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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Good News, Bad News

Fox News

Election Day was good news and bad news for East Bronx Public School 71 Principal Lance Cooper in New York. He was a backer of Democratic state Senator Jeff Klein — who won reelection yesterday — that was the good news. But Cooper's endorsement of Klein in a letter to parents last week cost him a $10,000 fine — and that was the bad news.

A New York Education Department spokesman tells The New York Sun the letter violated its ethics rules. He called the letter "a big mistake" and said Cooper acknowledged that he had suffered "a significant lapse in judgment." The fine adds up to almost 10 percent of cooper's $118,000/year salary.

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