Jan. 16,2013 By Chris Reed It turns out that school districts in the state of California can swiftly fire teachers who engage in lewd behavior -- but only if it's a paid part-time job, not incidents in school involving students. The Smoking Gun website has the details: "The California teacher wh...
Posts Tagged ‘California Federation of Teachers’Teacher puzzler: Part-time porn star fired, semen-feeder paid offWednesday, January 16th, 2013The ‘nut graph’ you’ll never see in a state government storyMonday, October 1st, 2012Oct. 1, 2012 By Chris Reed On Sunday, as I read iconoclastic pollster Pat Caddell's sharp, persuasive tirade documenting the many issues where the national media have spared the public from the details of the Obama administration's venality and incompetence, I got to thinking about the paralle... Educrats: Collective bargaining rights trump existing state lawTuesday, August 21st, 2012Aug. 21, 2012 By Chris Reed The key to understanding Golden State politics is knowing that the most powerful forces in Sacramento by a wide margin are the California Teachers Association and the California Federation of Teachers. Using union dues and benefitting from the bizarrely enduring not... Brown’s Tax Canoe Headed For Water FallFriday, March 23rd, 2012MARCH 23, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI California Gov. Jerry Brown likens himself to a canoeist who paddles a little to the Left then a little to the Right. Lately, he has been paddling Left with labor unions to propose a new $9 billion tax increase that supposedly will plug an estimated $7 billio... Jerry and the UnionMonday, March 19th, 2012 California Faces Decisive 2012Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 BY JOHN SEILER JAN. 4, 2012 It's fun to gloat about our great weather when calling freezing relatives Back East on New Year's Day. And some good things are keeping the sun shining this year. Silicon Valley's global technology dominance will continue in 2012. Despite the foolishness of the s... Jerry: Gouge Middle Class Even MoreThursday, December 1st, 2011John Seiler: It's open season on California taxpayers. Gov. Jerry Brown is painting bull's eyes on the backs of the middle class. He wants to increase taxes $7 billion, putting it on the November 2012 ballot. It's supposed to help close an expected deficit of $13 billion. The tax increase... Govt. Union Boss in Top 1%Tuesday, October 25th, 2011John Seiler: The Occupy Wall Street crowd is protesting against the high pay of the top 1 percent in income in America. They say they're part of the "99%ers" -- all the working people who keep the country going. Our friend Larry Sand points out that California's government worker unions, espec... Put CA Millionaires in Loony BinsTuesday, October 18th, 2011 John Seiler: Normally I wouldn't insist on putting a whole category of people in insane asylums. But that's where we should put all of California's millionaires. Anyone who sticks around this state and pays the massive taxes they do is certifiably insane. Any sane millionaire already should... Govt. Worker Suicide Was CokeheadMonday, May 30th, 2011 John Seiler: Remember the government worker, Huy Pham, who jumped from a government building in Costa Mesa after he was laid off? Pro-government unions and politicians still are blaming his death on the mean City Council of Costa Mesa that fired him amid budget cuts. As I reported here last we... |