Sheila Kihne, writing at Activist Next Door and True North, is one person who wasn’t been cowed into silence about Dayton’s, er, spotty record as a high school teacher.

Far from being a “lazy-ass activist“, Sheila’s been digging through old microfilms of the various metro papers – of which there used to be many more – and finding some interesting stuff about Daeyton.

Remember – Dayton has said “…teaching was the toughest job he ever had”; he even said it on MPR yesterday.

And yet he worked 80-odd days out of the 240 that a real teacher would have worked in the “year and a half” that he worked as a “term sub” before resigning for “personal reasons” way back when.

Sheila notes that Dayton kept himself busy:

Back to the picture … which in the 1982 piece which paid homage to Dayton’s “youthful experiment with radical politics” as all of the Minnesota media establishment has “branded” it for thirty years now. Sure, fine. Whatever.

But guess when that picture was taken? April 28, 1970. Mark Dayton was supposed to be in the classroom that day– it was a Tuesday. Remember, he commenced his service with the NYC Schools in February, 1970.

Instead of being in class, he jetted back to Minnesota to protest Honeywell Corporation with his best bud Charles “Chas” Pillsbury (yes, that Pillsbury) who was making a bold statement as a shareholder of Honeywell stock to demand that the company get out of the manufacturer of weapons-systems. (They didn’t– they eventually turned into Alliant TechSystems which the weirdo-hippies still protest here in Eden Prairie today.)

Dayton proudly boasted in a 2006 Interview:

I was opposed to the Vietnam War—I participated with Marv Davidov in the very first demonstration of the Honeywell Project, at Honeywell’s annual meeting in 1970, and voted to remove my father from the board of directors of Honeywell. I wasn’t arrested but was teargassed. I went to Washington and opposed the war

What a punk. For more on these obnoxious-types check out the new book “The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking of America”, which features Mark Dayton and Charles Pillsbury’s escapades.

SO- not only does Mark Dayton continue to lie that he taught for two years….not only did he lie in his Congressional record that he taught for three years….not only was he part of an organization who crossed the picket lines during the NYC Teacher’s strike…not only did he quit in the middle of a school year for “Personal Reasons”…he actually SKIPPED SCHOOL to protest himself? And he protested (yet again) not on the side of the union workers who were INSIDE the building? (But the unions love this guy?)

Apparently Sheila never got the memo; one must not inquire into anything in Dayton’s past.

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