The press release doesn't offer news, really, since Bucher has long supported Wagner. But faculty and classified will find some of Don’s rhetoric pretty interesting:
Mark Bucher Endorses Conservative Wagner
Mark Bucher, one of California’s leading conservative activists, has announced his support of Don Wagner, Republican candidate for the 70th Assembly District and president of the South Orange County Community College Board of Trustees.
"On the Community College Board, Conservative Don Wagner has been a consistent vote for fiscal accountability and educational excellence. He's never been afraid to go toe-to-toe with the public employee unions if those unions weren't putting students and education first."
Bucher has been a vocal critic of the power and influence of labor unions in California, which led him to found the Education Alliance, a group dedicated to assisting school board candidates who are independent of education unions. He has been instrumental in landmark ballot initiatives like Proposition 226, which would have required unions to receive permission to use their members’ dues for political purposes; Propositions 174 and 38 promoting school choice; and Proposition 22, the Defense of Marriage Initiative.
“No one has done more for education reform than Mark Bucher and I am grateful to him for dedicating himself to fighting the unions’ corrosive impact on education in California,” said Wagner. “We have worked together at the South Orange County Community Colleges to minimize the influence of the unions and I plan to continue that fight as a member of the State Assembly. The public employee unions are destroying our state and we need to rein them in.”….
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7 comments:
Love the tunes!
But how can Wagner take $$$ from the union leadeship and then declare he is trying to minimize their influence? Come on.
Wagner is some fiscal conservative - signing off on $25,000 for Mathur's lawyer - and a quarter of a mil for Mathur - but let's demonize the public employees' unions!
Yeah, right.
Effin fat cats!
(No offense of the kitties.)
What's the date on that quote in red?
And we have union leadership contributing to Wagner. ??????????????????????
Trust me, you'd be making a big mistake taking that contribution at face value. It's just part of the schmooze.
What do you mean a schmooze?
Are you asking what “schmooze” means? My dictionary—New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd edition—says it’s a verb and a noun. To schmooze is to “talk intimately and cozily; gossip.” A schmooze is “a long and intimate conversation.” Some people approach (the politics of) handling those of the opposition by, well, schmoozing, as though these others are old friends. They tell each other jokes and stories. They give each other little gifts. They do each other favors. They have drinks. Y’know, like lobbyists. –That’s what I mean. Schmooze.
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