State GOP joins Frogue Recall Effort

During the 1996 trustee campaign, the Faculty Association (faculty union) fully supported the candidacy of incumbant STEVE FROGUE, despite the clear indications (see Register article, March 1995) that he routinely made racially insensitive and Holocuast-denying remarks in his High School classroom. When, in 1997, Frogue made troubling remarks to the LA Times (The ADL killed JFK!) and then further embarrassed the district by inviting four conspiracy nuts, including some with strong ties to the anti-Semitic Liberty Lobby, to a JFK-assassination forum at Saddleback College, a recall effort was born. As you can see below, the State Republican Party joined the effort. Despite gathering a record number of signatures, the effort ultimately failed. Frogue decided to resign from the Board a few months before the 2000 election, in part, perhaps, because he was persuaded that he would lose. But that's just a guess. With the help of the union Old Guard (Sharon M, Ray C, et al., addressed the Board in this regard), Frogue was replaced with extreme anti-unionist Tom Fuentes. Having already funded the victory of the anti-teachers union Padberg and Wagner in 1998, the union Old Guard had, through these actions, helped bring about a board dominated by anti-unionists who are largely hostile to faculty interests. (Nancy Padberg seems to have come around quite a bit in recent years to the faculty perspective. Indeed, it is likely that she will be supported by the Reformed union when she's up for reelection.) Why did the Old Guard do it? Don't know. Why don't you ask them? (Click on the graphic to make it larger.)