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WHO WON THE CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR'S DEBATE 2014? JERRY BROWN OR NEEL KASHKARI? Posted: 05 Sep 2014 03:44 AM PDT On a Thursday, on an insignificant channel that skews to the progressive socialist democrats, and facing a major football game, incumbent Governor Jerry Brown faced his challenger Neel Kashkari in a spirited debate. On balance, Governor Brown took credit for turning the State around and claimed that long-term solutions were required. He defended his “crazy train” project – in reality a boon to the unions and special interests – against Kashkari’s suggestion that the money would be better spent on improving the State’s water storage infrastructure and educational opportunities. I could not help but thinking that Governor Brown sounded like a smarter version of Joseph Biden. All meaningless rhetoric grounded in progressive socialist democrat policies. Bigger government, more regulations, more central planning, more Obamacare, and more global warming nonsense. Both Brown and Biden seem to have the same snarky progressive socialist democrat responses to anyone who challenges them. Kashkari’s credentials – especially those that saw both democrats and republicans in Washington working together to save the economy from a depression or total collapse speaks volumes to his qualifications to step beyond politics and restore California’s middle class. Bottom line … By all measures, objective and subjective, Neel Kashkari won the debate. But then again, Governor Brown’s lead in the polls and his overwhelming support from the special interests and unions who will be seeking a high rate of return on their political investment makes it an almost certainty that the aging Brown will be returned to office where he will continue to wreak progressive socialist democrat policies on all Californians. Neel Kashkari is the son of an immigrant who made it by virtue of his education and hard work, unlike Brown who was born with a golden spoon and political connections from his father, former Governor Edmund “Pat” Brown – the man who built much of the California infrastructure that his son let decay. I wish it wasn’t so and that Neel Kashkari would be elected governor – as much as I wish that all of the progressive socialist democrats in the California legislature, especially those with allegiance to illegal aliens – would be thrown out of office. Governor Brown claimed to have read Kashkari’s plan for California, but couldn’t answer a single question about that plan. Read the plan for yourself and determine if you want the same old progressive socialist democrat claptrap or a man who will stand up for all Californians. A man who would put California’s children first. A man dedicated to returning jobs to California and preventing the continuing outflow of individuals and corporations. A man who would invest in a long-term water solution for California over a crazy-train to nowhere. A man who would reduce the size and scope of government. A reformer – not an Obamacon transformer. I plan to vote for Neel Kashkari. -- steve Reference Links … | |||
Tom Torlakson: Whore for the California Teachers' Unions? Posted: 03 Sep 2014 11:21 PM PDT Quick, name another profession that guarantees a life-long job, great salary, and outstanding retirement benefits including cost of living adjustments and paid healthcare AFTER JUST EIGHTEEN MONTHS ON THE JOB? You would think that the State Superintendent of Public Instruction would fight for a decent education for all Californians … but apparently not the Berkeley-educated progressive socialist democrat Tom Torlakson. Torlakson would rather spend his time and energy fighting for the unions who contribute to his campaign, provide voter support, and tell him how to avoid doing his sworn duties. Tom Torlakson – the man standing with the fat-cat union leaders to screw children out of an education Vergara v. State of California …
Leave it to the Teachers’ unions to scream loudly “it’s about the children” and then disadvantage every student with contract terms featuring rules and regulations that benefited the adults and their unions. Unions that will resist anything or anyone that attempts to bring accountability to schools and teachers who are failing to educate our children in spite of ever-increasing funding of education – including the proceeds from the California lottery. The Court found that the existing rules and regulations were unconstitutional and worked against children …
Essentially, the Judge found that some of the rules and regulations that govern teachers in the State of California unfairly deprive students of their constitutional rights – in this case the right to an equality of education by qualified and competent teachers. Enter the Torlakson, the union stooge … It appears that Tom Torlakson will actually proceed – along with all of his progressive socialist democrat friends like Governor Jerry Brown -- to urge California State Attorney General Kamala Harris, a progressive socialist democrat, to screw California’s children by challenging this repudiation of insane educational policies that do not benefit the children. In Torlakson’s own twisted words [my comments in blue italic]
We need to remove unions from the educational process …
What happened to Mark Berndt -- who will be able to spend his newfound wealth in the prison canteen …
If we wanted an entirely fair system that would provide exceptional results for the students … It would be a simple matter to use a computer algorithm to match qualified teachers to school positions. Each teacher would list their certified qualifications and testing scores along with the preference for a school. The computer would assign a teacher provisionally to a school if space were available. If no space were available, the program would drop the lowest ranked provisional teacher and replace them with one of higher rank. If a teacher did not make the cut, they would be listed, again in order of “goodness” and “availability” to be substitutes or tutors. And, in the final analysis, a teacher without a position would have to move or change careers – just like in the real world known as the private sector. This proven methodology is similar to that used by medical schools to match recent medical school graduates to hospital residency programs. Bottom line … Truth-be-told, California’s public employee unions have corrupted state politics and politicians to the point that the public is disadvantaged by their criminal (fraud, extortion, bribery, thuggery, etc.) behavior. These unions have shoved the public away from the bargaining table and corrupted those who sit on the other side of the table, ostensibly to protect the children, the public and the process. There can be absolutely no excuse for Torlakson to challenge the existing ruling. His time should be spent crafting a new system, one that prohibits union contracts from disadvantaging children, the schools, and the public. And, if he were an honest man, perhaps he should bring transparency and accountability to the system by pointing out the union’s failings to protect children. If you are a disadvantage minority and have seen your preferred progressive socialist democrat party sell you out time and time again, perhaps it is time for a change. And coincidently, we have the opportunity to throw this union-loving progressive socialist democrat under the bus in November. Simply by voting him out of office. -- steve |