Governor Accuses Unions of Using Scare Tactics…So what else is new?

In his most recent television commercials, Governor Schwarzenegger declares "They're trying to scare you and make me look like I want to be dictator of California,''

While the use of scare tactics is nothing new for Democrats, I can’t remember them being as blatantly hostile and dishonest. This morning the San Francisco Chronicle reported:

Tony Ledoux, a sheet metal worker from Modesto, said the governor is attacking unions.

"I take it personally for every working person in California," he said. "I don't think the people in shiny cars going into the event are union people."

About 80 local firefighters came to protest, said Kirk Summers, a Turlock firefighter.
"We want to send a message to the people of California,'' he said. Prop. 75 "is an important issue that will hurt firefighters and all public employee unions."

Some of those attending the rally had to park their cars and run the gantlet of protesters shouting "Shame on you!"

So Are the Democrats lying and using scare tactics? Let’s look at what they are saying:

Prop. 74

They call it: The Teacher Terminator
Their Lie: It is an attack on hard working teachers. It will allow good teachers to be fired for no reason and with no due process.

The Truth: Prop. 74 is an attack on teachers…BAD ONES! It allows school districts to take their time in evaluating teachers before granting them jobs for life. Additionally, it provides a way to fire tenured teachers who are not doing their jobs. Currently it can take up to three years and cost more than $200K to fire a bad teacher.

Prop. 75

Their Slogan: Don’t Silence Our Voice
Their Lie: Governor Schwarzenegger is trying to silence working families. This initiative will prevent unions from raising money and contributing to causes and candidates that support the working man. This measure is an unfair because it doesn’t limit corporations who give money to Republicans.

The Truth: Nothing in Prop. 75 prevents unions from raising money. Nothing in the measure prevents union members from agreeing to have their dues go for political contributions or from giving even more if they wish. All Prop. 75 does is require the unions to get permission BEFORE taking money out of their member’s check.

Prop. 76

They call it: A Power Grab by the Governor.
Their lie: This would give the governor unprecedented, unchecked power to cut education and social programs.

The Truth: Prior to 1983 the Governor of California had the power to do exactly what is in Prop. 76; only back then, he did not have to give the legislature first crack at solving the problem. Also, this measure does not give the governor the ability to cut education below Prop. 98 levels without a two-thirds vote of the legislature.

Prop. 77

They call it: A Republican attempt to takeover California.
Their lie: This initiative will take control of the redistricting process out of the hands of the people and put it in the control of unelected, unaccountable judges.

The Truth: Back in 2001, Republicans and Democrats in the California Legislature agreed to a redistricting plan that would create a permanent Democrat majority in the state legislature and a permanent Republican majority in the state’s congressional delegation. The agreement they reached drew lines that were so gerrymandered it was dubbed “The Incumbent Protection Act”. Prop. 77 places the redistricting process in the hands of individuals who have no direct interest in the outcome of the process. And once they are done, the map that they have drawn goes to a vote of the people.
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While I realize that I am, for the most part preaching to the choir, I felt it necessary to get the Governor’s back on this one. The Democrats are clearly using scare tactics to get voters not to back the reform initiatives.

I just wish that Gov. Schwarzenegger would take the gloves off and call them what they are….LIARS!!!!!

Craig DeLuz

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Tales of Atrocities in Iraq found to be lies… Where’s the MSM?

Former Marine Sgt. Jimmy Massey has spent the last two years accusing American soldiers of committing horrible atrocities against the people of Iraq. And the MSM from around the world has not hesitated in spreading his unsubstantiated lies.

Well now it appears that all of his accusations have turned out to be untrue. And as usual the truth is made available and the MSM refuses to report it.

Thank God for the St. Louis Post Dispatch who, over the weekend, reported:

News organizations worldwide published or broadcast Massey's claims without any corroboration and in most cases without investigation. Outside of the Marines, almost no one has seriously questioned whether Massey, a 12-year veteran who was honorably discharged, was telling the truth.

He wasn't.

Each of his claims is either demonstrably false or exaggerated - according to his fellow Marines, Massey's own admissions, and the five journalists who were embedded with Massey's unit, including a reporter and photographer from the Post-Dispatch and reporters from The Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal.

Massey played liberals, the MSM, and the Anti-American international community to gain celebrity and line his own pockets.

Last month, Massey's book, "Kill, Kill, Kill," was released in France. His allegations have been reported in nationwide publications such as Vanity Fair and USA Today, as well as numerous broadcast reports. Earlier this year, he joined the anti-war bus tour of Cindy Sheehan, and he's spoken at Cornell and Syracuse universities, among others.

So where are Vanity Fair and USA Today now? Are they going to issue retractions and apologies to the marines in Massey’s unit? They were, after all, complicit in smearing their good names. When are the officials at Cornell and Syracuse universities going to issue an request for forgiveness to their students for allowing them to be misled and lied to?

While I am glad to see Massey exposed for the fraud he is; I believe that it would be shameful to allow him to get away with his lies. Unfortunately, he probably will not face any criminal charges. Furthermore, the MSM will say nothing about the fact that he lied; primarily because in their fervor to spread the news that America is evil, they failed to do their jobs and check the facts.

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The Lying Liars on the Liberal Left and the Lies They Let Loose With….

I have spent the last month speaking all over northern California on behalf of the California Recovery Team, promoting the Governor’s reform package. And needless to say, I have heard those on the liberal left who oppose the Governor’s reforms tell just about every lie they could to discourage voters from supporting these important reform measures.

So seeing as how I have just about heard it all, I thought I would debunk some of the most egregious of their false declarations.

Prop. 74
1. It punishes good hard working teachers. Prop. 74 gives administrators more time to evaluate and train new teachers. Additionally, it makes it easier to remove bad teachers.

2. Tenured teachers can be fired with no due process. Prop. 74 changes the process for removing an underperforming teacher who has already achieved tenured status. It states that if a teacher receives an unsatisfactory evaluation two years in a row, the school board will have the option to release that teacher without the usual waiting period required in the current process.

3. Education groups like the CTA and the CFT are opposed to it. The California Teachers Association (CTA) and the California Federation of Teachers (CFT) are not education advocacy groups. They are labor unions! Their primary job is to fight to increase their member’s salaries, benefits, job security and political power; not to fight for our children.

Prop. 75
1. It limits public employee union’s ability to engage in political advocacy. There is nothing in Prop. 75 that limits the unions ability to donate to political candidates, support initiatives or lobby the legislature. Additionally, there is nothing in the measure preventing their members from saying “Yes. You may use my dues for political purposes.” And if their members are as supportive of their political agenda as they say they are, what are they afraid of?

2. It imposes an onerous and expensive administrative process on unions. By their own admission, they already ask employees if they want to opt out having their dues go to politics and get their dues back. All Prop. 75 does is require them to get their members permission before they take the money out of their check.

Prop. 76
1. It gives the Governor “unprecedented” power to control the state budget. “Unprecedented” basically means that no governor has ever had this power. Well, prior to 1983, the governor of California had the ability to make midyear adjustments to state spending in order to keep the state budget in balanced. And prior to this power being negotiated away, California didn’t have ongoing structural deficits like they do today.

2. It allows the Governor to unilaterally cut education and transportation. First and foremost, Prop. 76 requires the governor to call a special session of the legislature if state spending exceeds projected revenues. And the legislature has 45 days to make the appropriate spending cuts necessary to get the budget balanced again. But if they do not act within that time, the governor can then make the cuts needed to bring spending back in line with revenues. So the legislature does have a say. Also, Prop. 98 does not suspend the 2/3 vote requirement of the legislature to fund schools at a rate lower that that which is required under Prop. 98. And it prohibits the legislature from ever suspending the funding requirement for roads and transportation as outlined in Prop. 42.

Prop. 77
1. It takes the redistricting process out of the hands of the people. The current redistricting process is already out of the hands of the people. The way things stand today, the state legislators who draw up the district boundaries have a direct interest in how those lines are drawn. In essence, we have candidates choosing their voters, instead of voters choosing their candidates. This is a clear conflict of interest. Under Prop. 77 a bipartisan panel of judges (with no direct interest in the outcome) will draw the lines based on legal criteria that the legislators have repeatedly ignored. Then those districts go to a vote of the people.

2. Voters will be disenfranchised if this is done in 2006 because the census data is too old. The voters are currently being disenfranchised by the current gerrymandered districts that are designed to protect incumbents. When redistricting is done in 2006, the lines will be drawn as they should have been back in 2001.

3. Minority voters will be disenfranchised. Actually, the court produced redistricting of 1991 demonstrates that when a non-interested party is in control of the process minority representation actually increases. Under the law, geographically contiguous neighborhoods and communities of interest should be kept together. However the Democrats have traditionally divided up ethnic communities in order to strengthen otherwise marginally Democratic districts. That is exactly what happened in 2001. And an example of the outcome is the fact that membership in the California Black Legislative Caucus is at an all time low.
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Now I know that there are many more lies being told by the liberal left. But I would be typing from now until after the election if I were to point them all out.

Why don’t you help me out? What are some of the lies you are hearing for the Lying Liars on the Liberal Left?

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Ventura County Democrats try to run homosexual candidate out of congressional race?

Once again, hypocrisy abounds in the liberal camp. In this case Brett Wagner, a homosexual candidate for congress is accusing the Ventura County Democrat Party of derailing his candidacy because of his sexual orientation.

While I don’t know that his being homosexual is the reason for their actions, it is clear that they are actively trying to get him out of the race.

The following is an Associated Press story released today:

California Democratic Party investigating candidate allegations

VENTURA, Calif. (AP) The California Democratic Party will investigate allegations that Ventura County party officials improperly asked congressional candidate Brett Wagner to quit so someone else could run against Republican Rep. Elton Gallegly.

Wagner, who suggested last month that party leaders want him out because he is a homosexual, urged an investigation in hopes the group of officials get booted from their positions within the party.

During an Oct. 5 news conference, Assembly District 37 Committee Chairman Tom Parker and Ojai Valley Democratic Club President Sue Broidy, among others, outlined concerns about Wagner's campaign finances, his employment background and alleged use of a nonprofit to advance his campaign.

They also worry that the issue will hurt anyone who wins the Democratic primary next June, upsetting their hope to unseat Gallegly, whose 24th Congressional District stretches from Simi Valley to Vandenberg Air Force Base.

Twenty-four party members signed a petition delivered to Wagner's office.

Wagner, who has no intention of withdrawing his candidacy, said during an emergency meeting of the Ventura County Democratic Party Central Committee that the group's allegations were unfounded.

Region 14 director Bob Manley of the California Democratic Party said he will oversee the investigation.

Wagner said members of the group violated their oaths of office when they signed the petition as delegates of the 24th Congressional District and ran personal attacks on his character.

``One of the problems I had with this group ... is they floated out a series of scurrilous and unfounded allegations against me,'' Wagner said.

Broidy denied there were any scurrilous allegations. She said she and the other four people at the Oct. 5 press conference called for Wagner's resignation as individual members of the party and were not acting as representatives for their groups.
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I guess not even Democrats are exempt from having the “Bigot” card played against them.

(Hat tip to California Assembly Communications Staff)

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THE LIE CONTINUES! Past President of American Academy of Pediatrics says study distorted to defeat Prop. 73

Apparently abortion advocates will go to any lengths to misrepresent the truth about Parental Involvement laws in order to defeat Proposition 73 (The Parental Notification Initiative) on the upcoming special election ballot in California. Well this time one of their own is blowing the whistle on them.

Dr. Joseph Zanga says:

“The AAP authors cited the Henshaw study for four points, and in each case they misrepresented the results of the study. Unfortunately, this misinformation has been repeated countless times by opponents of Proposition 73 and extensively reported in the media. We hope that AAP, Planned Parenthood, and the media will do the right thing and acknowledge these errors”

The following is the full press release that came to me this morning from the California Parent’s Rights Coalition:

American Academy of Pediatrics Caught in Scientific Deception…
PAST PRESIDENT SAYS STUDY IS DISTORTED TO DEFEAT PROPOSITION 73

SACRAMENTO- The current president of the American College of Pediatricians and a past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), along with two other California physicians, have called on AAP to immediately withdraw “for correction and further study” its statement opposing parental involvement laws, including Proposition 73 in California. The physicians, all Fellows of AAP, cite “indisputable inaccuracy and bias” in an AAP study that is being used to distort the truth in effort to defeat Prop 73.

Joseph Zanga, M.D., FAAP, along with Jane Anderson, M.D., FAAP, a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, and Paul Macdonald, M.D., FAAP, a pediatrician in private practice in Ukiah, sent a letter Monday to the current AAP president challenging the numerous significant errors in the AAP statement, errors that have been repeated by Proposition 73 opponents and widely disseminated by the mass media.

Dr. Zanga, professor of pediatrics at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, was President of the AAP from 1997 to 1998 and currently serves on its Bioethics Committee.

Several misrepresentations in the AAP statement involve a 1992 study of minors seeking abortion by Stanley Henshaw and Kathryn Kost. In 2003, Dr. Henshaw testified that the AAP statement concerning the percentage of minors who inform a parent of their planned abortion in the absence of parental involvement laws was “entirely incorrect.”

Other areas in which the AAP statement was false included the most frequent reasons minors cited for not telling parents and the percentage of minors who involve an adult other than a parent in their decision.

According to Dr. Macdonald, “Though I wanted to give the benefit of the doubt, the distortion and misquotation of data are so obvious that I am forced to conclude that the AAP authors are attempting to promote a specific political agenda.” He added, “I was angered and saddened that, in the nine years since the original publication of this statement, no update has been approved correcting these egregious errors. Any high school student comparing the AAP statement with the Henshaw study could spot these errors.”

“The AAP authors cited the Henshaw study for four points, and in each case they misrepresented the results of the study. Unfortunately, this misinformation has been repeated countless times by opponents of Proposition 73 and extensively reported in the media. We hope that AAP, Planned Parenthood, and the media will do the right thing and acknowledge these errors,” Dr. Anderson said.

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Pro-Life Teen Expelled from Catholic High School

A those of you who are regular Western Alliance readers know, last month a Sacramento Catholic High School released a teacher who spent her off duty time volunteering at a local abortion clinic. Well the daughter of the woman who exposed this teacher has now been expelled from that same school.

In her blog Stand Up and Speak Out, Katlyn Sills reports:

As of Saturday, October 29th, I was given official notice by express mail that I am expelled from Loretto High School. This was given completely without forewarning, without a meeting, and without a chance to say goodbye. My family is now seeking legal advice, and more details will follow.

And while the details of why she was expelled have not yet been made public by the family, I have it on good authortiy from fellow Western Alliance member CA High School Conservative that the action was without merrit.

Please contact the contact the folks at Lorreto High School, Sacramento Catholic School Department and the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento and encourage them to reinstate Katlyn Sills and allow her to continue her education at Lorreto.

But remember- because we do not know all of the information, I would encourage you to be non-confrontational or accusitory. But it is ok to be firm and vocal in your support of Katelyn.

One only need read the thoughtfulness of how she and her family addressed this whole issue to see that this is an articulate and bright young lady who has a passion for protecting innocent life.
(See Loretto Teacher Fired: Part 2)

Contact info:

Lorreto High School
Website: www.lorreto.net
Phone: (916) 482-7793
Fax: (916) 482-3621
Email: aperez@loretto.net

The Sacramento Catholic School Department
Website: www.csdsac.org
Phone: (916) 733-0110
Fax: (916) 733-0120
Email: csd@diocese-sacramento.org

The Catholic Diocese of Sacramento
Website: www.diocese-sacramento.org
Phone: (916) 733-0100
Fax: (916) 733-0195
Email: webmaster@diocese-sacramento.org (This was the only email address I could find on their site.)


Let’s make our collective voices heard!

Canadian version of a guest worker program… Fast-tracking visas for foreign strippers.

As we here in the United States debate the merits of a guest worker program, our northern neighbors are debating the value of their own policies; in particular their “blanket approval” policy for visas to foreign strippers.

This morning the Ottawa Sun is reporting:

The Liberal government is "complicit" in the trafficking of women with a visa policy that fast-tracks foreign strippers and lap dancers, a Conservative MP charged yesterday.

Diane Ablonczy accused the government of misleading Canadians last year when it claimed to be "cancelling" the controversial policy of issuing temporary work permits to exotic dancers based on a labour market opinion from the Human Resources department.

But the "sordid truth" is that the welcome mat is still rolled out to foreign strippers, she told the House, citing a Sun story over the weekend.

Isn’t Canada another one of those “progressive” foreign countries that liberals here in America think we should emulate?

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