Guffanti criminal campaign fraud? Guffanti a teacher?

POSSIBLE GUFFANTI CAMPAIGN FRAUD

In the NCTimes today Jill Parvin published a “community forum” entitled Dr. Guffanti is a Doctor.” It was full of various kinds of baloney. One was that there was some kind of conspiracy to deny that Guffanti had a medical license. No one ever has said that I have heard. I do know enough about the VTA as a former Executive Board member to say categorically that there has been never been any kind of organized campaign to deny he has a medical degree.

We decry is dislike for public schools. His constant need to lie and denigrate our successful schools and teachers. His inability to control his emotions in public. His unfamiliarity with our schools and teachers partly because his own daughter who grew up in our district never attended any of our district schools. His membership in an organization whose sole goal was the destruction of public education in America.

But no one in the VTA is denying he has a medical degree. (No one denies that Dr. Jack Kevorkian has a medical degree either.) The Jill Parvin Forum piece:

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/10/16/opinion/commentary/z13c33839a3f05601882574e2006e5826.txt

However, the real revelation in the Jill Parvin commentary is the interesting claim she makes that Guffanti has only spent $3,750 on his last two campaigns of school board. If that is his official claim for campaign expenditures then he has committed a criminal campaign violation.

(County Ordinance 8966 Section 23.101.4 if he has not reported"the payment of compensation by any person for the personal services or expenses of any other person if the services are rendered or expenses incurred on behalf of a candidate or committee without payment of full and adequate consideration." Here we are talking robo phones, glossy three color, four page mailers, and campaign signs. In a recent Guffnati email he claims to have purchased 2000 campaign signs in 2000 that he has used over and over--the stakes fasteners and especially printing his signs would have cost far more than $3,750. If he is not reporting his expenses to the County Registrar of Voters then he is in criminal violation of county ordinances)


How do I know this? Because he has run at least a thirty thousand dollar plus campaign in each of the last two elections and I expect as much this time. In the next week if this campaign is like his last two there will be a series of THREE color glossy, FOUR page mailers sent to every registered VUSD voter. The cost of manufacturing a THREE color glossy FOUR page mailer, the mailing list, the postage etc is easily $5000 to $7500 dollars each time. (The VTA can only afford a two sided single page two color mailer once during the election) He usually mails three or more including a “hit” piece that arrives in our mail boxes the Saturday and/or the Monday before the election. The “hit” piece will have outrageous lies about the PRO-public education candidates on the order of they kill and eat puppies. Certainly the series of mailers with including the final ‘hit” piece will cost at least twenty thousand dollars probably much more.

Then there are the robo-calls that his campaign is so famous for. His supporters love to robo-call known “enemies of Guffanti” dozens of times in the final days. All registered voters in past elections usually get three. According to political consultant, David "Muskrat" Saunders, on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show, robo calls are cheap, only about $7500 per Congressional District.

Of course VUSD is smaller than a Congressional District but as I understand the cost of the robo phone is programming it with who to call, not how many calls are made. In fact the calls are almost free once it is programmed. So Guffanti’s robo calls must cost at least another $5000 and likely more since he likes to use them so much.

ANOTHER JILL PARVIN PIECE ON THE NCTIMES EDITORIAL PAGES


Back to Jill Parvin's original phony charge that there has been a campaign by the VTA to deny that Guffanti obtained a medical degree. I have never heard any one deny his medical degree, lots of people wonder about the medical college that awarded the degree to him considering his negative views on teaching fact based science. Is there a creationist department of medicine at the University of Iowa?

We do know that Guffanti denies evolution--read the October 10th vistaschools blog called: Guffanti and Anderson Science Deniers or read what Guffanti said himself here:
TALES FROM THE EVOLUTIONARY WAR
http://www.sdcitybeat.com/article.php?id=3782

The real question is why was she allowed violate the North County Times rules and allowed to publish two contributions to the editorial page in one week. She had a letter to the editor supporting Guffanti published one day and a couple of days latter this forum article.


WHY CAN’T GUFFANTI KEEP A JOB?

However, lots of people do wonder why he has such a hard time holding down any particular medical job. He seems to change from place to place very often.

In one article he is an emergency room doctor on the Central Coast of California, in another he is a regular practice doctor with an office. Then a pro-Guffanti bloggers says that he is a “substitute” doctor who fills in for other doctors. Another says they saw him at a “worker’s comp” office in San Marcos.

DID ANYONE EVER SAY THAT GUFFANTI DID NOT HAVE AN MD? NO!

Today Jill Parvin is back to saying he is a regular doctor with an office where she is a patient. Who knows? The point is that the whole idea behind her community forum was to defend Guffanti as a doctor. Yet the charge that anyone ever denied his degree is based a made up fairy tale. Even worse she blames the VTA for something that never happened. The VTA never ran a campaign to say he is not a doctor. She claimed the VTA said it in emails and in nctimes blogs. I have seen all VTA general membership emails for years and I can say with absolute assurance that I never saw such an email.

Of course she cannot document a single case, a single email or single blog where that was said because it is NOT TRUE, never happened. Just another Guffanti fantasy to allow him to hate teachers and justify it to himself and others.

BUT IS GUFFANTI A TEACHER?

He does claim to be a teacher on each of his ballot statements in 2000, 2004, and now in 2008. That’s a claim that many dispute as in, 'it is a little disingenuous to call yourself a “teacher” with no classroom, no students, and no teaching credential.' Calling himself a teacher because he home-schools his daughter is like me calling myself a doctor because I put a band-aid on one of my children’s cuts.