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Marie, I am going to post the picture you sent me. Is there any video on youtube to put up also?

I tried to answer you before, but it was apparently a casualty of the technical difficulties we have been experiencing on the blogs since Scripps decided to "upgrade" the software last week.

The entire rally was filmed by CAPS-TV and it is scheduled to air this week several times. It also aired on KEYT News. (ABC affiliate for W. County and S.B. County)

It was a great event with more than 500 attending and then we all marched down to the Government Center. Hannah-Beth marched with us! But I'm just sorry that we had to have a rally to beg for education dollars in the first place.

I visited the Ojai rally for education today. There will be a "Flunk the Budget" rally in front of McClintock's office, 223 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd., in Thousand Oaks on Friday, April 25 from 4 - 5 p.m.

Of course we know he will not be there.

Marie, it seems to me that McClintock is the only one who's been trying to "fix the budget" for many years now. He's the only member of the Legislature who's been trying to rein in spending and restore some sanity to the annual budget process. If they'd done what he's been proposing years ago, schools would have plenty of money today.

Mongo:

Please list the specifics of McClintock's work.

What has he opposed, proposed, and supported?

Maybe McClintock could start by returning the $306,000 he's taken from the taxpayers in per diem expenses which were meant for legislators who live far from Sacramento. McClintock doesn't live here and as such it's rather hypocritical of him to accept the money.

Publius, one thing he has consistently opposed, which is the subject of this discussion, is the State budget as proposed each year. Specifically, because it contains spending that is out of sync with revenues.

The State Legislature, dominated by Democrats, has continually adopted a State budget, year after year, that is structurally imbalanced. Until they rectify that situation, nothing will change in the future. Schools can expect to bite the big one, year after year, until their is a change in the dysfunctional group in Sacramento that has the audacity to themselves lawmakers.

Gosh Mongo, you forgot to mention that Tom McClintock does not even live in this District as reported in the LA Times. McClintock also took over $300,000 in tax free per diems meant for legislators who actually live more that fifty miles from Sacramento which McClintock does not. McClintock should give all that money to local schools. He is the biggest hypocrit in Sacramento, he says "Let's cut spending" while at the same time he is shoving tax payer money in his pockets with both hands!

I thought you said educational leaders were in attendance. Looking at the list, I see hacks - but no leaders.

You're just trying to stir up trouble, "long tall," but I'll respond, anyway.

I think our superintendent, school board members, PTA presidents, Ventura Education Partnership board members, county superintendent, county school board member, state CTA secretary, college district board member and countless parents and volunteers qualify as education leaders.

You forgot the head hack, Marie - Hannah Beth Jackson.

Mango,
Everytime I don't think you could sound anymore ignorant, you do! The only hacks are you and your buddy Osborn and your overlord Tony Strickland. How does it feel to be a hand puppet Mango?

Nah, Mongo, I'm the hack. In the traditional sense it means a writer doing lesser work, which would certainly apply to blogging. :-)

The rest of those folks are doing wonderful things. I was very happy to have them join us. All delivered very powerful speeches.

Marie, you're a class act. I've always said so and I'll say it again here.

On the other hand, Not Mongo, you're a total jerk! Mike Osborn and I are certainly not hand puppets of Tony Strickland. We support him simply because he's a good Republican candidate and will serve the interests of this district far better than Hannah Beth Jackson.

You've clearly got an axe to grind with anyone who differs with your opinions, which is anyone who supports a Republican candidate. I can hear your knee jerking from here.