Teachers' Union May Be Going Bankrupt
KFI's John and Ken are reporting that the California Teachers Association may be nearly bankrupt as they fight two Arnold endorsed initiatives on the November special election ballot. Attorneys for the teacher's union are fighting legal efforts to block an additional assessment the union is attempting to levy on members to pay for their efforst to fight Arnold, as well as Propositions 75 and 76. According to John and Ken, court filings from the financial guys at the union, show that the CTA is heavily in debt and is attempting to negotiate additional lines of credit to pay current loans and the costs of opposing 75 and 76 going into the last few days of the election. The union has put forward the special assessment as collateral for the additional financing they need, however if members are able to block the assessment, the union could be in huge financial trouble going forward.According to reports, the union is upset that some of its members involved with the Yes on 75 campaign have spammed 90,000 teachers in support of the measure and claiming the union is bankrupt. The union is saying there is a legal violation because the law prohibits the use of school resources for political campaigns (if that is so, why is this stuff going on?). However, the California High School Conservative Blog explains well why there is likely no violation in this case.
(Photo - CTA President Barbara Kerr)
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 10/18/2005 06:08:00 AM
27 Comments:
First they bankrupt our kids, then the union.
What do you expect from mediocrity.
LAUSD GETTING SUED AGAIN? CAN WE AFFORD LEGAL FEES FOR ANOTHER LAWSUIT? YES WE CAN, PROP Y WILL GET THE FUNDS FOR COPS AND LAWSUITS!
LAUSD sued by anti-affirmative action group
Two lawsuits target School district’s policies regarding race consideration
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=34517
COPS= NON VOTER BONDS USED FOR MISC SHIT LAUSD DECIDED TO SPEND
(I-Newswire) - Los Angeles, CA. Jon Coupal, President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association has raised the possibility of a legal challenge for the misuse of bond funds by the Los Angeles Unified School District ( LAUSD ) on the latest FULL DISCLOSURE NETWORK™ video blog to be launched on the Internet website www.fulldisclosure.net on Monday, October 17, 2005
In this ten minute video blog, moderated by Emmy Award winning host Leslie Dutton questions were raised as to the legality of the LAUSD use and method of repayment of non-voter approved Certificates of Participation ( COP ) bonds currently amounting to almost one billion dollars that funded the notorious Belmont Learning Center and other unknown projects. Others appearing on the video blog with Coupal, discussing little known facts about the LAUSD and the proposed $3.95 billion bond ( Measure Y ) on the November ballot are:
David Tokofsky
Jon Coupal
Don Mullinax
Anthony Patchett
LAUSD losing more students, less enrollemnt. What is the problem and why do we need more schools if we are projected to keep losing more students?
LAUSD loses more students than expected
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/1778046.html
Enrollment Drops At LAUSD Schools By Thousands
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/5089669/detail.html
The video blog from full disclosure is being reported all over the place.
Mayor Villaraigosa backs Measure Y, WHY?
Who is he paying back? We must investigate the Mayor.
Amazing to me that all this shit keeps coming down from LAUSD, and the powers that be still all want to give a good-old-boy pass to the guy who was the board president for the past two years when everything went to hell. Makes no sense at all to keep letting the crud rise to the surface.
Alvin Parra is a contractor, not a consultant. He buys probate property, "fixes" them up and then he sets fire to them.
Alvin makes profit from DEAD PEOPLE.
Bad Karma must be following him daily.
Alvin invest in AA centers for La familia
I'M CONFUSED, WHAT IS IT LAUSD? DO WE HAVE MONEY OR NOT, OR DO WE NEED THIS STUPID BILL TO BUY PROPERTY BY E.DOMAIN? HOW MANY OVERPRICED PARCELS DID WE BUY AND WERE OWNED BY VILLARAIGOSA, HIS FRIENDS, FAMILY, HUIZAR AND HIS FAMILY, GLORIA MOLINA AND HIS FAMILY, GONZALEZ AND HIS FAMILY? THIS IS WORST THAN MEXICAN POLITICS, TOO CORRUPT TO BE HAPPENING IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
1) "City of Huntington Park & LAUSD Interfere with Sale of 'La Montana' Property"
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/9/prweb289483.htm
2) "Downey-based Meruelo Enterprises paid $3.2 million for the eight-acre center, nearly double what the city redevelopment agency could afford. ..."
L.A. Live hotel won't see vote
The public will not decide if the project should receive millions of dollars in public subsidies.
By David Zahniser
Copley News Service
"Los Angeles officials have struck a deal to prevent a downtown businessman from asking voters to decide whether a new 55-story downtown hotel project should receive millions of dollars in public subsidies, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Monday."
PUBLIC SUBSIDIES AGAIN MAYOR V.? WHAT THE HELL, YOU ARE GOING TO MAKE US BANKRUPT YOU MORON! YOU SHORT SHIT, WHY THE HELL DID YOU DO THIS? YOU AND THE LAUSD ARE CORRUPT.
YUP... Then Mayor bent over for Zen. You think we are stupid? You are absolutely careless on how city money is wasted. Voters need to hold politicians accountable and using our city money for pay to play agendas
"Westin Bonaventure hotel executive Peter Zen dropped his effort to force a citywide vote on the plan, which allows a 1,100-room hotel near the Los Angeles Convention Center to keep up to $270 million in municipal hotel taxes it is expected to generate over the next 25 years."
LET THE BIG COMPANIES, RICH COMPANIES GET TAX FREE BREAKS FOR THE NEXT 25 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS IS CITY TAX MONEY THAT CAN COME IN TO PAY FOR MORE POLICE, HELP IN SCHOOL PROGRAMS, CITY PROGRAMS, SHIT THE HOMELESS SHOULD BE UP IN ARMS ON THIS ONE. YOU MUST HAVE SOME CITY MONEY STASHED THAT WE DO NOT KNOW ABOUT. WAIT...WAIT A MINUTE HERE:
YOU ARE WILLING TO TAX PROPERTY OWNERS FOR THE Y MEASURE, BUT GIVE THIS ZEN ASSHOLE 250 MILLION DOLLARSS IN TAX BREAKS FOR THE NEXT 25 YEARS.
MAKES NO SENSE. OH BY THE WAY, THE REGULAR VOTER HAD NO SAY WHAT SO EVER ON THIS. YOU TOOK IT UPON YOURSELF TO JUST GO AND GAMBLE OUR CITY MONEY AWAY. YOU ARE MORE LIKE A DICTATOR, NOT YOUR REGULAR DEMOCRATIC POLITICIAN. IS THIS WHAT THEY TAUGHT YOU IN COLLEGE? SCREW THE LITTLE GUY AND GIVE TO THE RICH.
YOU CAN FIND THE TOP QUOTE IN DAILY BREEZE
Why does it all come back to the Mayor and Huizar? We're not talking about the LAUSD, but the teacher's union.
WHO have the teacher's unions most recently supported (at the cost of millions); and who do they support now?
AV and Huizar.
Didn't have to go too far for that answer, didja?
With supporters like this, Nick's gotta' be hurtin'.
Don't call them rats tofu girl. Some of these voters have no idea who is the right candidate. After reading, listening, and viewing the candidates over many months, they have decided what is best.
Pacheco.
I am one of those that was not sure. After attending events that showed all candidates many times, I made my decision recently and stand by it. But please, do not call us rats for practicing democracy. Pacheco should accept everyone that supports him. That includes those that supported him since the beginning and those just joining. You have to give credit for those that took the time to research all candidates, it makes sense.
With NO supporters to even defend his dismal public service record here, Huizar is OBVIOUSLY hurting. . . (must all be out beating the bushes) trying to find someone that vaguely recognizes his name willing to vote for him in a few weeks.
"I made my decision recently and stand by it." --- 1:52 PM
I love how s/he stands by their decision - ANONYMOUSLY. Really shows proof of grassroots support for Pacheco.
3:51pm anon your anon status really showsthe grass roots support for YOUR canidate. Go screw yourself looser!!
To: Tofu soybean
Really smart to go and piss on Pacheco's donors by calling them rats.
Hey rats! Pacheco and his idiot supporters don't want your money or "credit".
As for folks having to sit on this blog and defend huizar, i think the hahn cut and paste crew threw out the same charge that folks weren't on this blog to defend the mayor.
In reality we see that the Mayor didn't need this blog or any other website to win, and i really doubt huizar and crew need this website either.
I think they believe that their supporters should get to the business of voter contacts and nothing else.
Hey thanks for the link!
I will link to this as well because I had not heard about these documents that prove the Union is really in debt.
After all of my letters and calls, neither Pacheco nor Urteaga have answered me. Which of course means that IF Pacheco were to win - he plans to vote YES on the BFI contract.
I know I know, you've all warned me before.
So I guess my active neighbors and I should go sign up for Huizar's campaign to phone bank and walk precincts. At least we know up front what he will do.
You know it's funny, you think the only bloggers are volunteers and staff of the candidates. Not true. Many of us are community members and staffers for other councilmembers and electeds, or city employees.
The information about Huziar is true, he would be a puppet of the mayor. And as a government employee I say no to puppets.
Anyone who can't see that this is true is just kidding themselves...
As for the bond issues. I say no to that too. The union has gone too far. Spending money they don't have without the permission of the membership is just plain wrong. And taking millions of dollars in loans is corrupt.
I hope 75 passes so these types of activities by unions no longer happens.
Remember when we had the grocery strike, those union bosses never stopped taking their pay...it speaks volumes as to how they really use their members.
Kim now for sure, I won't go for Huizar after your lame ass kiss ass comment to the Huizar Camp.
>>The union says the email violates the law because it was received by teachers on their school district computers. Supporters of the measure say the law applies only to employees and government bodies.
This is quite funny. Why does the union have all of these email addresses that are supposedly "recieved by teachers on their school district computers"?
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