In Oregon, the McMinnville Area of Commerce’s Governmental Affairs Committee sent out an e-mail to businesses and residents urging that the school board and teachers work to come to an agreement on a contract with the teachers union. The statement is pretty unremarkable and can only be described as moderate.

It was read at a school board meeting by Leslie “LV” VanBlaricom, a member of the chamber’s board of directors, who was representing the chamber at a public hearing. Shortly after VanBlaricom played her role as spokesman for the chamber, here’s how the teacher’s union and VanBlaricom’s employer, who is tight with the union, reacted:

In response to the chamber intervention, some individual members of the union contacted VanBlaricom’s employer. A delegation of them asked to meet with VanBlaricom at the credit union late last week, but was told VanBlaricom no longer worked there, according to the union’s Facebook page.

This is the same tactic used by the Wake County teachers and their left-wing agitators to retaliate against outspoken board member John Tedesco:

Tedesco acknowledged his employer, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle, has been getting pressure from supporters of the diversity policy who’ve questioned whether he should continue working for the non-profit. He said Big Brothers has not asked him to resign despite the lobbying from outside the group.

Rumors have been swirling that Tedesco was being targeted by those who argue his opposition to the diversity policy is at odds with his employer’s work helping at-risk children, most of whom are poor and minorities. Big Brothers doesn’t have an official position on the diversity policy.

In Tedesco’s case, since he didn’t want any harm to come to Big Brothers and Big Sisters throught withheld donations, he quit the organization for which he worked as development director. For that selfless act, he has been rewarded with home foreclosure proceedings. Thanks, lefties.

Did the McMinnville Education Association learn of the Alynskyite tactic from the whiner teachers, reporters, TV talk show hosts and local TV station owners? Was that their inspiration? If so, it seems they learn well, even if they can’t teach very well.