Rob Reiner steps down from California preschool commission (Dead Meathead Walking)

AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 3/29/06 | Michael R. Blood - ap

[45Auto]

Reiner was concerned that criticism of him might lead to an indictment for fraud.

[kingu]

The only stepping I wanted to see him do was the perp walk. But of course, different laws apply to liberal celebrities.

[calcowgirl]

Link to prior thread, including info on Reiner's La Raza replacement, Hector Ramirez:

Embattled Reiner Steps Down as 'First 5' Chairman [meat-head]

[NormsRevenge]

His replacement, Hector Ramirez, a VP and CEO of Para Los Ninos and an advocate of the Preschool for All Act.


A FRiend of Hector and his mission, NCLR , the National Coalition of La Raza, is actively involved in supporting the Preschool for All Act as well.

[Amerigomag]

So. The meathead calls the Austrian and they cut a deal. The meathead is out, a meathead clone with a closet full of cultural supremacy issues is in and the Austrian won't bad mouth Prop 82.

Game, set, match.

Grab your wallets and flee as fast as you can. The Austrian is coming. He's coming with Prop 49 and Prop 82. He's coming to take your children into the bosom of mother government.

ALL YOUR CHILDREN ARE MINE!

[calcowgirl]

Para Los Ninos gets about half their funding from First 5 (i.e. taxpayers).

They also are involved in After-School-Programs.

[calcowgirl]

I think you've captured the essence. I'm literally sick.

And this is the "best" we can get for 4 more years?

Thanks, Dufus!

[calcowgirl]

http://www.newwestnotes.com/flash-rob-reiner-out-as-chairman-of-first-5/

Schwarzenegger may have created another controversy for himself with the appointment of Hector Ramirez as First 5 Chairman. Ramirez is a political associate of Reiner's. The Proposition 82 campaign was launched at an event outside Para Los Ninos.

Ramirez served on the executive committee of the First 5 LA's Preschool For All Initiative, which was, as I reported earlier, Reiner and First 5's initial attempt to institute a publicly-funded universal preschool program and served as a model for Prop 82. After it was discovered that the Prop 10 tobacco tax money was inadequate for the task, Reiner's thoughts turned to a new statewide initiative to fund Preschool For All at the state level. That initiative is now Prop 82.

Ramirez is also a leading member of the National Council of La Raza ("The Race"), an advocacy organization on a variety of issues, including immigration reform, in which it is frequently opposed to Schwarzenegger's policy. In the context of Latino politics, "La Raza" can also mean "The People." In some circles, it has a rather poetic and mystical connotation as "La Raza Cosmica," in which, to quote Wikipedia, "traditional concepts of race and nationality can be transcended in the name of humanity's common destiny."

Ramirez, according to his bio, serves as co-chair of the California Region Education Committee for the National Council of La Raza. The Packard Foundation (based on the Hewlett-Packard Co. fortune), which has worked closely with Rob Reiner on the First 5 program in general and Preschool For All in particular, is a major funder of the National Council of La Raza.

[ridesthemiles]

Reiner was concerned that criticism of him might lead to an indictment for fraud.""

Just ahead of the Grand Jury????

[FlingWingFlyer]

Looks like Meathead is doing his own little "cut and run." Lardass coward. You can always count on Brokeback Mountain DemocRATS to refuse to stick around and fight once the going gets tough and the bloody noses start.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

PROSECUTE HIM!!!!!!!!!

[Hildy]

TWO WORDS...CITIZEN'S ARREST.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Once a meathead, always a meathead.

[Seadog Bytes]

RE: ""The opposition has not focused on the merits of the initiative," Fabiani said. "They've decided to focus on Rob.""

 

Focus...focus...focus...(link)

[Amerigomag]

More alarmingly, the fully grown Reiner has access to a fridge far more capacious than Archie's, and his motivations have grown, if anything, more narrowly personal. In describing his motivations for Prop 10, the Meathead consistently describes how his adherence to the first-three-years cult came out of therapy after the breakup of his first marriage. "It's no great revelation that my early experiences as a child informed my relationship to others," the son of funnyman Carl Reiner confides to Horizon magazine.

[BunnySlippers]

A crook if ever there was one. Arnold jumped the shark a long time ago.

Glad to see you're using better sources.

[NormsRevenge]

LOL ;-)

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RE: "After it was discovered that the Prop 10 tobacco tax money was inadequate for the task, Reiner's thoughts turned to a new statewide initiative to fund Preschool For All at the state level. That initiative is now Prop 82."

With all necessary apologies to the Rev. Martin Niemöller...
"When they came for the (smokers), I didn't protest, because I wasn't a (smoker)..."

Meathead "They-Don't-Call-Me-'ROB'-for-Nothing" Reiner

[NormsRevenge]

"They-Don't-Call-Me-'ROB'-for-Nothing" Reiner

LOL