Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee, one of the best wired journalists in town, advanced not just a curious but a compelling theory two days ago:
Despite an avalanche of bluster from Gov. Flat Tire – that if his deceitful, wickedly manipulated Prop. 30 does not pass, all California clocks will begin running in reverse and public school funding will be reduced to joke-level – Mr. Walters questions whether Mr. Tire would proceed with his threatened school funding cuts.
“Would he allow the ($6 billion in) school cuts to take effect, or would Mr. Tire and his equally dishonest Democrat cronies) pull back, especially since they would have the ‘education coalition,’ including the California Teachers Assn., pushing them to reconsider.”
Teachers unions, the West Coast answer to the Mafia, and far scarier, have enough authority in Sacramento, or any other state capital, to have Friday changed into Monday, and criminal behavior into a Pulitzer Prize.
Don’t ever underestimate their bloody muscle, accent on the adjective. Boy Scouts, they ain’t. They could force the governor to dash across a high wire wearing one unbuckled Army boot with somebody else’s thumbs inserted into each of his two or more ears.
My point: Why would decent but eminently gullible parents across our state believe anything that comes out of the mouth of one of America’s most seasoned, least analyzed liars, the governor, and his most serious threat to take the title away from him, teachers unions?
Mr. Walter’s thesis appears sound. Teachers unions, the governor’s most or second most crucial/powerful ally, would not allow him to execute his extortion stunt.
Somehow, they would write a new cover-your-tush script that would permit him to justify not pulling the trigger on $6 billion in school cuts in case we smart peasants don’t say “Yowza” to phony Prop. 30 on Nov. 6.
