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The Buzz: Governor's allies divided on preschool issue (CA)
Sacramento Bee ^ | February 13, 2006

Posted on 02/13/2006 11:56:44 PM PST by calcowgirl

While Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking a duck so far on the preschool initiative on the June 6 ballot, several of his consultants and allies are not.

Richard Riordan, the governor's former secretary of education, and his wife, Nancy Daly Riordan, are among Proposition 82's leading supporters. Some of the big donors to the governor's campaigns - Robert and Elizabeth Lowe and Warren Hellman - are also lending their names to the campaign to tax high earners to pay for universal preschool.

On the other side, the campaign against Proposition 82 is relying on advice from some consultants who have worked for Schwarzenegger's political committees or Citizens to Save California, a coalition of business groups that supported Schwarzenegger's November 2005 initiatives. Two of the governor's staunchest allies are heading up the campaign against Proposition 82: California Chamber of Commerce President Allan Zaremberg and Small Business Action Committee President Joel Fox.

Could be why Schwarzenegger came down on both sides of Proposition 82 during a recent appearance at the Sacramento Press Club. He said he liked the plan but not the tax increases.

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: calchamber; prop82; riordan; robreiner; schwarzenegger; taxes; universalpreschool; zaremberg

1 posted on 02/13/2006 11:56:48 PM PST by calcowgirl
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To: calcowgirl
Richard Riordan, the governor's former secretary of education, and his wife, Nancy Daly Riordan,
are among Proposition 82's leading supporters.

The tent is too big.

2 posted on 02/13/2006 11:57:36 PM PST by calcowgirl
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To: calcowgirl

"tax high earners to pay for universal preschool"

Huh? Hasn't it been demonstrated that preschool is bad for kids?


3 posted on 02/14/2006 12:00:22 AM PST by dsc
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To: calcowgirl

I vote for the Kindergarten Cop!


4 posted on 02/14/2006 12:06:38 AM PST by Just Lori (I love airplane noise)
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To: dsc
Hasn't it been demonstrated that preschool is bad for kids?

So what? More teachers will be employed, the ed schools will get more drones, er.. students, and the state will get more children away from their parents at an earlier age, making it easier to brainwash them with leftist group-think and facilitate the affirmation of the concept that women should abandon their babies to institutions in order to fulfill themselves in the work place.

End of story.

5 posted on 02/14/2006 12:09:10 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Peace Begins in the Womb)
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To: calcowgirl

They just don't learn in CA, do they?


6 posted on 02/14/2006 12:21:15 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: calcowgirl; FOG724; NormsRevenge
...and REMEMBER, it's... 'for the CHILDREN...!!!'
(When you feel a Leftist's hand in your pocket... Isn't it ALWAYS 'for the CHILDREN'...???)
 
Yeah, I mean, like, TOTALLY,  MAN!!!
...Just ask...
(click)
Meathead!!!
 
 

7 posted on 02/14/2006 12:38:22 AM PST by Seadog Bytes (OPM - The Liberal 'solution' to every societal problem. (...Other People's Money))
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To: Jeff Chandler
"and the state will get more children away from their parents at an earlier age,"

They can be put on Ritilin at an earlier age, and be controlled better.

8 posted on 02/14/2006 12:46:33 AM PST by de Buillion (Give us your perverts, pedophiles, and child molesters. San Francisco wants YOU!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

"So what? More teachers will be employed, the ed schools will get more drones, er.. students, and the state will get more children away from their parents at an earlier age, making it easier to brainwash them with leftist group-think and facilitate the affirmation of the concept that women should abandon their babies to institutions in order to fulfill themselves in the work place."

Silly me.


9 posted on 02/14/2006 1:21:24 AM PST by dsc
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To: calcowgirl; Seadog Bytes
Bogus rights
By Walter Williams

A must read.

10 posted on 02/14/2006 6:33:56 AM PST by FOG724 (http://nationalgrange.org/legislation/phpBB2/index.php)
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To: FOG724

Williams gets it right... AGAIN!


11 posted on 02/14/2006 12:40:35 PM PST by Seadog Bytes (OPM - The Liberal 'solution' to every societal problem. (...Other People's Money))
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To: Seadog Bytes

You should see what our buddy Warren had to say.


12 posted on 02/14/2006 2:08:48 PM PST by FOG724 (http://nationalgrange.org/legislation/phpBB2/index.php)
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To: FOG724
Can you send him this image...?
...Perhaps he needs one of these stickers for his car...

13 posted on 02/16/2006 4:34:50 PM PST by Seadog Bytes (OPM - The Liberal 'solution' to every societal problem. (...Other People's Money))
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To: calcowgirl
Richard Riordan and his wife, Nancy Daly Riordan......Robert and Elizabeth Lowe and Warren Hellman...

If some tenacious, enterprising journalist were to go digging I bet he would find a huge financial windfall for these people by the passage of this preschool bill.

I don't know what it is but as sure as Hillary has cankles there's a profit motive somewhere in there.

14 posted on 02/16/2006 4:45:49 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: Seadog Bytes

LOL! Too funny.


15 posted on 02/17/2006 8:04:34 AM PST by FOG724 (http://nationalgrange.org/legislation/phpBB2/index.php)
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