Posted on 04/08/2006 4:56:40 PM PDT by Amerigomag
For two years, the California Teachers Association has beat up on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger with relentless ferocity. It made sense: The CTA is used to treating state revenues as if they were an all-you-can-eat buffet, and the governor was eager to take the union on.
Last November, unfortunately, the CTA won the power struggle. All four reform initiatives Schwarzenegger touted were rejected after a campaign in which loads of demagogic ads were run describing the governor as a threat to truth, justice and the American way. This deceptive campaign, overseen by CTA political strategist Joe Nuñez – morphed Schwarzenegger's calls for reform into attacks on “our families and communities.”
Given this backdrop, what the governor did last week is beyond mind-boggling: He reappointed Nuñez to the state Board of Education. Much has been made of Schwarzenegger's optimistic governing style. But thinking that throwing this bone to the CTA will help win the union over is delusional. Even after the governor offered budgets that raise education spending by a stunning 16 percent over two years, the CTA still wants his head – and he pals up to its chief strategist?
And while the Nuñez choice is baffling on political grounds, it's crazy on substance. Given how thoroughly the CTA dominates California's education debate, the last thing we need is a CTA official on the state school board.
Perhaps the governor is no longer just smoking cigars. This decision, more than any other of his administration, seems hallucinogenically inspired.
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For the rest of the adults that know better, Nunez' appointment was no surprise. It followed a pattern started during the days of a "transition team" that recruited California's public enemy number one, Willie Brown. The Brown adventure was closely followed by appointments of liberal greens to key advisory and bureacratic positions followed by the constant appointment of Democrat judges. The pattern creshendoed with the appointment of a rabid, unreformed, unrepentanat, pro-homosexual, liberal, political activist and Democrat stratigist bon vivant, as his chief of staff which finally tore away the Austrian's, conservative, Republican base.
As I have repeatedly warned fixated, Democrat partisans, pundits and strategists: You better hope he does not register as a Democrat. You'll never be rid of him.
Well, he's just giving the voters what they voted for. He would have chosen a different path, but sees there is not enough support for it.
The voters themselves have to change their thinking, before political change comes to California.
the only thing dumber was Jerky Gerry Ford appointing John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court.
Not true. He won the recall election based on a platform of fiscal conservatism. Unfortunately, he hasn't followed through, only using more and more debt to paper over even greater deficit spending than we saw under the predecessor. The appointment of leftists to high positions just adds insult to injury.
I was referring to the defeat of all his propositions. The voters like him, but not these proposals. So he's giving them the opposite.
Repeating the myth of the MSM.
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