My name is Adam Sullivan. Until recently, I was just another citizen of New York's 8th Congressional District. Now I am running for Congress as a challenger to Jerrold Nadler for nomination in CD8 by the Democratic Party. And I need your help.

You may legitimately ask why I would challenge Congressman Nadler, a representative with a long liberal voting record. While this is true, Nadler has failed us all where it matters most.

The issue--Impeachment

Some months ago, I joined a pro-impeachment group with the intent of encouraging my congressman to co-sponsor the Articles of Impeachment introduced in the House by Dennis Kucinich of Ohio.

On Tuesday, I volunteered for Hillary in NYC. It was an incredible experience and one that I want to share with everyone here.

At 8:30am I went to the home of a councilwoman who has endorsed Hillary and lent her home out as a volunteer station. I went in the door and was immediately welcomed happily by the enthusiastic staff. I signed in and asked where they wanted me. The volunteer coordinator gave me a list of options and was willing to give me a choice of where I wanted to be and I told him, send me where you need me most, don't worry about me. So he did.

I went to a polling place in Morningside Heights for the morning.

Mark your calendars: tonight at 7pm is the next step toward bringing New York City's home child care providers into the same union as New York City's public school teachers.

For many New York City families, their child's first teacher is one of the 28,000 home child care providers caring for kids today. Home child care providers take care of kids from low-income families in pre-school and after-school settings, helping them with reading and learning colors and numbers.

But home child care providers aren't protected by a union. Their average salary is $19,000 a year in New York City with no pension, no health insurance and no paid sick days. That makes home child care providers among the lowest-paid workers in the region. Something needs to be done to make sure they get the respect and wages they deserve.

[This post was written by UFT President Randi Weingarten and crossposted from Edwize and Eduwonk, where it originally appeared.]

We hear a lot these days about what I call "3-D reform," -- data-driven decision making and about using tests to improve teaching and learning. Sadly, in this respect, too often, testing has replaced instruction; data has replaced professional judgment; compliance has replaced excellence; and so-called leadership has replaced teacher professionalism.

What is really happening is that more than ever there is this industrial techno-centric view of teachers as interchangeable cogs in an education enterprise. This approach rewards their compliance above their creativity, and results in the denigration of teachers and disregard for their contributions to learning.

There's only one thing better than seeing Barack Obama speak: Seeing him speak twice.  So yesterday I took off work and passed up a day's pay, grabbed my little white button, and headed out to New York city for a decidedly good day.

Barack spoke in NYC at the SEIU local union hall in Manhattan at 2pm, and then later at the Marriot in NYC at 5pm to a standing room only crowd of thousands at $25 a ticket.  I volunteered, and it was a wonderful experience.

More Details beneath the fold...

28,000 home day care workers in New York City are one step closer to joining the United Federation of Teachers.

Home day care workers in New York receive government subsidies to watch, care for, and educate children from low-income families in pre-school and after-school settings. They provide meals and snacks, direct safe play, and change diapers. They also play a role in educating the children in their care, helping with reading and helping young kids learn colors and numbers and older kids with homework.

Pretty important work, right?

In New York City, home day care workers make an average salary of less than $19,000 a year with no pension, health insurance or paid sick days. That makes them among the lowest-paid workers in the region.

Read more to find out what we're doing about it.

Come meet a great guy, Eric Gioia, currently our City Councilmember from Queens, and an up-and-coming all-around Good Guy.  Here's Eric's bio: http://www.ericgioia.com/about

Eric has the pulse of the regular guy - he just completed the "Food Stamp Challenge," at no small effort. Read about it here - http://www.ericgioia.com/news?id=0150.  It's something MORE of our electeds should undertake - and some of us, too - for sure.  Heck, I didn't know how much the average weekly food stamp allotment was, until I read about Eric's effort.

As stated, "After living for a week on $28 worth of groceries - the average food stamp allotment paid to individuals - Gioia was unable to get enough to eat. He said that what he bought at local supermarkets was of little nutritional value."  - Eric is urging food giant Costco to accept food stamps - a most worthy initiative, I'm sure we would agree.

Mayor Bloomberg is mandating that the city's entire taxi fleet be hybrid - massively increasing fuel efficiency and saving the average taxi driver $10,000 in fuel costs. This is the kind of no-brainer that Democratic Mayors (and the federal government) should be mandating as well.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The city's yellow taxi fleet will go entirely hybrid within five years, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Tuesday.

''There's an awful lot of taxicabs on the streets of New York City,'' Bloomberg said. ''These cars just sit there in traffic sometimes, belching fumes.

''This does a lot less. It's a lot better for all of us,'' he said of the hybrid plan.