I received a comment from a person calling herself Jane Swanson regarding my post on Chuck Rabel who is running for mayor of Vista.
The real Jane Swanson seems like a very reasonable person who writes a nice blog here. Since I know of no way a tea party traitor or one of our anti-public education friends could have used her personal profile, I will assume that the person who posted is Jane Swanson.
The Jane Swanson post made two valid points. One she is correct that I am not one hundred per cent certain that the Chuck Rabel supporter who came to my door was Silvia Peters and two my description of that supporter sounded more unkind than I meant it to. But as to her other points that Silvia is not a member of the Vista Tea Party traitors* or is not the blogger Roxy, I am afraid that person posting as Jane Swanson has been mislead.
The wild 'roxy' posts and the the rants of Silvia Peters at school board and DELAC meetings sound too similar for Silvia not to be the infamous blogger, 'roxy'. Silvia as Roxy has posted over and over about the Oceanside Tea Party traitors. She has written on a past blog post at the North County Times that she had to stop writing because she was on the way to the traitors big Oceanside meet up last summer. She found that meeting more important than writing. In numerous other North County Times posts 'roxy' has invited others to attend the tea party traitors gatherings with her. There is no question the North County Times blogger, 'roxy' is a member of the misguided Tea Party traitors.
Interestingly the posts by 'roxy' use the same phrases and wording that Silvia Peters uses. Both 'roxy' and Silvia Peters make the same wild eyed and unfounded allegations against VUSD and its teachers. Therefore I am quite confident that 'roxy' is Silvia, Silvia is 'roxy.' My confidence approaches one hundred percent on this topic. I am not surprised that Silvia wants to run away from her posts as 'roxy' any reasonable person would.
As to my description of the overweight women who came to my door who physically resembled Silvia in hips and hair, I am sorry if it seemed over the top. I was attempting to paint a word picture and was not thinking about its effect.
Obesity runs in my family. My maternal grandmother, my mother and my sister and one of her daughters have been or are morbidly obese. They have fought a terrible losing battle with weight for most of their lives.
I believe the tendency to become addicted to sugar and fats as well as the tendency for the satiety feedback to short circuited are all genetic. It is not a simple matter of will power. It is not the fault of the overweight person. I do make any moral judgment.
As to the frizzy hair on the precinct walker, it looked just like my sister's hair. In fact the precinct walker who I still believe to have been Silvia Peters looked so much like my sister did twenty years ago that was the first thing I noticed. I thought to myself, 'Hey, there is a women across the street who looks a lot like my sister used to. How weird.'
Again I am not one hundred percent sure that the women precinct walker who came to my door was Silvia, she did not identify herself. However, I still feel quite confident it was Silvia, no matter what Silvia is telling the person calling herself Jane Swanson. The women supporting Chuck Rabel for Mayor who came to my door looked like a dead ringer for Silvia to me.
As to Chuck Rabel, he is a tea party traitor. No loyal patriotic American should vote for him or support him in his efforts. He himself brags on his website that he is endorsed by the Oceanside Tea Party traitors. They are the number one endorsement he lists on his site. Number two is the infamous Jim Gibson who has cost VUSD schools tens of millions of dollars as a school board trustee when he prevented our district from building the third high school on the cheap level primary site in 2002. With endorsements like that it is obvious that no loyal Vistan, no thrifty taxpayer and no patriotic Americans should vote Chuck Rabel.
I recommend Judy Ritter for mayor of Vista based on her long and dedicated experience in city government. I have also met her once and talked on the phone with her--both more than ten years ago. She impressed me then as smart and level headed.
*Members of the Tea Party are traitors to America and the American way of life because they do not support our Constitution which is the basis of our democracy and to which all elected officials must swear allegiance. The tea party traitors would like to repeal much of the Bill of Rights and many other amendments. But worse yet they and their representatives running for national office have on numerous occasions threatened armed rebellion against our country.
We have had one civil war in this country. In four short years, we lost more Americans than in any dozen other wars. Civil wars are brutal. We do not need another. Any one advocating a civil war or armed insurrection is a traitor to the United States and should be dealt with as such. We do not need these tea party traitors elected to any office anywhere.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Boycott Netflix, cancel your subscription today!
Netflix founder Reed Hastings is pouring money into the campaign of Larry Aceves for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Aceves wants to fire more teachers, end seniority, reduce union representation of teachers targeted by admin, and cut back the scope of negotiations and bargaining.
Fact based public education Netflix nemesis, Reed Hastings, wants unlimited charter schools as well. He has poured $400,000 into the campaign of Larry Aceves that we know of.
How much more has Hastings given to Aceves through secret funding of third party "hit man" political organizations remains a mystery. Thanks to the last years Roberts Court's clearly unconstitutional and outrageous decision in Citizens United, we will never know. The Citizens United hit on our democracy allows unlimited amounts of SECRET, ANONYMOUS money to be spent in scurrilous "attack ad" campaigns to rid the rich of any politician who will not dance to the tune they are playing. Read more about the historically outrageous decision of the Robert's Court here: http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/2010/10/19/citizens-united-before-after-what%E2%80%99s-next/
Aceves clearly is willing to dance to the tune of the filthy rich Reed Hasting. (Why should a single filthy rich person like Hastings have more power to determine a politician's platform in a democracy than you or I?) Aceves has recently changed his reasonable positions during the primary that teachers were hard working "good folks" to his current Netflix position that teachers are scum.
His positions all have changed since the despicable, filthy rich Reed Hastings gave him the 400K campaign contribution. It appears that Aceves is willing to be bought and likes to dance to whatever tune the selfish filthy rich like Hastings want.
Here are Aceves NEW positions since his campaign themes were 'bought' by Netflix founder Reed Hastings. All quotes from today's LATIMES article found here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-statesupt-nov-20101026,0,206984.story
(1)"Aceves recently called for curtailing the power of teachers unions and making it easier to fire poorly performing teachers..."
(2) Aceves said, "The law and how the dismissal process is structured needs to be changed at the state level"
(3)"Aceves also criticized traditional seniority protections that result in a "last-hired, first-fired" policy when teachers must be laid off."
(4)"Aceves has been bolstered by support from the Assn. of California School Administrators, which he once headed"
(5)"Aceves has shifted his views on teacher-related matters" since the evil Netflix mogul "Hastings gave him 400K last week."
If you do not think that teachers are scum, then boycott Netflix and write them an email telling them why you are boycotting their product.
Whoops! they have no email address, but they do have a phone number. Here is Netflix customer service number: 1-866-716-0414
Fact based public education Netflix nemesis, Reed Hastings, wants unlimited charter schools as well. He has poured $400,000 into the campaign of Larry Aceves that we know of.
How much more has Hastings given to Aceves through secret funding of third party "hit man" political organizations remains a mystery. Thanks to the last years Roberts Court's clearly unconstitutional and outrageous decision in Citizens United, we will never know. The Citizens United hit on our democracy allows unlimited amounts of SECRET, ANONYMOUS money to be spent in scurrilous "attack ad" campaigns to rid the rich of any politician who will not dance to the tune they are playing. Read more about the historically outrageous decision of the Robert's Court here: http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/2010/10/19/citizens-united-before-after-what%E2%80%99s-next/
Aceves clearly is willing to dance to the tune of the filthy rich Reed Hasting. (Why should a single filthy rich person like Hastings have more power to determine a politician's platform in a democracy than you or I?) Aceves has recently changed his reasonable positions during the primary that teachers were hard working "good folks" to his current Netflix position that teachers are scum.
His positions all have changed since the despicable, filthy rich Reed Hastings gave him the 400K campaign contribution. It appears that Aceves is willing to be bought and likes to dance to whatever tune the selfish filthy rich like Hastings want.
Here are Aceves NEW positions since his campaign themes were 'bought' by Netflix founder Reed Hastings. All quotes from today's LATIMES article found here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-statesupt-nov-20101026,0,206984.story
(1)"Aceves recently called for curtailing the power of teachers unions and making it easier to fire poorly performing teachers..."
(2) Aceves said, "The law and how the dismissal process is structured needs to be changed at the state level"
(3)"Aceves also criticized traditional seniority protections that result in a "last-hired, first-fired" policy when teachers must be laid off."
(4)"Aceves has been bolstered by support from the Assn. of California School Administrators, which he once headed"
(5)"Aceves has shifted his views on teacher-related matters" since the evil Netflix mogul "Hastings gave him 400K last week."
If you do not think that teachers are scum, then boycott Netflix and write them an email telling them why you are boycotting their product.
Whoops! they have no email address, but they do have a phone number. Here is Netflix customer service number: 1-866-716-0414
Vote: Tom Torlakson for State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Are teachers scum? Are they too lazy to do their jobs? Do we need to fire more teachers and get rid of all seniority? Are teachers jobs too easy and too safe?
Those are the messages of the Republican Party, the billionaire bullies funding the Republicans and the message of AM con men radio and FOX “fooled you again” News. If you agree with those messages don’t vote for Torlakson.
If you think that these pernicious lies being promulgated by the rich in their attack on the last stronghold of rational voters, public school teachers, is a not only immoral, unwarranted and anti-American but just plain wrong, then Torlakson is your candidate.
Torlakson wants more funding for public schools, not less. He thinks you are doing a good job under very difficult circumstances. He is the only candidate in the race with these views.
Read more here: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-statesupt-nov-20101026,0,206984.story
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Don't vote for Chuck Rabel for Mayor--a potential disaster for Vista
Normally City of Vista elections are out of my purview for this blog, but I saw Peter Murnieks letter to the editor in today's North County Times and I just had to comment. Peter endorsed Chuck Rabel for Vista mayor.
Peter is wrong. I know Peter. I like Peter. But he is easily mislead and often gets his facts wrong which then leads him to get it wrong politically. But more to the point, Chuck Rabel is supported by the most infamous blogger in the history of the North County Times, Roxy! Yes, that Roxy. The one whose posts are famous for all capitalized venom and salacious lies about teachers and VUSD.
Sylvia Peters, aka Roxy, waddled to my front door last weekend with a clipboard doing precinct walking for Chuck Rabel. I did not recognize her when I first saw her out my window. I saw an incredibly obese women with a bad frizzy perm barely able to do a kind of painful looking, rolling, waddling walk towards my neighbor's house. I could tell by the clipboard that she was carrying and marking off names of those she visited that she was a precinct walker.
I felt sorry for this immensely overweight women whose feet seemed so painful that she could hardly walk being assigned to be a door to door precinct walker. I wondered who would make a women in that condition walk a precinct? Couldn't they find a job at a desk or a phone for her?
Then she came to my door. She did not just leave her literature. She rang the bell.
I immediately recognized her. I was polite. She did not seem to know me. I took her literature but I knew whoever she was pushing I was not for. I had never heard of her candidate, Chuck Rabel. But made a mental note to let others know that he has to be a pretty bad candidate in order to motivate a women like Sylvia Peters to go out walking precincts or to walk at all.
I do not know who I will cast my vote for mayor yet, but I can assure you it will NOT be Sylvia's candidate Chuck Rabel.
Sylvia is a proud member of the Vista Tea Party group. For the last several weeks she has stopped posting at the North County Times after leaving posts last summer about her intent to work full time for tea party candidates.
Anything or anyone Sylvia Peters supports must be opposed by any and every right thinking, patriotic American.
I have copied the comments that Sylvia Peters posted after just one article last January in the North County Times. The article was about the recall publicity stunt that was pulled by the Gibson supporters last winter. They ultimately failed to turn in even one signature in favor of recall to the Registrar of Voters. That's right. They turned in zero signatures. But they sure got a whole lot of stories and editorials written for them by the friendly folks at the North County Times.
In Roxy posts below she will make a number of untrue allegations and one that is actually nearly true but out of context. I don't have time or inclination to deal with all her lies and exaggerations except for two.
Here's the nearly true statement made by Roxy: VUSD spends 85% of its general fund on salaries and benefits. Yes, that is close to the truth. The state wide average for the thousand plus school districts in California is 83.3% spent on salaries and benefits.
But why so much on salaries and benefits for teachers, you might ask? Whoa, that's salaries and benefits for ALL personnel in the district from custodian to superintendent not just teachers.
Our salary and benefits money comes from the school district's General Fund because the state legislature bundled the money that way in order to reduce school employee salaries. That's right, our California State Legislature (pushed by Republicans) set up the system so salaries had to come from the same funds as classroom supplies, in order to force a conflict that would ultimately mean lower salaries for all school employees.
In other states, these two very different funds are kept separate. There are no conflicts. Salaries and benefits for employees are a completely distinct funding category in those states from funds for students but not in California.
Roxy also falsely alleges that while the VUSD school district has lost student enrollment in the last decade, it has not lost any teacher positions. Totally bogus. There are hundreds of less teachers in VUSD now than a decade ago. Easily seen on the VUSD website.
Here is a link to the Peter Murnieks' letter in support of Chuck Rabel:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/letters/article_0e2db71b-23e4-5442-b319-44827428dc93.html
Here is a only a portion of Roxy's rants after a single article in the North County Times. For years she was the most frequent poster of comments after any article about VUSD. I have left in her misspellings and scatological references to our former VTA president, Jan O'Reilly so that you can get the full flavor of Sylvia Peters aka Roxy. I would never vote for anyone she endorses, I hope after reading the comments below you will understand why.
article title and date:
VISTA VUSD could face another recall
Activists start process that could remove three trustees
By STACY BRANDT - sbrandt@nctimes.com | Posted: January 15, 2010 7:20 pm |
Roxy comments:
Roxy said on: January 16, 2010, 8:41 pm
Always Right~~ so are you saying that UNION THUGS are PREDATORS? You are probably right if they bully kids the same way they bully their parents.
Congrats to Jill Parvon (sic) for having the courage to recall the three union puppets. Too bad she did not add Herrera's name to it but she is a sitting duck since she is up or reelection in November.
Where and when cam I get a petition to sign?????
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Roxy said on: January 16, 2010, 8:36 pm
Lisa~~ too bad we cannot recall Jan and Lucky!! (sic)
the Oceanside recall is a completely different and quite distinct from VUSD.
In Oceanside the unions were doing the recall and people showed they had enough and were disgusted with union thugs.
here Vista will have an opportunity to get rid of union thugs.
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Roxy said on: January 16, 2010, 9:48 am
Cal ~~ rage against the district? Try saying that over 85% of the budget goes to pay for their SALARIES, BENEFITS and PENSIONS.
For what? Dirty union politics and no education, kids can’t read, can’t write and cannot calculate, add the highest dropout rate in the state.
Herrera says its because of SIATech dropout recovery program, yeah OK. How and where did these students dropout from?
Before 1994 was when the KIDS COULD READ, WRITE and CALCULATE.
See this is the problem with union thugs, they don’t seam to understand kids attend school to LEAN how to READ, WRITE and CALCULATE.
21 Century education came with the village mentality and over 60% dropout rate, illiteracy and racism.
Teachers are more concerned with SOCIAL RE ENGINEERING than education. Brainwashing students, and promulgating their own social political views rather than teaching kids how to READ, WRITE and CALCULATE.
Very said you don’t even know what the term, “WHITE FLIGHT” means.
Very interesting you slam the churches yet these were the same ones who voted for Jaka and Chunka. Are you afraid these same churches have woken up?
Sounds like you have a lot of gas to pass try farting Jan's way...
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Roxy said on: January 15, 2010, 11:16 pm
Chunka says the school trustees are in a standoff with the VTA, how hilarious!!!
Wasn’t she the only one who voted not to submit the “RACE TO THE TOP” MEMORANDUM to the state? Or was it JACKA? It doesn’t matter because both said it would be unlikely that the VUSD would support the RACE TO THE TOP proposition.
Gut wrenching decisions? Don’t worry Chunka, Jan has already decided how you all should/will vote.
Lets not forget that in 1994 VUSD was a viable school district since then it has suffered from white flight. Loosing thousands of students. 700 this year and the year I still YOUNG!!!!
While VUSD has LOST THOUSANDS of students NOT a SINGLE TEACHER has been laid off.
Peter is wrong. I know Peter. I like Peter. But he is easily mislead and often gets his facts wrong which then leads him to get it wrong politically. But more to the point, Chuck Rabel is supported by the most infamous blogger in the history of the North County Times, Roxy! Yes, that Roxy. The one whose posts are famous for all capitalized venom and salacious lies about teachers and VUSD.
Sylvia Peters, aka Roxy, waddled to my front door last weekend with a clipboard doing precinct walking for Chuck Rabel. I did not recognize her when I first saw her out my window. I saw an incredibly obese women with a bad frizzy perm barely able to do a kind of painful looking, rolling, waddling walk towards my neighbor's house. I could tell by the clipboard that she was carrying and marking off names of those she visited that she was a precinct walker.
I felt sorry for this immensely overweight women whose feet seemed so painful that she could hardly walk being assigned to be a door to door precinct walker. I wondered who would make a women in that condition walk a precinct? Couldn't they find a job at a desk or a phone for her?
Then she came to my door. She did not just leave her literature. She rang the bell.
I immediately recognized her. I was polite. She did not seem to know me. I took her literature but I knew whoever she was pushing I was not for. I had never heard of her candidate, Chuck Rabel. But made a mental note to let others know that he has to be a pretty bad candidate in order to motivate a women like Sylvia Peters to go out walking precincts or to walk at all.
I do not know who I will cast my vote for mayor yet, but I can assure you it will NOT be Sylvia's candidate Chuck Rabel.
Sylvia is a proud member of the Vista Tea Party group. For the last several weeks she has stopped posting at the North County Times after leaving posts last summer about her intent to work full time for tea party candidates.
Anything or anyone Sylvia Peters supports must be opposed by any and every right thinking, patriotic American.
I have copied the comments that Sylvia Peters posted after just one article last January in the North County Times. The article was about the recall publicity stunt that was pulled by the Gibson supporters last winter. They ultimately failed to turn in even one signature in favor of recall to the Registrar of Voters. That's right. They turned in zero signatures. But they sure got a whole lot of stories and editorials written for them by the friendly folks at the North County Times.
In Roxy posts below she will make a number of untrue allegations and one that is actually nearly true but out of context. I don't have time or inclination to deal with all her lies and exaggerations except for two.
Here's the nearly true statement made by Roxy: VUSD spends 85% of its general fund on salaries and benefits. Yes, that is close to the truth. The state wide average for the thousand plus school districts in California is 83.3% spent on salaries and benefits.
But why so much on salaries and benefits for teachers, you might ask? Whoa, that's salaries and benefits for ALL personnel in the district from custodian to superintendent not just teachers.
Our salary and benefits money comes from the school district's General Fund because the state legislature bundled the money that way in order to reduce school employee salaries. That's right, our California State Legislature (pushed by Republicans) set up the system so salaries had to come from the same funds as classroom supplies, in order to force a conflict that would ultimately mean lower salaries for all school employees.
In other states, these two very different funds are kept separate. There are no conflicts. Salaries and benefits for employees are a completely distinct funding category in those states from funds for students but not in California.
Roxy also falsely alleges that while the VUSD school district has lost student enrollment in the last decade, it has not lost any teacher positions. Totally bogus. There are hundreds of less teachers in VUSD now than a decade ago. Easily seen on the VUSD website.
Here is a link to the Peter Murnieks' letter in support of Chuck Rabel:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/letters/article_0e2db71b-23e4-5442-b319-44827428dc93.html
Here is a only a portion of Roxy's rants after a single article in the North County Times. For years she was the most frequent poster of comments after any article about VUSD. I have left in her misspellings and scatological references to our former VTA president, Jan O'Reilly so that you can get the full flavor of Sylvia Peters aka Roxy. I would never vote for anyone she endorses, I hope after reading the comments below you will understand why.
article title and date:
VISTA VUSD could face another recall
Activists start process that could remove three trustees
By STACY BRANDT - sbrandt@nctimes.com | Posted: January 15, 2010 7:20 pm |
Roxy comments:
Roxy said on: January 16, 2010, 8:41 pm
Always Right~~ so are you saying that UNION THUGS are PREDATORS? You are probably right if they bully kids the same way they bully their parents.
Congrats to Jill Parvon (sic) for having the courage to recall the three union puppets. Too bad she did not add Herrera's name to it but she is a sitting duck since she is up or reelection in November.
Where and when cam I get a petition to sign?????
------------------------------------
Roxy said on: January 16, 2010, 8:36 pm
Lisa~~ too bad we cannot recall Jan and Lucky!! (sic)
the Oceanside recall is a completely different and quite distinct from VUSD.
In Oceanside the unions were doing the recall and people showed they had enough and were disgusted with union thugs.
here Vista will have an opportunity to get rid of union thugs.
------------------------------------------------
Roxy said on: January 16, 2010, 9:48 am
Cal ~~ rage against the district? Try saying that over 85% of the budget goes to pay for their SALARIES, BENEFITS and PENSIONS.
For what? Dirty union politics and no education, kids can’t read, can’t write and cannot calculate, add the highest dropout rate in the state.
Herrera says its because of SIATech dropout recovery program, yeah OK. How and where did these students dropout from?
Before 1994 was when the KIDS COULD READ, WRITE and CALCULATE.
See this is the problem with union thugs, they don’t seam to understand kids attend school to LEAN how to READ, WRITE and CALCULATE.
21 Century education came with the village mentality and over 60% dropout rate, illiteracy and racism.
Teachers are more concerned with SOCIAL RE ENGINEERING than education. Brainwashing students, and promulgating their own social political views rather than teaching kids how to READ, WRITE and CALCULATE.
Very said you don’t even know what the term, “WHITE FLIGHT” means.
Very interesting you slam the churches yet these were the same ones who voted for Jaka and Chunka. Are you afraid these same churches have woken up?
Sounds like you have a lot of gas to pass try farting Jan's way...
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Roxy said on: January 15, 2010, 11:16 pm
Chunka says the school trustees are in a standoff with the VTA, how hilarious!!!
Wasn’t she the only one who voted not to submit the “RACE TO THE TOP” MEMORANDUM to the state? Or was it JACKA? It doesn’t matter because both said it would be unlikely that the VUSD would support the RACE TO THE TOP proposition.
Gut wrenching decisions? Don’t worry Chunka, Jan has already decided how you all should/will vote.
Lets not forget that in 1994 VUSD was a viable school district since then it has suffered from white flight. Loosing thousands of students. 700 this year and the year I still YOUNG!!!!
While VUSD has LOST THOUSANDS of students NOT a SINGLE TEACHER has been laid off.
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