{"id":3620,"date":"2011-07-11T06:25:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T10:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2011-07-11T08:07:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T12:07:47","slug":"of-jonah-edelman-and-other-braggarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=3620","title":{"rendered":"Of Jonah Edelman and other braggarts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend I saw several references online to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kog8g9sTDSo\">Youtube video<\/a> of Jonah Edelman&#39;s brass discussion at the &quot;Aspen Ideas Festival&quot; of the legislative history of Senate Bill 7 in Illinois, which changed significant parts of teacher working conditions. In the 14-minute online version linked above, he claims substantial credit for the passage of SB7 for himself and his well-heeled allies through what he said was shrewd legislative tactics and eventually claimed was the stupidity\/laziness of Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis. It was essentially a softly-spoken version of &quot;WE PWNED THEM!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>If you had absolutely no dog in the fight, I think the dominant impression you&#39;d get is that Jonah Edelman&#39;s a braggart and probably a jackass. To a teacher in Illinois and union activists, the impression is considerably worse. As the public nature of the video became evident, he put out <a href=\"http:\/\/preaprez.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/10\/jonah-edelman-apologizes-to-my-blog-readers\/\">an apology that Fred Klonsky and other bloggers received<\/a>. I don&#39;t know if it will do much good: he&#39;ll probably be used as an object lesson for months, possibly years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ve been privy to closed discussions of legislative tactics and various negotiations, and I&#39;m familiar with the genre of post-mortem bragging Edelman indulged in. When it&#39;s come from my side, I&#39;ve generally winced (for material that&#39;s far from the insulting discussion of Edelman). No one should be so naive to think this stuff doesn&#39;t happen behind closed doors. No one should be so naive to think this stuff is helpful to productive negotiations. You can have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/staying-with-conflict-a-strategic-approach-to-ongoing-disputes\/oclc\/244765238\">long-term conflict with integrity<\/a>, but you don&#39;t do so this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend I saw several references online to a Youtube video of Jonah Edelman&#39;s brass discussion at the &quot;Aspen Ideas Festival&quot; of the legislative history of Senate Bill 7 in Illinois, which changed significant parts of teacher working conditions. 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