Campaign Anecdotes

Campaign anecdotes

Rumors swirl that at the public street-corner rallies for PRO-PUBLIC EDUCATION candidates JAKA, LILLY and CHUNKA that there have been a number of administrators holding up signs. They cannot be identified by name or whether they are district office or site personnel. But just like the teachers the district administration is tired of the top down rule of Joyce Bales. Some of them think that even though they are not from Pueblo, they are smart enough people to occasionally be allowed to make a decision or two for themselves.

Also heard on the street, Guffanti has seen the PRO-public education rallies and tried to organize one for himself. He set a time and a date. He had signs ready. The only problem is only two people showed up. Only one not related to himself. Very sad. I feel so bad for Guffanti. NOT!

Guffant has been getting blow back from his attempt to bring up one of his fringe issues for the VUSD board to vote on. He and Gibson thought our VUSD students should be used for their personal dislike of our gay friends. They wanted the VUSD board to go on record in support of Prop 8.

Only one other school board in our county voted in favor of this resolution—the Grossmont Union High School District. That is the only other district that the ANTI-public education forces were able to take over in our county. That take-over occurred at the same time as we were taken over in 1992. The difference is that in Grossmont, the good, decent, PRO education folks of the district never were able to get the majority back. Finally the teachers at their biggest high school, Helix, formed their own charter and removed themselves from control of the Anti folks on their school board.

Unlike Grossmont Union High School District, the good people of VUSD will not put up with another majority on our board who put “fringe” non-educational politics ahead of learning. So Guffanti has been trying to justify his vote to put VUSD on record supporting Prop 8.

He has written an elaborate justification for his vote that is not worthy of repeating here. He also has been backing off his vote to use the VUSD board and our children as pawns in his fight to to use "hate politics" to advance his political career. Apparently some people have called and demanded he take back his political signs that had been posted at their homes and businesses. Poor Guffanti, don’t you just feel sorry for him? NO WAY!

Patty Anderson (Johnson) rumor--apparently she and her husband, the infamous Stan Johnson of anti-education letters to the editor fame, have acted so badly at Palomar Faculty Federation's "get-togethers" that it is not just the science department faculty that cannot stand them. It is the entire faculty. I do not know the particulars--only unconfirmed rumors, but there was "a lot" behind the Palomar Faculty Federation's refusal to endorse Patty.

Also heard on the grapevine that Patty Anderson's Marine "science" class is so easy that it is the favorite science requirement class for the less gifted or less dedicated students among the "jock"set at Palomar. Apparently real students are insulted by her classes featuring gluing paper cut-outs to rocks. Some students go to Palomar to actually learn. Surprised, Patty?

Gee, in one Guffanti "fantasy" commentary in nctimes, he claimed our school district paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to someone to instruct district teachers to make pet rocks. While that "fantasy" was as false as all of Guffanti's fevered imaginings, maybe he was actually channelling a session of his running mate's supposedly "college" class. Could be. Where else does he come up with his delusions?