Anti-Barresi Website Gaining Followers
Yukon woman’s ‘No On Barresi’ website attracts followers
By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
View the Yukon parent’s online petition at noonbarresi.com.
A Yukon woman says her online petition drive to express no confidence in state Superintendent Janet Barresi has gone viral even as she continues to develop the site and plans for the petition’s use.
In the first 10 hours after Rebecca Cunningham’s “No On Barresi” website went live, the online petition garnered 2,000 signatures. As of Friday afternoon, the signature tally was just over 4,200 and climbing every few minutes.
“We are frankly blown away by the response,” Cunningham, the mother of a second-grader and kindergartner, told the Tulsa World. “It’s spring break. We’ve got some free time on our hands, so we started working on the website. The next morning, I had an inbox full of emails from people saying thanks and asking questions about where did this come from. This is what we as parents can accomplish.”
Cunningham said Union Public Schools parent Michelle Jones is her co-chairwoman for the new, grassroots initiative, but Jones won’t have time to be actively involved with the petition until next month.