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Friday, August 12, 2016
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Anti-education forces target November
OUSD Bond
Young Mississippi State Economics Major tries to re-write OUSD History
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| Ethan Musser |
In the Op-Ed pages of the 8/12/16
Orange County Register a young Ethan Musser pens a factually incorrect look
at the Orange Unified November Facilities Bond and tries to re-write the 2001
Orange Recall history.
Musser in the Opt Ed by-line tag
is described as a "rising senior at Mississippi State "
and as a "Journalism Fellow"
at the anti-union, anti-teacher California Policy
Center in Tustin . If that isn't enough of a clue,
Musser quotes anti-everything former Villa Park Councilwomen and recently failed
Assembly candidate Deborah Pauly as his legal expert.
Musser opens with trying to paint
OUSD Administrators as illegally using funds to place a Bond measure before the
voters in November by trying to bring up a "legal distinction" and attributing
that legal opinion to the popular OUSD Superintendent Michael Christenson-
without using quotation marks.
What Musser does not write is
that OUSD is using the legal procedures to place a facilities bond
on the November Ballot.
Score one for Truth and zero for
Musser.
Musser then cites unnamed
"critics" as calling the legal premise Musser attributes to OUSD as "a distinction without a difference
during campaign season" .
The procedure that OUSD and school
districts and other government agencies across the state use to put bond
measures on the ballot for voters to decide is all done BEFORE the campaign. The Bond campaign has not started, the Bond
measure does not even have a ballot designation yet.
Truth 2, Musser 0.
However, the "Journalism
Fellow" then goes further in
his legal analysis . His one quoted legal authority supporting his views is none
other than the former Villa Park Councilwomen and failed Assembly candidate Deborah
Pauly. The controversial Pauly begins
her legal opinion in the Musser piece with... "It should be illegal..."
Musser however apparently trusts
her legal advice.
Truth 3, Musser 0.
Musser further omits that Bonds
are the only way to extensively update school facilities and that Orange Unified is the
only major Orange
County school district Orange County
Truth 4, Musser 0.
Musser is obviously unfamiliar
with not only the legal process, but also with Orange Unified. He fails to note and appears not to be aware
of the middle and elementary schools in Orange Unified already updated without bond money stating the new
high school facilities bond proposal does "nothing
to refurbish Orange Unified's six middle
schools or 29 elementary schools".
Yes we hear you- Orange Unified
only has 4 middle schools they control, two of the six are charter. Two of the non-charter, under direct control of Orange Unified, have been refurbished without Bond funds.
Truth 5, Musser 0.
In the end, Musser's then strays
into revisionist historical fiction.
Like famous fairy tale openings "Once
upon a time..." or "In a galaxy
far, far away..." the young economics major turned "Journalism Fellow" writes "There once was a time..." as
he tries to re-write the 2001 Orange
Re-Call History.
Musser, who by our calculations was
in early elementary school in 2001, then starts a revisionist fairytale of the
2001 Recalled OUSD School Board as "saving
cash for new buildings and maintence of old ones" .
Leaders of the Greater Orange
Community who lived through the 2001 Recall can attest that the 2001 Reactionary
OUSD School Board was not a fairytale of a benign school board chased off by
greedy teachers, but a horror story of a politically radical group headed by
anti-education zealot Marty Jacobson and the anti-education reactionary Educational Alliance that took over two Southern California school
districts -Orange Unified and Vista Unified in San Diego County.
The Jacobson Board amassed
hundreds of millions of dollars in educational taxes to use to destroy local
public education. Using those educational tax dollars in ways that Musser writes against
today. Then OUSD Board members engaged in everything from micro-managing to nepotism in
the schools as they chased off seasoned administrators and teachers. They used the
district tax dollars as pesonal coffers to pay radical religous and political lawyers to tie-up the community in political
and religious-based lawsuits and litigation
as they fired employees who they saw as a threat-all while bringing national attention and attracting fringe lunatics to the
community and bestowing a laughing-stock status to the Greater Orange Community.
In the end, the Reactionary
Radicals not only lost their offices, but they lost every lawsuit they
engaged in-but still costing local taxpayers millions upon millions in legal fees
and pay-outs making the radical hand-picked lawyers wealthy off the backs of local
taxpayers while bringing the local schools and real estate market to the brink
of catastrophe.
We challenge anyone including Musser and Pauly to prove that any
evidence exists that the 2001 OUSD Board was putting money aside to improve
school facilities. Put simply, that is more than a harmless fairytale- it is a dangerous bold face lie.
To the contrary, the OUSD Anderson
School of Business Report (that Musser alludes to) that the new Citizen's Board commissioned after winning the Recall found the OUSD budgeting
system under the Jacobson Board hid millions upon millions of educational tax dollars in budgeting manuvers. The radicals then used those tax dollars pursuing a religious and anti-education agenda with
lawsuits, litigation and lawyers.
Truth 5, Musser 0.
Ethan Musser is entitled to his own opinions, but he is not entitled to rewrite history, interpet the law, or his own Truth.
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This critique is all ad hominem. No substance— just attacking Mr. Musser for his age and experience. Hardly any engagement with his argument. Perfectly encapsulates the problem with our modern political discourse. Talking past each other, criticizing "credentials" rather than engaging with arguments. Shameful.
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