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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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If Meathead really cared about kids, he could have had the kid in the movie 'smoke' an unlighted cig. Wouldn't have changed the plot a WHOLE lot. You know, how they do on stage.
I agree. Early reading is insignificant. In Germany they don't start school til age 7. Somehow they manage. If the kids are not READY to learn that skill, they will not learn it. (Piaget said). Look at toilet training -- when they are ready, it takes about a day. When they are not yet ready, physically and emotionally, it could take a year.
Great disguise! Nobody would expect that creep to be getting a diploma. He'll surely make a clean getaway.
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If anyone thinks Reiner is doing this because he gives a rip about preschoolers, then they're more of a meathead than he is.
It's babysitting for the "poor".
I think it's just the libs way to get free daycare for the poor. They can't get it by telling the truth so thay disquise it by calling it and "education" initiative. After they get this they'll start crying to include 3 yr olds...then 2 year olds...etc.
Reiner played Meathead who lived off Archie Bunker's food, housing, utilities, furniture and possessions while remaining the perpetual, unemployed, professional, liberal student.
He is now living off residuals from Archie Bunker's reruns while remaining the perpetual, unemployed, professional, liberal know-it-all.
That's some really Clintonian reasoning on display there, Meathead.
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it will be interesting to see how all this plays out.
We had a big discussion about California wanting to increase cigarette taxes again the other day on another thread.
Since the Tobacco Settlement money started pouring into the state by the California smokers who pay cigarette taxes (Not Big Tobacco and not the state government, but the smokers!) we want the California people to ask just where has all this money gone since 1999? It was supposed to go for health care and for any sick uninsured smokers should there be any and for sick kids.
Now they talk out of both sides of their mouths saying they need more taxes from cigarettes to fund emergency rooms?? This is way over the top. If people in California don't start making the lawmakers out there to account for this money, then they deserve to have taxes increased again. Some big questions need to ask here!
Read this link to find out just how much smokers are already contributing to the state economy:
LOL!
Here in CA the talk is that this is just the first step into making universal preschool MANDATORY. Soon, if they get their way, parents won't have a choice in the matter. I have no idea what this will mean for CA homeschoolers, but I imagine it's going to be a fight.
I try to lurk on all your threads, must have missed it, not real sure just where all the $$$ are currently going, will have to go to do a search.
Probably for all their pork pet programs they don't want to give up! Now they need money for the real thing, so they figure they can just raise cigarette taxes again. This has got to stop!
You might be interested in this item from Dan Weintraub of the Sacramento Bee:
Uh-ohThe four legislative leaders today sent a joint letter to the California Hospital Assn. expressing concern that a proposed ballot measure to increase the tobacco tax could put the state in violation of an agreement that settled nationwide litigation against the industry. That would lead to the forfeit of California's share of the settlement money from that lawsuit and force the state's general fund to repay bonds floated during the Davis Administration that essentially mortgaged that 25-year revenue stream to help bridge the state's budget deficit.
I think you're right. Remember Gore/Lieberman touting "universal preschool" in 2000? A federal mandate for "universal preschool" was part of their platform. When that didn't fly, it seemed the states started pushing it one by one.
Yes, thanks so much! Someone else found this exact paragraph on the other thread yesterday. I sure was happy to hear it. Surely there is just so much taxes lawmakers can slap on a legal commodity!
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