Hold on to your hats — but fellow school board members are accussing Assemblyman David Gantt’s hand picked school board member, and Democratic Party double dipper Cynthia Elliott (she works at Baden Street Settlement House), of playing politics with the education of poor African-American students.

What makes this even more shocking is that it was covered by the Democrat and Chronicle.  From the D&C:

Six Rochester school board members voted Monday to pass about 30 resolutions that had been blocked by board member Cynthia Elliott.

Elliott was not present at the Monday meeting, which was called to reverse decisions made during a Dec. 18 meeting that included only four board members. Any no vote at that meeting caused a resolution to fail and Elliott rejected several resolutions because they came to the board months after the hirings or leaves of absences they

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Powell criticized Elliot for failing to show up at the meeting to listen to the discussion and accused her of political posturing.

“The one person who would benefit most from this knowledge decided not to be present,” she said.

Elliott did not respond to a request for comment.

Just a guess, but if Cynthia did honor the request for a comment — here’s what she might have said about why she blocked those resolutions, “That’s for me to know, and you to find out!”