Dayton’s School Daze?

Sheila Corbett Kihne from the excellent blog “Activist Next Door” did something nobody else in the Twin Cities media seems to feel the need to do; she started asking questions about Mark Dayton’s biography:

Mark Dayton’s current website biography reads:

After college, I taught 9th grade general science for two years in a New York City public school. It was the toughest job I’ve ever had!

Sheila thought she’d do a little simple fact-checking, and sent a “Freedom of Information Act” request to the New York Public Schools:

This was my request (in addition to standard template language for a FOI request)

Please email the following records:

confirmation of employment of:

Mark B. Dayton (birthdate 1/26/47) by the New York City Dept of Education/NYC Public Schools

dates of employment (believe them to be approximately July 1969-July 1971)

job title at the time of employment

school of employment

home address during the period of employment

The NYC Dept. of Education came back zilch; Sheila has scanned the NYCDOE’s response.  Follow the link and check it out.

Now, it’s quite possible that Mr. Dayton never took a salary while teaching, however there would still be some record of his employment. Why doesn’t the NYC public schools have any record of Mark Dayton working there when he says he did?

With an insanely left-leaning Minneapolis media establishment– with long-standing ties to the Dayton family– it’s unlikely that any will bother to ask Mark Dayton about it nor likely that this post will make any news.

I’m certain it’s just a bureaucratic snafu.

Perhaps the Dayton campaign could release some sort of documentary evidence to put this to rest?

15 thoughts on “Dayton’s School Daze?

  1. The time and place seem about right . . . I bet Dayton was the model for Harvey Keitel’s character in Taxi Driver.

  2. Not only would teaching have been Dayton’s most difficult job, it apparently would have been his only real job. And now we find out….it probably ain’t a job he’s held at all.

  3. I’m picturing Dayton and Jon Voigt trying to cross the street and Dayton screaming “I’m walkin’ here, doncha know?”

  4. It can’t be a total fabrication. He isn’t John Kerry. Perhaps he did some volunteer work and now spins that as teaching.
    But if he says he was wearing his lucky hat on Christmas Eve on a river on the New Jesery border……

  5. ……….I have that memory which is seared-seared-in me……..

    Question to MadMark: Were you paid for the teaching job? If so there shouldn’t there be a record ot taxes paid. Wouldn’t it also show up on his SS payments paid for those years?

  6. Follow the link and check it out.

    Follow what link? The only link in the article is to Dayton’s website. I just wound up going to TrueNorth and finding it by hand.

    It’ll never hit the papers — they have too much history with Dayton paying big money to advertise.

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