Sacramento Republicans Deny You the Right to Vote

Do you want public school teacher lay offs on a massive scale? Do you want to have class sizes double what you have today? If not, you need to do something right now, call all four of our local elected Sacramento Republicans listed at the bottom of this post immediately. In four days it will be too late. The deadline to put the tax extension vote on the June ballot will pass. The cuts will happen.

Governor Jerry Brown has asked the state legislature to allow the citizens of California to vote on whether they want to have their taxes extended at the same rate as today to stop the greatest cuts in California public education in state history. To put that measure on the ballot, two thirds of both houses must vote to allow its placement. So far every single Sacramento Republican is refusing to allow the voters to decide. They hold a bare one third of the votes enough to stop the election. Governor Brown has offered a host of concessions to Republicans to get the four votes needed to no avail.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-state-budget-20110112,0,221854.story

Read more about the cuts to our local schools here:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/escondido/article_cef95370-697e-5a7b-ac7f-1e61ada4def6.html
and here:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/escondido/article_2d0705f5-7494-5f05-b71d-6074a0400d33.html

As of right now, there will be NO tax extension instead there will the greatest cuts to K-12 education in our state’s history.

A tax extension requires the Sacramento Republicans to allow a vote of the people and the Sacramento Republicans are refusing. They do not trust you, the voters, to make the “right” decision.
www.educateourstate.org

For you to get a chance to vote at least two Republicans in the State Assembly and two more in the State Senate have to vote in favor of letting you have that vote.

So far NOT ONE Republican has agreed to let the voters decide.

Because of California's archaic two thirds majority rules, Republicans can and are stopping the voters from having their chance at the ballot box.

If you love the fact that up to one third of teachers in some districts will be laid off and class sizes will zoom to 50 or 60 kids in a classroom next year. Then do nothing. You will get your wish. Effective fact based public education for all intents and purposes will come to an end in California.

If you think otherwise, call all of our local elected Sacramento Republicans and tell them that they can’t take away your right to vote.

California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084

California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455 or http://markwyland.com/?p=90

More things you can do from the organization LET US VOTE! Sadly the information below is more than two weeks old, it's too late to write letters.

WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP:
SEND A LETTER, SPREAD THE "LET US VOTE!" MESSAGE

Greetings from the Educate Our State Team,

Over 20,000 letters have been sent to California legislators asking them to "Let Us Vote!" To join the campaign click here.

We are still working hard to spread the "Let Us Vote!" campaign message. Two days ago we were on NBC "Class Action" with Jessica Aguirre talking about the devastating effect of the budget cuts, click here to see the video clip. There is still much to be done by the critical March 10th date. This is where we need your help!

Here are three simple ways you can have an impact on saving education funding:

1) Send a letter to your legislator or letter to the editor here

2) Cut and paste the paragraph below into an email and send it to 10 people

I recently took action with the “Let Us Vote!” campaign and I hope you will, too. Public Education funding will be cut $5 billion without a tax extension set to expire July 1st. This tax extension will only appear on the ballot if 2/3rds of the legislature votes to approve it. Presently we are four votes short of sending this critical ballot measure to the citizens of California. It’s easy and fast to send a letter to your legislators. Please visit www.educateourstate.org and click on the “Let Us Vote!” campaign. California’s 6,000,000 children say “thank you!”

3) “Share” this facebook post with your community

Let Sacramento know - Stop cutting public education funding! Give us the right to vote for our children's future. Take action with "Let Us Vote!" campaign at www.educateourstate.org.

For more information about Educate Our State, a list of our partner organizations and our efforts to unite the voices of Californians in support of K-12 public education and demand real change visit the Educate Our State website at www.educateourstate.org. Follow us on facebook, twitter, purchase a car magnet or consider a donation.

Thanks!
The Educate Our State Team
www.educateourstate.org