The Buzz

Voters should hope Gov. Brown’s tour of California to build support for raising taxes will end like the Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour.” In the 1967 film, ordinary citizens are taken for a ride, but their bus causes traffic jams wherever it goes. The tour ends when John Lennon angrily tears the hand-lettered sign off the bus. Tunes from the soundtrack include “The Fool on the Hill.”

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When Brown’s tour stopped in Los Alamitos on Saturday, he said, "You got to wear people down. You have to persuade them, and you have to go out to as many parts of California to create the mood, the momentum, and the environment where people are ready to face the music." http://www.sacbee.com/2011/04/10/3541283/browns-countdown-day-91-governor.html#mi_rss=State%20Politics The “music” people are already facing includes job loss, foreclosure, a national debt of $14 trillion and borders open to criminal invasion.

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Residents who receive email blasts from Dave Leckness to promote his copy business say the message is confusing. His latest email contains a video with the caption, “Your business cards are crap.” For anyone trying to figure out if “crap” is a typo, the video is clear – it’s crap. A talking head on the video says his business cards cost $4.00 apiece, and standard cards are crap. One would think the message is to upgrade to $4.00 cards but, no, Dave’s ad is for the standard cards.

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How can parents help to de-politicize their schools? Tim Wildmon, president of American Family Association, writes: “The Day of Silence, which is sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), fast approaches. This year it will take place in most public schools on April 15. On this day, thousands of public high schools and increasing numbers of middle schools will allow students to remain silent throughout an entire day – even during instructional time – to promote GLSEN's socio-political goals and its controversial, unproven, and destructive theories on the nature and morality of homosexuality.” Parents opposing the hijacking of the classroom for political purpose can check out this link: http://www.doswalkout.net

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From OC Supv. Shawn Nelson’s April 8 Newsletter: “In an effort to sequester funds in the face of possible redirection as proposed by Gov. Brown, the Board of Supervisors, acting as the Orange County Development Agency, voted 4-1 to approve a list of proposed projects and their estimated costs. Supv. Nelson voted against this proposal since it included making unsubstantiated findings that the redevelopment agency provided the only source of funding for the listed projects, and that the projects constituted removal of blight. Part of the proposal included redirecting housing set-aside funds from the Santa Ana Heights redevelopment area to pay for $315,000,000 of affordable housing in Ranch Mission Viejo over the years.”

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The April 4 Capistrano Dispatch describes a lawsuit filed by a CUSD constituent, Jim Reardon: “Reardon Sues Capistrano Unified School District Over Salary Restorations. A lawsuit filed March 28 in OC Superior Court alleges violations by the Capistrano Unified School District (CUSD) Board of Trustees of the Ralph M. Brown Act, California's ‘open meeting’ law. The suit alleges that the Trustees met secretly to discuss and vote to restore work days and pay to teachers, management and other employees without proper public notice and without reporting to the public the results of their closed-door meeting … Reardon stated that when presented with the facts, the Trustees denied acting improperly. Instead Reardon said, ‘They held a sham meeting to reaffirm their earlier, still undocumented, decision. They never bothered to consider whether the additional money being paid to teachers and employees this year actually exists.’”