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November 2010
How’s the CTA’s Hope-y, Change-y Thing Working Out for CUSD?
Posted
by CotoBlogzz 10-12-2010
Rancho
Santa Margarita, CA - At the February 6th Tea Party
Convention in Washington DC,
when speaking about President Obama’s
campaign words of hope and change, Governor Sarah
Palin asked
rhetorically: “How’s
that hope-y, change-y thing working out for you?” succinctly
illustrating
how Washington DC promised to drain the swamp;
that wealth re-distribution,
if done quickly would not raise unemployment
rate to more than 8%; that passing ObamaCare would
allow taxpayers to keep its insurance carrier,
would not result in an increase in premiums,
that abortions would not be funded by tax payer money;
that Financial
Reform needed to be done quickly, but not touching
Parasitic Bureaucracies such as Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac – largely responsible for the toxic mortgage
spill.
Harry
Reid’s son, Rory Reid now admits that ObamaCare was politically
motivated.
This weekend, the
Parasitic Department
of Health and Human Services, announced it granted
ObamaWaivers
in late September to some 30 organizations. The
biggest single waiver, for 351,000 people, was for the United
Federation of Teachers Welfare
Fund, a New York union providing coverage for city
teachers. The waivers are effective for a year and
were granted to insurance plans and companies that And
while this is going on, US
Senate Staff
is holding a Health Fair
and Congressional Staffers get to benefit from Insider
Trading.
According to a TIME piece
published yesterday titled Why
Obama Is Losing the Political War
– “ With the exception of core Obama
Administration loyalists, most politically engaged
elites have reached the same conclusions: the White
House is in over its head, isolated, insular, arrogant
and clueless about how to get along with or persuade
members of Congress, the media, the business community
or working-class voters.”
The question for Mark Halperin, the Time’s
writer is, why is it that Sarah Palin
and the Tea Party movement, who have been saying just
as much, have been ridiculed by politicians, including
the President of the United States.
With this antecedent, we now return to the California Teachers Association (CTA): Earlier this year we predicted that the CTA’s muscle-flexing was just a preview of what we would see in the 2010 mid-term election. The CTA did not disappoint – just look at the money the union is spending on the 2010 California Propositions: While heuristics indicate that a NO vote in any California's direct special interest democracy is a wise move, following the money is even better:
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Take
for instance the Capistrano
Unified Education Association’s campaign finance
disclosure for its political action committee, which it calls the
HOPE
PAC as well as by some
other names. If this is too obscure for you, consider that the CTA, the
most powerful union in California and arguably the
nation and the SIEU own the Sacramento
Legislature - and any incumbent who
claims not to have anything to do with the union, is
simply a demagogue. Not only do lobbyists outnumber
lawmakers in Sacramento 8-1, but the California
Teachers Association and the SEIU are the top
legislator-influencing spenders at the tune of
- ·
California Teachers Association—$211,849,298
- ·
California State Council of Service
Employees—$107,467,272
According
to a
report titled Big
Money Talks published
by the Political
Practices Commission (FPPC), detailing
how special interest groups spend funds on
candidates, ballot measures and lobbying efforts
Why
we continue to warn about California’s
Triple Treat:
1) Unions,
2) Parasitic Bureaucracies and 3) Lobbyists
Now
that TIME has answered Governor Palin’s question
about Hope-y, Chang-y and
concluded at
least one year later than the Tea Baggers, that the
politically elites do not like it, what about the
CTA’s Hope-y, Change-y thing, particularly as
it pertains to the Capistrano
Unified School District?
Do we need to bring in the politically engaged
elites, as described by TIME, or will common sense
suffice?
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Posted
By CotoBlogzz 05-15-2010 08:30 PM
Rancho
Santa Margarita, CA - In
the first piece of a series, I made the argument
that there is a need for a radical transformation in
public education, as opposed to the continuous union
bickering, such as the one going on in CUSD. While
the next pieces are not ready for publication, the
conclusion should include the imperative that the
California Teacher’s (CTA) Union must be
neutralized, if the state is to avoid a Greece-like
environment on short order
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