WORTH NOTING is an article from today's Los Angeles Times, California in Brief section. The headline: Teachers Disagree on Endorsements. Now the text:The state's largest teachers union bucked its elections committee and declined to endorse Hillary Clinton for president at last weekend's delegate meeting in Los Angeles.Rebel Girl can only imagine what the scene was at the CTA State Council meeting when this went down. Reb served as a State Council delegate for many years, as some of you may remember because you voted for her and helped oust Sherry Miller White.
Supporters of rival Barack Obama characterized the indecisiveness of the 340,00-member California Teachers Assn. as a strategic victory.
"What impact the endorsement has now doesn't measure up to the potential damage if the endorsed person doesn't win," said Michael day, president of the Teachers Assn. of Long Beach, who attended as an observer.
Other teachers unions, including the California Federation of Teaches and the United Teachers of Los Angeles, have also declined to endorse a candidate.
Rebel Girl can't recall another time when the CTA State Council floor failed to support the recommendation coming out of the committee, especially one of such import. Whenever the call was close, then the meeting room doors were closed and the mood grew tense and the rhetoric was ratcheted up and up. The status quo, which likes itself so much, generally prevailed. You know how it is.
But something else happened last weekend in the Grand Ballroom of some stuffy airport hotel. Rebel Girl sort of wishes she had been there for that one.
Primary day in California has been moved to February 5th (don't get Reb started on that one or she will fill your ear with her complaints about Fabian Nunez).
Vote.
17 comments:
Rebel Girl, how are you voting on the Indian Gaming Agreements?
and what's wrong with Fabian Nunez?
How are people voting on Prop 92, the community college initiative?
Our BIG union - CTA - took a stand against it.
Is DISSENT going to give us a voter guide?
I'm not Rebel Girl, and I'm not in your district, but I am a community college teacher and I'm voting against Prop 92.
It gives extra money to cc's--which is good--but it doesn't provide a funding mechanism. The extra money, nearly $1 B with a B over 3 years according to the Legislative Analyst's office, will have to come from firefighters, cops, nurses, the CSU system or the UC system, crippled kids, whereever, but it has to come from somewhere. Robbing Peter to pay Paul isn't sound policy, and the fact that we happen to be Paul doesn't make it any better.
Ammending Prop 92 will take a 4/5 vote of the State Legislature.
I'm also voting against the Indian Gaming Agreements, for the simple reason that Delores Huerta, co-founder with Cesar Chavez of the UAW, is against them. That's good enough for me.
--100 miles down the road
Is it true that the casinos don't have to allow unions because of tribe's sovereignty status?
Is Dissent endorsing Obama?
Tom Fuentes is supporting Romney.
Lemme put it this way. The Reb and I are highly amused when rightwingers wander onto this blog, attack Ms. Clinton and suppose that ipso facto they've attacked us.
Where do these idiots come from, anyway?
-CW
Raghu is backing Guiliani. I saw him wearing a button.
I thought Fuentes was going for Huckabee.
Ron Paul!
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/
oh dear, the hildabeast or obamamama. god help us.
Never fear, Ron Paul is here!
Yes, but only 11 months of the smirking chimp to go.
vote "no" on all propositions and lets get rid of the leftist legislatures and the pandering governor who tax and spend our children into billions of debt.
It's obviously way better to borrow and spend, the "conservative" approach--than to actually pay as you go.
Exactly, 11:26. Why pay taxes? Everyone knows that when you levy taxes and pay for programs using those taxes, it just amounts to a debt, as 6:52 seems to be saying. Makes perfect sense.
I guess 6:52 just wants to continue living under the incorrect assumption that you can continue to spend without taxing anybody, ever. And somehow a debt will never accrue (as it has enormously in the Bush and Ahnold years -- you know, those tax hating conservatives).
Or maybe he (yes, I say he, it just seems to me that it must be an angry white guy)wants to give up his job at a public entity that is paid for with taxpayer dollars. And get rid of his car, since there wouldn't be any roads to drive on anymore, because we wouldn't be able to build new roads, or fix old ones. And fight the Iraq war himself with his bare hands. And pick up trash on our beaches himself. The list goes on...
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