When funloving School Board candidate Scott Zeidman read this morning in the newspaper that the National Organization of Women had endorsed rival Nancy Goldberg, his mouth curled into a puckish grin.
Reaching for the telephone on his work desk, he polled the entire membership of NOZ, quietly known to insiders as the National Organization of Zeid-MEN, being the plural form, don’t you know.
Smiling as he dialed, re-dialed and undialed while clutching a used bar of Dial soap in his other hand, Mr. Zeidman breathlessly issued a verbal press release this afternoon. It declared that all four voting-age members of NOZ have pledged their fealty as well as their Nov. 8 ballots to his candidacy.
Mr. Zeidman was asked what the NOW endorsement told him about Ms. Goldberg. “Nothing,” he replied.
“A group organization endorsement, except for something like a Chamber of Commerce (which endorsed him and Laura Chardiet), can be had and means very little,” Mr. Zeidman says.
“I love the individual endorsements. You give me the people who are in the job now, and that means a lot to me.
“You give me the people who have done the job before and say you are good at it. That , means a lot to me, too.
“But give me a union that is going to negotiate for more money and more benefits and I am on the other side (meaning the Teachers Union and the Classified Employees), I don’t want it.
“I want the teachers,” said Mr. Zeidman. “I don’t want the union. There is a huge difference.”
