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Volume 3, Issue 8
By Don Greene
Noticias y Opinión progresista
Progressive News & Opinion
october 2016
Olga Diaz Seeks District 3 Council Seat
In North County politics, Olga Diaz
is an anomaly. Currently, as a City Council
member in Escondido, Olga has achieved
something that no one else has done in 128
years: She is the first Latina elected to the City
Council. That’s nothing to sneeze at. Once
named the 11th Most Conservative City in the
United States, Escondido can be a lonely place
for a Latina, especially if she fits the description
of Olga Diaz.
Diaz describes herself as an environmentalist. She has championed the rehabilitation of Escondido Creek, turning it from a
concrete, channelized flood control basin to a
7-mile linear park in the heart of the city. She
also describes herself as a feminist, a progressive, and, if those weren’t enough, a Democrat.
Being all these things should not be
automatic detriment to a candidate or politician, but in Escondido, things are a little different. In 2014 during his Mayoral re-election
campaign, at a Republican Central Committee
meeting, Mayor Sam Abed, declared that “Escondido is the Republican capitol of San Diego
County.” It is much of that type of bravado that
gets the city into a lot of legal troubles. It was
some of that legal trouble that launched Diaz’s
political career.
How She Got Here
Diaz was born and raised in Salinas,
California, a small agricultural community
in northern California, not unlike Escondido. She moved to Escondido and opened a
business; a very popular downtown coffee shop
named the Blue Mug.
One day, Diaz was drawn to City
Hall by a group of protesting youth, Latinos
who were upset over the Rental Ban ordinance
that had been enacted by the city council.
Watching the fervor of the youth marching,
Escondido City Council member Olga Diaz at one of her many community outreach events.
she knew that she could not sit by and not do
something.
Diaz entered the 2006 city council
race and lost. She focused the next two years
on learning how to run and then running a
campaign that found wind in 2008 with the
election of President Obama. She displaced
council member Ed Gallo (who is running for
Local School Board Elections
offer Clear Choices for Voters
By Rick Mercurio
School board politics in Escondido are witnessing a tumultuous year. First,
elementary trustee Jose Fragozo survived
an attempted permanent restraining order
only to later surrender his seat after a plea
deal over a voter fraud charge. And now, the
November election pits three newcomers
supported by the republican party and the
pro-charter school forces against moderates
who are trying to stave off a clean sweep
takeover from partisan trustees. The stakes
are high.
Fragozo claimed that the administration
and his fellow board members were trying
to silence him for his outspoken positions
on English Language Learners. Some critics
claim that the board majority, all republicans and charter school advocates, were trying to silence the lone democrat and charter
school watchdog on the board. Fragozo’s
plea deal stipulates that he resign his seat,
and not run for office for at least three years.
Attention is now focused on who will
replace him in November for Region 1 in
central Escondido, and whether the remaining open seats on both boards will go to
what some characterize as anti-public school
conservatives.
For Region 1, the four incumbent elementary trustees and the San Diego Republican party are endorsing Giovanny Miranda, a 21 year old who has lived two years
in Escondido and who worked on Mayor
Sam Abed’s failed run for county supervisor.
The pro-charter school/republican machine
succeeded in previous elections, and with
Fragozo out, is now trying to secure a 5-0
elementary school board with two positions
at stake, as well as capture two seats on the
high school board.
Alianza reached out to Miranda, and his
immediate response was positive, saying he
had heard good things about the paper and
the way it connects with the Latino community, and he welcomed the request to fill
out a questionnaire. Questions were then
emailed to him, but a few days later Miranda wrote, “At this time, I am choosing not to
comment on the story you are writing and
participate in your candidate interviews.”
On his LinkedIn site under “Languages” he
listed English only.
Running against Miranda is Doug
Paulson, a native Escondidan who attended Central, Grant Middle, and Escondido
High—all public schools. He has taught in
the local high school district for 20 years
after working in law enforcement and the
National Park Service. He served in the
Peace Corps in Argentina and married a native Uruguayan. He speaks Spanish fluently,
which he considers important in Region 1,
and his campaign Facebook page includes
translations of his message.
Region 3 and High School Board
The other elementary board seat is for
Region 3. Its incumbent is Paulette Donnellon, whose term is up this year, and who
narrowly won a seat on the County School
Board in the June election. Two men will
face off: realtor Mirek Gorny and Joe Muga,
who is a clinical psychologist. Muga has
lived in Escondido 17 years, and has been
active in Bear Valley Middle School PTA.
The Alianza contacted Gorny via email and
phone, but he did not respond.
Two seats are open on the Escondido
high school board. In Region 3 incumbent
Christi Knight is unopposed. In Region
4, incumbent George McClure is retiring,
and Cesar Serrano is running against Dane
White. Endorsed by McClure, Serrano is a
lifelong resident of Escondido who speaks
Spanish fluently. He has been active in the
community since his student days, advocating for the Latino population and working
at the neighborhood level when Escondido
moved to a district election system.
Cont. on page 4
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re-election this year after rejoining the council
in 2010) and for the first time, Escondido had a
Latina on the council.
Being the lone democrat on a council
of very conservative Republicans was lonely.
Many of her ideas and wishes for the city were
ignored, but that did not stop her from doing
what she does best: She listened and advocated
for the people.
Throughout her time on the council,
Diaz has been known for being a listener and
friend to the residents of the city. Diaz is often
the only council member who takes time to
listen to people speaking before the council;
she takes notes and writes down their names
so that she can address them personally during
discussions.
She is known for doing her homework on issues and asking not only the tough
questions, but the right questions.
Diaz has taken a lot of flak from the
council for wanting discussion on items at
council meetings. Her stance is that the public
deserves to hear the elected officials of the city
deliberate and make decisions that affect the
residents; her colleagues disagree. It is not
uncommon at council meetings for the Mayor
to silence her when she wants to ask questions
and have a discussion over issues.
The conservative majority on the
council has taken further steps to quiet her. In
2010, just after Abed became mayor, the rules
of the council were changed so that only items
that had two sponsoring council members
would make the agenda. This was clearly an attempt to keep her quiet, but Diaz has managed
to either work around this road block or drive
right through it.
Her signature issue, the Escondido Creek, has been her passion for as many
years as she’s been on the council. It was 2010
when real movement began on the project
and she has worked tirelessly to find funding
for projects, volunteers to help clean the creek
and, even recently, worked with the building
industry to develop an alternative compliance
program for water run-off. New state storm
water regulations prohibit water from leaving
a property and entering the sewer system. The
alternative compliance program would divert
Cont. on page 13
Escondido Elementary Board
Region 1: Central Escondido
Doug Paulson vs. Giovanny Miranda (did not respond)*
Region 3: Southeast Escondido
Joe Muga vs. Mirek Gorny (did not respond)
Escondido High School Board
Region 3: Southeast Escondido
Christi Knight, incumbent, unopposed
Region 4: Northeast and East Escondido
Cesar Serrano vs. Dane White (did not respond)
*at press time, Alianza learned that Giovanny Miranda
had withdrawn from the race.
Las proximas elecciones para miembros de la
junta directivas de las escuelas oferecen
opciones muy claras para los votantes
Por Rick Mercurio
La situación política de las mesas
directivas de Escondido han sido testigos de
un año tumultuoso. En primer lugar, José
Fragozo sobrevivió a un intento de orden de
restricción permanente sólo para entregar
más tarde su asiento después de un acuerdo
con la fiscalía por fraude electoral. Y ahora, la elección de noviembre enfrenta a tres
recién llegados apoyados por el partido republicano y las fuerzas pro-escuela charter
contra los moderados que están tratando de
evitar una toma de poder por los fideicomisarios partidistas. Las apuestas son
altas.
Fragozo afirmó que la administración y
sus compañeros de la junta estaban tratando de silenciarlo por su posicion en relacion
con los problemas de los estudiantes que
estan aprendiendo el idioma inglés. Algunos críticos afirman que la mayoría de
la mesa, todos republicanos y defensores de
las escuelas autónomas, estaban tratando de silenciar al solitario vigilante del
progreso demostrado por los estudiantes y
el unico demócrata en la mesa. El acuerdo
con la fiscalía y Fragozo, estipula que este
renuncie a su asiento, y no se presente como
candidato para ningun cargo electoral por
tres años.
La atención se centra ahora en
quien lo reemplazará en noviembre para la
Región 1 en el centro de Escondido, y si los
asientos abiertos restantes en ambas mesas
directivas irán a lo que algunos califican
como conservadores y anti-escuelas públicas.
Para la Región 1, los cuatro titulares y miembros del partido republicano
de San Diego están respaldando a Giovanny Miranda, de 21 años que ha vivido
Ver la junta directiva en la página 4
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Noticias y Opinión progresista
From the Editors
Running for Office in a
Down Ticket Race
As election season heats up, once
again I’m reminded how important the down
ticket races are to our lives here in North
County. Read Carol Burris’s article about California’s disastrous charter school experiment,
and you will understand just how important
local offices are such as school boards officials.
Cesar Serrano is inspiring in his vision for
Escondido Union High School Board. Doug
Paulson has stepped up to change some of the
issues he has dealt with for many years as a
teacher at Orange Glen. And there are more
we are covering in the issue.
I am running for Palomar Community College Board. This college is a jewel in
North County and I want to help the community learn more about it. As a candidate,
for the first time, I understand the phrase
“running for office.” As we get closer to
Novemeber, the local candidates are attending
multiple meetings every day. We’re running
from one event to another and support each
other as best we can. Please take the time to
learn about these vital races.
Alianza
Farmworkers Bill Signed by Brown
Governor Brown signs historic legislation granting the agricultural workers the
right to overtime pay that other Californians
receive. Brown signed AB1066 without any
comment. This is a big victory for the Farmworkers Union as workers’ rights will finally
be extended to the marginalized people who
put food on our tables.
The author of the bill was Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzales who said “The hundreds of thousands of men and women who
work in California’s fields, dairies and ranches
feed the world and anchor our economy. They
will finally be treated fairly under the law. It
(was) a truly historic day in California.”
Endorsements
Palomar Hospital Board, Nina Deerfield,
John Halcón and Nancy Ann Hensch for
Palomar Community College Board, Thomas
Krouse for State Assembly D75, Rick Shea
for County Board of Ed D5, Kimberly Beatty
for Poway Unified School District, Cipriano
Vargas for Vista Unified D4, Rich Alderson
Vista Unified D5, Antonio Robles Fallbrook
Union High, Joe Muga Escondido Union
D3, Cori Schumacher and Bill Fowler for
Carlsbad City Council, Blaise Jackson for
City of Escondido treasurer, Jim Wood for
Mayor of Oceanside, Mary Gaines for Valley
Center CPA. Marggie Castellano and Donna
Rencsak for Tri-City Hospital. And we say No
on Prop A.
We will publish a more complete list at the end
of October.
Alianza North County endorses the
following candidates: Colonel Doug Applegate
for Congress D49. Patrick Malloy for Congress D50. Andrew Masiel for State Assembly
D75. Dave Roberts for County Board of Supervisors D3. Olga Diaz for Escondido City
Council D3, Dr Linda Gonzales for Oceanside
City Council, Erubey Lopez for Vista City
Council, Jeff Griffith and Dale Bardin for
De Los Editores
Conforme la temporada de las elecciones se calienta, una vez más me doy cuenta de lo importantes son las carreras a nivel
local en nuestras vidas aquí en el Condado
Norte. Lea el artículo de Carol Burris sobre
el experimento desastroso de las escuelas
subvencionadas en California, y entenderá lo
importantes que son los puestos locales tales
como el comité escolar. Cesar Serrano causa
inspiración con su visión para el Comité Unido de la Preparatoria de Escondido. Doug
Paulson ha tomado el mando para cambiar
algunos de los problemas con los que ha tenido que lidiar por tantos años como maestro
de la escuela Orange Glen. Y hay más de los
cuales hablamos en esta edición del periódico.
Yo me postulo para un puesto en
el Comité de la Universidad Comunitaria
Palomar. Esta universidad es una joya en
el Condado Norte y quiero ayudar a que
la comunidad sepa más sobre ella. Como
candidata, por primera vez, entiendo lo
que significa el “postularse.” Conforme nos
acercamos a noviembre, los candidatos
locales están asistiendo a varias juntas todos
los días. Estamos corriendo de un evento al
otro y nos apoyamos uno al otro conforme
nos es posible. Por favor tómese el tiempo de
informarse sobre estas importantes carreras.
Brown firmó la Ley de los Trabajadores del Campo
El gobernador Brown firma una
ley histórica permitiéndoles a los trabajadores agrícolas el derecho de la paga por
tiempo extra de trabajo el cual reciben otros
californianos. Brown firmó la AB 1066 sin
comentarios. Esta es una gran victoria para
el Sindicato de los Trabajadores del Campo ya que los derechos de los trabajadores
finalmente se han extendido a la gente marginalizada que pone la comida en nuestras
mesas. La autora de la ley fue la asambleísta Lorena Gonzales quien dijo, “Los cientos
y miles de hombres y mujeres que trabajan
en los campos, lecherías y ranchos de
California le dan de comer al mundo y son
un ancla para nuestra economía. Finalmente serán tratados justamente bajo la
ley. Verdaderamente fue un día histórico en
California.”
Apoyo
Alianza del Condado Norte apoya
a los siguientes candidatos:
El Coronel Doug Applegate para el Distrito
49 del congreso. Patrick Malloy para el Distrito 50 del congreso. Andrew Masiel para el
Distrito 75 de la asamblea del estado. Dave
Who Can Vote?
By Laura Johnston Kohl
In California, in order to vote, you must:
● Be a US citizen
● Be a resident of California
● Be 18 by Election Day, Nov 8
● Not currently be imprisoned or on parole for the conviction of a felony
● Not currently found to be mentally incompetent by a court of law
ALERT: I would like to note here about Voting and Criminal Records, because I do not see it posted enough:
(ACLU website) The only time you are not eligible to vote is if you have
a felony conviction and you are still in state prison or serving your
sentence in county jail under Realignment, or if you are on parole, on
community supervision, or on mandatory supervision. If you are on
probation or if you have completed your parole, post-release community
supervision, or mandatory supervision you CAN vote!
760-580-0246 [email protected]
AlianzaNorthCounty.com
Publisher: Nina Deerfield Editors-in-Chief: Nina Deerfield and
Rebecca Nutile
Lead Reporter: Rick Mercurio
Columnists: Reverend Doctor Faith J. Conklin
Copy Editor: Frank Henry-Reyes
Photographer: Joe Dusel
Contributors:
James Anderson
Thomas Frew
Don Greene
Laura Hunter
Laura Johnston Kohl
Doug Porter
Correction: In the September Editors Letter we stated that Mr José Fragozo had pled guilty to one charge of Election
Fraud, the actual charge he pled to was Voter Fraud.
Compitiendo por un cargo local
North County
Roberts para el Distrito 3 del Comité de
Supervisores del Condado. Olga Diaz para
el Distrito 3 del ayuntamiento de la ciudad
de Escondido. La Dra. Linda Gonzales para
el ayuntamiento de la ciudad de Oceanside.
Erubey Lopez para el ayuntamiento de la
ciudad de Vista. Jeff Griffith y Dale Bardin
para el Comité del Hospital de Palomar.
Nina Deerfield, John Halcón y Nancy Ann
Hensch para el Comité de la Universidad
Comunitaria de Palomar. Thomas Krouse
para el Distrito 75 de la asamblea estatal.
Rick Shea para el Distrito 5 del Comité de
Educación del Condado. Kimberly Beatty
para el Distrito Escolar Unificado de Poway. Cipriano Vargas para el Distrito 4 del
Distrito Unificado de Vista. Rich Alderson
para el Distrito 5 del Distrito Unificado de
Vista. Antonio Robles para la preparatoria
de Fallbrook. Joe Muga para el Distrito
3 de Escondido. Cori Schumacher y Bill
Fowler para el ayuntamiento de la ciudad
de Carlsbad. Blaise Jackson para tesorero
de la ciudad de Escondido. Jim Wood para
alcalde de Oceanside. Mary Gaines para
CPA de Valley Center. Marggie Castellano y
Donna Rencsak para el Hospital Tri-City. Y
le decimos No a la Proposición A.
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Beatriz Esparragoza
Marisela Gonzalez
Martha Martinez
Tania Márquez
Editorial Board:
Nina Deerfield
Don Greene
Martha Martinez
Rebecca Nutile
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Publicaremos una lista más completa a
finales de octubre.
¿QUIÉN PUEDE VOTAR?
Por Laura Johnston Kohl
Para poder votar en California, usted debe:
● Ser ciudadano de los Estados Unidos
● Ser residente de California
● Haber cumplido los 18 años de edad para el 8 de noviembre, día de las
elecciones
● No estar preso o bajo libertad condicional por la condena de un delito
mayor (felony)
● No habérsele declarado mentalmente incompetente por el proceso judicial
ALERTA: Quiero resaltar aquí acerca de la votación y los récords criminales, lo cual no se anuncia con frecuencia:
(página de internet del ACLU) La única razón para que no tenga derecho a votar es que se le haya declarado culpable de un crimen mayor
(felony) y esté cumpliendo su sentencia en una prisión estatal o en una
cárcel del condado bajo la restructuración de condenas (Realignment),
o si está bajo libertad condicional o supervisión comunitaria, o supervisión obligatoria. Si usted se encuentra bajo prueba (probation),
o si ha cumplido el plazo de su libertad condicional, o de supervisión
comunitaria, o de supervisión obligatoria, ¡usted PUEDE votar!
ALIANZA NORTH COUNTY
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Action Group in North County to Become Part of
the Cure for Capitalism
By James Anderson
When you go to work – if you’re
able to find a job – odds are you are not getting paid what you are worth. A new social
movement organization is trying to change
that.
Democracy at Work, or d@w, a 501(c)3
non-profit and social movement organization, advocates a cooperative economy
based on worker co-ops and worker self-directed enterprises.
In contrast, our present economic
system, capitalism, is premised upon private
ownership of the means of producing what
we as humans need and desire. That ownership scheme means the mass of people who
do not own much else but their power to
work must sell their labor in exchange for
wages needed to acquire what is required to
live since most everything is a commodity
available only through purchase.
Within capitalism, working people produce
extra for those who employ them, otherwise there would be no point in the owners
of enterprises hiring anybody. Workers do
not, in the main, decide how to organize the
production of that surplus they produce.
They do not get to decide how to distribute
it either. The surplus is taken by owners and
realized as profits for them.
Since most business today is corporately-owned, it is usually a small group
of wealthy shareholders who own productive firms. They select a board of directors,
which makes major decisions for the company or appoints a CEO to do that. The board
and CEO tend to ensure there is a workplace
hierarchy replete with managers that tell the
majority of workers what to do, how to do it
and when to get it done (or else).
But there are other possible ways of organizing an economy.
Heterodox economist Richard
Wolff, professor emeritus of economics at
the University of Massachusetts in Amherst
and author of “Democracy at Work: A Cure
for Capitalism,” co-founded the organization bearing the same name as his book to
promote critical diagnoses of capitalism’s
institutional failures and support coopera-
tive economics.
Wolff and d@w do not advocate the
authoritarian state socialism associated with
the old Soviet Union under Stalin. While
revolutionary Russia abolished private
ownership, the state ownership that took
its place retained the same anti-democratic
divisions as capitalism. Instead of owners,
shareholders, executives and managers deciding what to do with the surplus workers
produced, as is the norm under capitalism,
the Soviet Union gave commissars and centralized state planners power to make those
decisions and tell workers what to do.
Wolff is especially adamant about
worker self-directed enterprises, WDSEs,
which differ slightly from your run-of-themill co-op.
In many worker-owned firms,
workers are shareholders and they select a
board of directors separate from themselves.
This board then decides how to direct the
enterprise and what to do with the profits
from the surplus workers produce. In other
worker-managed businesses, workers might
self-manage their work, but they do not
necessarily direct the enterprise together
or make crucial decisions about what to do
with the company’s profits. While a lot of coops emphasize cooperative labor or cooperative ownership, WSDEs go further. Workers
in a WSDE are owners, but they also decide
collectively and democratically how to run
the enterprise and how to distribute the
surplus from profits among themselves, for
reinvestment in and maintenance of the
firm, and for the rest of the community of
which they are part.
Many labor unions are also embracing the kind of cooperative alternatives
to capitalism championed by the d@w
movement.
The United Steelworkers, the largest industrial labor union in North America,
teamed up with Mondragon, a half-century
old worker-owned corporation based in the
Basque region of Spain, to endorse a “union
co-op model” in 2012. With contributions
from the USW and the United Food and
Cont. on page 15
Un grupo activista en el Condado Norte se
convertirá en la cura para el capitalismo
Por James Anderson
Cuando se va al trabajo – si es que
puede encontrar trabajo – lo más probable
es que no le están pagando lo que vale. Una
organización de movimiento social está
intentando cambiar eso.
Democaracy at Work, o d@w,
una organización 501(c)3 no lucrativa y de
movimiento social aboga por una economía
cooperativa en base a cooperativas de los
trabajadores y empresas auto dirigidas.
Por el contrario, nuestro sistema económico
actual, el capitalismo, se basa en la propiedad privada de los medios de producción de
lo que los humanos necesitamos y deseamos. Ese esquema de propiedad significa
que la mayoría de la gente que casi no tiene
nada, más que su trabajo, y debe vender
su trabajo a cambio de los sueldos que se
necesitan para adquirir lo que se requiere
para vivir, ya que casi todo es una comodidad disponible a través de una compra.
Dentro del capitalismo, la gente
que trabaja produce un extra para los que
los contratan, de otra manera no tendría
caso que los dueños de las empresas contrataran a alguien. Los trabajadores no deciden
como organizar la producción del sobrante
que producen. Tampoco pueden decidir
cómo distribuirlo. El sobrante se lo llevan
los dueños y generan ganancias para ellos.
Ya que la mayoría de las empresas
hoy en día son propiedad de corporaciones,
normalmente es un grupo de accionistas
adinerados que son dueños de agencias productivas. Eligen a un comité de directores,
el cual toma decisiones importantes para la
compañía o nombran a un director general (CEO) para que lo haga. El comité y el
director general tienden a asegurar que haya
una jerarquía en el lugar de trabajo repleta
con gerentes que le dicen a la mayoría de los
trabajadores lo que tienen que hacer, cómo
hacerlo, y cuándo tienen que hacerlo (y si no
es así…)
Pero existen otras maneras de organizar una compañía.
El economista no ortodoxo Richard
Wolff, profesor emérito de economía en la
Universidad de Massachusetts en Amherst y
autor de “Democaracy at Work: A Cure for
Capitalism” (La democracia en el trabajo:
una cura para el capitalismo) co-fundó la organización que lleva el mismo nombre que
su libro para promover el diagnóstico crítico
de las fallas de las instituciones capitalistas y
apoyar a las economías cooperativas.
Wolff y d@w no apoyan el socialismo autoritario asociado con la vieja Unión
Soviética bajo el mandato de Stalin. Mientras que la Rusia revolucionaria abolió la
propiedad privada, la propiedad estatal que
se llevó a cabo retuvo las mismas divisiones
anti-democráticas que el capitalismo. En
lugar de los sueños, accionistas, ejecutivos,
y gerentes decidiendo que hacer con el sobrante que los trabajadores producían, justo
como en las normas bajo el capitalismo, la
Unión Soviética le dio a los comisarios y a
los encargados centrales estatales el poder
de tomar las decisiones de decirle a los trabajadores que hacer.
Wolff está firme con las empresas
auto dirigidas por los trabajadores, WDSE,
las cuales son diferentes a las cooperativas
comunes y corrientes.
En muchas agencias dirigidas por
los trabajadores, los trabajadores son accionistas y ellos eligen a un comité de directores
para ellos por separado. Este comité decide
cómo dirigir la empresa y qué hacer con las
ganancias de los sobrantes que producen los
trabajadores. En otras empresas dirigidas
por trabajadores, los trabajadores pueden
auto regular su trabajo, pero no necesariamente dirigen la empresa juntos o toman
decisiones cruciales sobre qué hacer con
las ganancias de la compañía. Mientras que
muchas cooperativas resaltan la labor y la
propiedad cooperativa, WSDE va más allá.
Los trabajadores en WSDE son dueños,
pero también deciden colectivamente y
democráticamente cómo llevar la compañía
y cómo distribuir el sobrante de las mismas
ganancias, para volver a invertirlo y para
mantener la agencia, y para que el resto de la
comunidad de la cual son parte.
Muchos de los sindicatos también están
aceptando el tipo de alternativas al capitalismo que ha promovido el movimiento d@w.
El Sindicato de Trabajadores
Ver un grupo activista en la página 15
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Cont. from page 1
Alianza contacted White, who at first
welcomed Alianza’s questions, but then
chose not to respond. His website and
Facebook page, however, make clear his
positions. He is endorsed by the Republican establishment in Escondido, including
the Escondido Republican Club, Mayor
Abed, Councilmen Morasco and Masson
and Gallo, and three incumbent board
members: Donnellon, Tina Pope, and Bill
Durney.
White’s Facebook page states: “This is
a race between the Right and the left. I’ll
bring Conservative values to the board if
elected [his capitalization choices].” White
attended Light and Life Elementary, a
private religious school in Escondido, as
well as Escondido Charter High School.
His site says he is attending BYU in Idaho,
so it is unclear how he could attend an
out-of-state institution while serving as an
Escondido trustee.
White’s page includes pro-charter
school posts, including one entitled “The
Charter School Advantage,” and another
entitled “I’m a Newark public school teacher, but I send my child to a charter school.”
He posted a “like” to a Fox News article
entitled “CA school district votes to allow
staff to carry guns.” Another post expresses support for Trump while disparaging
Obama and Hillary Clinton. He includes
several anti-teacher union posts, including
one entitled “Teacher Unions vs. Students.”
White opposes a California proposal to
keep public money out of religious schools
that practice discrimination against sexual
orientation and gender identity.
Escondido Public School Advocates
(EPSA) is clear on voters’ choices for
school boards. “Candidates like Paulson,
Serrano and Muga are committed to all
public schools, while Miranda, Gorny and
White are being financed and supported
by the charter school movement,” EPSA
spokesperson Tania Bowman said. “Candidates that are financially supported by
charter schools essentially support segregation and a lack of transparency. Although
charters claim to support competition in
education, they play by their own exclusive
and discriminatory set of rules. You can
verify this discrimination by their demographics,” she said.
The history and record of the charter
schools in Escondido, Bowman maintains, is one of “segregated student bodies
and white flight. Charters have instituted
policies which do not serve the neediest
children in special education, second
language learning, and poverty. Additionally charter schools are not accountable
and transparent to the taxpayers like true
public schools,” she said.
For this issue, Alianza focused on
the three competitive races. The responses
from candidates who responded to our
questionnaire follow in the articles on
Regions 1, 3 and 4.
Doug Paulson, Candidate for
EUSD, Region 1
Doug Paulson
High School Teacher
Do you speak Spanish, and if so, what level is
your fluency?
Fluent, speaking, writing, and reading.
I learned Spanish while studying in Xela,
Guatemala, used it during years of traveling
throughout México, and perfected it while
serving in the U.S. Peace Corps in Uruguay
and Argentina as a trainer of Park Rangers.
I have a fluency rating of “Native Speaker”
from the U.S. State Department.
How long have you lived in the Escondido
area?
All my life, 53 years. I worked overseas and
out of state at various times, but my permanent address has always remained in
Escondido. I attended Central School, Grant
School and Escondido High School, as did my
mother.
Briefly describe your present and past
community involvement, whether elected,
appointed or volunteer:
DELAC Rep – North Broadway School
School Site Council Chair – Orange Glen
High School (9 years)
San Pasqual High School Agriculture Boosters – secretary, vice-president (3 years)
PTSO president – Orange Glen High School
(president 2 years; VP 2 years)
First United Methodist Church: Sunday
School teacher 6 years; various activities
Esc. Citizens’ Ecology Committee – vice
president & president
Friends of Wilderness Gardens Preserve
(board member 5 years; president 3 years)
US Peace Corps 1993 – 1995 (Argentina &
Uruguay)
WASC school improvement visiting committees – Chaired or participated in over 20 multiple month school improvement processes
over the past 10 years.
If you have children, what school(s) do/did
they attend in Escondido?
Four children: Alfonso, Ayelen (Laney),
Dakota, Dustin
Conway, North Broadway, Rincon MS, L.R.
Green, Bear Valley MS, Orange Glen HS, San
Pasqual HS (my youngest son attended Light
& Life for 2 years, and Heritage Digital Academy for one year during middle school)
What motivated you to run for school board?
I attended schools in Escondido’s Region 1
(Central, Grant [Mission], and EHS). I came
out of our school system with a great education that has allowed me to do many things. I
spent my first 10 years after high school in law
enforcement and other emergency services.
I saw what happens when people don’t get
a great early education (it’s not pretty). I’ve
now spent 20 years at Valley High School and
Orange Glen High School, and I see what can
happen when students succeed early on (the
success continues. I simply want to work with
district administration, families, students and
the community to ensure that every student
gets that great early education.
Name your local allegiances, political alliances or best known supporters
This is a non-partisan office, and I would like
us to get back to the point where school board
is non-partisan. My opponent received the
Republican Party’s endorsement, and I may
seek the Democratic Party’s endorsement to
level the playing field.
I have no real political alliances. My interest
in seeking this office is to improve educational opportunities for all students, regardless
of family political beliefs. My main support
comes from students and families of students
I have worked with over the past 20 years,
as well as the many Escondido residents and
families I know after being in the community
for over half a century.
Explain any experience and/or involvement
with the school district
Twenty years as a public school teacher in
Escondido Union High School District and
experience as a parent for over 14 years.
Dozens of classroom visits in which I have
seen some extremely high quality teaching
and learning.
What are your top 2 priorities if elected?
1. To engage in a professional, respectful,
kind, and supportive dialogue with the school
board in order to review data and research,
and ensure that the board, administration and
all district funding and activities are focused
on improving student achievement equitably
for all students;
2. To ensure that the district has a quality plan
to address areas of concern on an ongoing
basis, and procedures set in place to ensure
high quality, innovative teaching and learning
for all students.
What needs to be done to improve student
performance?
That is a multi-year conversation. I
have a master’s degree in improving student
performance in literacy, and that took 2 years
of constant work to earn.
There are many aspects to improving student performance. As a district, we
need to ensure that our schools are physically
and technologically equipped to foster high
levels of learning, we must have high expectations for our students, we need to have high
levels of academic and personal support for
all students and families, we need to utilize research-based, innovative teaching techniques,
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dos años en Escondido y quien trabajó en
la campaña fallida del Alcalde Sam Abed
para remplazar al supervisor del area 3 del
condado.
La máquina electoral republicana
tuvo éxito en las elecciones anteriores, y con
desplazar a Fragozo, ahora está tratando
de conseguir un voto de 5-0. En la escuela
primaria hay dos puestos en juego, así como
la captura de dos puestos en el consejo de la
escuela preparatoria.
La Alianza se acercó a Miranda, y su respuesta inmediata fue positiva,
diciendo que había oído cosas buenas sobre
el periodico y la forma en que se conecta
con la comunidad latina, y dio la bienvenida a la solicitud de llenar un cuestionario.
Las preguntas le fueron enviadas luego por
correo electrónico, pero unos días más tarde
Miranda escribió: “En este momento, estoy
eligiendo no hacer comentarios sobre la historia que está escribiendo y en participar en
entrevistas con los candidatos.” En su sitio
LinkedIn en “Languages” que aparece “solo
inglés.”
Doug Paulson esta corriendo en
contra de Miranda. Doug es un nativo de
Escondido que asistió la escuela primaria
Central, Grant Middle School, y la preparatoria Escondido High School. Ha sido maestro en el distrito de las preparatorias de
Escondido para los ultimos 20 años, después
de trabajar como policia para el sheriff de
San Diego y como guardaparque (paramedico, bombero, policia) para el Servicio
Nacional de Parques en el Gran Cañon,
Yellowstone, y Big Bend en Tejas. Sirvió en
el Cuerpo de Paz de los EEUU en Argentina y se casó con una nativa de Uruguay.
Habla español con fluidez, lo que considera
importante en la Región 1, y su página de
Facebook la campaña incluye traducciones
de su mensaje.
Mesa Directiva de las Escuelas Primarias de Escondido
Región 1: Central Escondido
Doug Paulson vs. Giovanny Miranda (no respondió)
Región 3: Sudeste Escondido
Joe Muga vs. Mirek Gorny (no respondió)
Mesa Directiva de las Escuelas Preparatorias de Escondido
Región 3: Sudeste Escondido
Christi Knight, sin oposición
Región 4: Noreste y Este Escondido
Cesar Serrano vs. Dane White (no respondió)
Para este artículo, la Alianza se centró en las tres carreras competitivas. Las opiniones de los
candidatos que respondieron a nuestro cuestionario están a continuacion.
Doug Paulson, EUSD
Región 1
Maestro y Administrador de Programas en las
Escuelas Preparatorias de Escondido
¿Habla Español, y si es así, ¿cuál es su nivel de
fluidez?
Hablo, escribo y leo Espanol tan bien como Ingles.
Aprendí mi Español mientras estudiaba en Xela,
Guatemala, lo use mientras viaje muchas veces por
todo México, y lo perfeccione durante mi servicio en
el Cuerpo de Paz de EE.UU. en Uruguay y Argentina
como un entrenador de Guardaparques. Tengo un
grado de fluidez de “hablante nativo” del Departamento de Realciones Exteriores de EE.UU. Ademas,
mi esposa y yo hablamos en espanol todo el tiempo.
¿Cuánto tiempo ha vivido en el área de Escondido?
Toda mi vida, 53 años. He trabajado en el varios
paises y fuera del estado en varias ocasiones, pero mi
dirección permanente siempre ha permanecido en
Escondido. Asistí a la Escuela Central, Escuela Grant
y la Escuela Prepatoria Escondido, al igual que mi
madre.
Describa brevemente su participación en la comunidad presente y pasado, ya sea elegido, nombrado o voluntario:
ELAC Rep - Escuela primaria North Broadway
Presidente del Consejo Escolar - Escuela Preparatoria Orange Glen (9 años)
Escuela Preparatoria San Pasqual – Boosters de
Agricultura - secretario, vice-presidente (3 años)
Presidente PTSO - Escuela Preparatoria Orange
Glen (presidente 2 años; VP 2 años)
Iglesia Metodista: Maestro dominical - 6 años;
Varias actividades
Comité de Ecología de los Ciudadanos de Escondido
– Vice-presidente y Presidente
Amigos de Wilderness Gardens Preserve (miembro
de la junta 5 años; presidente de 3 años)
Cuerpo de Paz de Estados Unidos 1993 - 1995 (Argentina y Uruguay)
WASC Comités de mejoramiento de escuelas - Presidido o participado en más de 20 procesos de mejora
escolar durante los últimos 10 años.
Si tiene hijos, a qué escuela (s) asistieron en
Escondido?
Tenemos 4 hijos, Alfonso, Ayelen (Laney), Dakota,
Dustin
Ellos asistieron Conway, North Broadway, Rincón
MS, L. R. Green, Bear Valley MS, Orange Glen HS,
San Pasqual HS
¿Por que quiere servir en la Mesa Directiva de las
Escuelas Primarias?
Asistí a las escuelas de la Región 1 de Escondido
(Central, Grant [Misión], y EHS). Salí de nuestro
sistema escolar con una buena educación que me ha
permitido hacer muchas cosas. Pasé mis primeros 10
años después de la secundaria como policia y otros
servicios de emergencia. Trabajando como policia, vi
lo que puede suceder cuando una persona no recibe
una buena educación en la escuela primaria, y no
es una buena situación. En los ultimos 20 años en
que he trabajado en Valley High School y Orange
Glen High School, veo lo que puede suceder cuando
los estudiantes tienen éxito desde el principio (y
el éxito continua). Simplemente, quiero trabajar
con la administración del distrito, las familias, los
estudiantes y la comunidad para asegurar que cada
estudiante obtienga una buena educación primaria
y secundaria.
Nombre sus lealtades locales, alianzas políticas o
partidarios más conocidos
Una posición en la mesa directiva de las escuelas
primarias debe ser una oficina no partidista, y nos
gustaría volver al punto en el que la junta escolar
no es partidista. Mi oponente recibió el respaldo del
Partido Republicano, y yo podría buscar el respaldo
del Partido Demócrata para nivelar el campo de
juego.
No tengo alianzas políticas reales. Mi interés en la
búsqueda de esta oficina es mejorar las oportunidades educativas para todos los estudiantes, independientemente de las creencias políticas. Mi apoyo
principal proviene de los estudiantes y de las familias
de los estudiantes con las que he trabajado durante
los últimos 20 años, así como los muchos residentes
de Escondido y las familias que conozco después de
estar en la comunidad durante más de medio siglo.
Explique su experiencia y / o participación con el
distrito escolar
Veinte años como maestro de escuela pública en el
Distrito de Escuelas Secundarias de Escondido y
experiencia como padre en el distrito durante más
de 14 años. Decenas de visitas a las aulas en las que
he visto alguna enseñanza de muy alta calidad y
aprendizaje
¿Cuáles son sus 2 principales prioridades si es
elegido?
1. Participar en un diálogo profesional, respetuoso,
amable, y de apoyo con la junta escolar con el fin de
revisar los datos y la investigación, y asegúraese de
que la junta, la administración y todos los fondos del
distrito y las actividades se centren en la mejora de
rendimiento de los estudiantes de manera equitativa
para todos.
2. Asegurar que el distrito tenga un plan de calidad para tratar las áreas de necesidad de forma
continua, y que los programas ya establecidos que
garantizan una alta calidad alta de servicios, que
son innovadores de enseñanza y aprendizaje para
todos los estudiantes continuen.
¿Lo que hay que hacer para mejorar el rendimiento de los estudiantes?
Esa es una conversación de varios años. Tengo un
título de maestría en la mejora de rendimiento de los
estudiantes en lectura, y que tomó 2 años de trabajo
constante para titularme.
Hay muchos aspectos para mejorar el rendimiento
del estudiante. Como distrito, tenemos que asegurarnos de que nuestras escuelas esten física y tecnológicamente equipadas para fomentar altos niveles de
aprendizaje, Todos debemos tener altas expectativas
para nuestros estudiantes, acompanados por altos
niveles de apoyo académico y el personal adecuado
para server a todos los estudiantes y a las familias.
Necesitamos continuar utilizando técnicas de enseñanza innovadoras, basadas en la investigación, y
necesitamos seguir apoyando el desarrollo profesional de muy alta calidad. Y al miso tiempo tenemos
que tener sistemas para identificar las deficiencias, y
corregir las deficiencias de forma rápida y eficaz.
¿Cuál es la mejor manera de tratar con los estudiantes del idioma inglés?
Proporcionándoles un excelente plan de estudios,
una instrucción primaria de alta calidad, oportunidades de enriquecimiento, apoyo para ellos y sus
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Joe Muga, Candidate for
EUSD Region 3
Joe Muga
Clinical Psychologist
Do you speak Spanish, and if so, what level is
your fluency?
No. My grandparents were immigrants from Mexico. Unfortunately, when I was a child my parents
felt that for me to succeed in school they would not
emphasize speaking Spanish in the home. That was
unfortunate. I have taken Spanish classes in school
but I am not fluent.
How long have you lived in the Escondido area?
I have been a homeowner in unincorporated
Escondido for 17 years. However, my wife grew
up here and even graduated from Escondido High
School.
Joe Muga, EUSD Región 3
the school district
My child has been a student in the district since
kindergarten. I am an active PTA
member at Bear Valley Middle School. My wife
Terri Price has been a teacher in the
EUSD for 17 years. So I know many of the teachers
and administrators in the district. We have some
amazing teacher talent in our district.
What are your top 2 priorities if elected?
EUSD needs to address the issue of declining
enrollment. This ties in with the need to address
English language learner performance and charter
schools. In addition, we need to make sure we are
preparing ALL of our students for their future with
a robust emphasis on 21st century skills.
Briefly describe your present and past community involvement, whether elected, appointed or
volunteer:
I am an active member of the Bear Valley Middle
School PTA. I was a State Parole Board Deputy
Commissioner for the San Diego region for 8 years
where I presided over parole board hearings for
the purpose of keeping our community safe from
parole violators.
What needs to be done to improve student performance?
We need to seriously take a look at the “sub group”
of English language learners. The
vast majority of students in most of the EUSD
schools are English learners. If we address the needs
of this population, we are addressing the performance of the school district. There is plenty of good
research out there to help guide our direction while
we tackle this issue.
If you have children, what school(s) do/did they
attend in Escondido?
I have a daughter who attends Bear Valley Middle
School. She attended LR Green
Elementary School from kindergarten through fifth
grade. If elected, I understand I will be only school
board member with a child actually attending a
EUSD school.
What is the best approach to dealing with English
language learners?
The district should continue to review and implement the findings and recommendations from the
QTEL Report submitted to EUSD last year. We essentially need a paradigm shift in how we deal with
English learners in our district to prepare them to
be successful in our changing economy.
What motivated you to run for school board?
The vacant seat came open after the incumbent was
successful in her election to the
County Board of Education. The EUSD school
board is in disarray. Focus should only be on our
students’ success. I believe I can help the board
regain the needed focus. It has also always been a
dream of mine to contribute to the community as
an elected official.
The California state constitution states that
“school boards should be non-partisan.” What
does that mean to you?
I am a firm believer that school boards should be
non-partisan. It is disturbing that our school board
has become so politicized. School boards were
meant to be citizen oversight committees, not composed of representatives from political parties, special interest groups, or educational administrators.
This is where I will be instrumental in restoring the
board’s effectiveness in listening to all stakeholders
and implementing policies which are reflective of
all perspectives.
Name your local allegiances, political alliances or
best known supporters
I have never run for office before. I live in unincorporated Escondido so I have not been involved with
city politics. I have only now begun to meet the
local politicos. I am a life-long Democrat.
Explain any experience and/or involvement with
What is your opinion of the two largest charters
in the area: Heritage and Classical Academy?
My view of any charter school is to question what is
it that the charter school is offering that our tradi-
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Joe Muga
Psicologo Clínico
¿Habla español, y si es así, ¿cuál es su nivel
de fluidez?
No. Mis abuelos eran inmigrantes de México.
Por desgracia, cuando yo era un niño mis padres consideraron que para que tenga éxito en
la escuela que no hacer hincapié en que habla
Español en el hogar. Eso fue desafortunado. He
tomado clases de Español en la escuela, pero yo
no soy fluido.
¿Cuánto tiempo ha vivido en el área de
Escondido?
He sido propietario de una casa en áreas no
incorporadas Escondido durante 17 años. Sin
embargo, mi esposa creció aquí e incluso se
graduó de la Escuela Preparatoria Escondido
High School.
Describa brevemente su participación en la
comunidad presente y pasado, ya sea elegido,
nombrado o voluntario:
Yo soy un miembro activo de la PTA de la
Escuela Bear Valley Middle School. Yo era un
subcomisionado Junta de Libertad Condicional
para la región de San Diego durante 8 años,
donde presidió las audiencias junta de libertad
condicional con el fin de mantener nuestra
comunidad segura de violadores de libertad
condicional.
vivo en Escondido no incorporada así que no
he estado involucrado con la política de la
ciudad. sólo ahora he empezado a conocer a
los políticos locales. Soy un demócrata de toda
la vida.
Explicar ninguna experiencia y / o participación con el distrito escolar
Mi hijo ha sido un estudiante en el distrito
desde la guardería. Soy un PTA activo
miembro de la Escuela Intermedia Bear Valley. Mi esposa Terri precio ha sido un maestro
en el EUSD durante 17 años. Así que sé que
muchos de los maestros y administradores del
distrito. Tenemos un talento increíble profesional en nuestro distrito.
¿Cuáles son sus 2 principales prioridades si
es elegido?
EUSD tiene que abordar la cuestión de la
disminución de la matrícula. Esto se relaciona
con la necesidad de abordar las escuelas de
rendimiento estudiante del idioma Inglés y de
alquiler. Además, tenemos que asegurarnos de
que estamos preparando a todos los estudiantes
para su futuro con una robusta énfasis en las
habilidades del siglo 21.
Si tiene hijos, a qué escuela (s) / asistieron en
Escondido?
Tengo una hija que asiste a la Escuela Bear
Valley Middle School. Ella asistió a LR Green
por sscuela primaria desde preescolar hasta
quinto grado. Si es elegido, entiendo que seré
único miembro de la junta escolar con un niño
en realidad que esta asistiendo a una escuela
del distrito.
Lo que hay que hacer para mejorar el rendimiento de los estudiantes?
Tenemos que tomar en serio un vistazo a la
“subgrupo” de los estudiantes del idioma inglés.
los
gran mayoría de los estudiantes en la mayor
parte de las escuelas de EUSD son estudiantes
de inglés. Si nos dirigimos a las necesidades de
esta población, estamos abordando el rendimiento del distrito escolar. Hay un montón
de buena investigación por ahí para ayudar a
guiar nuestra dirección, mientras que frente a
este problema.
¿Por que quiere server en la Mesa Directiva
de las Escuelas Primarias?
La vacante se abrió después de que el titular
tuvo éxito en su elección a la
Junta de Educación del Condado. La junta
escolar EUSD está en desorden. Enfoque debe
ser sólo en el éxito de nuestros estudiantes. Creo
que puedo ayudar a la junta recuperar el enfoque necesario. Asimismo, siempre ha sido un
sueño para mí para contribuir a la comunidad
como un funcionario elegido.
Nombre sus lealtades locales, alianzas políticas o partidarios más conocidos
Nunca he postularse para un cargo antes. Yo
¿Cuál es la mejor manera de tratar con los
estudiantes que estan aprendiendo el idioma
Inglés?
El distrito debe seguir para revisar y poner en
práctica las conclusiones y recomendaciones
del Informe QTEL sometido a EUSD el año
pasado. Esencialmente necesitamos un cambio
de paradigma en la forma en que tratamos con
los estudiantes de inglés en nuestro distrito a
fin de prepararlos para tener éxito en nuestra
economía cambiante.
La constitución del estado de California
establece que “las juntas escolares deben ser
imparcial.” ¿Qué significa eso para usted?
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Noticias y Opinión progresista
Letter to the Editor
To Members of the San Marcos Planning Commission:
Thank you for the important work you do!
I am a retired educator and author, and I have worked for the past ten years in Escondido - so
my involvement locally has been focused there. I am interested now in finding out more about
my San Marcos community.
I attended the Planning Commission Meeting this week, and I have serious concerns about the
San Marcos Highlands Project. I REALLY hope that you will not to decide to recommend we go
forward with it. Here are a few of my concerns:
1. Housing in San Diego is exorbitant. My son is also a teacher living here in San Diego. He
will be forced to move away if there is no moderate, decent housing available here. Please
restructure your housing designs to include moderate and middle income housing. That could be
duplexes, condos, and smaller lots on the SM Highlands track.
2. How can there be no expansion of roads? We absolutely know we will need more public roads
to this project. Who will pay for the roads?
3. The schools The are overcrowded in San Marcos. How can builders be exempted for solving
that?
4. The amount of park space is ABSOLUTELY absurd. How can a few acres of “park” be adequate?
5. I don’t want exceptions made to the city’s Master Plan. What is the point of a Master Plan if
exceptions are made.
6. The elephant in the middle of the room was the “future housing on the site” - which was
alluded to and not addressed. Will the project continue to be rubber-stamped when additional
housing is proposed? Will it have the same lack of diversity, minimal parks, large houses, no
resources provided for roads and schools, and a negative impact on wildlife?
7. The presenter in favor of the project spoke of the long history in attempting to get the housing
project. That is a statement in itself. The public comment took place 3 years ago. As we know,
time moves on and changes abound. WE NEED MORE FORUMS and more time for public
comment.
Please do not recommend that our City Council accept this proposal.
Thank you,
Laura Kohl
San Marcos, CA 92069
Cesar Serrano, EUHSD Region 4
Cesar Serrano
Operations Assistant
Do you speak Spanish, and if so, what level is
your fluency?
Yes. I’m actually a native speaker.
How long have you lived in the Escondido area?
I have lived in Escondido my entire life, though
I went to college in Massachusetts.
Briefly describe your present and past community involvement, whether
elected, appointed or volunteer:
My mother’s involvement in community
organizations gradually got me involved at a
young age. I was fascinated by people’s passion
in their fight to have their voices heard. These
early years were the foundation for my interest
in politics, social issues, and economics. I had
concluded at an early age that I had the moral
responsibility to help uplift my community as
well as any other struggling groups. This led me
to high school community service, including
Key Club, National
Honor Society, and Education Compact. Once
in college, I got heavily involved with VISTA,
the Latinx group on campus, and the Committee for Institutional Change. I also played a huge
role in engaging the community when Escondido transitioned to district elections.
If you have children, what school(s) do/did
they attend in Escondido?
No children yet, but I attended Oak Hill Elementary, Hidden Valley Middle School,
and Orange Glen High School.
What motivated you to run for school board?
As I mentioned, I attended Escondido’s public
schools. I saw how the administration
let our teachers and our students down by failing to provide for their needs. I
believe all students can succeed but this is exponentially more difficult when
students are marginalized and when teachers
cannot perform to the best of their
abilities because of lack of resources. I understand what our schools need because I
was a student at the city’s traditional public
schools and I remember feeling
frustrated because I felt like there was nothing I
could do as a student to better our
collective situation. I see this school board posi-
tion as an opportunity to highlight
many of the issues ignored by a governing body
that cannot identify with nor fully
understand the people it is supposed to serve.
Name your local allegiances, political alliances or best known supporters
My only allegiance is to my community and to
the people of Escondido. A few people that have
endorsed my candidacy are Consuelo Martinez,
former Community
Services Commissioner for the City of Escondido; George McClure, current Trustee
for EUHSD’s Region 4; Olga Diaz, current
Escondido City Councilwoman; and Mel Takahara, respected community leader.
Explain any experience and/or involvement
with the school district
As a student, I would receive commendations
for excellence in academics and
extracurriculars from the high school board. At
the same time, I would show up to
school board meetings as a concerned citizen
and observe. I would also address the
board with my concerns whenever I perceived
there was a situation that would
compromise a service that I considered beneficial to the community.
What are your top 2 priorities if elected?
1) Increase student participation in school
board affairs by creating a committee
of student ambassadors from each high school.
2) Create more interactions between teachers,
parents, and the actual school
board to ensure that everyone’s grievances have
been heard which will increase
transparency. This will prove even more important when the time comes to
update our Local Control and Accountability
Plan.
What needs to be done to improve student
performance?
Get rid of the assumption that a student is only successful if they attend college and
graduate. The definition of success varies by
person and not everyone is meant to be in academia. Acknowledging that intelligences differ
is the first step. Someone who may be extremely
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Cesar Serrano, EUHSD Región 4
Cesar Serrano
Asistente de Operaciones
Habla Español? Y si sí, cuál es su nivel de
fluidez?
Si. Mi lengua materna es el español.
Cuánto tiempo ha vivido en Escondido?
He vivido aquí mi vida intera. Sin embargo, fui a
la universidad en el estado de Massachusetts.
Brevemente describa su involucramiento
comunitario en el pasado y en el presente, ya
sea de voluntario, de puesto electo, o como
persona designada.
El involucramiento de mi madre en organizaciones comunitarias gradualmente me involucró a una temprana edad. Estaba fascinado
por la pasión de la gente en su lucha para que
sus voces sean escuchadas. Estos primeros años
de mi vida eran la fundación para mi interés en
la política, cuestiones sociales, y la economía.
Había concluido a temprano edad que yo tenia
la responsabilidad moral de ayudar edificar mi
comunidad así como a otros grupos que estuvieran luchando. Esto me llevó al servicio comunitario en la secundario con organización como
Key Club, National Honor Society y Education
Compact. Una vez que entre a la universidad,
me involucre con VISTA, el grupo cultural de
Latinos del campus, y con el Comité de Cambio
Institucional. También tuve papel importante organizando con la comunidad cuando Escondido
se cambió a las elecciones por distrito.
Si tiene hijos, a cuáles escuelas en Escondido
van/fueron?
Aún no tengo hijos pero yo fui estudiante en la
Oak Hill, Hidden Valley, y la preparatoria de
Orange Glen.
Qué le motivó a postularse para el Consejo
Escolar de Secundarias?
Como mencioné, yo atendí las escuelas públicas
de Escondido. Vi como la administración decepcionaba nuestros maestros y estudiantes cuando
fallaban en proveer por sus necesidades.
Yo creo que todo estudiante puede ser exitoso
pero esto es exponencialmente más difici cuando
estudiantes son marginalizados y cuando maestros no pueden realizar sus deberes por falta
de recursos. Yo entiendo que necesitan nuestras
escuelas porque yo fui estudiante en las escuelas
públicas de la ciudad y recuerdo haberme sentido
frustrado porque no había nada que yo podía
hacer para mejorar nuestra situación colectiva.
Veo a esta posicion en el Consejo Escolar de Secundarias como una oportunidad para iluminar
los problemas que han sido ignorados por un cuerpo gubernamental que no se puede identificar
con ni completamente entender las personas a
que deben representar.
Nombra sus fidelidades locales y políticas o sus
apoyantes mas conocidos.
Mi única fidelidad es a mi comunidad y a la
gente de Escondido. Alguna gente que ha endosado mi candidatura son Consuelo Martínez, ex
comisionada de servicios comunitarios de la comunidad; George McClure, fideicomisario actual
para la región 4 del Consejo Escolar de Secundarias de Escondido; Olga Díaz, concejal actual
para la Ciudad de Escondido; y Mel Takahara,
respetado lider comunitario.
Explica cualquier experiencia o involucramiento con el Consejo Escolar de Secundarias.
Como estudiante, recibía elogios de parte del
Consejo Escolar por excelencia académica.
A la misma vez, asistía a sus reuniones como
ciudadano preocupado y observaba. También
me dirigía a los miembros del Consejo con mis
preocupaciones si percibía que una situación
comprometía un servicio que yo consideraba
beneficioso para la comunidad.
Cuales son dos prioridades si es elegido.
Aumentar la participación estudiantil en los
asuntos del Consejo a través la creación de un
comité de embajadores estudiantiles de cada
preparatoria.
Crear más interacciones entre los maestros,
padres de familia, y el Consejo Escolar para
asegurar que las quejas de todos sean consideradas. Esto aumentará transparencia y resultará muy importante cuando venga el tiempo
para actualizar nuestro Plan de Responsabilidad
y Control Local.
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Progressive News & Opinion
Prop 64: Should Recreational
Marijuana Be Legal?
By Tom Frew
The enforcement of marijuana laws
generates some of the justice system’s starkest
racial disparities. Despite roughly equal usage
rates nationwide, People of color are nearly 4
times more likely than whites to be arrested for
marijuana, according to the ACLU.
Half a million people of all races have
been arrested over the past decade, according to
the Drug Policy Alliance, citing data from the
California Department of Justice. Tens of thousands of Californians are still being arrested
each year. Young people convicted of marijuana
offenses have their lives ruined by losing their
student loans to complete an education, and
receiving a criminal record that harms employment prospects.
“Reforming our marijuana laws is an
important civil rights issue. The current system
is counterproductive, financially wasteful and
racially biased.” said Alice Huffman, President
of the California NAACP.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
(LEAP), a group of police, judges, prosecutors, and other criminal justice professionals
advocating for marijuana legalization, endorses
proposition 64 in order to improve the relationship between communities and police, and
help keep the justice system focused on more
serious matters.
“This initiative is the best chance California has to end a failed war on marijuana,”
said Redondo Beach Police Department’s Lt.
Commander Diane Goldstein (Ret.), executive
board member for LEAP. “It’s our best hope to
reduce the power of cartels operating in our
state, to generate much-needed resources for
law enforcement, and create a new system of
regulation and control that will greatly improve
public health and safety for all Californians.”
LEAP is concerned that marijuana policies have slowed the justice system at
every level; police on patrol busy busting kids
with pot rather than focusing on more violent
crimes, courtrooms clogged with thousands
of cases, and prisons overcrowded with minor
offenders.
Proposition 64 also allows courts
to re-sentence many prisoners serving time
for marijuana offenses and to re-designate or
dismiss many marijuana offenses from the
criminal records of those who have already
served out their sentences, returning basic civil
rights to tens of thousands of Californians.
I was working near Seattle when
Washington State and Colorado were the first
to legalize possession and the recreational use
of marijuana in 2012. Law enforcement publicly
breathed a sigh of relief that they no longer had
to enforce prohibition of this widely available
substance. However, police were quick to point
out that driving under the influence (DUI) is
still a crime. Employers immediately clarified to
their workers that, just like alcohol, there would
be zero tolerance in the workplace. At home is
fine, but don’t drive or show up at work inebriated.
Smoking has long been banned from public
places in both Washington and California, so
people won’t be smoking weed at the table next
to you in a restaurant. However, marijuana
laced cookies and brownies available in licensed
Head shops or marijuana dispensaries will become a common, yet expensive new consumer
product.
Under Proposition 64, marijuana
will be taxed at 23% beginning January 1, 2018
(medical use is tax exempt). Tax revenues, estimated o be over $1 billion annually, by the independent California Legislative’s Analysis Office,
will be allocated to youth drug treatment and
prevention programs, and to law enforcement
agencies for improving detection of impaired
drivers.
Revenues started out slowly in
Washington and Colorado, as consumers
became familiar with the new system. After two
years, Washington State is saving millions of
dollars from a dramatic decrease in marijuana
arrests and convictions, as well as increased tax
revenues. During the same period, the state has
experienced a decrease in violent crime rates.
Rates of youth marijuana use and traffic fatalities have remained stable.
The Los Angeles Times has recently
endorsed Proposition 64, urging a “Yes vote”.
Voters in California will have to ask themselves
whether the time has come to treat marijuana
less like heroin and more like alcohol, as a regulated but acceptable product for adult use.
Tom Frew is a writer and retired aerospace
engineer active with the Fallbrook Climate
Action Team. He lives in Fallbrook with his
wife, Joy.
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Faith’s Corner
Palabras como plumas
Words Like Feathers
He estado pensando mucho acerca
de las palabras últimamente. He estado
pensando sobre las palabras que decimos
-y no deberíamos- y las palabras que no
decimos y que deberíamos decir. He estado
pensado sobre qué tan poderosas, dolorosas, estupendas y maravillosas son las
palabras. Las palabras hacen que las cosas
sean posibles. Lo que decimos importa.
“Los palos y las piedras pueden
romperme los huesos, pero las palabras
nunca me harán daño”. Muchos de nosotros aprendimos esa frase de niños. A
medida que crecimos, descubrimos rápidamente que eso no es cierto y qué tan falsa
es la frase. Puede ser que las palabras no
“nos rompan los huesos”, pero nos pueden
romper el espíritu y pueden herir nuestros
corazones. Pueden dejar cicatrices que
moldearán y marcarán nuestras vidas de
manera emocional, psicológica y espiritual.
Una vieja historia cuenta de un
hombre que fue a ver a su rabino para
hacerle una pregunta. Le dijo que él entendía los mandamientos de no matar y no
robar pero que no entendía por qué había
un mandamiento prohibiendo vituperar
o calumniar al prójimo. El rabino era un
hombre sabio. Miró al hombre y le dijo:
“Contestaré a tu pregunta pero primero,
tengo una tarea para ti. Consigue un costal
de plumas y pon una pluma en el umbral
de cada una de las casas de la aldea. Después regresa por la respuesta.”
El hombre distribuyó las plumas como se le
indicó y volvió por su respuesta. “Dígame,
rabino: ¿por qué es malo vituperar al
prójimo?” “Ah,” contestó el rabino. “Algo
más: debes ir y recoger todas esas plumas
antes de que te dé la respuesta.” Inmediatamente el hombre protestó. “Rabino, va a
by Reverend Doctor Faith J. Conklin
I’ve been thinking a lot about words
lately. I’ve been thinking about the words we
say and shouldn’t and the words we don’t say
and should. I’ve been thinking about how
powerful, painful, awesome and amazing
words are. Words make things possible. What
we say matters.
“Sticks and stones can break my
bones, but words will never hurt me”. Many of
us learned that rhyme as children. As we grew
older, we quickly discovered how untrue and
false those lines are. Words may not “break
our bones”; they can break our spirits and
wound our hearts. They can leave scars that
forever shape and mark our lives emotionally,
psychologically and spiritually.
An old story tells about a man who
came to his rabbi with a question. He said
he understood the commandments about
not killing and not stealing. He said he didn’t
understand why there was a commandment
against slandering or speaking wrongly
against one’s neighbor.
The rabbi was a wise man. He
looked at him and said, “I’ll answer your
question. I have a task for you first. Get a sack
of feathers. Put one feather on the doorstep of
each house in the village. Then come back and
for your answer.”
The man distributed the feathers as instructed. He went back for his answer. “Tell me, rabbi, why is it wrong to slander my neighbor?”
“Ah” said the rabbi, “One more
thing. You must now go and collect all those
feathers before I give you the answer.” Immediately the man protested. “Rabbi, the feathers
will be impossible to collect. The wind will
have blown them away. Who knows where
they will have landed.”
The rabbi nodded. “Now you understand. So it is with the words we speak against
our neighbors. They can never be retrieved.
They are like feathers in the wind”.
Our words may seem to land lightly
“like feathers”. They have the power to change
lives; to bless or damage them. They can
help, hinder, harm and heal. They can stir up
anger and foment hate. They can reconcile
and bring peace. They can be a tool to build
others up and encourage them. They can be
a weapon that tears down and destroys. Our
words can strengthen relationships or shatter
them. What we say to or about another can
make that person feel like anything is possible
or they can render them invisible and insignificant. They can offer another respect or shred
their dignity to pieces.
“Use your words” my daughter tells
our 2 year old granddaughter. It’s good advice.
Don’t join the crowd of angry people lashing
out to hurt other people. Don’t stay silent
while someone berates, insults, demonizes or
makes fun of others. Don’t let the vocabulary
of fear, hate and prejudice direct your speech.
Don’t use your words to incite. Use them to
inspire. Use them for good. Say something
worthwhile.
Listen carefully to the words others
speak. Listen carefully to the words you say.
Listen even harder for what needs to be said
and no one is saying. Words like feathers blow
around us. Where will yours land? What will
they accomplish?
What is on the November 8, 2016 Ballot?
By Laura Johnston Kohl
This year, we have 17 measures (Propositions) on the Ballot. According to Ballotpedia California, fourteen of these 17 are citizen
initiatives. WE have not had this number of
Propositions for nearly two decades. We know that
NAMES given to these ballot measures DO NOT
REFLECT the true nature of the Propositions. WE
voters must be careful in our analysis. I usually
check the recommendations of a number of my
favorite sites, and check out any differences of
opinion to understand it all. Then, I make my own
decision.
This is a great Website: https://cavotes.
org/vote/elections/ballot-measures
There are 17 propositions appearing on
the November 8 ballot. Check them out below and
find more on these two websites: https://cavotes.
org/vote/elections/ballot-measures, and VotersEdge.org/CA.
$1 million annually to record legislative meetings
and make videos of those meetings available on the
Internet.
Proposition 55: Tax Extension to Fund Education and Healthcare
Extends by twelve years the temporary personal
income tax increases enacted in 2012 on earnings
over $250,000, with revenues allocated to K-12
schools, California Community Colleges, and, in
certain years, healthcare. Fiscal Impact: Increased
state revenues—$4 billion to $9 billion annually
from 2019-2030—depending on economy and
stock market. Increased funding for schools,
community colleges, health care for low-income
people, budget reserves, and debt payments.
Proposition 51: School Bonds
Proposition 56: Cigarette Tax to Fund Healthcare, Tobacco Use Prevention, Research and Law
Enforcement.
Funding for K-12 School and Community College
Facilities. Authorizes $9 billion in general obligation bonds for new construction and modernization of K-12 public school facilities; charter
schools and vocational education facilities; and
California Community Colleges facilities. Fiscal
Impact: State costs of about $17.6 billion to pay off
both the principal ($9 billion) and interest ($8.6
billion) on the bonds. Payments of about $500
million per year for 35 years.
Increases cigarette tax by $2.00 per pack,
with equivalent increase on other tobacco products
and electronic cigarettes containing nicotine.
Fiscal Impact: Additional net state revenue of $1
billion to $1.4 billion in 2017-18, with potentially
lower revenues in future years. Revenues would be
used primarily to augment spending on health care
for low-income Californians.
Proposition 57: Criminal Sentences. Parole.
Juvenile Criminal Proceedings and Sentencing.
Proposition 52: Medi-Cal Hospital Fee
Program.
Extends indefinitely an existing statute
that imposes fees on hospitals to fund Medi-Cal
health care services, care for uninsured patients,
and children’s health coverage. Fiscal Impact:
Uncertain fiscal effect, ranging from relatively little
impact to annual state General Fund savings of
around $1 billion and increased funding for public
hospitals in the low hundreds of millions of dollars
a year.
Proposition 53: Revenue Bonds. Statewide Voter Approval.
Requires statewide voter approval before any
revenue bonds can be issued or sold by the state
for certain projects if the bond amount exceeds $2
billion. Fiscal Impact: State and local fiscal effects
are unknown and would depend on which projects
are affected by the measure and what actions
government agencies and voters take in response
to the measure’s voting requirement.
Allows parole consideration for nonviolent felons. Authorizes sentence credits for rehabilitation, good behavior, and education. Provides
juvenile court judge decides whether juvenile will
be prosecuted as adult. Fiscal Impact: Net state
savings likely in the tens of millions of dollars annually, depending on implementation. Net county
costs of likely a few million dollars annually.
Proposition 58: English Proficiency. Multilingual
Education.
Preserves requirement that public
schools ensure students obtain English language
proficiency. Requires school districts to solicit
parent/community input in developing language
acquisition programs. Requires instruction to ensure English acquisition as rapidly and effectively
as possible. Authorizes school districts to establish
dual-language immersion programs for both
native and non-native English speakers. Fiscal
Impact: No notable fiscal effect on school districts
or state government.
Proposition 54: Legislature. Legislation and
Proceedings
Proposition 59: Corporations. Political Spending. Federal Constitutional Protections.
Prohibits Legislature from passing any
bill unless published on Internet for 72 hours
before vote. Requires Legislature to record its
proceedings and post on Internet. Authorizes use
of recordings. Fiscal Impact: One-time costs of $1
million to $2 million and ongoing costs of about
Asks whether California’s elected
officials should use their authority to propose and
ratify an amendment to the federal Constitution
overturning the United States Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Citizens United ruled that laws placing
Cont. on page 11
ser imposible recoger las plumas. El viento
ya se las habrá llevado. Quién sabe dónde
habrán caído.” El rabino asintió. “Ahora
entiendes. Lo mismo pasa con las calumnias que decimos en contra del prójimo.
Nunca se pueden recuperar. Son como las
plumas al viento.”
Tal vez parezca que nuestras
palabras caen suavemente, “como plumas”,
pero tienen el poder de cambiar vidas; de
bendecirlas o dañarlas. Pueden ayudar,
impedir, lastimar y sanar. Pueden despertar a la ira y fomentar el odio. Pueden
reconciliar y traer paz. Pueden ser una
herramienta para edificar a otros y alentarlos. Pueden ser un arma que derriba
y destruye. Nuestras palabras pueden
fortalecer o destrozar relaciones. Lo que
decimos de alguien o lo que le decimos a
alguien puede hacer que esa persona sienta
que todo es posible o la puede dejar sintiéndose insignificante e invisible. Las palabras
le pueden brindar respeto al prójimo o le
pueden despedazar la dignidad.
“Usa tus palabras” le dice mi hija
a su hermana pequeña de dos años. Es un
buen consejo. No te unas al montón de iracundos que atacan verbalmente para herir
a la gente. No permanezcas callado mientras alguien reprende, insulta, demoniza,
o se burla de alguien más. No permitas que
el vocabulario del temor, odio y prejuicios
controlen lo que dices. No uses tus palabras
para instigar, úsalas para inspirar. Úsalas
para bien. Di algo que merezca la pena.
Escucha con atención las palabras
que otros dicen. Escucha cuidadosamente
las palabras que tú dices. Escucha, aún
más atentamente, a lo que se necesita decir
y nadie dice. Las palabras vuelan a nuestro
alrededor como plumas. ¿Dónde caerán las
tuyas? ¿Qué lograrán?
¿QUÉ Hay en la Boleta Electoral
del 8 de Noviembre
By Laura Johnston Kohl
Este año, la boleta electoral contiene
17 medidas (Proposiciones). De acuerdo a Ballotpedia California, catorce de estas 17 medidas son
iniciativas de ciudadanos. NOSOTROS nunca hemos
tenido este número de Proposiciones durante casi dos
décadas. Sabemos que los nombres que se les ha dado
a estas medidas NO REFLEJAN la verdadera naturaleza de las Proposiciones. NOSOTROS los votantes
debemos tener cuidado en nuestro análisis. Yo
normalmente consulto las recomendaciones de varias
de mis páginas favoritas de internet, y reviso las diferencias de opinión para obtener un entendimiento
completo. Entonces, yo tomo mi propia decisión.
La página de internet https://cavotes.org/
vote/elections/ballot-measures es muy buena.
En la boleta electoral del 8 de noviembre
aparecerán 17 proposiciones. Léalas a continuación y
encuentre más información en las páginas de internet
https://cavotes.org/vote/elections/ballot-measures, y
VotersEdge.org/CA.
Proposición 51: Bonos Escolares. Fondos para Instalaciones de Escuelas K-12 y Colegios Comunitarios.
Autoriza $9 billones en bonos de obligación general para la nueva construcción y la
modernización de las instalaciones de las escuelas
públicas K-12; escuelas chárter e instalaciones de
educación vocacional; y las instalaciones de colegios
comunitarios de California. Impacto Fiscal: Costos
estatales de $17.6 billones para pagar el principal ($9
billones) y el interés ($8.6 billones) sobre los bonos.
Pagos de aproximadamente $500 millones al año por
un período de 35 años.
Proposición 52: Programa de Pagos de
Hospitalización de Medi-Cal.
Extiende indefinidamente un estatuto
actual que impone cuotas a los hospitales para
financiar servicios de asistencia médica de Medi-Cal,
cuidado para pacientes sin seguro médico, y cobertura médica para niños. Impacto Fiscal: Efecto fiscal
incierto, abarcando desde un impacto mínimo hasta
ahorros anuales del Fondo General estatal de $1
billón y un incremento de fondos para los hospitales
públicos de pocos cientos de millones de dólares al
año.
Proposición 53: Bonos a Pagarse con
Ingresos del Proyecto. Aprobación de Votantes del
Estado. Requiere la aprobación de los votantes a
nivel estatal antes que cualquier bono de largo plazo
a pagarse con ingresos del proyecto sea expedido o
vendido por el estado para ciertos proyectos si la
cantidad del bono excede los $2 billones. Impacto
Fiscal: No se conocen los efectos financieros locales ni
estatales, los cuales dependerían de los proyectos que
sean afectados por la medida y de las acciones que
tomen las agencias gubernamentales y los votantes en
respuesta al requisito de votación para la medida.
Proposición 54: Legislatura.
Legislación y Proceso.
Prohíbe a la Legislatura pasar cualquier
ley al menos que sea publicada en la internet por 72
horas antes de votar. Requiere a la Legislatura grabar
sus procesos judiciales y publicarlos en la internet.
Autoriza el uso de grabaciones. Impacto Fiscal: Un
costo inicial de $1 millón y $2 millones en costos en
curso de aproximadamente $1 millón al año para
grabar las reuniones legislativas y hacer disponibles
los videos de estas reuniones en la internet.
Proposición 55: Extensión de Impuestos
para Fundar Educación y Asistencia Médica.
Extiende por un período de doce años
los incrementos temporales de impuestos personales
implementados en el 2012 sobre ingresos de más de
$250,000, con las ganancias repartidas entre las
escuelas K-12, los colegios comunitarios de California, y, en ciertos años, la asistencia médica. Impacto
Fiscal: Incremento en los ingresos estatales –de $4
billones a $9 billones anuales desde el 2019 al 2030 –
dependiendo de la economía y del valor del mercado.
Incremento a los fondos para las escuelas, colegios
comunitarios, asistencia médica para las personas
de bajos ingresos, reservas de presupuesto, y pagos de
deudas.
Proposición 56: Impuestos al Cigarrillo
para Fundar Asistencia Médica, Prevención del Uso
de Tabaco, Investigación y Cumplimiento de la Ley.
Incrementa los impuestos al cigarrillo en $2.00
por cajetilla, con incrementos equivalentes a otros
productos de tabaco y cigarrillos electrónicos que
contengan nicotina. Impacto Fiscal: Ingresos netos
adicionales para el estado de $1 billón a $1.4 billones
en el 2017-18, con posibles ingresos menores en años
futuros. Los ingresos serían usados principalmente
para aumentar el presupuesto de la asistencia médica
para californianos de bajos ingresos.
Proposición 57: Sentencias Criminales.
Libertad Condicional. Procesos Criminales Juveniles
y Sentencias. Permite considerar la libertad condicional para personas que cometen algún crimen mayor
no-violento. Autoriza créditos de sentencia por
rehabilitación, buen comportamiento, y educación.
Provee que el juez de la corte juvenil decida si se procesa al joven como adulto. Impacto Fiscal: Ahorros
netos para el estado entre las decenas de millones
de dólares anualmente, dependiendo de la implementación. Posibles costos netos para el condado de
unos pocos millones de dólares anualmente.
Proposición 58: Dominio del Inglés. Educación
Multilingüe.
Preserva el requisito de que las escuelas
públicas se aseguren que los estudiantes obtengan un
dominio del idioma inglés. Requiere a los distritos escolares que soliciten la participación de los padres de
familia y la comunidad en el desarrollo de programas
de adquisición del lenguaje. Requiere instrucción
que asegure la adquisición del inglés tan rápida y
efectivamente como sea posible. Autoriza a los distritos escolares a establecer programas de inmersión
bilingües para ambos, hablantes nativos y no-nativos
del inglés. Impacto Fiscal: No hay un efecto fiscal notable para los distritos escolares ni para el gobierno
estatal.
Proposición 59: Corporaciones. Contribuciones Políticas. Protecciones Constitucionales
Federales Pregunta si los oficiales electos de California deberían usar su autoridad para proponer y
ratificar una enmienda a la Constitución federal que
anule las decisiones de la Suprema Corte de Justicia
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“Democracy cannot succeed unless
those who express their choice are
prepared to choose wisely.
The real safeguard of democracy,
therefore, is education.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Reprinted with kind permission from the San Diego Free Press
By Doug Porter
Applegate Versus Issa is the Congressional Race to Watch
Of the five electoral contests for
the House of Representatives including San
Diego voters only the 49th, encompassing
the cities of Oceanside, Vista, Carlsbad and
Encinitas, looks to be competitive on November 8th. A small part of Orange County
and the Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton are also in the district.
Republican Darrell Issa is facing
retired USMC Col. Douglas Applegate.
Issa, the wealthiest member of Congress
(2015 estimate: up to $768 million), has
all the advantages of incumbency, having
served since 2001. Applegate has time and
(dislike of) Trump on his side.
After years of winning elections
by 20-30% and more, Issa won a threeway primary contest with 51% of the vote
in June. Polling showing Hillary Clinton
ahead with voters in the once-conservative
bastion has Democrats thinking the once
impossible is now possible, given the higher
turnouts expected in the general election.
What was once a lily white coastal
enclave is seeing, as is true throughout California, the ascendancy of the Latino population with strongly Democratic leanings.
Republicans can thank Pete Wilson and the
anti-immigrant wing of their party for this
trend.
But it’s the so-called Trump effect
that has Republicans worried and Democrats hopeful. Issa started out as a supporter
of Marco Rubio in the GOP primary contests.
From Ryan Lizza at the New Yorker:
But in May, after Rubio left the
race, Issa transferred his allegiance to
Trump with an almost Chris Christie-like
enthusiasm. At a May 27th Trump rally
in San Diego, Issa compared Trump to
Ronald Reagan. A few weeks earlier, he had
published an op-ed in The Hill chastising
fellow-Republicans for not backing Trump.
The piece was headlined “Memo to Bushes,
Other G.O.P. Holdouts: Get on the Trump
Train.”
During his spring transformation into a Trump superfan, Issa may have
calculated that his own primary, on June
7th, would benefit from a surge of Southern
California Trump voters. California uses a
so-called jungle-primary system, in which
candidates of all parties run in the same
race, and the top two candidates advance to
the general election.
The Trump surge never mate-
rialized. Issa won just fifty-one per cent
of the vote. The runner-up, who is now
Issa’s general-election opponent, was the
retired Marine Colonel Doug Applegate,
a Democrat who had never run for office
and was outspent by Issa fifteen to one. News of Issa’s near-upset
shocked political observers. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
added Applegate to a list of candidates who
could flip a House seat from red to blue,
and Applegate attracted the services of an
experienced campaign manager, Robert
Dempsey, whose most recent job was overseeing Bernie Sanders’s primary campaigns
in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and New Jersey.
When I spoke to Dempsey this week, he
told me that Issa’s embrace of Trump would
be a dominant issue in the campaign.
“Issa called Trump ‘the obvious choice,’ ”
Dempsey said. “He is all in on Trump.”
Running as the anti-Trump may
be the path of least resistance for Col.
Applegate, but it’s hard for me to overlook
Issa’s role as a partisan hitman over the
course of the last eight years.
The GOP Congressman’s personal
loathing for anything associated with The
Black Guy who was elected presidet in 2008
was evident through his tenure as chair of
the House Oversight Committee. Investigations starting with ‘Fast and Furious’ thru
Benghazi thru Obamacare thru the IRS
and battling the Environmental Protection
Agency, all of which were ballyhooed as
THE one who would bring the Kenyan/
Muslim interloper down came up empty.
As I said back in 2014, as Issa was turned
down for another term as chair of the
House Committee:
But the sad fact is that no actual
reforms have emerged out of any of his
quests, mostly because he’s unable to prove
the underlying premise calling for those
reforms. Not that he really cares; the goals
have always been to malign the current administration and to tap into the fundraising
potential of those poor souls suffering from
Deranged Obama Syndrome.
An interesting side-note is that, for
a guy with all his money, Issa hasn’t donated
one cent to his 2016 campaign, according to
the Center for Responsive Politics.
After 32 years in the Marine
Corps, where he served as an infantry
officer and, later, a Judge Advocate, Doug
Applegate retired in 2006, going into
private practice as an attorney. I met him
last year and, while he may not be the most
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liberal Democrat on the block, his sense of
integrity is hard to deny. A solid guy, IMO.
The Democratic candidate presents a real contrast to Rep. Issa, whose
business and political careers have been
built around playing at the margins of truth
and honesty.
California’s 50thHunter vs Malloy
Duncan D. Hunter was elected
to Congress in 2008, succeeding his father
Duncan L. Hunter, who had served 18 years
in the House of Representatives.
The 50th Congressional District spans portions of three counties and includes most
of East County, from Jamul near the border
north to Temecula, and from San Marcos
and El Cajon east to the Salton Sea.
The running joke among political
consultants is that voters in the 50th think
they’re still voting for the senior Hunter.
The district is largely white and large parts
of it are rural.
Hunter’s voting record has been
decidedly conservative, says Wikipedia.
Whether it’s advocating for the deportation
of the US-born children of immigrants,
advocating for tobacco companies, using
tactical nuclear weapons on Iran, or being
the sole member of the San Digo Congressional delegation to vote against ending the
government shutdown of 2013, he’s bound
to be on the far right side of the issues.
He also has the dubious distinction of having been named the number one
“party animal” in Congress by theWashingtonian Magazine.
Hunter’s integrity has been
questioned this year, with Federal Election
Commission reports being the basis news
accounts pointing to his use of campaign
funds for personal expenses.
Stories in the Union-Tribune have
revealed instances where campaign funds
were used to pay tuition for Hunter’s kid
at a private school and to buy lunches for
students at that school (Hunter opposed
funding for federal school lunch programs).
The San Diego Union-Tribune
previously reported that the campaign
spent $297 on 16 trips to Jack in the Box —
not the typical campaign wining and dining. The committee also reported spending
$216 on “food and beverages” at a jewelry
store in Italy, which told the U-T it has no
food offerings.
The campaign also spent money
at Disneyland — $229 at the Star Trader
gift shop in Tomorrowland for “food/beverages.” A spokesman for the park told the
Union-Tribune the only edible items the
store sells are Pez candy and a Star Warsthemed Rice Krispy treat.
The campaign last month also
reported that Hunter had reimbursed the
committee for an undisclosed amount spent
at Legoland. Although the repayment was
noted, the original expense does not appear
on financial reports.
The Hunter campaign says it has
or will repay all the improper expenses.
Escondido real estate agent Patrick Malloy
is the Democrat in this contest. He’s been
waging a valiant battle on social media
trying to call attention to the incumbent’s
shortcomings.
From the Union-Tribune:
Malloy says he’s hearing from
independent voters critical of Hunter,
but acknowledged that dyed-in-the-wool
Republicans appear to be standing by the
incumbent. Malloy said one voter from
Ramona told him that he wasn’t concerned
because the campaign funds Hunter used
for personal expenses weren’t that much.
In East County’s 50th District,
Malloy might find that he needs more
than a minor campaign finance scandal to
make headway against the well-entrenched
incumbent. Republicans account for 44.5
percent of the voters, outnumbering Democrats and independents, groups that represent 25.6 and 28.6 percent of the electorate,
respectively.
Hunter’s office says that Malloy is
exaggerating the effect Hunter’s campaign
finance trouble is having on voters in the
district. Joe Kasper, Hunter’s chief of staff,
said their constituents don’t seem to think
it’s an issue.
Doug Porter was active in the early days of the
alternative press in San Diego, contributing to
the OB Liberator, the print version of the OB
Rag, the San Diego Door, and the San Diego
Street Journal. He won awards for ‘Daily Reporting and Writing: Opinion/Editorial’ from
the Society of Professional Journalists in 2013
and 2014. Doug is a cancer survivor (sans
vocal chords) and lives in North Park.
PAGE 10 Arts and Community
Escondido Public Library Celebrates the Freedom
to Read During Banned Books Week,
September 25 – October 1, 2016
Celebrate your right to choose what you read during Banned Books
Week, September 25 – October 1, 2016 at Escondido Public Library. Banned
Books Week is an annual national awareness campaign celebrating the freedom
to read, and drawing attention to banned and challenged books, such as Catcher
in the Rye, Harry Potter, and The Bible. During Banned Books Week the Library
promotes the availability of works that represent a broad spectrum of viewpoints,
even those that might be unorthodox or unpopular, to all who wish to read them,
and the need to keep material publicly available so that people can develop their
own conclusions and opinions.
Visit the Library and select a book of your choice, or one from a Banned
Books Week display. Visit library.escondido.org/banned to take part in the celebration of one of the greatest driving forces in this country – the First Amendment.
Escondido Public Library is located at 239 South Kalmia Street Escondido, CA 92025. For more information about Banned Books Week, contact
Principal Librarian, Joanna Axelrod, at 760-839-4330 or at jaxelrod@escondido.
org. Additional information about Library programs and services can be found at
library.escondido.org.
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Escondido Wine & Beer Lovers Connect
One “Sip” at a Time
Wine Tasting Room and Retail Store launches in Escondido’s Historic
Downtown Escondido, CA
Escondido residents Jeremy and
Cassandra Schaeg turned their passion for
quality wine and beer into a trendy tasting
room and retail store.
SIP Wine and Beer, located in
Historic Downtown Escondido, aims to
attract novice and veteran wine and beer
lovers alike. With their boutique selection,
both local and international, SIP’s unique
atmosphere and approach brings a modern
vibe to the area.
“Community development and
involvement combined with our love of
quality wine and beer are the building
blocks of SIP. We are thrilled to share our
vision with the community!” - Cassandra
Schaeg, Co-owner
Our mantra is SIP, BUY, SHARE •
SIP our unique selection of wine and beer
• BUY a bottle to take home • SHARE wine
knowledge through themed events and educational classes We invite you to experience
our distinctive selection of wine, appetizers,
and music.
Stop by with a group of friends,
grab a glass or bottle, take pictures in the
SIP selfie station, and enjoy the vibe. Our
mellow atmosphere and first class experience will take the edge off any stressful day.
Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and our
website www.sipwineandbeer.com for the
latest information on discounts, themed
nights, live music and special events.
For more information about Sip Wine and
Beer, please contact Cassandra Schaeg at
951.217.0969 or email at [email protected].
Flamenco Dance Performance at CCAE
What:
La Academia y La Companía Flamenco Arana present “Todas
Las Rosas”. Led by the charismatic voice of Juan de Dios, Flamenco Arana
takes you on a dynamic journey through the heart of Southern Spain. From
the stirring dances of cante jondo (“deep song”), to the melodies that Spanish sailors brought home from the New World, Flamenco Arana presents all
the fire, footwork and flavor of Spain’s most revered dance form.
When:
October 8, 2016 at 7:00pm
Where:
California Center for the Arts, Escondido, Center Theater,
340 N. Escondido Blvd., Escondido, CA 92025
Tickets:
$25, $20 at 800-988-4253 or at www.artcenter.org/events
Child 3-12: $15.00
An exciting evening of Flamenco dancing and music is taking place Saturday, October 8th at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido. Returning
after two sold-out performances in April, Flamenco Arana features special
performances by flamenco singer Juan de Dios, bringing to life the passion
of the Spanish soul, including performances with the famous bata de cola,
the skirt with a tail.
About Flamenco Arana
Under the direction of Kristina Cobarrubia, Flamenco Arana is dedicated to
introducing Spanish flamenco dance and music to a growing audience in the
San Diego area, and participates in many private and public performances,
including the San Diego International Nations of Dance Festival. Flamenco
Arana joins powerful dancers in authentic costumes, vibrant singers, and the
mellow notes of a guitar to bring the sounds & sights of Spain a heartbeat
away.
Bright in the night sky,
Half moon above the meadow,
Offers me shadows.
--Claire Renner
Pepper tree sunlight
Peeking through the morning boughs Lacey, etched shadows.
--Claire Renner
Escondido Farmers Market
Grand Avenue
Tuesdays
2:30-7:00 pm
About Kristina Cobarrubia, Director
Kristina has studied flamenco in Spain and the U.S. for over 30 years, under
teachers including Sara de Luis, Yaelisa, Roberto Amaral, La Tania, Sara
Olivar, Antonio Vargas, La Truco, and Domingo Ortega. She has performed
with the Solera Flamenco Dance Company, Compañía Antonio Vargas, Las
Chicas de Coral, Flamenco Olivar, as well as leading Flamenco Arana since
2004. She worked as Assistant Choreographer for the SD Opera production
of DON QUIXOTE in 2009, as Choreographer for LA TRAVIATA in 2010,
for CARMEN in 2011, and as Asst. Director/Choreographer for Eugene
Opera’s CARMEN, also in 2011. She returned to SD Opera to choreograph
DON QUIXOTE in 2014.
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Progressive News & Opinion
Q & A with Oceanside City Council Candidate Linda Gonzales
From The Oceanside BLADE | August 30, 2016
Here is the first of our
candidate forums for
Oceanside City Council.
The two, four-year seats
held by Esther Sanchez
and Jack Feller are up for
grabs. Dr. Linda Gonzales
is seeking one of them.
When Linda Gonzales arrived
in Oceanside in 1966, she waited tables and
worked at Pacific
Bell.
Linda has a Bachelor’s Degree
in Economics from Chapman University, a Masters in Multicultural Education from San Diego
State, a Masters in Public Administration from
National University, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy
from Claremont Graduate University.
After college she began teaching in Oceanside,
Fallbrook, Bonsall and Carlsbad,
then at schools throughout the state. Her 45
years in education culminated in being named
District Superintendent. After retiring from
public schools, Linda launched a non-profit
whose mission is to bring literacy to impoverished children and turn around failing schools.
That non-profit, New Directions, has provided
service to schools throughout the USA and in
Peru, Bolivia, Uganda and other parts of the
world.
She is the author of the Santillana
Intensive English program that is used through
Asia, South America, and Africa, and of the
2006 California English Language Arts Framework as well as numerous professional articles
and educational software programs.
She was the Chairman of the State
Hispanic Advisory Committee from 1998 to
2008.
In her own words: “As long-term
property owners in Oceanside, my husband
Moses, a retired policeman, and I have been
married 30 years and have two adopted children
and four grandchildren. My son, Trent, lives in
Oceanside with two of his children who are in
college. I believe my grandchildren and
yours need a strong economic base for a prosperous future. My background in economics,
business and budgets, along with my 36-year
experience working as a collaborator with public
boards and councils match Oceanside’s
need to work together to bring opportunity and
success to our community.”
Q: Unlike Councilmembers Feller and Sanchez, whose 16 years
on the council gives them automatic
name ID, you don’t have citywide name recognition. How
do you reach out?
A: By walking door to door. I have been finding
residents are concerned that their voices and
issues aren’t considered relevant and are not
being addressed by Oceanside city government.
Many feel that Oceanside city government exists
to serve a select few.
Q: So you don’t think being a
city hall insider is prerequisite?
A: I don’t think being a city hall groupie is a
requirement for being a good solid leader. I’ve
volunteered and worked on many community
issues including opposing the Gregory Canyon
Landfill and its potential impact on the San Luis
Rey River and aquifer, Oceanside’s main water
source. I will bring a spirit of cooperation to the
council rather than the divisiveness we’ve had
for 16 years. My children and grandchildren
live here and I will fight for safe
neighborhoods and great schools.
Q: Councilwoman Sanchez repeatedly
tries to say you don’t live in Oceanside.
What’s up with that?
A: I think Esther Sanchez attempts to malign her
opponents instead of speaking to the issues.
A lot of the reason I’m running for council is
that she doesn’t address the issues that
are relevant to greater Oceanside.
Instead of tackling issues she chooses to vilify
colleagues and opponents….I have lived in
Oceanside off and on for 50
years. We currently live near El
Camino Real and Highway 78.
Q: OK, So what are some of
those issues you want Oceanside
to get moving on?
A: We need to readdress the narrowing
of Coast Highway. We need to address traffic
issues. We need to bring in more jobs
certain limits on political spending by corporations
and unions are unconstitutional. Fiscal Impact: No
direct fiscal effect on state or local governments.
Proposition 60: Adult Films. Condoms. Health
Requirements.
Requires adult film performers to use
condoms during filming of sexual intercourse.
Requires producers to pay for performer vaccinations, testing, and medical examinations. Requires
producers to post condom requirement at film
sites. Fiscal Impact: Likely reduction of state and
local tax revenues of several million dollars annually. Increased state spending that could exceed $1
million annually on regulation, partially offset by
new fees.
Proposition 61: State Prescription Drug Purchases. Pricing Standards.
Prohibits state from buying any prescription drug from a drug manufacturer at price
over lowest price paid for the drug by United States
Department of Veterans Affairs. Exempts managed
care programs funded through Medi-Cal. Fiscal
Impact: Potential for state savings of an unknown
amount depending on (1) how the measure’s
implementation challenges are addressed and (2)
the responses of drug manufacturers regarding the
provision and pricing of their drugs.
Proposition 62: Death Penalty.
Repeals death penalty and replaces
it with life imprisonment without possibility of
parole. Applies retroactively to existing death sentences. Increases the portion of life inmates’ wages
that may be applied to victim restitution. Fiscal
Impact: Net ongoing reduction in state and county
criminal justice costs of around $150 million
annually within a few years, although the impact
could vary by tens of millions of dollars depending
on various factors.
Q: You have been endorsed by
Mayor Jim Wood, a Republican,
and also, according to KOCT’s
“North County Voice,” by Deputy
Mayor Chuck Lowery, a
Democrat….
A: That’s why I feel I’m a good fit for City Council. I’m a registered Democrat but I don’t
have extreme views just as most of the people in
Oceanside are not extreme. I favor a practical
approach. I entered this race because I was approached by Mayor Wood and Deputy Mayor
Lowery. When I was a young mother Oceanside
was very good to me and my young son.
I have always had affection for Oceanside because people here have always been warm and
kind to me.
Q: Is there an inbred, self-perpetuating
culture that makes City
Hall outsiders feel unwelcome?
A: There is a pervasive culture at city hall that
thinks it is special and elite and tries to exclude
the majority of Oceanside voters. In order to
move forward that culture has to change. Just
because I’ve had a job in the real world does not
preclude me from being effective here at home.
I’ve sat on and reported to public boards
for 36 years and I frankly think the Council
could use someone with that experience.
Q: There has been a whispering
campaign claiming that says you
would be a disaster for local mobile
home residents.
A: Let me be clear: I support keeping mobile
home rent control in place and also will help
Oceanside develop even more areas
so people can have an affordable
place to live in Oceanside. That comes from a
Councilperson attempting to solidify
support with the their mobile home community
because they have lost support in all other
areas. Many mobile home residents say they
only hear from that Councilmember when
they’re up for re-election.
Q: The mudslinging also attempts
to involve a lawsuit about an incident that
happened 17 years ago when you were
Superintendent of schools in another city.
A: This is another effort to malign and deflect
rather than discuss current issues. The facts in
that case are that I was a superintendent
of a school district with 26,000 students, 34
campuses and more than 1,500 employees.
In a district that size, things sometimes happen. A teacher made very inappropriate
remarks, humiliated and embarrassed
a student. The school’s principal and others did
not handle the situation correctly. I contacted
the student as soon as I learned of the situation.
I cannot say what happened exactly but their
conduct was addressed.
I was only named in that lawsuit
as Superintendent as any head of a governmental body would be. But I was never personally
involved in the incident, I was never called as a
witness or even deposed, and I was never
involved at trial. When I first learned of the
incident I did everything possible to support
the student by recommending that all district
schools be required to take sensitivity training.
I also recommended that a settlement
be paid to the student, as it was. Those attempting to resurrect an old lawsuit as an issue in this
election have made false and unsubstantiated
allegations. Shame on anyone who would force
the young man involved into the press again
to relive what was for him an embarrassing personal incident and attempt to use him for their
own political gain.
Reprinted with permission from the
Oceanside Blade.
Propositions
Ballot Propositions
Cont. from page 8
that will pay a sufficient wage so people can live
here. Many people don’t feel their adult
children will ever be able to afford
a home here. While running large school
districts, I’ve had a great deal of experience in
turning around economic situations
for large public entities. I’ve found solutions by
networking with nonprofits, churches, grants,
etc., and will help plan for the future of housing
our aging and working population. I believe
in data-driven decision making, balanced budgets, and planning ahead so grants don’t expire.
We need our first-responders. Also, there are
programs we are not utilizing that could help
protect our agricultural communities
and water resources.
and establishes standards for marijuana products. Allows local regulation and taxation. Fiscal
Impact: Additional tax revenues ranging from high
hundreds of millions of dollars to over $1 billion
annually, mostly dedicated to specific purposes.
Reduced criminal justice costs of tens of millions
of dollars annually.
Proposition 65: Carryout Bags. Charges.
Redirects money collected by grocery and certain
other retail stores through mandated sale of
carryout bags. Requires stores to deposit bag sale
proceeds into a special fund to support specified
environmental projects. Fiscal Impact: Potential
state revenue of several tens of millions of dollars
annually under certain circumstances, with the
monies used to support certain environmental
programs.
Proposition 66: Death Penalty. Procedures.
Changes procedures governing state
court challenges to death sentences. Designates
superior court for initial petitions and limits
successive petitions. Requires appointed attorneys who take noncapital appeals to accept death
penalty appeals. Exempts prison officials from existing regulation process for developing execution
methods. Fiscal Impact: Unknown ongoing impact
on state court costs for processing legal challenges
to death sentences. Potential prison savings in the
tens of millions of dollars annually.
Proposition 67: Ban on Single-Use Plastic Bags.
A “Yes” vote approves, and a “No” vote rejects, a
statute that prohibits grocery and other stores from
providing customers single-use plastic or paper
carryout bags but permits sale of recycled paper
bags and reusable bags. Fiscal Impact: Relatively
small fiscal effects on state and local governments,
including a minor increase in state administrative
costs and possible minor local government savings
from reduced litter and waste management costs.
- See more at: https://cavotes.org/vote/elections/
ballot-measures#sthash.eDb6jd3v.dpuf
Proposition 63: Firearms. Ammunition Sales.
Summary of campaign spending
Requires background check and
Department of Justice authorization to purchase
ammunition. Prohibits possession of large-capacity
ammunition magazines. Establishes procedures for
enforcing laws prohibiting firearm possession by
specified persons. Requires Department of Justice’s
participation in federal National Instant Criminal
Background Check System. Fiscal Impact: Increased state and local court and law enforcement
costs, potentially in the tens of millions of dollars
annually, related to a new court process for removing firearms from prohibited persons after they are
convicted.
Proposition 64: Marijuana Legalization.
Legalizes marijuana under state law, for use by
adults 21 or older. Imposes state taxes on sales
and cultivation. Provides for industry licensing
The Los Angeles Times estimated that,
between funding signature gathering efforts and
campaigning, more than $452 million will be spent
directly on ballot measures in California in 2016.
As of August 19, 2016, support and opposition
campaigns had amassed over $313 million in
contributions. The campaigns surrounding the two
healthcare-related measures on the ballot, Proposition 52 and Proposition 61, will likely feature
more funding than the campaigns surrounding any
other measures. The support campaign for Prop. 52
has received over $59 million, while the opposition campaign received about $11.5 million as of
August 19, 2016. The battle over Prop. 61 will cost
over $80 million, with opposition contributions
outweighing support contributions by a ratio of
about seven to one as of August 19, 2016.[3]
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de los Estados Unidos en el caso de Citizens United v.
Federal Election Commission. Citizens United decreta
que las leyes que ponen ciertos límites a las contribuciones políticas de las corporaciones y las uniones son
inconstitucionales. Impacto Fiscal: No existe un efecto
fiscal directo para el gobierno local o estatal.
Proposición 60: Películas para Adultos. Condones.
Requerimientos de Salud.
Requiere a los actores de películas para adultos el uso
de condones durante la filmación del coito sexual. Requiere que los productores paguen por la vacunación,
pruebas y exámenes médicos de los actores. Requiere
que los productores publiquen el requerimiento del uso
de condones en las locaciones de filmación. Impacto
Fiscal: Posible reducción de los ingresos por impuestos
locales y estatales de varios millones de dólares al año.
Incremento de gastos estatales que podría exceder
$1 millón anualmente en regulaciones, parcialmente
compensado por nuevas tarifas.
Proposición 61: Compras Estatales de Medicamentos
con Receta. Estándares de Precio. Prohíbe al estado
comprarles cualquier medicamento con receta a
fabricantes de medicamentos a un precio más alto que
el mínimo pagado por el United States Department of
Veteran Affairs. Exenta a los programas de cuidado
médico fundados a través de Medi-Cal. Impacto Fiscal:
Posibles ahorros para el estado por una cantidad
desconocida dependiendo de (1) como se manejan
los problemas de implementación de la medida y (2)
las respuestas de los fabricantes de medicamentos
concernientes a la provisión y al precio de los medicamentos.
Proposition 62: La pena de muerte.
Revoca la pena de muerte y la reemplaza con la
cadena perpetua sin posibilidad de libertad condicional. Se aplica de forma retroactiva a las condenas de
cadena perpetua que ya existen. Incrementa la porción
de los salarios de los prisioneros en cadena perpetua
que puedan aplicarse a la restitución de las víctimas.
Impacto Fiscal: Reducción total en curso en los costos
de la justicia criminal del estado y del condado de $150
millones anualmente dentro de un período de varios
años, aunque el impacto podría variar en decenas de
millones de dólares dependiendo de varios factores.
Proposición 63: Armas de Fuego. Venta de Munición.
Requiere la revisión de antecedentes y la autorización
del Departamento de Justicia para comprar munición.
Prohíbe la posesión de cargadores de munición de alta
capacidad. Establece los procedimientos para hacer
cumplir la ley prohibiendo la posesión de armas de
fuego a ciertas personas. Requiere la participación del
Departamento de Justicia en el
sistema federal National Instant Criminal Background
Check System. Impacto Fiscal: Incremento de costos
de juzgado y cuerpos policíacos locales y estatales,
posiblemente en las decenas de millones de dólares
anuales, relacionados con un nuevo proceso judicial
para remover armas de fuego a las personas que se les
han prohibido después de ser convictas.
Proposición 64: Legalización de Mariguana.
Legaliza la mariguana bajo la ley estatal, para el
uso de adultos de 21 años de edad o mayores. Provee
licencias para la industria y establece los estándares
para los productos de mariguana. Permite la regulación y los impuestos locales. Impacto Fiscal: Ingresos
adicionales por impuestos desde los varios cientos de
millones de dólares hasta $1 billón anual, mayormente
dedicado a propósitos específicos. Reducción de costos
de la justicia criminal de decenas de millones de
dólares anuales.
Proposición 65: Bolsas para Cargar Compras. Cargos.
Redirige el dinero acumulado por las tiendas de comestibles y otros comercios a través de la venta de bolsas
para cargar las compras. Requiere que las tiendas
depositen las ganancias de las ventas de bolsas en un
fondo especial para apoyar proyectos específicos para
el mejoramiento del medio ambiente. Impacto Fiscal:
Posibles ingresos estatales de varias decenas de millones de dólares anuales bajo ciertas circunstancias,
con el uso de dineros para apoyar ciertos programas de
salud ambiental.
Proposición 66: La Pena de Muerte. Procedimientos.
Cambia los procesos que gobiernan a las objeciones
de la pena de muerte por las cortes estatales. Designa
a la corte superior para peticiones iniciales y limita
peticiones sucesivas. Requiere el nombramiento de
abogados que apelan en casos que castigan delitos
no-capitales a aceptar casos de apelación en contra de
la pena de muerte. Exenta a los oficiales de la prisión
de procesos regulatorios que existen para desarrollar
métodos de ejecución. Impacto Fiscal: Se desconoce el
impacto en curso para los costos judiciales del estado
por el procesamiento de objeciones legales para las
sentencias de pena de muerte. Posibles ahorros para
las prisiones en las decenas de millones de dólares
anuales.
Proposición 67: Prohibición de Bolsas de Plástico de
Un Solo Uso.
El voto “Sí” aprueba, y el voto “No” rechaza, al estatuto que prohíbe a las tiendas de comestibles y otros
comercios el proporcionarle a sus clientes bolsas de
plástico o de papel para un solo uso, pero permite la
venta de bolsas de papel reciclado y bolsas reusadas.
Impacto Fiscal: Efectos fiscales relativamente pequeños
para los gobiernos locales y estatales, incluyendo un
pequeño incremento en los costos administrativos del
estado y posibles ahorros menores para el gobierno
local por la reducción de costos para el manejo de
basura y deshechos.
Para más información, vea: https://cavotes.org/vote/
elections/ballot-measures#sthash.eDb6jd3v.dpuf
Laura Johnston Kohl, a bilingual educator, author, and long-time activist who lives in North County.
She is an advocate of human and civil rights and works to protect these rights locally and nationally.
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Joe Muga
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tional public schools are not? We need to review
the approval process which the school board and
the district undertake when a charter school is
proposed. We should be emphasizing making
EUSD schools so successful that charter schools
are not needed.
Some people assert that the majority of the
current EUSD Board, some of whom are products of charter schools themselves and were
actively supported in their election by charter
school leaders, is in the pocket of charter school
proponents who generally want to promote
charters at the expense of public schools. How
do you respond?
We all come from diverse backgrounds and varying experiences and this diversity
enlightens our views and enriches our decision-making process. Our current challenge is to
ensure that all viewpoints are represented on our
school board. Policy decisions should be based
on research, evidence-based teaching strategies,
sound fiscal practices, and community input.
What role should the school board play in
overseeing charter schools (e.g. ensuring that
they adhere to the terms of the charter, such as
the requirement that charters reflect the demographics of the community)?
Charter schools need to be transparent,
accountable, and exhibit proven effectiveness to
the same degree and scrutiny as traditional public
schools. Charter schools should also be required
to reflect the demographics of the community.
Charter schools should demonstrate that they
offer educational services and programs which
the traditional public schools do not. If the latter
is the case then it is incumbent on the school
district to develop a corrective action plan to be
able to offer these additional educational services
and programs.
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Que se necesita hacer para mejorar el rendimiento estudiantil?
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skilled with computer programming may struggle with prose.
Similarly someone who may be adept at welding may struggle with biology. Theoretically,
schools are responsible for helping students
become contributing members of society, so
why does the avenue for contribution have to
be limited to
attending college? In order to improve student
performance we must start implementing more
vocational programs so that students with
interests that extend to the technical world are
motivated to excel and have the tools to reach
their goals. We must start implementing some
sort of ethnic studies programs so that students
of color can learn the history of their roots
more in depth. Studies have shown that students are more motivated to succeed when their
curriculum includes classes about the nature
of their history. In the end, the most important
facet to improving
performance is lending our unwavering support to our students’ endeavors and creating a
school environment they can consider a second
home.
What is the best approach to dealing with
English language learners?
We must allocate more funds to English as a Second Language programs to ensure
that English learners receive the best quality
education possible. The allocation of these
funds would extend past just English classes
and would be applied to creating a comprehensive and diverse curriculum. After school
programs that provide resources and interactive counseling to English Learners and their
parents should
also be created in all high schools to make their
navigation through a foreign school system
smoother.
The California state constitution states that
“school boards should be
nonpartisan.” What does that mean to you?
To me, it means exactly what it
conveys. School boards should not engage in
divisive
partisan politics; rather, they should collaborate, no matter their background, to find
sensible solutions that are appropriate for the
demographic they are trying to represent. At
the end of the day, the school board’s main
concern should be
the students, their parents, and the teachers
who sacrifice so much to prepare their students
for the future.
What is your opinion of the two largest
charters in the area: Heritage and Classical
Academy?
The two charter schools in question must
increase their transparency about their
operations and their approach to education.
This transparency would be conducive to increasing accountability to the school board and
the taxpayers. Another issue I have with these
two charter schools is their failure to fully reflect the demographics of the community they
are located in. While they have claimed that
they have attempted to reach out to the parents
of Escondido by sending a few thousand fliers,
this is simply not enough in a city of about
150,000 people. They must have more direct
interaction with the community at large and
must expand their recruiting efforts to include
more English learners and provide them with
the best services
possible.
Some people assert that the majority of the
current EUHSD Board, some of whom are
products of charter schools themselves and
were actively supported in their election by
charter school leaders, is in the pocket of
charter school proponents who generally
want to promote charters at the expense of
public schools. How do you respond?
I am against the idea that Heritage
and Classical Academy are the only schools
adequate enough to ensure a bright future for
our students. Consequently, I believe that our
traditional public schools should not be forsaken, as they provide a vital service to society.
Should I get elected, I will work with my fellow
board members to
come up with sensible solutions that help
advance both our charters and our traditional
public schools without having to sacrifice one
or the other.
What role should the school board play in
overseeing charter schools (e.g.
ensuring that they adhere to the terms of the
charter, such as the requirement
that charters reflect the demographics of the
community)?
Since charter schools are still public
schools and receive taxpayer money, I believe
that the school board has the responsibility of
overseeing them as much as they oversee traditional public schools.
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Olvídense de la suposición que un estudiante sólo es exitoso se va a la universidad y se
gradúa. La definición del éxito varia por persona
y no todos son destinados para ser académicos.
Reconociendo que las inteligencias son diferentes es el primer paso. Alguien que puede ser
extremadamente hábil en computación pueden
tener dificultad con prosa. Similarmente, alguien
quien tiene habilidades con la soldadura puede
tener dificultad con biología. Teóricamente, las
escuelas son responsables por ayudar nuestros
estudiantes a llegar a ser miembros contribuyentes de nuestra sociedad, entonces por qué se
tiene que limitar la avenida para la contribución
a siendo graduado universitario? Para mejorar
rendimiento estudiantil tenemos que implementar programas vocacionales para que nuestros
estudiantes que tienen intereses en el mundo
tecnico sean motivados para sobresalir y para que
tengan las herramientas para alcanzar sus metas.
Debemos de implementar un tipo de programa
de estudios étnicos para que nuestros estudiantes
de color puedan aprender la historia de sus raíces
más al fondo. Estudios han demostrado que los
estudiantes son más motivados a sobresalir cuando su currículo incluye clases que se tratan de su
historia. Al final de cuentas, la cosa más importante para mejorar el rendimiento estudiantil es
dando nuestro apoyo inquebrantable a nuestros
estudiantes y creando un ambiente escolar en el
cual los estudiantes puedan sentirse en un segundo hogar.
Cual es mejor método cuando se trata de
aprendices de Ingles?
Debemos proporcionar más fondos
a programas de Ingles Como Segundo Idioma
para asegurarnos que los aprendices de Ingles
reciban la mejor educación posible. Estos fondos
también se usarían en la creación de un currículo
diverso y comprensivo. Programas que proveen
recursos y asesoría interactiva a los aprendices de
Ingles y sus padres deben ser implementados en
todas las preparatorias para hacer su navegación
de un sistema escolar extranjero más fácil.
La constitución del estado de California afirma
que los Consejos Escolares deben ser “no partidistas”. Que significa eso para usted?
Para mi, significa exactamente lo que
comunica. Los Consejos Escolares no deben
participar en políticas partidistas. Deberían de
colaborar, sin importar su historial, para encontrar soluciones sensatas que sean apropiadas para
la demografía que pretenden representar. Al fin
del día, la preocupación del Consejo Escolar debe
ser los estudiantes, sus padres, y los maestros que
sacrifican mucho para preparar sus estudiantes
para el futuro.
Cual es su opinión de las dos maiores escuelas
charters en el área: Las escuelas Heritage y
Classical Academy?
Las dos escuelas en cuestión deben
de aumentar su transparencia cuando se trata
Joe Muga
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Soy una firme creyente de que las mesas dirtectivas
escolares deben ser no partidario. Es preocupante
que nuestra escuela ha llegado a ser tan politizado.
Los consejos escolares estaban destinados a ser los
comités de vigilancia ciudadana, no integrados por
representantes de los partidos políticos, grupos de
interés, o administradores de la educación. Aquí es
donde jugará un papel decisivo en la restauración
de la eficacia de la junta en la escucha de todas las
partes interesadas y la implementación de políticas que son un reflejo de todas las perspectivas.
¿Cuál es su opinión de las dos escuelas Charters
más importantes de la zona: la Classical Academy
y la Heritage Academy?
Mi punto de vista de cualquier escuela
de la carta es cuestionar qué es lo que la
escuela autónoma está ofreciendo que nuestras
escuelas públicas tradicionales no son? Debemos
revisar el proceso de aprobación, que la junta
escolar y el distrito se comprometen cuando se
propone una escuela autónoma. Deberíamos estar
enfatizando que las escuelas de EUSD tanto éxito
que no se necesitan las escuelas autónomas.
Algunas personas afirman que la
mayoría de la actual Mesa Directiva de EUSD,
algunos de los cuales son productos de las escuelas
privadas y charter sí mismos y fueron apoyados
activamente en su elección por los líderes de las
escuelas privadas y charters, es en el bolsillo de
los defensores de las escuelas privadas y charters
que por lo general quieren promover las cartas a
expensas de las escuelas públicas. ¿Cómo responde
usted?
Todos venimos de distintos orígenes y
diferentes experiencias y esta diversidad
ilumina nuestros puntos de vista y enriquece
nuestro proceso de toma de decisiones. Nuestro
desafío actual es garantizar que todos los puntos
de vista están representados en nuestra junta
escolar. Las decisiones políticas deben basarse en
la investigación, estrategias de enseñanza basadas
en la evidencia, las prácticas fiscales sólidas, y de
la comunidad.
¿Qué papel debe desempeñar la Mesa Directiva
de las escuelas primarias en la supervisión de las
escuelas autónomas (por ejemplo, asegurar que
se adhieren a los términos de la carta, como el
requisito de que las cartas reflejan la demografía
de la comunidad)?
Las escuelas charter tienen que ser
transparente, responsable, y exhiben eficacia
probada en el mismo grado y escrutinio que las
escuelas públicas tradicionales. Las escuelas
charter también deben ser obligados a reflejar
la composición de la comunidad. Las escuelas
charter deben demostrar que ofrecen servicios y
programas educativos, que las escuelas públicas
tradicionales no lo hacen. Si este último es el caso,
entonces es responsabilidad del distrito escolar
para desarrollar un plan de acción correctiva
para poder ofrecer estos servicios y programas
educativos adicionales.
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de sus operaciones y enfoque de la educación. Esta
transparencia sería favorable en aumentar responsabilidad al Consejo Escolar y a los ciudadanos.
Otro problema que tengo con las dos escuelas es su
inhabilidad de reflejar la demografía de la comunidad en la cual se encuentran. Aunque dicen que
han intentando contactar a los padres de familia
de Escondido mediante el envío de unos cuantos
volantes, esto no es suficiente. Deben de tener mas
interacciones directas con la comunidad y deben de
expandir sus esfuerzos de reclutamiento para incluir
a mas aprendices de Ingles y proveerles con los
mejores servicios posibles.
Alguna gente afirma que la mayoría del
Consejo Escolar actual, algunos siendo productos de
las escuelas charter y quienes fueron apoyados por
líderes de las escuelas chárter, están en el bolsillo de
proponentes de las escuelas charter, quienes quieren
promover escuelas chárter a costa de las escuelas
públicas tradicionales. Como responde usted?
Estoy contra la idea que Heritage y Classical Academy son las únicas escuelas adecuadas para
asegurar un futuro brillante para nuestros estudiantes. Consequentemente, yo creo que nuestras
escuelas públicas tradicionales no deben ser abandonadas porque proveen un servicio esencial a nuestra
sociedad. Si soy elegido, trabajaré con mis colegas en
el Consejo Escolar para implementar soluciones sensatas que ayudan avanzar nuestra escuelas charters y
nuestras escuelas públicas tradicionales sin tener que
sacrificar uno por el otro.
Qué papel debe de tener el Consejo Escolar en
supervisar las escuelas charter (asegurando
que adhieren a los términos de charter, como el
requerimiento que dice que los charters deben
reflejar la demografía de la comunidad en la cual
se encuentran)
Ya que las escuelas charter son escuelas
públicas y reciben fondos públicos, yo creo que el
Consejo Escolar tiene la responsabilidad de supervisarlos tanto como supervisan las escuelas públicas
tradicionales.
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and we need very high quality professional
development. Mostly, though, we need to
have systems in place to identify deficiencies,
and address them quickly and effectively.
What is the best approach to dealing with
English language learners?
Providing them with excellent curriculum, high quality first time instruction, enrichment opportunities, support for
them and their families, and importantly,
having high expectations for their success, as
we do for all students.
The California state constitution states that
“school boards should be non-partisan.” What
does that mean to you?
It means that a school board should only be
focused on the success of all students and
families, and should not be participating in
partisan politics. We need to return to this
point.
What is your opinion of the two largest
charters in the area: Heritage and Classical
Academy?
One of my children (Dustin)
attended Heritage Digital Academy during
his 8th grade year, before moving on to
Orange Glen High School. My main concern
is working with our district schools to make
them highly effective institutions of learning
so that they are Escondido’s Schools of Choice
in our area.
Some people assert that the majority of the
current EUSD Board, some of whom are
products of charter schools themselves and
were actively supported in their election by
charter school leaders, is in the pocket of
charter school proponents who generally
want to promote charters at the expense of
public schools. How do you respond?
I respond that my focus is on
making our district schools the best that they
possibly can be so that they can educate our
students in excellent fashion. One of my core
beliefs, and this will not change, is that everyone has the best interest in children at heart. I
look forward to working with all of the other
board members in a kind, professional, and
respectful fashion.
What role should the school board play in
overseeing charter schools (e.g. ensuring
that they adhere to the terms of the charter,
such as the requirement that charters reflect
the demographics of the community)?
The role of a school board in monitoring charter schools is laid out in state law
(ed code). We will fulfill our duty by doing
that oversight professionally and in full accordance with state law.
Rick Mercurio is Alianza North County’s Lead Reporter.
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familias. Esto es importante, tener altas expectativas para su
éxito, como lo hacemos para todos los estudiantes.
La constitución del estado de California establece que “las
juntas escolares deben ser imparcial.” ¿Qué significa eso para
usted?
Esto significa que una junta escolar sólo debe centrarse en
el éxito de todos los estudiantes y las familias, y no debería
participar en la política partidista. Tenemos que volver a este
punto.
¿Cuál es su opinión de las dos escuelas Charters más importantes de la zona: la Classical Academy y la Heritage Academy?
Uno de mis hijos (Dustin) asistió a la Heritage Digital Academy durante su octavo grado, antes de pasar a la Escuela
Preparatoria Orange Glen. Mi principal preocupación sera
que las escuelas de nuestro distrito sean instituciones altamente eficaces de aprendizaje, de modo que sean las escuelas
preferidas por todos en Escondido.
Algunas personas afirman que la mayoría de la actual Mesa
Directiva de EUSD, algunos de los cuales son productos de las
escuelas privadas y charter sí mismos y fueron apoyados activamente en su elección por los líderes de las escuelas privadas
y charters, es en el bolsillo de los defensores de las escuelas
privadas y charters que por lo general quieren promover las
cartas a expensas de las escuelas públicas. ¿Cómo responde
usted?
Respondo que mi atención se centra en apoyar y mejorar las
escuelas del distrito para que excedan toda expectativa. Una
de mis creencias básicas, y en esto no voy a cambiar, es que
todos los maestros y administradores tienen el mejor interés de
los niños en el corazón. Espero con interés trabajar con todos
los demás miembros de la junta en una forma professional y
de manera respetuosa.
¿Qué papel debe desempeñar la Mesa Directiva de las escuelas
primarias en la supervisión de las escuelas autónomas (por
ejemplo, asegurar que se adhieren a los términos de la carta,
como el requisito de que las cartas reflejan la demografía de la
comunidad)?
El papel de una junta escolar en la supervisión de las escuelas
charters es muy clara y especifica en la ley estatal (Código de
Educación). Vamos a cumplir con nuestras responsibilidades
en plena conformidad con la ley estatal.
Rick Mercurio es reportero de plomo de Alianza.
Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed
that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a
much weight as that of any CEO, any member of
Congress, or any President.
-- Barbara Boxer
Olga Diaz
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storm runoff into the Escondido Creek, saving builders money
and enlisting them as an ally in completing her dream.
The Work to Be Done
Diaz lists her top three platform issues as: securing a
reliable water source for the city; increasing transparency in the
local government; and, increasing public engagement at City
Hall. There is a large hill ahead of her, but she will take it a step
at a time.
Diaz has never shied away from a tough battle, and
she’s had quite a few of them.
Going back to that day in 2006 when she marched
behind the Latino protesters, Diaz began a fight against the
racial stereotyping and discrimination rampant in local government. The 2006 rental ban, the 2008 parking ordinances
and the most recent hunt for illegal garage conversions all
were geared towards finding Latino families that were out of
compliance and targeting them with code enforcement violations, towing of cars and making Escondido a place that they
wouldn’t want to be.
As an outspoken opponent of the very controversial
police checkpoints, Diaz has always complained that checkpoints are ineffective – statistics show that saturation patrols
are more effective at catching drunk drivers in Escondido – and
target certain people. Now that the state has changed the rules
about checkpoints and impounding vehicles, the spotlight has
shifted slightly from this practice. But racism is still present,
albeit subtle, in the council members.
For example, in a Latino issues oriented mayoral
forum during the 2014 election season, the mayor thanked the
assembled crowd of mostly Latinos for being civil. It was Diaz
that very rightly pointed out the hypocrisy of the statement.
“Why would you expect a Latino crowd to be anything but
civil?” she asked.
It is this common sense approach to governance and
dealing with people that wins over most that watch and/or
speak with Diaz, and that will move the city towards her stated
platform goals. But her decisions don’t always come without
some controversy. Take her decision on the still controversial
Escondido Country Club development.
When a real estate investor bought the Escondido
Country Club in foreclosure and decided to close it and develop it with homes, the public outcry from the area was great.
Diaz voted along with the others on the council to downgrade
the acreage to “Open Space-Public.” The investor put Prop H
on the ballot to reverse that decision, and Diaz supported him.
Seeming somewhat counter intuitive for a Democrat
and environmentalist to side with a developer, Diaz used her
common sense approach to the issue. Facing a large lawsuit
settlement and the chance to gain amenities for the city (the
developer promised to build an Olympic-sized swimming pool,
a 10,000 sq foot community center, tennis courts and put $1
million in an account in the city for development of more open
space) that the city could never afford to build on its own, Diaz
opted to support what she called, “the compromise plan.”
Diaz’ stance on the issue would have resulted in a
far better outcome for Escondido’s taxpayers. While the Prop
H failed to pass with voters, the developer won a lawsuit
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against the City of Escondido requiring the City redesignate
the proposed land as residential. The land will eventually be
developed, the City now owes thousands in legal fees, and the
community will miss out on much-needed amenities.
Today, Diaz is realistic about the outcome which
has yet to be determined. The new developer has worked with
the neighbors to try to compromise on a new, approximately
380-home plan but there is still opposition. Diaz, in a recent
candidate forum at a local church, stated plainly, “The residents
want a golf course. They will never have that back.” She knows
it isn’t a popular stance to take, especially in the face of a large
voting population, but that has never stopped her from making
what she feels is the right decision.
Diaz is always thoughtful and deliberate in her decision making, and always has the best interests of the residents
of Escondido in mind. Her goal of securing a reliable water
source for the city comes with the complete rebuilding of Lake
Wohlford Dam – a major drinking water source for the city.
Her goal also includes expanding the reclaimed water (“purple
pipe”) infrastructure to provide water to local citrus growers
saves the city and the growers money in the long run.
Her goal of making the city more transparent and
increasing public engagement comes almost second nature to
her. She is always ready and willing to lead a tour of people
through city hall. She is mindful that the building belongs to
the residents who built it and she provides an all-access look on
the tour, from her council office to the council chambers. Her
desire to involve as many residents as possible in the decision
making process at city hall comes from a true caring about the
residents.
When the trees were being cut down at a local mobile
home park, she was called. Diaz rushed to the park, but not
before texting her husband, a (now retired) Escondido police
officer, to be ready to bail her out of jail. She genuinely cares
not only for the people of Escondido, but what they care about,
too.
One to Watch
What the future holds for Olga Diaz is unlimited.
Politically, if she wins a third term in November, she could
bide her time in the office until something comes along. The
County Supervisor seat for District Three will be open in 2020,
at the end of her third term, and she could run for that position, vacated by Supervisor Dave Roberts when his term is up
(should be be re-elected in November). She could also choose
to challenge 75th Assembly member, and former city council
colleague, Marie Waldron.
Whatever the future holds for her, it’s a safe bet that
she will take along her unfailing dedication to the people that
she will serve and her common sense approach to handling
issues. Her caring manner and strong work ethic will land her
firmly on top of whatever hill she decides to climb next.
She is indeed one to watch.
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Progressive News & Opinion
Un Grupo Activista
Action Group Forming
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Commercial Workers, the Cincinnati Union
Co-op Initiative, has incubated unionized
co-ops, like the agricultural cooperative Our
Harvest, which is organized by the UFCW
but also follows the USW-Mondragon
union co-op template.
Several years after a high-profile
sit-down strike at the Republic Windows
and Doors factory in Chicago, rank and file
members of the United Electrical, Radio
& Machine Workers of America Local
1100 converted the company into a worker-owned and democratically-controlled
co-op.
On the West Coast, the Service
Employees International Union, together
with the United Healthcare Workers West,
is working to get the Nursing and Caregivers Cooperative, Inc., an Oakland-based
unionized co-op, off the ground. Using new
mobile technologies, the SEIU-UHW aims
to empower Licensed Vocational Nurses in
the Bay Area to take back new information
and communication technologies currently
used in anti-union ways to promote a flexible workforce always on call and deprived of
benefits. The new NCC union co-op intends
to utilize mobile devices to instead provide
better patient care while workers retain
ownership of their labor and gain portable
benefits. The worker-owners can leverage
their collective power with the union to
bargain higher value for their work and
purchase more affordable employee health
insurance.
While most all co-ops empower workers as collective owners, working
people in a unionized cooperative or union
WSDE affiliate with a labor union to protect
and advance their rights as workers. Unionization is also helpful if some workers in the
co-op are in supervisory roles and others
are not, as the latter group can go to the
union if issues over workplace conditions
arise or the exercise of authority by supervisors becomes a problem.
The d@w movement is encouraging people to consider some of these
alternatives to dominant capitalist arrangements by starting local d@w “action groups”
in their communities.
The North County Democracy at
Work Action Group plans to meet regularly
for “reading aloud group” sessions focusing on Wolff ’s aforementioned book while
enjoying snacks and stimulating discussion.
No one is expected to read the text before
attending. We can take turns reading the
text out loud and discussing it together as
a preliminary step in what could become a
major movement in Southern California. The group will meet for the first
time on Wednesday, September 28 at 7 p.m.
in SBSB 2240 on California State University San Marcos campus. Everyone in the
surrounding community and beyond is welcome. For more information on the action
group check out https://www.facebook.com/
northcountydemocracyatwork. For more
information on Democracy at Work, visit
http://www.democracyatwork.info/.
James K. Anderson is a déclassé writer,
journalist, scholar, and social theorist who is
teaching classes at Mt. San Jacinto College and
California State University San Marcos this
fall 2016 semester. He received a PhD in Mass
Communication and Media Arts from Southern
Illinois University Carbondale in May 2016. He
was born and raised in the Midwest but now
struggles to live in Southern California.
Find us online at
AlianzaNorthCounty.com
Metalúrgicos, el sindicato industrial más
grande de Norte América, se asoció con
Mondragón, una corporación que lleva medio siglo siendo dirigida por los
trabajadores basada en la región Vasca
de España, para apoyar un “modelo de
sindicatos cooperativos” en el 2012. Con
contribuciones de USW y los Trabajadores
Unidos de Comida y Comercio, la Iniciativa
de Sindicato Cooperativo de Cincinnati, ha
incubado a sindicatos cooperativos, como
la cooperativa agrícola Our Harvest, la cual
está organizada por el UFCW pero también
sigue el esquema del sindicato USW-Mondragón.
Unos años después de una protesta
pacífica de alto perfil en la fábrica Republic
Windows and Doors en Chicago, los miembros de Electrical United, Trabajadores de
Radio y Máquinas de América Local 1100
convirtieron la compañía en una cooperativa democrática y dirigida por trabajadores.
En la costa oeste, el Sindicato
Internacional de Empleados de Servicio,
junto con Trabajadores Unidos del Sector de Salud del Oeste, está trabajando en
adquirirle a la Cooperativa de Enfermeras y
Proveedores de Cuidado, Inc., una cooperativa sindical en Oakland. Usando nuevas
tecnologías móviles, el SEIU-UHW intenta
empoderar a las Enfermeras Vocacionales
Certificadas en la zona de la bahía a llevarse
información nueva y tecnologías de comunicación que actualmente se están usando
en maneras anti-sindicales para promover
una fuerza de trabajo flexible, siempre
esperando una llamada para trabajar y sin
beneficios. La nueva NCC intenta utilizar
dispositivos móviles para proporcionar un
cuidado mejor al paciente mientras que los
trabajadores mantienen la propiedad de su
trabajo y obtengan beneficios portátiles. Los
trabajadores/dueños pueden usar su poder
colectivo con el sindicato para negociar
un valor más alto de su trabajo y comprar
seguros de salud más accesibles.
Mientras que la mayoría de las
cooperativas empoderan a los trabajadores
como dueños colectivos, los trabajadores
en un sindicato cooperativo o un sindica-
to WSDE se afilian con una labor sindical para proteger y avanzar sus derechos
como trabajadores. El sindicalizar también
ayuda si algunos de los trabajadores en una
cooperativa están en funciones de supervisión y otros no, ya que la carta de grupo
puede ir al sindicato si los problemas sobre
las condiciones en el trabajo surgen o si la
autoridad por parte de los supervisores es
un problema.
El d@w es un movimiento que
alienta a la gente a considerar algunas de
estas alternativas a los arreglos capitalistas
dominantes al empezar grupos activistas
locales de d@w en sus comunidades.
El grupo Democracy Now del
Condado Norte planea una junta regular para sesiones de lectura “en voz alta”
enfocándose en el libro antes mencionado
de Wolff mientras disfrutan de bocadillos
y una plática interesante. No se espera que
nadie lea el libro antes de asistir a las juntas.
Podemos tomar turnos leyendo el material
en voz alta y discutirlo juntos como un paso
preliminar en lo que se podría convertir en
un movimiento importante en el sur de California. El grupo se juntará por primera vez
el miércoles 28 de septiembre a las 7 p.m. en
SBSB 2240 en la Universidad Estatal de San
Marcos. Todos en la comunidad y más allá
de ella están invitados.
Para más información sobre el
grupo activista visite https://www.facebook.
com/northcountydemocracyatwork. Para
más información sobre Democracy at
Work, visite http://www.democracyatwork.
info/.
James K. Anderson es un reconocido escritor,
periodista, y académico, y un teorista social
que da clases en el colegio de Mt. San Jacinto
y la Universidad Estatal de San Marcos este
semestre del otoño 2016. Recibió su doctorado
en Medios de Comunicación y Ates del Medio de
la Universidad del Sur de Illinois de Carbondale en mayo del 2016. Nació y creció en centro
del país pero ahora lucha por vivir en el sur de
California.
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