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RandySF's JournalRift widens between backers of education initiatives 30 and 38.
All pretense of goodwill is gone between backers of the two competing education tax measures on November’s ballot.
State Board of Education President Mike Kirst and Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg joined union leaders Monday in sending a strongly worded letter to Molly Munger, the primary backer of Proposition 38, asking her not to run TV ads criticizing Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown’s school funding measure. Kirst also emailed PTA district presidents, implying they should pressure Munger “to do all in your power to stop this destructive course of action.” The state PTA, bucking education groups representing school boards, unions, and administrators, is a co-sponsor, with Munger, of Prop 38.
The letters to Munger and the PTA follow a TV interview in Los Angeles on Sunday in which Munger called Prop 30 TV ads featuring Brown “utterly deceptive,” marking a turning point that advocates for more education funding have feared: both campaigns going negative on each other, to the potential destruction of both.
In the latest polls, Prop 30, which would raise $6 billion annually for the General Fund by increasing the income tax for the wealthiest earners, along with a temporary sales tax increase, has a precarious majority barely breaking 50 percent.
http://www.edsource.org/today/2012/rift-widens-between-backers-of-ed-initiatives-30-and-38/20883?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdsourceToday+%28EdSource+Today%29#.UHYi1H15RoU
20 school lunches from around the world.
White rice topped with a spoonful of curry in Sri Lanka. A bowl of fresh beans in Sudan. Steamed mussels served with a plate of pomme frites in France. We’ve put together a collection of photos showing what kids are getting for school lunch in 20 different countries. Most of these lunch trays are covered in fresh fruits and vegetables, steaming bowls of soup and homemade-looking dishes.
What looks the most appetizing to you?
Probably not the meal to the right that was served at my kids’ San Francisco public school.
While many schools around the world are cooking home-style meals in on-site kitchens (or even outside over campfires), in the United States meals are more often made off-site by large operations churning out thousands upon thousands of meals.
http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2012/09/12/20-school-lunches-from-around-the-world/
Pollster Says Obama Can't Win FL, NC and VA
Pollster David Paleologos of Suffolk University told Bill O'Reilly that his organization will not be doing any further polls in Florida, North Carolina and Virginia because he believes President Obama has no chance to win those states.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/10/09/pollster_says_obama_cant_win_fl_nc_and_va.html#050759a
California ballots go out in the mail tomorrow.
I know Obama has a lock here, but we have the opportunity to pick up some Congressional seats, take 2/3 of the legislature and need to vote YES on 30 and NO on 32. So vote and send those ballots back ASAP.
Appeals Court Rules Ohio Must Make Early Voting Available To All Voters
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that Ohio must make early voting during the three days before the election available to all voters if it's available to military members and voters who live overseas. The ruling upheld a lower court's decision.
"The State’s asserted goal of accommodating the unique situation of members of the military, who may be called away at a moment’s notice in service to the nation, is certainly a worthy and commendable goal," the court ruled. "However, while there is a compelling reason to provide more opportunities for military voters to cast their ballots, there is no corresponding satisfactory reason to prevent non-military voters from casting their ballots as well."
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/appeals-court-rules-ohio-must-make-early-voting
I hate to admit it, but I enjoy "Sons of Anarchy".
I don't think it really lionizes criminals as they come across to me as drug and sex addled losers who only know how to make a living through illegal means. I guess, if nothing else, watching the show makes me feel better about myself.
I'm speechless.
I've seen plenty of politicians lie in my lifetime. But I have lie with such causual ease as Romney did. The guy did not even bat an eyelash. Obama's head must have been reeling from the shit that came out of that guy's mouth, I hope the press doesn't let him get away with this. But I am not holding my breath.
"Heckuvajob" Brownie: Obama played race card over Katrina.
The former Bush administration official who headed Hurricane Katrina disaster relief said Wednesday that President Barack Obama played “the race card” with his 2007 speech about the Bush administration’s response.
Michael Brown, the former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, harshly criticized then-Sen. Obama’s remarks to a black audience at Hampton University, where Obama railed against a double standard for federal relief efforts in New Orleans.
“I call total BS on the President’s comments about Katrina,” Brown told POLITICO in an email. “He needs to get his facts straight and stop playing the race card with Katrina.”
Brown added, “The men and women of FEMA work tirelessly for disaster victims regardless of race, political affiliation or any other category he wants to lump people into.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/81983.html#ixzz28HGmmMc3
There may be another reason Romney is having trouble in Ohio.
It's not as old and white as the Republicans need it to be. I was born and raised in Michigan and spent a lot of time in Ohio. If you spend any time in the Columbus area, you know about the influx of Latino and Asian families. And it's becoming as diverse as any East or West coast city. This is not your father's Ohio.
Wall Street’s Professional Pundits Game Out An Obama Victory
That seems to be a popular opinion in the finance world. Citi’s senior political analyst, Tina Fordham, has been predicting an Obama win for some time in research notes for investors. “Obama has led in the polls all year, and history suggests that incumbent presidents who maintain their lead go on to be re-elected,” she wrote in September. Moody’s Analytics’ Xu Cheng, who uses a state-based economic model, projects an Obama win as well, with the president carrying Virginia and Ohio while losing Florida. And an informal poll of over 200 traders by Business Insider found 65% expected Obama to win, regardless of their own preference.
As Obama’s post-convention lead refuses to dissipate, financial analysts are working to determine the implications for the upcoming fiscal cliff, which could slash defense contracts, squeeze health care providers, spike tax rates, and generally drag down the economy — perhaps even into another recession.
Block considers his proudest moment as an analyst predicting that House Republicans would reject the first bank bailout proposal in the early days of the 2008 financial crisis and bring down the stock market, giving his clients a few hours’ lead time. (“If they listened to me … and put some money behind the call, they may have made money.”) And, like most private sector political pundits, he’s spent months trying to determine the ripest conditions for a similar disaster.
In a report he prepared for JP Morgan in August, Block argued that the most dangerous outcome for investors — and one that looked highly plausible at that time — was one in which Obama defeated Romney, but Democrats lost the Senate. The result would mean Republicans had more motivation to dig in their heels and delay a deal until after their new members take office in January.
One excerpt from his presentation pegged the chances of a worst-case scenario at 15%.
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/wall-street-pundits-see-obama-re-election.php
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