Re: The California witness list--billee

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Thanks to you and all for enlightening me on Gray Davis.  Unfortunately, I 
don't think he is the only Democrat with a Republican heart when it comes to 
education.  

--billee



In a message dated 5/6/2003 2:02:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, learn@jps.net 
writes:


> Subj:Re: [arn-l] The California witness list--billee 
> Date:5/6/2003 2:02:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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> 
> 
> Billee:
> 
> Where did you get the idea that California's governor is a liberal 
> Democrat?
> 
> A Republican staffer at the Capitol told me that there are three parties 
> there: Democrats, Republicans and Gray Davis.
> 
> After the Democratic rank and file got him elected in 1998, Davis cozied up 
> 
> to business interests, letting it be known that he would block bills sought 
> 
> by traditional Democratic interest groups like organized labor.
> 
> The prison guards are among his biggest contributors and he's notorious for 
> 
> his refusal to grant parole even when his own Board of Prison Terms 
> recommends it. It wasn't until this winter, when a recall loomed as a real 
> possibility, that Davis began to make nice once again with liberal 
> constituencies.
> 
> Davis used to work for Jerry Brown, but that was a long time ago, and if 
> Brown was a liberal then it doesn't prove that Davis is now. Davis is not a 
> 
> right wing extremist. He's not anti-gay, anti-abortion, or against the 
> teaching of evolution, but you'd have to be a fool to run for statewide 
> office in California with those positions. Davis is not liberal in any 
> progressive sense. He is a corporate tool.
> 
> At 12:04 AM 5/6/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> >Well, here's an interesting article on the lawsuit in California in which
> >year-round school is cited among the education inequities 
> disproportionately
> >imposed on minority and poor children.  Many of you will recognize some 
> names
> >you love to hate on the list of expert witnesses for the state which is
> >saying there is nothing wrong with its richman/poorman school districts.
> >
> >Line up the experts who think that education inequity, including 
> year-round
> >school, is justifiable and you find these are the same folks who support
> >school vouchers and support school privatization.  Is there a connection
> >between those who support privatization and efforts to undermine public
> >education by imposing the year-round calendar on public schools?  I rest 
> my
> >case with the witness list for the state.
> >
> >There is a strange twist here.  The prime expert witness  for the state 
> are
> >from conservative "think tanks"  and the state's leader is a liberal
> >Democrat.  Go figure.
> >Will some of you California folks explain this, please?
> >
> >--billee
> >
> >
> >http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/05/05/MN102341.DTL&;
> >type=printable
> 
> George Sheridan