Calif. Teachers Union Gives Shocking Protest Instructions: Harass Legislators, Shut Down Roads, Co-Opt Fire Drills
- Posted on April 13, 2011 at 5:44pm by
Emily Esfahani Smith
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The California Teachers Association is planning a week’s worth of Wisconsin-style protests and rallies, from May 9-13, to “force legislature to pass tax extensions.”
That’s the short term objective of the “State of Emergency” protests, according to the website for the rallies (screen shot below). The longterm objective is to, “educate and convince communities to change tax structure and achieve tax fairness in order to achieve adequate, stable and ongoing funding for public education and essential public services.”
The “State of Emergency” website notes, “The week begins and ends with a group of educators (with others invited to join) taking over the State Capitol.”
KQED delivers some political context:
the days leading up to Governor Jerry Brown’s release of a revised budget next month, the state Capitol is going to be the scene of a major protest by teachers… one that could have shades of the marathon sit-in last month in Wisconsin.
Calling the event the “California State of Emergency,” teachers say their goal is to get the Legislature to pass a budget that includes some $11 billion in tax extensions, the same ones the governor still says he wants placed on a statewide ballot this year.
In a phone interview this afternoon, CTA president David Sanchez said the Wisconsin protests are indeed the model of the Capitol protest part of the events planned for the week of May 9-13. He says they intend to have a sit-in here at the Sacramento statehouse lasting all week, with six rallies in cities across the state on Friday the 13th.
“Our teachers are absolutely fed up with what’s happening right now,” said Sanchez.
The CTA was a big backer of Jerry Brown in the 2010 gubernatorial race, and remains so now. But the union is diverging from the governor on the issue of a special tax election, which Brown continues to insist could happen in September or as late as November.
CTA president Sanchez says that any election beyond the Guv’s preferred plan of June — where the taxes have expired and thus become tax increases — isn’t a politically winnable play.
How do the CTA members plan to pressure California lawmakers on the tax extensions? With an allegedly $1 million budget and a 10-page action plan. You can read the organization’s full list of possible activities, but we present to you this snapshot (hat tip Hot Air):
* Target the businesses of legislators in their home districts.
* Circle the offices of “problem legislators.” Target them with various actions.
* Picket/rally in front of legislators’ offices/homes.
* Follow targeted legislators for the entire day.
* Have students and parents do informational picketing for one hour outside their school site.
* Have parents and students camp in front of schools all night.
* Have teachers being laid off contact parents and other CTA members.
* Make phone calls on Parents’ Day. Call parents to tell them how their child is doing and then talk about the budget cuts and invite them to attend the rallies.
* Refrain from Shopping Day. Show the value of educators and other public employees and the economic contribution they make to local communities by refraining from shopping one day.
* Throw monopoly money in the toilet to show that all our money is going down the drain
* Publish a list of companies that are not paying their fair share of taxes. Send letters to these companies and the media and picket their offices. Withdraw funds from banks that are not paying their fair share. (Editor’s note: CTA is a tax-exempt organization.)
* One-day boycott of Microsoft and other corporations that are pushing failed education reform efforts.
* Turn fire/earthquake drill into crisis response drill to the budget cuts (involve students and the community)
* Attempt to close a major artery into town/cities
* Have celebrities involved in the demonstrations
* Dye hair red or wear red wigs
* Homeless encampments of students and teachers as they can afford a place to live
* Have people participate in a run across the state with a torch (like the Olympics)
* Statewide “A Day with No Teachers”
* Pay for everything with $2 bills to show true impact of teachers
* “Lights Out Day” during the week where educators teach in the dark
* Protest at an MLB game. Everyone wears a matching shirt and sits in one section. Have scoreboard acknowledge their presence (i.e., “pink-slipped teachers seated in section ___”)
According to a blogger at NBC’s Bay Area affiliate, the teachers are just wasting their time:
CTA wants to take the action to oppose any attempts to impose an all-cuts budget. The union’s critics claim they are doing Wisconsin-style disruption of government. Both sides are wrong — becasuse they are overstating the importance of the takeover, and of the Capitol itself.
The takeover is really nothing more than political fun — in an old timey, quaint sort of way. No one does this sort of thing anymore, because it’s a waste of time. Fiscal decisions aren’t made in the Capitol. Decisions on spending and taxation are made by formulas, laws and constitutional amendments that were long ago approved — mostly by voters themselves.
The budget is merely a formula of formulas. The legislature isn’t worth protesting — or inconveniencing with a Capitol takeover — because they have so little power. Lawmakers act mostly as a clean-up crew for the fiscal messes created by previous voter decisions. Constitutionally, legislators are janitors in California.
The trouble with CTA’s protest may be that it gives the mistaken impression that the legislature has the power to fix the budget mess. It doesn’t. So let‘s hope the teachers’ union makes clear that they are going to the Capitol not because the Capitol matters to the current fiscal debate — but because they want to change the California governing system so that future takeovers of the Capitol won’t be a complete waste of time.
When you read CTA bullet points like, “Work with organization like Ben & Jerry to have them create a labor-union flavored ice cream that can be sold at the rallies and in stores,” you can’t help but agree that these protests will be a “complete waste of time.”
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Comments (355)
dgboy
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:17pmWhat a bunch of children. Do these Unions and Teachers realize how foolish and childish there actions are. Intimidate the taxpayers who pay their overpaid salaries!!!!
Report Post »mcpbob
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:16pmthese teachers are discusting, it’s all about them and nothing to do with educating our children, and they are held up by the unions… either we handle this now, or its lost forever
Report Post »Harvey
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 8:00pmActually it has very little to do with Teachers,its about the Unions.Glen Beck was right,these people are planning to disrupt the whole Country and try to hold it hostage until the Unions get control and are collecting dues from every type of industry,buisness and this President i think is involved in drawing up the blueprint.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:13pmI like this one —* “Lights Out Day” during the week where educators teach in the dark.—They already do!. It‘s not hard to see that they are seeing liberalism being shaken to it’s core. They are scared and these dumb ill conceived Ideas to keep it (liberalism)are not gonna work this time.
Report Post »Bro Geo Too
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:13pmIs there any chance we can keep the same number of states, 50, but bring in Puerto Rico as we waive good riddance to California?
Report Post »stephenmarkovich
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:12pmShut down roads? Cool. run them over and put them in wheel chairs for years and years.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:21pmI feel you angst, but let’s not do as they would do, ok?
Report Post »oh_yeah
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:11pmthe Word cuts deep. get the behind me satin.
Report Post »pembpix
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:36pmare you making underwear of reffering to the Devil?
Report Post »texanpatriot
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:11pmWaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! I want my way and I want it now… If you don‘t son’t give me what I want, you will be verwy verwy sorrwy.
Report Post »Zer0
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:10pmReminds me of that Blondie song “Union City Blues”…..What a motley bunch of entitlement-hungry parasites. I wonder if they will carry pictures of their beloved martyr Mumia Abu-Jamal?
Report Post »AmericanLass
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:07pmParents have given progressives permission by their silence for them to do whatever they want. Notice on a daily basis, progressives taking more and more liberties with Parental rights.
Report Post »simplygilly
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:05pm“Tax fairness”? To progressives and unions, the richest 5% that pay 60% of all federal taxes are not paying enough and the 1/2 of the country that pay NO federal taxes and are getting a free ride are paying too much. How dumb must progressives and teachers (of all people!) be not to understand this inequity?
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:04pmcalifornians can’t drive on a majory artery without shooting at each other, so I think at least part of the plan should be rethought. Gotta wonder where the Union officers will be, oh by the television cameras, my bad.
Report Post »Sometimes I think that the “takers” won’t be happy until every last soul in America, excepting George Soros, lives in mud huts and drinks water out of puddles. Even then the “takers” would scream because people were dying of starvation rather than contributing equally in the just society of mud hut dwellers.
My eons from now, a pilgrim will happen upon this planet and our future relations will have consumed but not produced themselves to extinction. After extensive archialogical investigation, they will discover what happened. Socialism, and they will flee in all haste lest they catch that dred disease.
Steve Rider of San Diego GOP
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 8:21pmCalifornians are more fiscally conservative than people give them credit for. Don’t expect a GOP Assembly Member or Senator to budge.
Report Post »leary1
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:03pmTake pictures and names so we know who to fire starting with the union organizers causing unrest,and trouble for businesses. P.S. to all of you doubters…Glenn Beck WAS SPOT ON with his predictions.Can the drive-by media explain that???? Plain and simple..CORRUPTION!!
Report Post »Infidel and Proud
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:01pmWhile the looser / leeches are doing all this, why have all the REAL Americans show up at these rallies with (EMPTY) firearms? Perhaps that will show them what REAL PEOPLE POWER is.
Report Post »(Perhaps it will incite them to escalate THEIR violence so we can get the inevable Civil War II going !
bacausa
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 8:38pmInfidel and Proud, did you lose your posting privileges at HuffPo or get lost on your way to your union rally? We all know you are not part of the Tea Party.
Report Post »Vyger
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:00pmTwo options here as I see it.
1) Californians deserve whatever they get because of their years of being liberals
2) People who care about the Constitution show up in droves and counter these union thugs
I would love to see #2 but expect to see #1. I know which one will happen though if they try that in Florida.
Report Post »bellasbrat
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:21pmI’m tired of you folks running down California. I’m a Californian, born and raised. I’m also an ultra-conservative, Christian Tea-Partier. CA is no worse than many other states when it comes to having more than its share of losers, so back off of California already!
Report Post »JJCon
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 8:10pmBella… I wish you were right, but for the most part… we get what we deserve.
Report Post »Nobamazone
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 9:10pmBella, I think most on here realize that here at least a few people from CA that are good, conservative people. At least I hope so because I am MICHIGAN!
Report Post »we are not much than you, my state too have been run by radical liberal dems for too long, and it really shows
Psychosis
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 5:59pmlol these lefty union thugs REALLY are stupid , and they are teaching out kids.
we need to finish what we started in 2010, and what wisconsin started in 2011 .
end the unions
Report Post »Diamond Girl
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 5:56pmKeep it up…the more asses you make of your Commie Selves for all to see…the more people across this land wake up and see the forest for the trees~ eventually, your power won’t be just diminished gradually, you’re gonna be buried…all by your own doing.
Keep Shoveling ~ Make my Day!
Report Post »the old plumber
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 5:56pmTime to file a R.I.C.O. against them and JAIL the lot of them,inciting to riot and so much more by the commie thugs
Report Post »SCgunner
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 12:46pmya sure, Holder the nitwit will get right on that i bet….
Report Post »BrerRabbit
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 5:55pmHmmmm….did Glenn say this would happen….cascading….yep….believe he did!
Report Post »felina g
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 5:55pmDitty from Jesse Ventura
“You control our world. You’ve poisoned the air we breathe, contaminated the water we drink, and copyrighted the food we eat. We fight in your wars, die for your causes, and sacrifice our freedoms to protect you. You’ve liquidated our savings, destroyed our middle class, and used our tax dollars to bailout your unending greed. We are slaves to your corporations, zombies to your airwaves, servants to your decadence. You’ve stolen our elections, assassinated our leaders, and abolished our basic rights as human beings. You own our property, shipped away our jobs, and shredded our unions. You’ve profited off of disaster, destabilized our currencies, and raised our cost of living. You’ve monopolized our freedom, stripped away our education, and have almost extinguished our flame. We are hit… we are bleeding… but we ain’t got time to bleed. We will bring the giants to their knees and you will witness our revolution!”
Sincerely,
The Serfs.
Report Post »undercover
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:26pmPuleeze… Those worst off in this country are better off than 90% of the people in the world. Every American has more wealth and opportunity than anyone in past history. You are full of lies and contempt and will use any excuse you can find to promote a socialist/communist revolution. Sorry we can all see right through your inane blather.
Report Post »felina g
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 7:25pmJesse is NOT a socialist/communist. He is a Constitutionalist American.
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 8:12pm@felina Yeah i was wondering what undercover was talking about.. I dont think he understood.. whatever.
Report Post »Buddyc
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 5:55pmGreat stuff.
Report Post »I am not a teacher but would like to pretend I am one, like most of them do, how can I join the protest?
USAMama
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:04pmYeah, I would say pull their own tactics on them, like the “crash the Tea Party campaign” where they would go to a Tea Party with outragious signs, costumes, racist paraphenelia etc. and try to get on the news to smear their names, but unfortunately you’d fit right in there. Nobody would even notice.
Report Post »bacausa
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 8:05pmPlease don’t resort to their tactics; you will only hurt us. Besides, you know they will be plenty poorly behaved on their own. If you see people behaving badly at conservative events, take their pictures and turn them in to our leaders for investigation and public disclosure.
Report Post »CanteenBoy
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 5:52pmTeach in the dark? Use students to help protest?
Report Post »HairRazor
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:12pmbust the unions. they are a cancerous appendige harming our nation’s health. cut and flush.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:49pmNo, let them RUN……they are destroying themselves. When the states go bankrupt there is no money to pay them, their retirement plans will receive no contributions, and the money in them now is being paid out to current retirees. How stupid can you get????? And yes, how are we allowing anyone so stupid to teach our children!!
Report Post »fixer
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 5:50pmIt’s time for these idiots to realize that nobody has the money to pay for all the crap the poor babies want.GROW UP AND SMELL THE ROSES,DUMBASSES!
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 8:07pm@ BACAUSA Yeah, and couldn’t even find a piece of paper left on the lawn after…
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 5:50pmTea party should sue for using their tactics.
USAMama
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:01pmAnd when exactly have you ever seen the Tea Party act like this? Have they ever gone to a persons personal home? Blocked roads to “Attempt to close a major artery into town/cities”? Camp out at capital buildings or picket/ threaten businesses? Causing chaos and property damage? Please, tell me, when you have seen Tea Partiers partaking in any such behavior, because many news outlets would LOVE to get their hands on that evidence, you could probably get millions.
Report Post »stown
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 7:48pm@exrepublisheep….please offer us some proof that Tea Party people have EVER done this sort of thing. You can’t, because it doesn’t exist. You progressives are losing your credibility with every post like this. We are on to you.
Report Post »bacausa
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 7:57pmUSAMAMA, you and the Tea Party are right. I flew with my sons from CA to DC for the 9/12 rally and I couldn’t have been more proud of my fellow Americans, respectful people of all races, religions, jobs, economic class, parties, etc., essentially from all walks of life. Many of them were proud union members too. Those with offensive signs were so few in number that they could easily have been mere “Astroturf” from the opposition. The truth will prevail and set us free. The usurpers of power have good reason to fear us; we surround them and speak the empirical historical truth.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 5:49pmOooooooooh! Those darn Tea Partyers.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 5:46pmCan anyone say it reaches the levels of ‘intimidation, coercion, and threats’?
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 5:48pmCan anyone say bullies? These are the people teaching our children. They are nothing more than thugs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezpib_kd1ww
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 5:55pmFire them all.
Report Post »USAMama
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 5:56pmThats exactly what it is, just a bunch of spoiled rotten bullies! It’s our way or no way at all.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:02pmThese are the parasites who want the cop-killer Mumia abujamal released !
Report Post »unsalvageable.org
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:03pmAfter Obamas waste of time giving the speech about bulling, why does he not speak up about things like this??? Oh Yeah, these are his people. These are the people that our tax dollars go to in order to make sure they recieve a paycheck and better than most pension. These are the people tasked with teaching our children! As each day passes by, more children are being taught that it is normal to rely on the government to support them. Worse still, they are being taught that the “evil” rich man is to blame! Sooner or later we will have to take a stand against this criminal behavior! http://www.unsalvageable.org
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:05pmCity Councils all over CA need to raise the fines for tresspassing, disorderly conduct, and whatever else fits in the mold the unions are creating and sock it to them. Not only will it slow this down but will help the budgets statewide; add in there lawyer‘s fees and court costs and let’s see how they like that. They need to fire the instigators. You can bet, too, that demonstrators will be bused in from other states – their fines, etc. ought to be double those of instate demonstrators.
Report Post »cripplecreek
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:08pmI hope they do this kind of garbage. Nothing makes the public happier than threats from our employees.
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:09pmI just say fire them all for conduct unbecoming teachers, If they don’t like that, then put them in jail for domestic terrorism and violence against public servants. OR BOTH!
Report Post »rodamaa
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:10pmDesperate people do desperate things. Actually the more they do, the better because it will demonstrate to the American people once and for all who these clowns really are. We should be active in making the image stick.
Report Post »I Love Section 8 Housing
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:17pmWhat’s so shocking about that? Sounds like a ********* rally.
decendentof56
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:23pmLet them protest outside the statehouse. A couple representatives can go in to make their case during budget deliberations. Thats how a representative form of government works.
Report Post »Jediusetheforce
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:24pmI try and boycott Unions period. Students in Ca. should pay more for school not the teachers pensions and pay.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:27pm“* Refrain from Shopping Day. Show the value of educators and other public employees and the economic contribution they make to local communities by refraining from shopping one day.”
Public sector educators are only as valuable as they are because they control such a large portion of the good perception that comes with accreditation. Yet another reason to shut down the Department of Education.
A possible counter-protest would be for businesses to begin to REQUIRE private school degrees or pre-employment on-site testing, thus making public school degrees worthless.
Government does not exist to provide people with jobs; Government exists to secure the citizens’ individual right to the freedom to create wealth for himself and to trade with everyone else in the private sector.
Report Post »TheLascone
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:30pmWho could it be … Hiding in the shows ?
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pembpix
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:33pmPlease folks let us not forget. We are peacful loving people and WE SURROUND THEM!
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:42pmWell look on the bright, at least they gave us their play book. Now, if we had some politicans with some… Oh who am I kidding, this is Cali. A jellyfish has more spine than their collective state government.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:56pm“* Refrain from Shopping Day. Show the value of educators and other public employees and the economic contribution they make to local communities by refraining from shopping one day.”
The money that public educators get comes from the businesses at which they would refrain from shopping, in the first place.
This action is laughable.
Report Post »ruffnex
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 7:01pmJust plain STUPID!!!!! and childish….
Report Post »KimH211
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 7:15pm“Work with organization like Ben & Jerry to have them create a labor-union flavored ice cream that can be sold at the rallies and in stores”
I’ll bet I can guess that flavor.
Report Post »duckwalker
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 7:20pmAnyone wonder now why governent employees shouldn’t belong to a union. Unions bad, kids good.
Oh, wait, this was in California, I guess you get the government you deserve.
Report Post »YouGottaProblemWithThat
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 7:22pmNothing to see here, just keep moving along. These unions are death to the nation. Now that good people of conscience are banding together against unions and other Marxist thugs you will soon see them scurry away. They know that the tea party is huge and growing everyday, and that dems, repubs, and many independents are realizing that the damage to this once great nation can be directly attributed to people like these. The entitled class needs to be crushed by the great hand of personal liberty. It will be done, believe it!
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 7:27pmOh goody, Thursday is “refrain from breathing” day! Good luck on that one guys!
Report Post »Restored One
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 7:32pmI am not very superstitious, but those thugs better watch for broken mirrors and black cats on that Friday the 13th.
Report Post »pappy
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 7:42pmWouldn’t it be really cool if these idiots went from location to location to protest & each time they show up they’re greeted with warning shots, then arrests? Make the arrests stick & cost them a fortune plus a few days pay. Knowing California, The whole state will get involved.
Report Post »Not sorry I moved to the South.
Glenn in Virginia
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 7:44pmSounds like a Vast Left Wing Conspiracy to me! And, all joking aside, a conspiracy to break multiple laws and endanger the public as well as specific legislators.
These people are thugs and lawbreakers and revolutionaries and somebody, in a police uniform, needs to hand out some beat downs.
Report Post »pitboss711
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 7:45pm“Attempt to close a major artery into town/cities”
Report Post »Oh, please stand in front of my car.
Chileno trucho
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 7:51pmI don’t think any of us have any idea to what level the intimidation has the potential to reach. I was living in Argentina during the 2001 economic collapse, I saw oceans of people surrounding banks in desperation as their money was devalued nearly 300% seemingly overnight. I mingled with the riotous crowds pilling up walls of old tires across main highways then lighting them on fire to shut down the system. During one of these riots I stood 10 yards away from a man that threw a cinder block through the windshield of a citizens car, I asked him why he did it? He told me he just got paid $50 (american dollars) to do it, and that his family needs to eat. (also worth mentioning this man was grossly overweight and had wine stains on his shirt) This MANUFACTURED CHAOS is a tactic that has been REHEARSED many times all over the world.
Then came the presidential musical chairs with 15 different candidates (if i recall correctly) taking the presidents seat for a day or two then resigning all within the same month. 6 months later I was in a different city, one that was supposed to be safer for an American like myself to be living. I recall walking behind a Toledo super market (could be compared to our Walmart… large, profitable, sell everything you need all in one place) in broad day light, as “the people” tried to storm the super market and take back “what had been stolen from them.” I heard screaming, yelling, chanting (which is what encouraged me to walk around the back of the store. Then the police, who had somehow been informed of the planned attack, released tear gas canisters and I heard lots of gunfire (I later heard they were all rubber bullets). I remember sprinting the 3 miles to my apartment with my friend, I had previously learned my lesson mingling with crowds by then and knew I was not safe. I will never forget the panic I felt… I will never forget the tears I shed and emotions I felt after I locked the dead bolt to my apartment…
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 7:58pmSection8housing We go to t party rallies, you go to t ****** rallies, your the t ******.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 8:02pmI would so be homeschooling … I pulled my son out of public schools as soon as I could .. BEST thing I ever did for him!
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 8:03pm@section 8 .. Back up that claim.. Where are the videos of Tea PARTY rallies with violent up risings.. YOU CANT now go and crawl under the section 8 shack that you came out from…
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 8:03pmThey should be FIRED !!! ….
Report Post »Restored One
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 8:17pmWe were warned that May was going to be the chaos kick off.
Report Post »delhoghe
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 8:20pmTreason is still a hangable offense in the U.S. Any public union executive board member, president, or V.P should be charged with treason. All public sector union leaders should be arrested and held without bail until trial. All union property should be seized by the government. All union locals abolished. All public sector union memners will be fingerprinted and required to give a d.n.a. sample to the government. All union contracts will be null and void. Unionized police departments will be disbanded and private security guards will be tasked with policing cities. All union prison guards will be furloughed and the penetentiary system will be privatized. It will be expressly forbidden for any public sector worker to organize or attend a union meeting…………….. Everybody has seen the union protests in several states. We’ve seen children used as human shields in case violence breaks out. Using children is cowardly and could lead to injury or worse if it continues. We need to stop these unions for the sake of the children.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 8:24pmOne just has to wonder why they are afraid of having a special election about the tax issue. Can it be that they afraid that a majority of the people might not be on their side? I thought the idea of a union was to insure fairness for all! Oh, I forgot. The unions won’t even allow their members to vote for union local officers. They are appointed by the union leaders. Where is the democracy they continually brag about?
Report Post »BIGDAN63
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 8:30pmmaybe its time the parents of every student go and protest at the schools from the lame and pathetic teachers to finally “TEACH OUR CHILDREN” cause the score of the schools haven’t risen, they just lower the bar for more schools look like they passed. this country is producing IDIOTS instead of scholars
Report Post »ConsiderThis
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 8:42pmOn education: Never have so many, paid so much, and got so little in return.
Report Post »robertc
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 8:45pmCheck out this song called “Union Man” written about the Wisconsin teacher’s union protest. It’s the same “give me more, more, more” mentality in California.
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nptden
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 9:05pmDon‘t you just love the ’peaceful‘ expression of the ’socialists’. How about charges of ‘sedition’?
Report Post »frodis
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:09pmre:I Love Section 8 Housing
Report Post »What do you mean resembles a tea party rally? What kind of CRACK DO YOU SMOKE? What ignorance. If your that stupid then you should just stay off the board. Why don’t you go learn something. The dumbest thing I’ve read all day.
leftcoastslut
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:18pmthis chaos has already started. remember the dem’s never let a situation go to waste, isn’t that what the white house says. with them not allowing parents to pack their own kids lunch, what about the district that is purchasing all kindergarten kids an IPod, what about this having students and their parents picket outside of the schools, or have students camping in front of the schools,have a crisis drill instead of an earthquake drill,and what is this about homeless encampments. i’m sure the list goes on of situations where the school district “knows better than the parents”.
they are using our children right now. i think it would be a good time to visit our kids school and be a guest in the classroom. i think it is a very good time to write letters to the editors and get the word out of what they are planning to do, to your neighbors. attend and speak at school board meetings or at least pack the halls. the silent majority is very well heard.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:19pmSECTION 8 is actually….wait for it wait for it…….Alan Grayson. That explains all future comments enough said. He may now be classified in the certifiable and marginal.
Report Post »JohnAdams4Prez
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:22pmDoes tax fairness mean “Fair Tax”? JK I’m sure it means “taxing millionaires and billionaires”.
Report Post »Restored One
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:35pmEveryone who has a child in the California school districts should threaten to take their children out of school for 1 or more of those days that they play this game. THE SCHOOLS do not get paid when kids are not at school. Send copies of this propaganda with a note saying “You wanna play?” Game On. OR, If your school, or district participates in this crap, you will pull your kid from the school or district. I will chose how my child is used to fight this BS, not you Union Thugs! I would rather take a day or two off of work to educate my child on protesting, then them trying to give credit to my child for attending this anti patriotic, communist, socialist crap. Educate not Intimidate!
Fedup
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:51pmTeachers out protesting instead of being on the job?
FIRE THEM. ALL OF THEM.
Report Post »ltb
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:53pmThieves.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:15pmHow many of these THUGS are brought in from out of state???
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:52pmI thought teachers were supposed to teach, not to bully. Welcome to the result of a bloated government CA. You spent what you didn’t have, and now you have to pay the piper. See this DC, this is you in 5 years at the current rate, better trim now while it is still doable.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:38amThe US Constitution allows these people to “PEACEFULLY ASSEMBLE”. That doesn’t include harrassement, intimidation, disrutption of traffic, etc. Will the law before enforced here??
Report Post »jmanuola
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 2:20amIts just plain ignorance. Ninety percent of the people who be attending will be little more than LEMMINGS. They hear the “our kids are going to lose their schools…our seniors will be dying in the streets…” and they BUY IT. So what happens if the extensions happen? Does our budget balance miraculously? NOOOOOO!!! We just make it that much harder for businesses to justify staying in California….that much more difficult for our people to find jobs.
Report Post »Keconstitution
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 2:28amTime to fire them like Reagan did the air traffic controllers. Governor Moonbeam has quite a lot on his hands.
Report Post »georgiagun
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 6:44amlet ben and jerry make them a flavor for fhe union call it crap
Report Post »pitboss711
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 6:54amThe only shock they’re capable of is if they all quit whining, got off their fat asses and went back to work.
Report Post »indy1
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 8:50amNot very civil. Has it only been 3 months since the lb media, the Democrats and Obama lectured us about civility in Tucson?
Report Post »eddymunster
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:25pmWhat makes them so sure parents support their effort?
Oh, I forgot we are talking about kaliforistan.
Report Post »neverfinal
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:45pmFunny how Obama never speaks up when his people are violent and bullying. Oh, that’s right, only kill on his orders.
Report Post »These are the people slandering the Tea Party. Who never were violent in any way.
Good, this proves how afraid of us they are.
Derfel Cadarn
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 2:26pmCan any one say misdemeanor or possibly felony,several of the listed actions constitute criminal offenses. Showing the true impact of teachers would require an abject lesson in greed and avarice and most of them are so incompetent that weather it was light or dark it would not matter. A day without teachers is that a personal day or would you be required to take a vacation day,if it were up to me a lot of people would be taking a VERY long vacation.
Report Post »BarbieTie
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 5:04pmWe are supposed to fly out to California for our son’s college graduation that week. He has been a STUDENT for years in California. These teachers supposedly CARE ABOUT STUDENTS????? Well they better NOT ruin his big day! If they get in front of my car I just might not SEE them and I might run right over them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »BarbieTie
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 5:12pmMy husband has been wanting us to go visit our son in California, and he wants me to plan a vacation to EU, or some place, but I have been afraid to travel until all this (OBAMA) mess is over.
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