Here are the facts on the budget:
1. The GOP version had $2 billion more in it than the Democrat version for education
2. The GOP, including Assemblywoman Audra Strickland, presented an emergency bill, to pay for health care, education and vendors until a real budget could be passed.
3. Assemblywoman Audra Strickland and every Republican supported the emergency bill.
4. Democrats like Senator Sheila Kuehl opposed giving education $2 billion more per year. Democrats like Assemblyman Pedro Nava opposed the emergency bill to help the elderly and the child.
Where do you think the unions and their friends picketed? Did they go to the office of Kuehl and Nava to demand more money for education, to demand emergency money now?
No, they yelled and screamed at the office of Assemblywoman Audra Strickland, who wanted to give them more money, who wanted to give them money now.
In the future why should Strickland or any other GOP'er want to help government schools? Instead of being thanked for doing the right thing, she gets harassed by so called educators and unions.
Why should the Democrats do the right thing for education? No matter how much grief they give schools, money they take away from government education, the unions will continue to give campaign donations to them.
Why did the GOP budget have 2 billion more? Because they PRETENDED the shortfall was 13 billion rather than over 15 billion. LOL Steve at your attempts.
Actually, if you include payments not made for unfunded pension and health care programs, the deficit is over $20 billion.
Still, the GOP is giving government education more money than the Democrats and the Left is unwilling to admit this. Instead of listening to the unions, read the truth.
The Calabasas/Agoura Acorn had the article about the CTA demonstration against Audra. It quoted CVUSD candidate Peggy Buckles, a PTA council officer, but the Conejo version of the Acorn only had the photo. Strange that the editor didn't run the whole article with details about Conejo politicians and teachers which would have been of interest to Conejo voters. The TO version did NOT identify the Supt from Oak Park, either. I'm not voting for Peggy Buckles, ever!! She thinks she is a Republican, but she is in bed with the union goons.
Here is the link to the Legislative Analyst's take on the budget and the education funding. Spending is $11,652 a pupil. That's a lot. The union is lying to the public that California is at the bottom in the nation. No, it's #25--smack in the middle.
http://www.lao.ca.gov/analysis_2008/education/ed_anl08006.aspx#zzee_link_1_1202764956
Here is the link to the Acorn article, Agoura edition:
http://www.theacorn.com/news/2008/0911/Front_page/001.html