The political temperature and backstabbing will go into high gear after the 4 initiatives to increase our taxes while giving more to illegals and the dregs of society get destroyed by California voters tomorrow.
With the exception of teachers and others on the tax dole, no one we have talked to has voted for (absentee) or will vote for these tax increases. A lot of retired teachers will be no voters, and they said a lot of their peers still voting and with a job will vote no.
..but the some of the teachers unions are voting against 1A because it limits their pay increases I believe....not because they are against raising taxes.
Read that somewhere.
From a Union Organization:
Prop. 1A has teacher groups divided
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A statewide ballot measure in the May 19 special election has created a big rift in the education world, even though an accompanying proposition would return $9.3 billion to public schools.
The powerful, 340,000-member California Teachers Association has endorsed Proposition 1A, one of six measures included in a bipartisan budget deal to address the state's $42 billion shortfall through 2010. The measure would cap spending and increase the size of California's "rainy day" fund — and, its supporters say, would likely prevent further immediate cuts to the state's public schools.
But one of the teacher group's largest local affiliates, the Oakland Education Association, has broken ranks on this issue. Other groups unhappy with the CTA's endorsement include the California Federation of Teachers, the California Faculty Association and the California School Boards Association. They say 1A appears to be just another quick fix that wouldn't solve the state's persistent budget problems, and that the spending caps would lock public schools into low funding levels and put public services and universities at greater risk of cutbacks.
"It's not comfortable to be in the position of disagreeing with our state organization," said Betty Olson-Jones, president of the Oakland Education Association, which represents about 2,800 teachers, counselors, nurses and librarians in the city's public schools.
Still, Olson-Jones said, "We really cannot, in all good conscience, support any measure that would cap and cut vital social services, because they are needed by our students." …
David Sanchez, president of the California Teachers Association, said that if these measures don't pass, state lawmakers would have to forge another agreement to balance the state budget — a process that could be disastrous for schools and the state as a whole.
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Teachers’ union representing California’s largest school district says permanent spending cap is “no real solution” to state’s budget woes
LOS ANGELES, CA – United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) today announced that the organization representing 48,000 public school teachers and health and human services professionals in the Los Angeles area opposes Prop 1A on the May 19 ballot. UTLA's House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to oppose the flawed and risky constitutional amendment.