Guffanti's Liars Club and some infamous fabrications

What lies do the Anti- Public Education crowd tell about us in VUSD?

In Saturday’s edition of the North County Times an article ran discussing the six school board candidates for VUSD. Read the article here:


After the article the Anti Public Education bunch that supports Dr. Stephen Guffanti, Patty Anderson, and Eileen Fernandez posted their usual inflammatory lies and comments. Nothing they say is true, but when one reads their lies, the lies almost feel like they might be true, enough to scare community members or church members who are not familiar with our VUSD schools.

Below I list the three plus one lies they told yesterday.

Of course those three plus one are not all the despicable set of lies they have used against our good teachers in the last year.

Guffanti said in an NCTimes editorial in November 2007 all VUSD teachers are lazy and do not want to work and that is why they do not support Joyce Bales because she is making them work for the first time.

A year before that Guffanti said that Vista Teachers support child molesters and try to keep them in the classroom on an interview on KOCT.

Guffanti supporters also regularly post comments that teachers get full time pay for half time jobs. VUSD teachers are the best paid in the nation. (Heck VUSD teachers are not even in the top ten in San Diego County).

If you want to read more of the Guffanti Liars Club lies, (if you have the stomach for it) you can see dozens more if you do an advanced search on the NCTimes website. Use VUSD as your search item. Cover the period from August 2007 to September 2008.

I warn you that you will be heart sick, then enraged when you read what the Guffanti Liar’s Club members are saying about our good VUSD teachers.

The most recent set of lies posted at 8:03 in the comment section for the article above contained the following lies:

Lie one
VUSD teachers are giving “pockets of condoms” to our “11 year old daughters”
Lie two
VUSD teachers “…give them (our 11 year old daughters) information about getting an abortion with out (sic) parents knowing about it.”
Lie three
VUSD teachers “terrorize our 4 grader with the Al Gore firm scaring them that the world is coming to an end because of our president.”

The Guffanti group liar followed up Lie one with ‘details’ of the where and when Lie one and two happened (that is the plus in their three lies). The Guffanti Liars Club member said that these incidents (lie one and two) happened at the “Spring Assembly” at Rancho Minerva Middle School in 2008.

I checked with a Rancho Minerva Middle School teacher. At first she just laughed at how ridiculous the lies were, but then realized that these lies were being told in our community and good people were being fooled by those lies into believing terrible things about our VUSD schools and teachers particularly her school. She was then angry and incensed.

“Of course that those things never happened. The only assembly we had was a student awards assembly.” She told me.

She also pointed out that if anything even remotely like that happened the incident would have made the news in local TV radio and newspapers. Of course she is right, the situation would have made the local news, but I personally think it would have made national news as well.

As crazy nasty and horrible as lies one and two are, most of our community does not know that the Guffanti Group lies routinely and for political advantage. Our community does not realize that the reality challenged Guffanti supporters cannot get their candidates elected unless they lie and lie often and loudly. It is a POLITICAL technique called “throwing everything at the wall and hoping at least one thing will stick.” By the time the lies are exposed (if ever) the election is over and they have won.

The technique might work here because our VUSD voters like most voters are honest nice down to earth folks. It is inconceivable to normal honest folk like our VUSD voters that Guffanti and his friends would make up lies to get elected—especially such egregious ones. Yet that is exactly what Guffanti group and their supporters have been known for in every election he has been in.

The lies work on the community. Even if our voters do not believe it all intellectually, the begin to wonder about the teachers and about the school district. This uncertainty delays their vote and makes our good VUSD voters wonder about us. It is very effective in making inroads into the vote that our three honest and reasonable candidates should get.

Regarding the lie number three above about Al Gore’s documentary being shown 4 (sic) grader, the Guffanti Liar never did write back to give made up where and when details. So it obviously was not shown to any 4 (sic ) grader in our district. Of course the Al Gore documentary does not ‘terrorize’ and it does not blame President Bush for human contribution to global warming. It was given an Oscar and Al Gore won the Nobel Prize largely as a result of the documentary and his efforts to warn about the dangers of burning massive amounts of fossil carbon. Oscars and Nobel Prizes are hardly given to those who “terrorize.”

What can be done about the lies? First is for you to know what is being said. Second inform others about this campaign of lies. The next post will give you some information on how.