Posted on 10/24/2005 8:31:16 PM PDT by SmithL
Following is a selection of comments from Monday's special election forum, featuring Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, state Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata and California Nurses Association Executive Director Rose Anne DeMoro.
On Proposition 74:
"I know what terrific teachers we have, but we cannot get rid of the bad teachers. They're called the lemons. Each school has those lemons. And they call it the dance of the lemons, where they kick them from school to school but you can't get them out. What I say is, 'Let's kick them right out and let's dance them out the door rather than dancing them from school to school.'" — Schwarzenegger.
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"I don't think that right now, after two years, that teachers are experienced enough to really get tenure for life. I mean think about it — tenure and a job guarantee for life. Why? No job in the world do you get tenure and a job guarantee for life after two years. It doesn't exist." — Schwarzenegger.
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"This proposition would essentially force teachers to be there for five years without any type of job security. That means they couldn't buy a home in the community. That means that they would be threatened." — DeMoro.
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"When I was teaching, the real key to evaluating a teacher is for the principal, who does the evaluation, to spend time in the classroom observing what a teacher does and then taking the time to help that teacher learn from the experiences that they are having in the room. No one is a natural-born teacher. There's a skill to it." — Perata.
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On Proposition 75:
"Let me tell you, I'm a union member myself. I belong to the Screen Actors Guild and so I'm very proud to be a union member.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Can't say it enough.
It's really important to know what nurses have to say!
Don't you want to know what they think?
Unless you are a lousy teacher or happen to be married to one, how can you be against this?
"We're losing the middle class of this state. We're losing it. And these propositions do nothing to protect that middle class. All we're doing in this particular proposition is to pit one group against another, all of whom are providing essential services to kids, to the elderly, to the mentally ill. Those are the ones who will suffer." — Perata.
You just have to laugh at these idiots. Perata should be more worried about losing "the middle class" if he and his dem buds force through higher taxes. Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico aren't that far away, and they've got pretty darn good weather, too.
Hey DeMoro...just like the private sector that pays the bills, you puke.
"Unless you are a lousy teacher or happen to be married to one, how can you be against this?"
You can't. We've got an education budget that would float most third world countries for a year, and the next-to-lowest scholastic record in the US. So we know throwing more money at the teachers' union won't work; how about throwing out some of the lousy teachers?
Sounds like the way most people live, and they buy homes in the community (whether threatened or not).
DeMoro's complaint is a lie, and I'm sure he knows it.
"We don't want to spend money on fighting the governor. We want to spend money on better education, better health care, better safety laws. How did teachers, nurses and firefighters become the enemy all of a sudden in the state of California?" — DeMoro.
The reason they got on the list is because the do spend money fighting the tax payer's elected gov. year after year after over how to get more money to spend on more fighting!
They have some video clips on their website, so you can probably view it yourself. If you're successful, let me know what the trick is. All I get is an unknown videoplayer and 'errors on page', so I haven't been able to view any of them.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/5164712/detail.html
Here are video reports on Monday night's 'Special Election Showdown' sponsored by KTVU Channel 2 and The Contra Costa Times:
WALNUT CREEK: Jim Vargas Reports On Special Election Showdown
WALNUT CREEK: Ken Wayne On Competing Protests For And Against Schwarzenegger At Forum
I finally got it to work too, although I don't know how. I had to put them in as a "trusted site", turn off Norton, etc.
I'm glad you got what you were looking for. Perata kinda stumbled there at the end, huh? LOL.
"So, you did it to protect the incumbent?"
"Yes... err and the coastline. "
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