Vote Yes on Measure A, and Stop the Wealthy Fat-Cat University Professors From Controlling Chico

ChicoER ^ | 5/2/11 | Chuck Wolk

[OneVike]

I know there are a few freepers who live in Chico that are already on board with yes on A, but if any of my fellow freepers have friends or relatives living here I would appreciate it if you could please contact them. They need to understand the truth, and as usual the MSM is not helping to educate them on measure A.

We desperately need to reduce the universities influence on our local elections. When you consider that 14,000 students attend Chico state, you can imagine how they can effect the outcomes.

[OneVike]

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In my town of Chico, there is a measure on the ballot to change the day of local elections from the first Tuesday in November, to the First Tuesday in June. This is primarily for the purpose of eliminating the effect of the university in our elections. As you may guess the left has all their cohorts out obfuscating the issue and it is a battle that sadly the conservatives are too afraid to admit the truth.

I for one have talked to many who feel it is wrong to disenfranchise the students from voting, but after I explain the simple truth that if a student lives here in June they can still vote, it gets their attention. Then when I explain the way the elections were originally in June, but changed to November by fooling the public simply to get control of Chico, well then every person I talked to agree to vote yes for the measure. When will conservatives stop worrying about the way the left lies and just fight with the truth? After all, it works most times it is tried, and as they say no guts no glory. Anyway, I wrote this for my paper and decided I will say what everyone knows but is afraid to admit. I also decided to play their game by calling the university professors, wealthy fat-cats. After all, they are some of the wealthiest people in Chico, all paid by our tax dollars...............

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[Flycatcher]

I hope you succeed.

I love Chico, and my wife and I would have made it our permanent home two decades ago when we first married. But even then, prices on homes (and everything else) were way over budget by Butte County standards.

Now a true story: About 20 years ago, my wife and I were strolling the campus during some sort of fair/event. There was a booth where participants could take a little quiz to determine where they stood on the political spectrum, and there was a large board that showed you where you stood in relationship to everyone else who took the quiz. So I took the quiz, of course, and after grading it, she placed my marker further to the right than any other participant. If you can believe this, after doing so, she looked right at me, gave me the Nazi salute, and said "Heil, Hitler!"

I was a bit shocked. I asked her if she knew what Nazi stood for, but of course she didn't answer. And that was 20 years ago! I can imagine the newest crop of youngsters is even more indoctrinated.

Anyway, all the best in your endeavor!

[stansblugrassgrl]

It’s early and I haven’t had any coffee yet. I take it you live in Chico and wrote the article, OV? I think your argument make complete sense, especially the part about fighting lies with truth.

[Kirkwood]

Wealthy fat-cat college professors? LOL! I never met one of those.

[OneVike]

Well they still call us Nazis, and they still promote the policies that helped Hitler rise to power. The professors are certified communists, and the students are dumber than ever.

[allmendream]

Yes, most college professors are upper middle class at best.

The average CA State University professor makes $74,000 a year. Less than I do - but then again I have to live in high price L.A. for my job.

$74,000 a year in Chico is pretty good - but not even close to being “wealthy fat-cat”.

[OneVike]

Thank you, and enjoy that first cup. After all, the rest of the day can sometimes be downhill after it..... LOL

[OneVike]

Wealthy fat-cat college professors? LOL! I never met one of those.

Look at the salaries and benefits of every tenured professor in America, and you will find that every one fits that category these days.

Ever see a professor starving, or worried about being laid off in bad economic times?

[Trailerpark Badass]

Wealthy fat-cat college professors? LOL! I never met one of those.

Well, they ARE wealthy compared to what their work would earn them in the private sector (at least humanities professors).

As one with a MA, I came to realize how much money we are throwing away, subsidizing the production of utterly useless, and value-less, information.

Scanning a few volumes of DAI is mind-blowing.

[OneVike]

$74,000 a year in Chico is pretty good - but not even close to being “wealthy fat-cat”.

Better rethink that, 90% of the residents who are raised in Chico and decide to stay make less than $30,000.00 a year. Unemployment was one of the highest in the state before the recession, and now it is in the mid teens. If you look at the unadjusted numbers the unemployment is almost 30%.

Most new homes purchased in the last 10 years have been purchased by those who live in Sacramento or near it, and they commute. Chico was fast becoming a bedroom city as most residents were priced out of the market due to their low salaries. By far 85% of jobs are service industry, because the left has destroyed any chance of real good paying industry jobs from locating here.

So yes, compared to the locals, the university professors are wealthy fat-cat socialists.

[M Kehoe]

Good morning.

I lived in Chico for a year and a half. I was the CFO for all of the News and Review(s). Not many conservatives in that AO. Beautiful part of the country it is.

I wish you the best of luck.

5.56mm

[allmendream]

So the Chico marijuana growers are “wealthy fat cats” if they make over 74,000$ a year?

How about all the underemployed musicians sleeping on their friends couches - or even their “porch couches”?

I grew up in Chico.

My brother owns and operates a business in Chico.

$74,000 in Chico is well off - it is not “wealthy fat cat”.

[hedgetrimmer]

You haven’t seen the salaries of the University of California system yet, have you?

[Kirkwood]

I guess your definition of wealthy is way different than mine. Their median salaries are middle-class to upper middle class at best. Certainly nowhere close to wealthy.

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos066.htm#earnings

[Kirkwood]

But California is a ridiculously expensive place to live and wages there are all scaled upwards accordingly. They still are not wealthy fat-cats by any stretch of the imagination.

[OneVike]

$74,000 in Chico is well off - it is not “wealthy fat cat”.

First off, we are talking about California's university professors who average over $100,000.00 a year, and Deans who make in excess of $150,000.00 a year. All with full benefits they do not contribute a single penny to. Then if they write a book, which every tenured prof is expected to do, they get deals where almost every university and many high schools in the country will purchase their book for their library. How much do you think they are making on royalties from their books that just sit on the shelf and never get read.

We can also add the tens of thousands they make for lectures where they attend conventions that amount to no more than socialist circle jerks. Also, when they attend these conventions and most other travel around the country for university business (and everything to them is related to their job) the university picks up the tab. All the while most of the time they are not even teaching their class, some graduate student is for a better grade.

All told, many of these professors can make in excess of $250,000.00 a year. Remember, Al Gore, their little god, is the one who said thatr if you make a million in four to five years you are a millionaire, so if the shoe fits.

See, I didn't make the rules of class warfare, they did. They are the ones who claim that a small business man is wealthy, when most small business owners are barely making ends meet. If those who make the rules cannot abide by them, that is not my problem, just my target.

[Kirkwood]

“Well, they ARE wealthy compared to what their work would earn them in the private sector (at least humanities professors).”

The value of their work is a discussion for another day. This is about what constitutes being a wealthy fat-cat, and college professors are not that. Many of them are just well-paid hippies.

[allmendream]

Wrong. The Average CA State University professor makes $74,000 a year in salary - not “average over $100,000 a year”.

How many Chico State University professors are making tens of thousands a year for giving lectures?

Chico is a little nothing town and CSU is a joke of a school.

I wouldn’t pay much more than $100 to have their ‘best and brightest’ give a lecture on any subject to any audience.

[Alamo-Girl]

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