of his strong commitment to public education and to our community.  He advocates for families in poverty through his work with the Central Missouri Community Action as Director, and is heavily involved with early childhood development and has served as the Director for Head Start. 

He stands for many of the issues that MNEA/CMNEA values such as no guns in schools, provide resources and training for work with mentally ill families and children, and provide necessary resources to classroom teachers so that high quality learning takes place in the classroom.  He values educators as the professionals of their schools and classrooms.

Darin's biography and photo will appear hear soon on our political blog.

To start our support of his campaign, we need CMNEA members involved!  WE need CMNEA members to place Darin Preis for school board yard signs in their yards!  Please contact me at: mmill83@aol.com Give me your name and address.  Someone from Darin's campaign will deliver the sign to your home!  Deadline for this is March 13th.

We need members to write letters to the editors of the Columbia Daily Tribune and The Missourian, sharing why YOU are voting for Darin Preis.  Contact me at: mmill83@aol.com as soon as possible.  We'd like to start the letter campaign next week.

Thanks, CMNEA!  Happy Teaching.

Monica