One of our old favorite angry friends, Vista Watchdog, posted that he did not know why our heroic VTA president, Barbara Franklin, went to Republican State Assembly offices and Republican State Senate offices like those of Martin Garrick (infamous for cheering on the steps of the state Capitorl at cuts for the poor), Diane Harkey (who Jim Gibson smeared in his campaign for her office), Mark Wyland (a descent sort of man, almost moral, except he goes along with the entire Republican agenda if less angrily and vindictively) and Nathan Fletcher, a rising hate star in the SACRAMENTO REPUBLICAN anti-middle class galaxy of villains). VWdog's post is after the article with the infamous mis-leading headling about our VTA president being arrested, found here:http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_f05347f3-864d-5a8a-98aa-17390b9fd476.html?mode=story
As VWdog knows SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS (Martin Garrick, Diane Harkey, Mark Wyland, Nathan Fletcher, et al) have forced BILLIONS of dollars of life threatening cuts in programs for our neighbors who happen to be poor, elderly, sick or school children. How many will die from these cuts in social service support is still an open question.
The SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS were able to force these cuts because of the two thirds requirements of our State Constitution. Four, just four, SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS were needed for a chance to stop the DOOMSDAY cuts, but not one could be found.
The lemming like SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS took an oath of loyalty and fidelity to a Washington DC lobbyist, Grover Norquist that supersedes there duty to California.
Norquist demanded that the voters of California be denied the basic right to vote on question of extending their same rate of taxation for five more years instead of imposing DOOMSDAY BUDGET cuts to California's poor, sick, elderly and school children. EVERY SINGLE SACRAMENTO REPUBLICAN, said, 'yes sir, King Norquist, whatever you demand, your majesty. We will follow your every desire."(After all King Norquist controls a vast pool of hundreds of millions of dollars of billionaire bully campaign money, so Republicans tremble when King Norquist speaks) Every SACRAMENTO REPUBLICAN denied we, the people, the right to vote on this crucial issue of endangering our most disadvantaged citizens. It was a decision of basic decency and morality. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS said no to we, the people.
That is why there are protests at their offices as VWdog is well aware.
If you want to comment on the immoral cuts to the poor, sick, elderly and school children, here are the names and numbers where our locally elected SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS can be reached:
OUR LOCALLY ELECTED SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS:
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
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
"CALIFORNIA IS BANKRUPT. RUINED." No, bankruptcy is not legally possible. However, CA is in a fiscal crises caused by SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS.
Another of our angry friends who has been CONfused by the hired gun word thugs on AM talk radio and FOX News repeated what he had heard from those paid word thugs, namely that California was bankrupt. This comment was made after the North County article with the inflammatory and misleading headline about our fine VTA president and her courageous stand against de-funding FACT based California public education.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_f05347f3-864d-5a8a-98aa-17390b9fd476.html?mode=story
After the article was this comment by a CONfused blogger calling himself Person X:
Person X at 12:00am incorrectly wrote, "California is bankrupt. Ruined."
Neither is true. Even the Weekly Standard, a rag that publishes only anti-union, anti-worker, billionaire bully paid for articles admits (and laments) that no American state can go bankrupt in the following article.
www.weeklystandard.com/.../give-states-way-go-bankrupt_518378.html
However, California is in a fiscal crises caused by SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS who mis-used the two thirds California Constitutional requirement to refuse to even allow a vote on simple no brainers like a Sarah Palin tax on oil extraction in our state.
We are the third largest oil producing state in America. Oil companies in California pay ZERO dollars back to the state for taking OUR OIL and selling it for HUGE PROFITS.
www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/business/01oil.html
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/.../chevron-latest-oil-company-big-profits_n_855404.html
The bill that Sarah Palin signed into law in Alaska, if passed here, would provide billions of dollars to fix our funding crises in California without DOOMSDAY cuts to our neighbors who happen to be poor, elderly, sick, or school children.
For more common sense fixes to our problem California's REVENUE crises go here: http://caltaxreform.org/?p=211
Here is also a video by Megan Fox called "Hot for Teachers" that details billions in cuts already made to our California schools under our former governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/7d5ec0278e/megan-fox-is-hot-for-teachers
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_f05347f3-864d-5a8a-98aa-17390b9fd476.html?mode=story
After the article was this comment by a CONfused blogger calling himself Person X:
Person X at 12:00am incorrectly wrote, "California is bankrupt. Ruined."
Neither is true. Even the Weekly Standard, a rag that publishes only anti-union, anti-worker, billionaire bully paid for articles admits (and laments) that no American state can go bankrupt in the following article.
www.weeklystandard.com/.../give-states-way-go-bankrupt_518378.html
However, California is in a fiscal crises caused by SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS who mis-used the two thirds California Constitutional requirement to refuse to even allow a vote on simple no brainers like a Sarah Palin tax on oil extraction in our state.
We are the third largest oil producing state in America. Oil companies in California pay ZERO dollars back to the state for taking OUR OIL and selling it for HUGE PROFITS.
www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/business/01oil.html
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/.../chevron-latest-oil-company-big-profits_n_
The bill that Sarah Palin signed into law in Alaska, if passed here, would provide billions of dollars to fix our funding crises in California without DOOMSDAY cuts to our neighbors who happen to be poor, elderly, sick, or school children.
For more common sense fixes to our problem California's REVENUE crises go here: http://caltaxreform.org/?p=211
Here is also a video by Megan Fox called "Hot for Teachers" that details billions in cuts already made to our California schools under our former governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/7d5ec0278e/megan-fox-is-hot-for-teachers
TEACHERS ARE JUST HIGHLY PAID BABYSITTERS! No, we just wish we were paid that well.
Today in the comment section following the highly inflammatory headline, "Vista:Teacher Union President Arrested" a bunch of our angry friends posted there usual CONfused comments that illuminate more their ignorance and anger than anything to do with the article, we had the following posting:
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Cranky said at 8:20pm on April 16, "Most (referring to teachers) are just highly payed babysitters."
See the article here: http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_f05347f3-864d-5a8a-98aa-17390b9fd476.html?mode=story
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No, Cranky they are not. Babysitters would be paid at nearly triple the rate as school teachers are paid.
It has been more than twenty years since I had a small child in need of babysitting, but even then the going rate was $5 per hour per child.
In a typical underfunded California classroom there are 35 to 40 students for 6.5 hours per day. Let's take 35 students times 6.5 hours times $5 per hour, I get $1137 for one day. Typical sub rate is $100 per day. Salaried teacher rate can vary, but is slightly more than subs. However, even the highest paid teacher salaries are not in the same league with the babysitters' salaries, the babysitters would make far more per day than any public school teachers.
What about per year? Let's multiply that $1137 daily babysitter rate by 180 day school year--$204,750!
The top salary for a VUSD school teacher in the 2010-2011 school year was $78,612 and that is ONLY for the one or two older teachers in our entire district. These teachers must have spent at least thirty years teaching IN VUSD and must also have a master's degree AND 75 units of EXPENSIVE post graduate units.
Most teachers never get close to that salary. They are either not teachers exclusively in VUSD that long or paying for the EXPENSIVE post graduate units is too prohibitive on their miniscule salaries. Rent or post graduate units? Hmmm, which should I pay? Most teachers chose paying the rent.
So let's see one could become a 'rich' college graduate teacher who after paying off college debt and thirty years in a district in addition to laying out tens of thousands of personal money spent on post graduate work gets a mere 78.6K or a babysitter whose rates TWENTY years ago would come to nearly triple that amount.
No, Cranky, teachers are not babysitters. They just wish they were paid that well.
Here is the URL of the Vista Unified School District's teacher salary schedule: http://www.vusd.k12.ca.us/Departments/hr/certificatedHR/Certificated%20HR%20Documents/Teacher%20Salary%20Schedule%202010%20-%202011.pdf
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Cranky said at 8:20pm on April 16, "Most (referring to teachers) are just highly payed babysitters."
See the article here: http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_f05347f3-864d-5a8a-98aa-17390b9fd476.html?mode=story
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No, Cranky they are not. Babysitters would be paid at nearly triple the rate as school teachers are paid.
It has been more than twenty years since I had a small child in need of babysitting, but even then the going rate was $5 per hour per child.
In a typical underfunded California classroom there are 35 to 40 students for 6.5 hours per day. Let's take 35 students times 6.5 hours times $5 per hour, I get $1137 for one day. Typical sub rate is $100 per day. Salaried teacher rate can vary, but is slightly more than subs. However, even the highest paid teacher salaries are not in the same league with the babysitters' salaries, the babysitters would make far more per day than any public school teachers.
What about per year? Let's multiply that $1137 daily babysitter rate by 180 day school year--$204,750!
The top salary for a VUSD school teacher in the 2010-2011 school year was $78,612 and that is ONLY for the one or two older teachers in our entire district. These teachers must have spent at least thirty years teaching IN VUSD and must also have a master's degree AND 75 units of EXPENSIVE post graduate units.
Most teachers never get close to that salary. They are either not teachers exclusively in VUSD that long or paying for the EXPENSIVE post graduate units is too prohibitive on their miniscule salaries. Rent or post graduate units? Hmmm, which should I pay? Most teachers chose paying the rent.
So let's see one could become a 'rich' college graduate teacher who after paying off college debt and thirty years in a district in addition to laying out tens of thousands of personal money spent on post graduate work gets a mere 78.6K or a babysitter whose rates TWENTY years ago would come to nearly triple that amount.
No, Cranky, teachers are not babysitters. They just wish they were paid that well.
Here is the URL of the Vista Unified School District's teacher salary schedule: http://www.vusd.k12.ca.us/Departments/hr/certificatedHR/Certificated%20HR%20Documents/Teacher%20Salary%20Schedule%202010%20-%202011.pdf
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Fewer of our angry friends, leaks on the VUSD school board, and teachers' legal protections are racist
Good News--there are fewer and fewer of our local angry friends posting on line. After articles mentioning Vista Unified School district, we used to have more than a dozen of them posting paranoia, slander, and out right lies regarding our fine public schools and fine VUSD school teachers. Now we have only two or three and their attacks on FACT based public schools are getting stale. The same silliness is posted over and over virtually verbatim. Their simple arguments are easily refuted. Their rants are not catching on and their number continue to diminsh.
The newest line of attack concocted by Jim Gibson and his allies against the four school board members, who are actually trying to improve education in VUSD, has to do with the possibility that the school board might come to a settlement with the Vista Teachers Association in the VUSD lawsuit against the VTA for less than the original amount asked for.
It appears that someone on the VUSD school board is informing his supporters of what is being said at closed door meetings of the VUSD school board when the board members discuss their strategy in the lawsuit. (Gee, I wonder which school board member would break confidence and back stab the other school board members while not caring that the privileged information he was illegally sharing with his supporters would make the lawsuit more time consuming and costly for the district?). The VUSD school board strategy that is being leaked seems to be to try to come to a quick resolution of the lawsuit for an amount of less than 540K.
Now, personally, I do not think the VTA should settle at all. The VUSD school board had lawyers who advised them and read and approved each new collective bargaining agreement before the school board agreed to sign on. These agreements are mutual--both sides agree to them in writing. The VUSD school board's lawyers thought the bargaining agreements were legally 'kosher" for a decade and a half. To now decide that the bargaining agreements were in error and that the VTA negotiators--ordinary classroom teachers with no law experience and who often had no access to a lawyer-- somehow pulled the wool over the eyes of the hired gun VUSD lawyers for 15 years is ludicrous. VTA should just say no to any agreement that is not forced on them by litigation with damages assigned by the court. I think the VTA has a good chance of owing nothing or even being OWED money by the VUSD if they just refuse to settle and let the court case run its course.
However, if the school board wants to offer a settlement. Let them. The teachers can consider it. With at least one trustee leaking self serving information to his supporters, a settlement seems harder and harder to achieve.
More bad news--teachers rights including salary schedule, set duty hours, seniority, and permanent status are under attack and being labelled as racist locally, state wide and nationally in the newest front in the war on public education.
Our local angry friends who post at the North County Times recently been saying that VUSD teachers are not working hard enough to help Hispanic children and hinting at racism. Poster El Chapo wrote on April 19, 2011 after an article about four teachers at VUSD being named teacher of the year:
How could you choose this teacher if they don't know how to speak spanish(sic) to teach our kids remember 80% of the vista teachers don't speak spanish(sic) thats (sic) why our schools are falling.
Makeeda formerly Roxy wrote, "built several white schools for other school districts at the VUSD taxpayers cost"
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_0bba9676-7bad-502a-998a-0f582f4f923e.html
On February 6 El Chapo wrote about the relocating of Olive to the Washington campus,
", hey why don't they bus students from shadowridge (sic) area so they don't have to close olive (sic) and have the smart parents help the school"
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_a7f3e661-35db-5bfc-a0ff-3cbaea624297.html?mode=comments
The theme that teachers rights like duty hours, salary schedules, seniority, and permanent status are racist in nature is the latest billionaire bully funded attack on American education and the teachers who provide it. They have paid for hired gun word thugs to created anti public education 'think tanks' and to build many websites to promote this view. The latest I have run across is called Democrats for Education Reform. See its slick website here: http://www.dfer.org/ This organization has branches in states all across the country Ohio, New Jersey, New York and of course California.
It is secretly funded by billionaire bullies who are able to hide the fact that they fund it and also to get IRS tax deductions while doing so.
The main theme of these hired gun word thugs is that teachers having rights amounts to racism and that destroying teachers' rights is the next great civil rights movement.
Racism resentment is the same theme of the small cadre of misinformed activists that are posting their comments after North County Times articles mentioning VUSD and who have taken over our the Districts English Language Advisory Committee, DELAC, activists like Alejandro Sancehez, Eduardo Preciado, Silvia Peters. Sadly they took the leadership of DELAC from the capable hands of Gabriela Hooshman a year ago last January.
They have used the racism charge in organizing against the relocation of Olive Elementary School. Apparently former extremist Trustee Stephen Guffanti and his wife Maureen helped to organize the parent protests and the misplaced resentment at Olive.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/letters/article_e9235ab6-7a56-552f-9302-580cab826a61.html
Luckily ANTI immigration fervor also motivates the Guffantis resulting in Maureen writing a letter to the editor expressing her praise for the arrest and deportation of a mother, a grandmother and a child in less than a school day while two other children were still in school. The other two children arrived to an empty house with three of their family members gone.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/letters/article_daca7dc3-af26-58f3-a3f0-a898ad6ac457.html
When I pointed out this last letter to the editor to Makeeda/Roxy, she reacted in rage as usual but since that time I have not noticed any of our local misinformed angry Hispanic parents supporting the Guffanti only Gibson.
Our Hispanic angry friends are correct in one thing, their children are being discriminated against and held back from achieving all that they could. Sadly the billionaire bullies have focused them on the wrong target--the hard working teachers in the public schools and not on the right target--the underfunding of public education, public health programs, food programs for the poor, medical and dental help for the poor. Imagine how much better low income students of ALL RACES could do if they did not have the stress of not knowing where they were going to live, if they were going to have food at night, if their sore teeth and sick stomachs were going to get appropriate medical treatment and if their parents could stop working three jobs a piece and be home to parent them. A society where all children have the right to food, shelter, and medical and dental access would go a long way towards improving test scores.
Study after study have shown that test scores follow the money. Test scores have nothing to do with drill and kill programs and they have nothing to do with teacher having job protections. The highest scoring students in the country are in states with teacher protections and rights (Massachusetts) and the very lowest scores are in states in the south with no teacher protections at all.
We should always remember that these hard fought for rights were granted to teaches to stop the outrageous abuses of the early to mid twentieth century when male teachers were paid more than female teachers, teachers were fired for reasons of political consideration, teaching spots were given to political supporters, and teachers were dismissed for arbitrary and even for no reason at all (just as probationary teachers still are). Calling them racist is an outrage and slander against the teaching profession and is historically inaccurate.
The newest line of attack concocted by Jim Gibson and his allies against the four school board members, who are actually trying to improve education in VUSD, has to do with the possibility that the school board might come to a settlement with the Vista Teachers Association in the VUSD lawsuit against the VTA for less than the original amount asked for.
It appears that someone on the VUSD school board is informing his supporters of what is being said at closed door meetings of the VUSD school board when the board members discuss their strategy in the lawsuit. (Gee, I wonder which school board member would break confidence and back stab the other school board members while not caring that the privileged information he was illegally sharing with his supporters would make the lawsuit more time consuming and costly for the district?). The VUSD school board strategy that is being leaked seems to be to try to come to a quick resolution of the lawsuit for an amount of less than 540K.
Now, personally, I do not think the VTA should settle at all. The VUSD school board had lawyers who advised them and read and approved each new collective bargaining agreement before the school board agreed to sign on. These agreements are mutual--both sides agree to them in writing. The VUSD school board's lawyers thought the bargaining agreements were legally 'kosher" for a decade and a half. To now decide that the bargaining agreements were in error and that the VTA negotiators--ordinary classroom teachers with no law experience and who often had no access to a lawyer-- somehow pulled the wool over the eyes of the hired gun VUSD lawyers for 15 years is ludicrous. VTA should just say no to any agreement that is not forced on them by litigation with damages assigned by the court. I think the VTA has a good chance of owing nothing or even being OWED money by the VUSD if they just refuse to settle and let the court case run its course.
However, if the school board wants to offer a settlement. Let them. The teachers can consider it. With at least one trustee leaking self serving information to his supporters, a settlement seems harder and harder to achieve.
More bad news--teachers rights including salary schedule, set duty hours, seniority, and permanent status are under attack and being labelled as racist locally, state wide and nationally in the newest front in the war on public education.
Our local angry friends who post at the North County Times recently been saying that VUSD teachers are not working hard enough to help Hispanic children and hinting at racism. Poster El Chapo wrote on April 19, 2011 after an article about four teachers at VUSD being named teacher of the year:
How could you choose this teacher if they don't know how to speak spanish(sic) to teach our kids remember 80% of the vista teachers don't speak spanish(sic) thats (sic) why our schools are falling.
Makeeda formerly Roxy wrote, "built several white schools for other school districts at the VUSD taxpayers cost"
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_0bba9676-7bad-502a-998a-0f582f4f923e.html
On February 6 El Chapo wrote about the relocating of Olive to the Washington campus,
", hey why don't they bus students from shadowridge (sic) area so they don't have to close olive (sic) and have the smart parents help the school"
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_a7f3e661-35db-5bfc-a0ff-3cbaea624297.html?mode=comments
The theme that teachers rights like duty hours, salary schedules, seniority, and permanent status are racist in nature is the latest billionaire bully funded attack on American education and the teachers who provide it. They have paid for hired gun word thugs to created anti public education 'think tanks' and to build many websites to promote this view. The latest I have run across is called Democrats for Education Reform. See its slick website here: http://www.dfer.org/ This organization has branches in states all across the country Ohio, New Jersey, New York and of course California.
It is secretly funded by billionaire bullies who are able to hide the fact that they fund it and also to get IRS tax deductions while doing so.
The main theme of these hired gun word thugs is that teachers having rights amounts to racism and that destroying teachers' rights is the next great civil rights movement.
Racism resentment is the same theme of the small cadre of misinformed activists that are posting their comments after North County Times articles mentioning VUSD and who have taken over our the Districts English Language Advisory Committee, DELAC, activists like Alejandro Sancehez, Eduardo Preciado, Silvia Peters. Sadly they took the leadership of DELAC from the capable hands of Gabriela Hooshman a year ago last January.
They have used the racism charge in organizing against the relocation of Olive Elementary School. Apparently former extremist Trustee Stephen Guffanti and his wife Maureen helped to organize the parent protests and the misplaced resentment at Olive.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/letters/article_e9235ab6-7a56-552f-9302-580cab826a61.html
Luckily ANTI immigration fervor also motivates the Guffantis resulting in Maureen writing a letter to the editor expressing her praise for the arrest and deportation of a mother, a grandmother and a child in less than a school day while two other children were still in school. The other two children arrived to an empty house with three of their family members gone.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/letters/article_daca7dc3-af26-58f3-a3f0-a898ad6ac457.html
When I pointed out this last letter to the editor to Makeeda/Roxy, she reacted in rage as usual but since that time I have not noticed any of our local misinformed angry Hispanic parents supporting the Guffanti only Gibson.
Our Hispanic angry friends are correct in one thing, their children are being discriminated against and held back from achieving all that they could. Sadly the billionaire bullies have focused them on the wrong target--the hard working teachers in the public schools and not on the right target--the underfunding of public education, public health programs, food programs for the poor, medical and dental help for the poor. Imagine how much better low income students of ALL RACES could do if they did not have the stress of not knowing where they were going to live, if they were going to have food at night, if their sore teeth and sick stomachs were going to get appropriate medical treatment and if their parents could stop working three jobs a piece and be home to parent them. A society where all children have the right to food, shelter, and medical and dental access would go a long way towards improving test scores.
Study after study have shown that test scores follow the money. Test scores have nothing to do with drill and kill programs and they have nothing to do with teacher having job protections. The highest scoring students in the country are in states with teacher protections and rights (Massachusetts) and the very lowest scores are in states in the south with no teacher protections at all.
We should always remember that these hard fought for rights were granted to teaches to stop the outrageous abuses of the early to mid twentieth century when male teachers were paid more than female teachers, teachers were fired for reasons of political consideration, teaching spots were given to political supporters, and teachers were dismissed for arbitrary and even for no reason at all (just as probationary teachers still are). Calling them racist is an outrage and slander against the teaching profession and is historically inaccurate.
Best Education Web site in the country--billionaire bullies, Arne Duncan, and the agenda to destroy public education
I found a terrific site on the web put together by Seattle teachers in response to the attacks on them, their profession and the FACT based public schools in Seattle launched by billionaire bully Bill Gates, Eli Broad, et al.
http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/
A well written and researched article about the attempts of non educators (billionaire bullies) to impose their version of education on America's crown jewel, its FACT based public education system and Arne Duncan's (Barak Obama's appointed education secretary)complicity in the same can be read here:
http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/the-f-word-of-ed-reform-and-its-unholy-alliance-with-right-wing-union-busting/
Here is a bit of the article:
Union-busting has traditionally been considered the blood sport of right-wing corporatists. But Democrats, including the current president, have joined the fray.
There is no greater example of bipartisan union-busting and attacks on middle and working class citizens right now than what’s being done in the name of “education reform.”
President Barack Obama - Why should teachers vote for him in 2012?
All the celebrity names of corporate ed reform are collaborating in this pile-on: Arne Duncan, Michael Bloomberg, Michelle Rhee, Jeb Bush, Bill Gates and his foundation’s “ed reform” grantees. The Eli Broad-trained school superintendents are indoctrinated with this cut-throat corporation uber alles mindset. New Mayor Rahm Emanuel is squawking the same anti-labor dogma in Chicago (Emanuel backs crackdown on teachers, Chicago Sun-Times). And one of the key targets is teachers.
And yet, faithful Democrat activists blindly seem to think their own party has nothing to do with these efforts. I recently received this email from Bob Fertik, at Democrats.com:
Dear S.,
Are you outraged by the Republican class war against unions, teachers, and the entire middle class?
Yes, Bob, but I’m even more outraged by the Democrats’ complicity in it, including President Obama.
Though this may seem a Republican agenda, Democrats have done their bit to support these assaults on workers and middle class rights. For example, before new Republican Governor Snyder in Michigan recently signed into law a bill that gives the state treasurer the right to hand over unprecedented control of cities and school districts to “emergency financial managers,” the previous Democratic Governor, Jennifer Granholm, appointed a corporate Broad Foundation slash-and-privatizer Bob Bobb to financially manage and pillage Detroit’s Public Schools.
http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/the-f-word-of-ed-reform-and-its-unholy-alliance-with-right-wing-union-busting/
http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/
A well written and researched article about the attempts of non educators (billionaire bullies) to impose their version of education on America's crown jewel, its FACT based public education system and Arne Duncan's (Barak Obama's appointed education secretary)complicity in the same can be read here:
http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/the-f-word-of-ed-reform-and-its-unholy-alliance-with-right-wing-union-busting/
Here is a bit of the article:
Union-busting has traditionally been considered the blood sport of right-wing corporatists. But Democrats, including the current president, have joined the fray.
There is no greater example of bipartisan union-busting and attacks on middle and working class citizens right now than what’s being done in the name of “education reform.”
President Barack Obama - Why should teachers vote for him in 2012?
All the celebrity names of corporate ed reform are collaborating in this pile-on: Arne Duncan, Michael Bloomberg, Michelle Rhee, Jeb Bush, Bill Gates and his foundation’s “ed reform” grantees. The Eli Broad-trained school superintendents are indoctrinated with this cut-throat corporation uber alles mindset. New Mayor Rahm Emanuel is squawking the same anti-labor dogma in Chicago (Emanuel backs crackdown on teachers, Chicago Sun-Times). And one of the key targets is teachers.
And yet, faithful Democrat activists blindly seem to think their own party has nothing to do with these efforts. I recently received this email from Bob Fertik, at Democrats.com:
Dear S.,
Are you outraged by the Republican class war against unions, teachers, and the entire middle class?
Yes, Bob, but I’m even more outraged by the Democrats’ complicity in it, including President Obama.
Though this may seem a Republican agenda, Democrats have done their bit to support these assaults on workers and middle class rights. For example, before new Republican Governor Snyder in Michigan recently signed into law a bill that gives the state treasurer the right to hand over unprecedented control of cities and school districts to “emergency financial managers,” the previous Democratic Governor, Jennifer Granholm, appointed a corporate Broad Foundation slash-and-privatizer Bob Bobb to financially manage and pillage Detroit’s Public Schools.
http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/the-f-word-of-ed-reform-and-its-unholy-alliance-with-right-wing-union-busting/
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Seniority Rights why teachers and students benefit
Public schools, public school teachers, their benefits, meager salaries and pitiful pensions are under attack in America today by billionaire bullies and the hired gun word thugs they employ on AM radio and FOXnotNews. These attacks are having success. The easily swayed and the poorly informed are beginning to believe the massive disinformation campaign of attack. Here is an example of one such CONfused person calling himself, "Person X" who posted on the North County Times website today:
Person X said on: May 4, 2011, 5:33 pm
It is too bad some kind of IQ test in concert with past performance criteria cannot be used to retain the best teachers during budget cuts, instead of the seniority system pruning, willy nilly, both good and bad teachers from the roster during budget cuts. It is not fair to the kids, the way it is now.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_c63a33ed-14ee-57e5-8e54-2247ba7528d4.html?mode=comments
Seniority rights do not keep poor older teachers at the expense of wonderful younger teachers contrary to the propaganda of the vast "right wing"* mind control machine's overwhelming media message saturation.
Seniority protects wonderful older teachers from being dismissed for partisan political reasons, corruption related reasons, and financial reasons because their increased cost of salary and particularly medical insurance.
In the recent past, good teachers were dismissed for these and many other terribly unfair reasons UNRELATED TO THEIR SKILLS AS TEACHERS.
As a young man my father-in-law taught music in the same Missouri high school with 20 year veteran female English teacher who was beloved by all--students, parents, fellow staff members. She was summarily fired by her principal because his nephew had just graduated from teaching college and needed a job. He gave her job to his nephew--a totally inexperienced brand new baby teacher. The principal made his relatives happy, but did no service for the students in his high school.
In the time before salary schedules and seniority, female teachers of the forties and fifties were almost always paid less than male teachers because 'a man has to support a family.' When lay offs were required due to budget problems again female teachers were laid off first for the same reason.
Teaching jobs were also used by politicians as gifts to their political supporters. Don't believe that happens? Think of horse breeder, "Heck of a job, Brownie" being made FEMA director under our previous president.
Salary schedules, seniority (first hired, first fired) were systems put into place to stop these outrageous abuses. They are a good thing for students and for public education.
The propaganda that teachers are difficult to fire is just that propaganda. It is nearly entirely false. Other than a very few examples, two or three teachers in LAUSD and a few more than that in New York City, the vast majority of good principals and good school districts have no problem getting rid of poor teachers.
In fact they seldom need to as teaching is one of the most challenging and difficult jobs in our society, the burn out and quit teaching rate approaches 50% of all teachers in their first five years. Teachers leave to get more pay, fewer hours, and more respect that nearly any other profession provides.
The respect part is very new. It has to do with this same massive, dishonest, vicious smear campaign being directed at school teachers in our country organized and paid for by billionaire bullies. There goal to destroy every base of power of the workers of this country so the political parties only give them more rights, more tax breaks and less safety and work regulations that protect ordinary Americans.
Don't be fooled by the propaganda! Fight for teachers rights!
---------------------------------------
*The terms right wing and conservative have been co-opted and re-defined by the elite corporatists, aka the billionaire bullies, using the sophisticated propaganda machine of FOXnotNews and the AM radio con man especially hired gun distorted, Rush Limbaugh. I used the term here to gently mock Hillary Clinton mis-labeling of this ANTI American ANTI middle class group of the selfish extremists who happen to be billionaires. Terms like "Right wing" or "conservative" in today's America have little to do with Barry Goldwater or other traditional patriotic conservatives.
Seniority rights do not keep poor older teachers at the expense of wonderful younger teachers contrary to the propaganda of the vast "right wing"* mind control machine's overwhelming media message.
Seniority protects wonderful older teachers from being dismissed for partisan political reasons, corruption related reasons and for their increased cost of salary and particularly medical insurance. In the recent past good teachers were dismissed for terribly unfair reasons. As a young man my father in law taught with 20 year veteran female English teacher who was beloved by all students parents fellow staff members. She was summarily fired by her principal because his son had just graduated from teaching college and needed a job. He gave her job to his nephew.
In the time before salary schedules and seniority, female teachers of the forties and fifties were almost always paid less than male teachers because 'a man has to support a family.' When lay offs were required due to budget problems again female teachers were laid off first for the same reason.
Teaching jobs were used by politicians as gifts to their political supporters aka horse breeder, "Heck of a job, Brownie" being made FEMA director under our previous president.
Salary schedules, seniority (first hired, first fired) were systems put into place to stop these outrageous abuses. They are a good thing for students and for public education.
The propaganda that teachers are difficult to fire is just that propaganda. It is nearly entirely false. Other than a very few examples two or three in LAUSD and a few more than that in New York City, the vast majority of good principals and good school districts have no problem getting rid of poor teachers.
In fact there is seldom a need to fire teachers as they usually quit long before a principal even notices a problem. Teaching is one of the most challenging and difficult jobs in our society, the burn out and quit teaching rate approaches 50% of all teachers in their first five years. Teachers leave to get more pay, fewer hours, and more respect that nearly any other profession provides in far greater abundance. (Sanitation workers are treated and paid better than most teachers.) The quiting over lack of respect part is very new. It has to do with the vicious smear campaign being directed at school teachers in our country.
*The terms right wing and conservative have been co-opted and re-defined by the elite corporationalists, aka the billionaire bullies, using the sophisticated propaganda machine of FOXnotNews and the AM radio con man especially hired gun distorted, Rush Limbaugh. I used the term here to gently mock Hillary Clinton mis-labeling of this ANTI American ANTI middle class group of the selfish extremists who happen to be billionaires. Terms like "Right wing" or "conservative" in today's America have little to do with Barry Goldwater or other traditional patriotic conservatives.
Seniority rights do not keep poor older teachers at the expense of wonderful younger teachers contrary to the propaganda of the vast "right wing"* mind control machine's overwhelming media message.
Seniority protects wonderful older teachers from being dismissed for partisan political reasons, corruption related reasons and for their increased cost of salary and particularly medical insurance. In the recent past good teachers were dismissed for terribly unfair reasons. As a young man my father in law taught with 20 year veteran female English teacher who was beloved by all students parents fellow staff members. She was summarily fired by her principal because his son had just graduated from teaching college and needed a job. He gave her job to his nephew.
In the time before salary schedules and seniority, female teachers of the forties and fifties were almost always paid less than male teachers because 'a man has to support a family.' When lay offs were required due to budget problems again female teachers were laid off first for the same reason.
Teaching jobs were used by politicians as gifts to their political supporters aka horse breeder, "Heck of a job, Brownie" being made FEMA director under our previous president.
Salary schedules, seniority (first hired, first fired) were systems put into place to stop these outrageous abuses. They are a good thing for students and for public education.
The propaganda that teachers are difficult to fire is just that propaganda. It is nearly entirely false. Other than a very few examples two or three specific individuals in LAUSD and a few more than that in New York City, the vast majority of good principals and good school districts have no problem getting rid of poor teachers.
In fact there is seldom a need to fire teachers as they usually quit long before a principal even notices a problem. Teaching is one of the most challenging and difficult jobs in our society. Teacher burn out and quitting the profession rate approaches 50% of all teachers in their first five years.
Teachers leave to get more pay, fewer hours, and more respect that nearly any other profession provides in far greater abundance. (Sanitation workers are treated and paid better than most teachers.) The quitting over lack of respect part is very new. It has to do with the vicious smear campaign being directed at school teachers in our country.
*The terms right wing and conservative have been co-opted and re-defined by the elite corporatists, aka the billionaire bullies, using the sophisticated propaganda machine of FOXnotNews and the AM radio con man especially hired gun distortionist, Rush Limbaugh. I used the phrase, 'vast right wing conspiracy' here to gently mock Hillary Clinton's mis-labeling of this very real ANTI American, ANTI middle class group who in reality are financed by a few selfish extremists who happen to be billionaires (Koch brothers, Rupert Murdoch, etc.) The use of terms like "Right wing" or "conservative" in today's America have little to do with Barry Goldwater or other traditional patriotic conservatives of a previous generation.
Person X said on: May 4, 2011, 5:33 pm
It is too bad some kind of IQ test in concert with past performance criteria cannot be used to retain the best teachers during budget cuts, instead of the seniority system pruning, willy nilly, both good and bad teachers from the roster during budget cuts. It is not fair to the kids, the way it is now.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_c63a33ed-14ee-57e5-8e54-2247ba7528d4.html?mode=comments
Seniority rights do not keep poor older teachers at the expense of wonderful younger teachers contrary to the propaganda of the vast "right wing"* mind control machine's overwhelming media message saturation.
Seniority protects wonderful older teachers from being dismissed for partisan political reasons, corruption related reasons, and financial reasons because their increased cost of salary and particularly medical insurance.
In the recent past, good teachers were dismissed for these and many other terribly unfair reasons UNRELATED TO THEIR SKILLS AS TEACHERS.
As a young man my father-in-law taught music in the same Missouri high school with 20 year veteran female English teacher who was beloved by all--students, parents, fellow staff members. She was summarily fired by her principal because his nephew had just graduated from teaching college and needed a job. He gave her job to his nephew--a totally inexperienced brand new baby teacher. The principal made his relatives happy, but did no service for the students in his high school.
In the time before salary schedules and seniority, female teachers of the forties and fifties were almost always paid less than male teachers because 'a man has to support a family.' When lay offs were required due to budget problems again female teachers were laid off first for the same reason.
Teaching jobs were also used by politicians as gifts to their political supporters. Don't believe that happens? Think of horse breeder, "Heck of a job, Brownie" being made FEMA director under our previous president.
Salary schedules, seniority (first hired, first fired) were systems put into place to stop these outrageous abuses. They are a good thing for students and for public education.
The propaganda that teachers are difficult to fire is just that propaganda. It is nearly entirely false. Other than a very few examples, two or three teachers in LAUSD and a few more than that in New York City, the vast majority of good principals and good school districts have no problem getting rid of poor teachers.
In fact they seldom need to as teaching is one of the most challenging and difficult jobs in our society, the burn out and quit teaching rate approaches 50% of all teachers in their first five years. Teachers leave to get more pay, fewer hours, and more respect that nearly any other profession provides.
The respect part is very new. It has to do with this same massive, dishonest, vicious smear campaign being directed at school teachers in our country organized and paid for by billionaire bullies. There goal to destroy every base of power of the workers of this country so the political parties only give them more rights, more tax breaks and less safety and work regulations that protect ordinary Americans.
Don't be fooled by the propaganda! Fight for teachers rights!
---------------------------------------
*The terms right wing and conservative have been co-opted and re-defined by the elite corporatists, aka the billionaire bullies, using the sophisticated propaganda machine of FOXnotNews and the AM radio con man especially hired gun distorted, Rush Limbaugh. I used the term here to gently mock Hillary Clinton mis-labeling of this ANTI American ANTI middle class group of the selfish extremists who happen to be billionaires. Terms like "Right wing" or "conservative" in today's America have little to do with Barry Goldwater or other traditional patriotic conservatives.
Seniority rights do not keep poor older teachers at the expense of wonderful younger teachers contrary to the propaganda of the vast "right wing"* mind control machine's overwhelming media message.
Seniority protects wonderful older teachers from being dismissed for partisan political reasons, corruption related reasons and for their increased cost of salary and particularly medical insurance. In the recent past good teachers were dismissed for terribly unfair reasons. As a young man my father in law taught with 20 year veteran female English teacher who was beloved by all students parents fellow staff members. She was summarily fired by her principal because his son had just graduated from teaching college and needed a job. He gave her job to his nephew.
In the time before salary schedules and seniority, female teachers of the forties and fifties were almost always paid less than male teachers because 'a man has to support a family.' When lay offs were required due to budget problems again female teachers were laid off first for the same reason.
Teaching jobs were used by politicians as gifts to their political supporters aka horse breeder, "Heck of a job, Brownie" being made FEMA director under our previous president.
Salary schedules, seniority (first hired, first fired) were systems put into place to stop these outrageous abuses. They are a good thing for students and for public education.
The propaganda that teachers are difficult to fire is just that propaganda. It is nearly entirely false. Other than a very few examples two or three in LAUSD and a few more than that in New York City, the vast majority of good principals and good school districts have no problem getting rid of poor teachers.
In fact there is seldom a need to fire teachers as they usually quit long before a principal even notices a problem. Teaching is one of the most challenging and difficult jobs in our society, the burn out and quit teaching rate approaches 50% of all teachers in their first five years. Teachers leave to get more pay, fewer hours, and more respect that nearly any other profession provides in far greater abundance. (Sanitation workers are treated and paid better than most teachers.) The quiting over lack of respect part is very new. It has to do with the vicious smear campaign being directed at school teachers in our country.
*The terms right wing and conservative have been co-opted and re-defined by the elite corporationalists, aka the billionaire bullies, using the sophisticated propaganda machine of FOXnotNews and the AM radio con man especially hired gun distorted, Rush Limbaugh. I used the term here to gently mock Hillary Clinton mis-labeling of this ANTI American ANTI middle class group of the selfish extremists who happen to be billionaires. Terms like "Right wing" or "conservative" in today's America have little to do with Barry Goldwater or other traditional patriotic conservatives.
Seniority rights do not keep poor older teachers at the expense of wonderful younger teachers contrary to the propaganda of the vast "right wing"* mind control machine's overwhelming media message.
Seniority protects wonderful older teachers from being dismissed for partisan political reasons, corruption related reasons and for their increased cost of salary and particularly medical insurance. In the recent past good teachers were dismissed for terribly unfair reasons. As a young man my father in law taught with 20 year veteran female English teacher who was beloved by all students parents fellow staff members. She was summarily fired by her principal because his son had just graduated from teaching college and needed a job. He gave her job to his nephew.
In the time before salary schedules and seniority, female teachers of the forties and fifties were almost always paid less than male teachers because 'a man has to support a family.' When lay offs were required due to budget problems again female teachers were laid off first for the same reason.
Teaching jobs were used by politicians as gifts to their political supporters aka horse breeder, "Heck of a job, Brownie" being made FEMA director under our previous president.
Salary schedules, seniority (first hired, first fired) were systems put into place to stop these outrageous abuses. They are a good thing for students and for public education.
The propaganda that teachers are difficult to fire is just that propaganda. It is nearly entirely false. Other than a very few examples two or three specific individuals in LAUSD and a few more than that in New York City, the vast majority of good principals and good school districts have no problem getting rid of poor teachers.
In fact there is seldom a need to fire teachers as they usually quit long before a principal even notices a problem. Teaching is one of the most challenging and difficult jobs in our society. Teacher burn out and quitting the profession rate approaches 50% of all teachers in their first five years.
Teachers leave to get more pay, fewer hours, and more respect that nearly any other profession provides in far greater abundance. (Sanitation workers are treated and paid better than most teachers.) The quitting over lack of respect part is very new. It has to do with the vicious smear campaign being directed at school teachers in our country.
*The terms right wing and conservative have been co-opted and re-defined by the elite corporatists, aka the billionaire bullies, using the sophisticated propaganda machine of FOXnotNews and the AM radio con man especially hired gun distortionist, Rush Limbaugh. I used the phrase, 'vast right wing conspiracy' here to gently mock Hillary Clinton's mis-labeling of this very real ANTI American, ANTI middle class group who in reality are financed by a few selfish extremists who happen to be billionaires (Koch brothers, Rupert Murdoch, etc.) The use of terms like "Right wing" or "conservative" in today's America have little to do with Barry Goldwater or other traditional patriotic conservatives of a previous generation.
Billionaire Bullies, Sacramento Republican fear of King Norquist caused the lay offs in VUSD
Today another of our poorly informed friends calling himself Carter posted an ANTI union comment after an article about lay offs in Vista Unified School District.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_c63a33ed-14ee-57e5-8e54-2247ba7528d4.html?mode=story
Carter's anti union comment is just a repeat of the lies and disinformation about unions and state and federal budget difficulties that currently permeates our society. The hired gun CON men on AM radio and FOX News are annually paid millions of dollars to disseminate these kind of false narratives linking unions benefits and pensions to budget deficits.
Now that there is no Fairness Doctrine OUR public airwaves are swamped by the lies of the greedy billionaire bullies crowd. These bullies never are satisfied. Theirs fortunes never big enough. The salaries of their employees (who actually create the wealth) are never small enough for these bullies. The bullies have bought and paid for radio station networks that only allow "opinion makers" on air who push the billionaire bullys' anti middle class, anti worker pay and benefit lies. One of them owns the FOXnotNews network and a string of newspapers including the Wall Street Journal (Rupert Murdoch).
With the massive propaganda advantage their money buys the billionaire bullies, it is no wonder that their message of distortion has had such a big effect on those weak of mind and easily duped like poor Carter who posted the following after the article today:
Carter said on: May 4, 2011, 5:28 am
It causes pause to wonder if the teachers brought it all on themselves with their individual sopping up from the union troughs, unsightly and unreasonable benefits - along with all the other unions. Those being laid off do not have to be doing the sopping at the troughs.
In these bad times if we ain't got the money, we just ain't got the money - that is after due, and fair consideration. You cannot get blood out of a turnip.
Union leaders and bargaining officials must be mandated to hold union benefits with the bounds of reasonability. When benefits move to the extreme low or high something has to give.
I am a retired, up to date, associate member of a union.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_c63a33ed-14ee-57e5-8e54-2247ba7528d4.html?mode=comments
How charitable of Carter the CONfused, he got his and now wants to deny young people a fair shake in life.
Local school districts budget problems have nothing to do with unions--nothing. This problem is almost entirely the fault of Sacramento Republicans who took an oath of loyalty to an UNELECTED Washington DC lobbyist, Grover Norquist.
Norquist demanded that the voters of California NOT be given a chance to decide for themselves if they wanted massive DOOMSDAY BUDGET cuts or extending existing taxes for five more years. Norquist demanded no vote, because he, an out of state usurper of our California democracy, wanted DOOMSDAY BUDGET cuts imposed on the citizens of our state.
Every single Sacramento Republican chose their oath of loyalty to 'King' Norquist over the good of the state and our students. Not one Sacramento Republican agreed to let the voters decide.
The Sacramento Republicans had this ability because of the recently passed Prop 26 that required a two thirds majority of both houses before, we the people can be given the right to vote on tax extensions. Sacramento Republicans were afraid to give us our RIGHT to vote and the chance to save our schools because we might have voted to save our schools.
The current breed of Sacramento Republican has no independent thought. They move in a herd terrified of 'King' Grover Norquist and the massive amount of billionaire bully money he controls. 'King' Norquist decrees, Sacramento Republicans say yes sir!
If we had had a chance to vote, we might have decided to temporarily extend our taxes instead of imposing the DOOMSDAY BUDGET on our neighbors who are poor, ill, elderly or school children. Sacramento Republicans under orders from their 'king' made sure the DOOMSDAY BUDGET would be imposed on all Californians.
It would have taken only FOUR Sacramento Republicans to give we the people the right to vote.
Here are the names and phone numbers of the four North County Sacramento Republicans who betrayed you and every other North County taxpayer, voter, parent and child:
OUR LOCAL SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS:
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
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_c63a33ed-14ee-57e5-8e54-2247ba7528d4.html?mode=story
Carter's anti union comment is just a repeat of the lies and disinformation about unions and state and federal budget difficulties that currently permeates our society. The hired gun CON men on AM radio and FOX News are annually paid millions of dollars to disseminate these kind of false narratives linking unions benefits and pensions to budget deficits.
Now that there is no Fairness Doctrine OUR public airwaves are swamped by the lies of the greedy billionaire bullies crowd. These bullies never are satisfied. Theirs fortunes never big enough. The salaries of their employees (who actually create the wealth) are never small enough for these bullies. The bullies have bought and paid for radio station networks that only allow "opinion makers" on air who push the billionaire bullys' anti middle class, anti worker pay and benefit lies. One of them owns the FOXnotNews network and a string of newspapers including the Wall Street Journal (Rupert Murdoch).
With the massive propaganda advantage their money buys the billionaire bullies, it is no wonder that their message of distortion has had such a big effect on those weak of mind and easily duped like poor Carter who posted the following after the article today:
Carter said on: May 4, 2011, 5:28 am
It causes pause to wonder if the teachers brought it all on themselves with their individual sopping up from the union troughs, unsightly and unreasonable benefits - along with all the other unions. Those being laid off do not have to be doing the sopping at the troughs.
In these bad times if we ain't got the money, we just ain't got the money - that is after due, and fair consideration. You cannot get blood out of a turnip.
Union leaders and bargaining officials must be mandated to hold union benefits with the bounds of reasonability. When benefits move to the extreme low or high something has to give.
I am a retired, up to date, associate member of a union.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_c63a33ed-14ee-57e5-8e54-2247ba7528d4.html?mode=comments
How charitable of Carter the CONfused, he got his and now wants to deny young people a fair shake in life.
Local school districts budget problems have nothing to do with unions--nothing. This problem is almost entirely the fault of Sacramento Republicans who took an oath of loyalty to an UNELECTED Washington DC lobbyist, Grover Norquist.
Norquist demanded that the voters of California NOT be given a chance to decide for themselves if they wanted massive DOOMSDAY BUDGET cuts or extending existing taxes for five more years. Norquist demanded no vote, because he, an out of state usurper of our California democracy, wanted DOOMSDAY BUDGET cuts imposed on the citizens of our state.
Every single Sacramento Republican chose their oath of loyalty to 'King' Norquist over the good of the state and our students. Not one Sacramento Republican agreed to let the voters decide.
The Sacramento Republicans had this ability because of the recently passed Prop 26 that required a two thirds majority of both houses before, we the people can be given the right to vote on tax extensions. Sacramento Republicans were afraid to give us our RIGHT to vote and the chance to save our schools because we might have voted to save our schools.
The current breed of Sacramento Republican has no independent thought. They move in a herd terrified of 'King' Grover Norquist and the massive amount of billionaire bully money he controls. 'King' Norquist decrees, Sacramento Republicans say yes sir!
If we had had a chance to vote, we might have decided to temporarily extend our taxes instead of imposing the DOOMSDAY BUDGET on our neighbors who are poor, ill, elderly or school children. Sacramento Republicans under orders from their 'king' made sure the DOOMSDAY BUDGET would be imposed on all Californians.
It would have taken only FOUR Sacramento Republicans to give we the people the right to vote.
Here are the names and phone numbers of the four North County Sacramento Republicans who betrayed you and every other North County taxpayer, voter, parent and child:
OUR LOCAL SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS:
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
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