Wednesday, September 7, 2011

CM PRESS # 612

IF YOU CAN'T WIN AN ARGUMENT ABOUT COSTA MESA SCHOOLS CALL YOUR OPPONENT A RACIST

Schools with low API scores aren't generally as good for middle class children as those with higher API scores.  Most middle class parents understand this and most middle class parents who want to give their kids a leg up on life will try to put them in the best schools possible.

Frankly, you can be sitting in, say, New York and be contemplating a move to Orange County, and if you know nothing else about OC cities except the API scores in the schools, you can pretty much know the quality of the city.

Below are three comments we grabbed from the DAILY PILOT on the white flight out of Costa Mesa schools issue.

Note how Mesa Athletics Dad has no facts, just personal anecdotes, and then throws around the term "racist" and  finishes up with a self-loathing "white bubble," comment after kakalaki gives an honest assessment of the situation in Costa Mesa's schools.

Note also that Mesa Athletics Dad just can't bring himself to say that he is white and instead tells kakalaki that he, Mesa Athletics Dad, is the same "demographic,"as kakalaki.

Those like Mesa Athletics Dad who attack those such as kakalaki in this way in an attempt to puff Costa Mesa schools aren't going to win many converts.

And, by the way, Mesa Athletics Dad, the problem is not a school problem, it is a city problem.  You know: demographics.  Fix the Westside by draining the swamp of illegal aliens and the schools will improve.
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Mesa Athletics Dad at 12:15 PM September 7, 2011


kakalaki,

If you don't want to be called a racist then quit making racist statements.
It appears you have no children in the public schools or have ever had kids in the public schools in Costa Mesa so you are speaking about something you have no first hand experience of.

I am the same demographic as you and like most parents wanted the best for my children and after much thought and consideration decided to send my son to the local schools and have been thrilled with the results.

I completely respect your decision to send your child to school wherever you think best but please don't think for one second you are somehow better then those of us that have chosen to send our children to the public schools. I have donated countless hours at the schools to help make a difference and believe in a very small way I have.

My son just graduated from Costa Mesa High School and scored in the top 10% in the state on the SAT's and as was accepted at every college he applied to. Costa Mesa High School is not a hispanic school but a diverse school. Go take a tour find out for yourself. Oh and good luck keeping your child in your little white bubble living in the this part of the world.
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kakalaki at 4:50 PM September 7, 2011

MAD, I deeply respect your involvement in your kids life, congrats on his success. I'm in a different situation being 8 years behind you. Your childs success is certainly in part due to his peers, accompanying competition, rewards, etc, and being in a merit based curriculum. I would chance to guess you have secretly coorelated parental absense to a certain majority demographic. This is what concerns me as a parent.

This series of articles started with flight from Adams, Wilson, and other ES's which touches closer to home. Let's use Wilson at 97% Hispanic. Another poster mentioned that frustrated teachers have a translator who esentially runs the classes while the english students scratch their heads. We've both spent enough time in Cali to know and understand the peasant culture well. What I have learned is the majority (not all) could give a crap about teaching their kids anything but to swing a hammer. Greatschools rates it a 2 of 10. 97% hispanic. There is a direct cooreation.

I'm not taking this opprotunity to bash Hispanics, but I'm just pissed that areas of our city, and schools have become a disaster in no small part because of this illegal immigrant mess.
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kakalaki at 11:14 AM September 7, 2011

15 years of uncontrolled illegal immigration by our federal government is the root cause of this problem. Pandering by the CA legislature, and complete control of the education system by union hacks are contributory factors. Our schools are flooded with non-english speaking offspring of illegal immigrants - Wilson ES 97% "Hispanic" and Adams is 80%+.

As a middle class, educated cacausian parent of a kindergartner, there is no way in hell I would throw my child into this environment. The Hispanic culture around this part of town generally does not give a hoot about education, are using the school system as free daycare. It's spreading to the eastside as well. Kaiser is now 65% Hispanic and growing.

Stop calling people who share this view as racists. Stop spewing the merits of diversity (these schools are not diverse, they are Hispanic)

Stop telling us that it's our fault that the schools are in this situation.

We didn't cause this problem. We simply want the best for our children.


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LEECE GETS OUT FOXED AND VOTES AGAINST HER OWN EX PARTE ORDINANCE

Instead of saying at the Council meeting last night how stupid Wendy Leece's proposed ex parte communications ordinance was, Councilmember Steve Mensinger praised the ordinance as brilliant and commended Leece for bringing it forward.

But wait...(Unlike Antony, he really did cometh to bury the ordinance, not praise it.)

As Leece was almost blushing from the praise, Mensinger continued and said that instead of having the ordinance cover the small things such as communications from ordinary citizens who might need help with some neighborhood problem but who might want to remain anonymous and not cause problems with neighbors who they had to live near for years to come, the ordinance should just cover big things such as (here it comes) ex parte communications with union representatives.

After all, reasoned Mensinger aloud, eighty per cent of Costa Mesa's budget goes to union members, and thus ex parte communications from union reps to Councilmembers might cause Councilmembers to vote for contracts that do not favor the tax payers of Costa Mesa.

Mensinger then went on to talk about an incident in which an unnamed Councilmember (wink) brought a Costa Mesa fire fighter to a CMRA (Costa Mesa Republican Assembly) meeting to explain her the Councilmember's position on a fire fighter contract.

Leece then identified herself as the Councilmember who brought that fire fighter to the CMRA meeting, but said it was just to put a face on the contract matter.

But wait again...there's a check mate coming up (for all the City Council chambers is a stage).

Mensinger then spoke again  and said that the fire fighter brought to the CMRA meeting by Leece wasn't just an ordinary fire fighter but the actual union negotiator who controlled the way the contract talks were going.

Jim Righeimer picked up on Mensinger's theme and made a motion to send the proposed ordinance back to staff with instructions to rewrite it to only include ex parte communications with union reps and developers.

The vote was taken and Leece and Monahan (Monahan was having none of this stupid ordinance in any way, shape or form, even if it would come back to bite Leece) voted no and Mensinger and Righeimer voted yes.  Because it was a tie vote (Bever was absent) the motion and the ordinance died a well deserved death.

One thing we found interesting was that during the discussion on this stupid ordinance, Leece admitted that she and Sandy Genis had gotten together to write it.

As you know from reading the CM PRESS, Sandy Genis and her Costa Mesa First received thousands of dollars from the fire fighter and police unions before the last election and spent much of it to help Leece get elected.

And, to go slightly back in time to the public comments section of the City Council meeting last night that preceded the above discussion, Genis had gone to the podium and asked that the City post financial disclosure forms (410's) on the City's website so citizens could see who was giving money to politicians.

After Genis spoke, the CM PRESS went to the podium and told the Council and the audience that if they or Genis wanted to see some of the 410 forms, including the ones showing all the union money that went to Genis who then used much of that money to elect Leece, they could find those forms published right here on the CM PRESS.

(Dim now the footlights on Leece and her shrunken tiny brained lefty compatriots who were once again out smarted; which, as usual, amounts to a win for the citizens of Costa Mesa.)
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2 comments:

  1. CM Press, I caught the discussion on CMTV last night and WOW, Windy Leece got pounded. Stupid is as stupid does. A stupid ordinance that got turned around on her. Nice job to the 2 good Councilmen!!

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