Friday Free for All

California's landmark Parent Trigger Law, which allows students' parents to take control of failing schools, is currently before the State Board of Education which is crafting policies and regulations around the laws.  School teachers and administrators, of course no fan of the law, are seeking to direct how those rules are imposed.  Parent activists who worked to get the law passed, including Lydia Grant of Sunland-Tujunga, have filed an ethics complaint against board member Patricia Rucker, who is also a paid lobbyist for the California Teachers Association.  The parents are saying that Rucker's participation represents a conflict of interest and she should recuse herself from proceedings on the Parent Trigger Law.  Joining the parents is retired State Senator Gloria Romero, who authored the law, in calling on Rucker to step away.



Janice Hahn could be in big trouble following an updated report by KTTV's Chris Blatchford concerning her gang intervention problems.  Despite being threatened by Hahn's law firm, the same lawyers that came after us on behalf of Assemblyman Mike Gatto (who now has even bigger problems with KFI's John and Ken and other media outlets than he ever did with MayorSam), KTTV went ahead and aired the report, refuting claims by Hahn.  This is bad news for Hahn who is in heated race for a Congressional seat.

Our old friend Betty Pleasant is rambling about something.  But it comes down to this: Steve Cooley is a criminal who unfairly targeted Richard Alarcon, Mark Ridley-Thomas can do no wrong and she hates Bernard Parks.  Something new I did not know: Betty apparently doesn't like Congresswoman Maxine Waters, either.