Posted on 02/20/2006 6:54:25 AM PST by John Jorsett
SACRAMENTO — Police sirens wail as a scruffy teenager, clutching a bag, runs frantically through the streets. Entering a schoolyard, he reaches into the bag. Out comes … a graduation gown, which he dons to receive a diploma.
The scene is from a television ad, paid for with tax money and made by consultants close to Hollywood producer Rob Reiner. It aired across California this winter, touting the benefits of preschool. "When kids go," the narrator says, "we all benefit."
The release of the ad, and two others, by a state commission Reiner heads coincided with his launch of a ballot initiative that would tax the rich to fund preschool for all California 4-year-olds.
Although Reiner did not directly approve the spots, their timing and substance highlight ties between the public commission and his private political campaigns and raise questions about whether the state-funded commercials were used to boost the initiative's prospects.
State law generally prohibits the use of public funds for campaign activities. Reiner's campaign attorney said the ads were legal and not political.
Reiner heads the First 5 California Children and Families Commission, a panel of seven members appointed by the governor and legislative leaders. It was created by an initiative Reiner sponsored in 1998 to promote early childhood development.
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This is one slick twisted operation IMO.
They point out how those in pre-school continue on to graduate and go on to college. They don't point out that those who can afford to send their kids to pre-school are the ones who are going ot make sure their kids attend high school and don't drop out.
If the state winds up paying for pre-school, the drop out rates won't change. Hell, you'll be lucky if the kids don't wind up dropping out by the time they finish pre-school.
Parenting, and not pre-school is the only way to turn out good kids Meathead.
They've been running these ads non-stop for the last two years at least, even on talk-radio stations like KFI640 down here.
The brainwashing campaign began a long time ago. Who is funding this initiative? Seems very well funded, and fairly insidious.
The radio ads are disgusting. If you believe that taking kids away from their parents at even younger ages is the solution -- and letting the State raise them -- then Meathead leads the pack. They turn my stomach.
And now I find WE are funding them. Oh thank you.
ROBBER REINER'S LIES
AND HOLLYWOOD MONEY
WON AGAIN!
(Talk about Big Fat!)
Situational ethics?When Reiner put River Phoenix in his movie, Stand By Me, and had him
smoke throughout, Phoenix was only 14 years old. Guess it's okay to
have kids smoke when it's for Reiner's benefit.
Reiner got the "First Five" initiative passed a while ago. It placed a 50 cent a pack tax on cigarettes and is bring in hundreds of millions to an essentially unaccountable fund that's controlled by Reiner and his group. He's using the cover of "public education" to spend a lot of the money on these ads for pre-school.
Even the sappy 'Meathead' couldn't surpass the unctious, socialist-nannyism of Rob Reiner.
Might have the Gates Foundation behind it....I heard a rumor they were interested in this kind of thing...
Big Brother has to keep growing bigger, doncha know.
that is where the funding for all the commericals comes from, a .50 a pack cig tax. the Meathead scam continues here in calif
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We have state funded Pre-K here in Georgia (lottery funded, Zell Miller-Best Governor Ever to actually do what he said he would and use the lotto money for it) and it does help alot of students learn to read earlier and do better down the line. You'd be surprised how many kids go to Kindergarten and not even know their abc's, much less recognise them visibly. Shame how many parents don't care to teach their toddlers anything, even colors.
All my children have benefitted for it. Usually the Pre-K isn't at the school (although they have a few classes there), but at a daycare center and funds are given to the center for "school hours".
Ummm, the character smoked in the book.
If they want kids to educate kids, get them out of the government monopoly school system. Give parents a voucher and allow kids to go to any school they want to, let those that love public school remain in them. In this way, the problems will be highlighted, and they will no longer be able to mask them.
That doesn't matter. Reiner is apart of the stop smoking at all costs out there in Hollywood, and a lot of directors are removing smoking even from the old movies where everyone smoked.
I just can't stand ole Big Fat. I guess I should have stayed out of this thread, but he makes my fur stand on end. ugh!
Of course! And I would venture to say that Big Fat gets his share of the cigarette taxes that smokers in California shell out too. He doesn't do anything for nothing. Just when he can get something out of it for himself.
yep, also there is a new prop on the November Ballot, to increase the cig tax to 2.00 a pack to help fund the emergency rooms in the state, and Old meathead is mad because it would cut into his pre-school plans.
it will be interesting to see how all this plays out.
When I went to school kids didn't learn their ABC's until first grade and we still graduated knowing more than the average college grad today. An earlier start means little or nothing by the time a child is 16.
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