“Social Worker” Now a Political Put Down
Yvette McGee Brown and Kevin DeWine (inset).
Jeers to Ohio Republican Party Chairman Kevin DeWine for dissing Yvette McGee Brown, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor.
Brown was a judge but retired to create the Center for Child and Family Advocacy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, an organization that fights child abuse.
DeWine thinks she is not qualified to be lieutenant governor, according to this article in Falls News Express. That is his opinion. But did he have to take a jab at social workers to put down Brown?
DeWine called Brown “a social worker with no experience in public finance or state government.”
Many social workers have become successful and groundbreaking politicians and community activists. Maybe someone should let DeWine know that.
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Maybe Mr. DeWine needs to research and find out what a real social worker knows and does. I guess if he is running, anyone could not or would not vote for such as he, as that he does not have the full understanding of social work or the capacities in which social workers work and do their job. There is no profession more involved with policy and the rights of the people as social work. It is a very honorable profession with people who are dedicated to the rights of all human beings with justice and integrity. I think that any politician should have to have a prerequisite of social work before going into office, because it is to serve the people that put them there.
I think they said that about Obama too. Of course DeWine knows nothing of Social Work training…he is doing as so many of this day do…appealing to latent fears of people who won’t investigate the candidates credentials on their own and only want to see a face they can trust at a glance, maybe? Best to ignore him and the old guard voices of paternal malevolence and exaggerations. Press on, Ms. Brown!
“Social Workers are ideally equipped to deal with the problems of a nation. I cannot think of any educational underpinning better suited to a career in government and politics than social work. Whether you see the use of a background and training in social work as a helpful thing in the field of politics may well depend on how you see politics. The definition of politics that I understand holds that politics is merely the way we decide who gets what, when they get it, and how much they can expect. In essence, politics is a means through which resources in society are divided. There are few who know better about the disbursement of resources than social workers. We see the effects that the adequate and inadequate disbursement of resources has on the lives, health, and well-being of people every day.â€