Why are they sending emails on school time, to school employees and activists, to go to a fundraising event for a POLITICAL GROUP?
From: key-communicators-list-bounces@mailman.pps.k12.or.usBecause money is always the answer to delivering better education. That's why kids are bused from all over the state along with teachers, staffers, et. al. to go to Salem on President's Day.
[mailto:key-communicators-list-bounces@mailman.pps.k12.or.us] On Behalf
Of PPS ppscomms
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 6:01 PM
To: allpps@pps.k12.or.us; key-communicators-list@pps.k12.or.us;
media-list@pps.k12.or.us; pta-lsac-list@pps.k12.or.us
Subject: [Key-communicators-list] Monday Rally for schools attracts
1,000+ from Portland, 6 School Board members
From: key-communicators-list-bounces@mailman.pps.k12.or.us
[mailto:key-communicators-list-bounces@mailman.pps.k12.or.us] On Behalf
Of PPS ppscomms
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 6:01 PM
To: allpps@pps.k12.or.us; key-communicators-list@pps.k12.or.us;
media-list@pps.k12.or.us; pta-lsac-list@pps.k12.or.us
Subject: [Key-communicators-list] Monday Rally for schools attracts
1,000+ from Portland, 6 School Board members
MEDIA ADVISORY
More than 1,000 Portland parents and students and six members of the
Portland School Board will join thousands more to rally at the State
Capitol Monday on behalf of all Oregon schools.
The noontime Presidents Day Rally, organized by Stand for Children, will
call for a $6.3 billion state budget for K-12 education. The proposed
2007-08 Portland schools budget, based on that level of state funding,
allows Portland schools to start adding music, PE and the arts back into
the standard curriculum, adds 24 counselors at large elementary and K-8
schools and continues and expands programs to help high school students
succeed.
On Monday, parents, students and community members will board buses
across the city, with 14 buses leaving from PPS schools and six from
Portland State University.
Portland School Board Co-Chairs Dan Ryan and Bobbie Regan and Board
Directors Doug Morgan, Trudy Sargent, Dilafruz Williams and David Wynde
are participating in the Salem rally. (Ryan and Regan also will be in
Salem Sunday to participate in the Oregon School Boards Association's
legislative conference.)
The rally is co-sponsored or endorsed by a roster of 12 business,
community and education organizations.
For general information on the rally or to participate, go to
www.stand.org/or/2007rally/ or call 503.235-2305.
For more information about the Portland Public Schools budget, go to
www.pps.k12.or.us.
# # #
At Portland Public Schools, this is our goal: By the end of elementary,
middle, and high school, every student by name will meet or exceed
academic standards and will be fully prepared to make productive life
decisions. For more information on Portland Public Schools, call (503)
916-3304, e-mail us at pubinfo@pps.k12.or.us, or visit
www.pps.k12.or.us. Portland Public Schools is an equal opportunity
educator and employer.
1) try this schtick on MLK Day and see what happens. Apparently President's Day, due to its having been demeaned (who's birthday is it again?), is merely a day off for the public employee union members to rustle up some chillins and take them to Salem for a photo op
2) if they can waste money for use of staff time, computers, mailings, etc to help organize themselves before the event, then why do we need more money for schools again?
**For the record the PPS Spokeswoman says she sent this from her home computer and says it's not illegal even though the group they were working with also works as a political action committee and a charity.
53 comments:
Your "honesty" is called into question here too. The email to which I refer was sent by the school district in advance of a rally to call out the troops to benefit and answer to a POLITICAL GROUP.
r_equals_b_ _ _ _ _ _:
Can you say "PRIVATE SCHOOLS"
'HOME SCHOOLING", RIGHT TO WORK LAW
You'll be kicked off the blog if you keep misrepresenting and lying. Stop now.
the above comment refers to the two previously removed comments.
No lying. I'm sick of it.
What? Who's lying? You had not posted the text or address(s) of the email, or reference to email itself before I made my first comment. You made an edit to your post after I made my comment. Fine, it rendered my first comment somewhat invalid. However, you decided to slam me as if I was off base, which I wasn't.
Victoria: Yea I saw Television footage tonight of this shameful Taxpayer funded _ _ _ _ _ on KGW.!
Funds should be devied up equally between "Democrat School's", Private schools, and Home schoolers.
Voucherssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Victoria Taft said...
You'll be kicked off the blog if you keep misrepresenting and lying. Stop now.
Klatu said: Victoria, are you talking about "TREECHOPPER" ALSO??
He's a Liberal pretending to be a CONCERVATIVE. I contend with "HEMPCHOPPER" I mean "TreeChoppers" Clones every Election Cycle in Republican Headquaters. Their very transparent. I get a laugh out of
them trying to pretend that their concervatives or Republicans or trying to reinvent what Concervatism is. Every post by "TreeChopper" tries to reinvent Concervatism. He or it is a JOKEEEE. Kinda like our current Gov. Ted Taxandstealthekickerski
Ps Does "GOV.JEFF KROPF" Sound Good????
These Begga-Thones happen every year about this time, Presidents day. I seem to remember last year or the previous year Bus's being used all on the TAXPAYERS Dime for this Annual Salem Fieldtrip with Kids. I beleive that was Stopped, but now their Politicising on the Taxpayer's Dime with these Emails?
I wouldn't dought that GOV. Ted TaxandtaketheKickerski was the instigator of this.
Ps And the Liberal Media was (or is) in on this annual charade.
Remedy---Keep building the Consevative Media
while tromatic's comment was entertaining and valid, his choice of potty talk was not. Sorry friend, had to nuke it.
Victoria: Do you have a way to find related stories such as this one "Human Props" from past years,
(Nexus-Lexis) etc. I'm positive this is an Annual event for these Begga-thon Democrats to do. The media is in on this annual charade.
All it would take to spoil it, is to advertise it in advance that its another Liberal Annual event about to happen.Of course the Socialists are totally in control right now where it was different from 1991-2006 where they were not.
The Socialists always seem to take advantage of Presidents day for it.
Are the Bus companies in on this charade also????
Why don't you just visit their website "klatu?"
R_equals_BS said...
Why don't you just visit their website "klatu?"
Klatu said: So r_equals_ So you agree that this is an Annual event for the Begga-thon Democrats especially for the Indoctrination Schools celebrated on Presidents Day every year who probably don't even know who President Washington or Lincoln was and whose Unionized Teachers think its just another Day off on the Taxpayers dime???????
Hardly "klatu." I'm only pointing you in the direction of some information you claim to be looking for.
I do find it funny you are working so hard to defame an organization you know absolutely nothing about. But then again, you're not real so who cares?
Besides (still) waiting for the full text of this email you have posted about, but not provided, I'd be curious Victoria as to your thoughts about (the) former Oregon Taxpayers United. Dare we compare?
R_equals_BS said...
Hardly "klatu
I do find it funny you are working so hard to defame an "organization" you know absolutely nothing about.
Klatu said: What Organization are you talking about? I'm talking about "THE OREGON DEMOCRATIC PARTY" and its allies
Socialist Teachers Unions
The Liberal Media (KGW)for example
The Socialist Gov.Tedtaxandspendski
Maybe the Bus company involved here.
There's somthing illegal going on here, and I hope Victoria turns all of the proof and E-mails over to the proper authorities.
This goes on year after year on the taxpayers dime at this time of year. Time to close the Government WALLET AND PUT SOME PEOPLE BEHIND BARS.
from the Original Post: Why are "THEY" sending emails on school time to school employees and activists.
Klatu said: Whose "They"
wild guess
Public Sector Teachers Union's.
Where's the investigators.
A crime has been commited here.
Where's the FBI,since one
can't aproach the SOS's office.
This _ - _ - happen's every year.
The Bus company need's to be Fined and or loss of license.
Some people need to spend some time behind Bars for this crime.
The email came from Portland Public School District headquarters.
Still can't produce the content of the message? According to the info you posted from said email, it was sent:
Friday, February 16, 2007 6:01 PM
Yet, the subject says:
[Key-communicators-list] Monday Rally for schools attracts 1,000+ from Portland, 6 School Board members
So, did this event take place on the Monday (2/12) previous to Friday (2/16), or on President's day (2/19)? If not the previous Monday, then just how can they send out a message proclaiming a rally that "attracts 1,000+ from Portland" BEFORE it has happened?
The content of the email might help to answer these questions - but I'm guessing you don't have it.
R_equals_BS If I was Victoria you wouldn't even be on this blog. There was a "crime" committed here.
Some public sector workers need
to spend some time in PUBLIC HOUSING. And maybe the FBI needs to knock on your door also.
Victoria Taft said...
The email came from Portland Public School District headquarters.
Klatu said: Thanks
I have the content of the email. It was sent in advance of the rally. It was an announcement about how successful this rally was going to be. No mystery. Nice try on trying to question the veracity of it. The issue was that it was sent by the teachers/school district. Guess what? Randy Leonard voice: Not. My. Job.
PS If you comment and slanderously attack my character your comment is gone. If you see that your comment was removed that's why.
I have the content of the email.
Then why is it so hard to post it?
And I didn't slander you in my last post you removed - I posted at how I arrived to receiving the same kind of email from PPS as you claim to have.
The Oregon School Boards Association, a trade group representing school board members statewide, tracks education bills on its Web site. Go to http://www.osba.org/leginfo/bills/index.asp
Governor's plans
Gov. Ted Kulongoski proposes a school budget for the next two-year cycle that's 14.2 percent more than current funding, though it's still $240 million shy of the amount demanded at Monday's rally.
The governor also wants to raise Tax's for Oregon universities by 17.1 percent and Tax's for community colleges by 12.6 percent.
In other education proposals, Kulongoski wants to raise the corporate minimum tax to expand Head Start preschool to every eligible child who wants it, provide $5 million for a mentoring program for young teachers, consolidate school employees into a single health-care insurance pool and pay for a wave of new construction at colleges and universities.
Lawmakers discuss update to state's 1971 bottle bill. Look out
Kulongoski touts college funding plan
Higher education: Kulongoski stumps for shared responsibility model
Lawmakers discuss plans to help defray school construction costs
Capitol rally participants spend time for education
Hundreds appeal for more Tax's for schools and children
Socialist Statesman Journal
February 20, 2007
Hundreds of teachers, students, parents and politicians rallied at the State Capitol Monday to support higher spending on education and children's issues.
Stand for Children, which organized the rally, claims that $1 billion has been cut from Oregon schools over the last decade.
With the state's improving economy, "There's enough money to pay for every school district in Oregon to restore programs and lower class sizes," Salem parent Gaelen McAllister, the event's emcee, told the crowd.
Sen. President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, said it was the first time in his legislative career that he has seen so many groups join together in support of children and education.
"I've never seen this kind of organization," he said.
Courtney, along with House Speaker Jeff Merkley, D-Portland, and Gov. Ted Kulongoski, pledged to support the group's goals.
They include:
Increasing funding for schools in order to lower class sizes and restore programs such as music and art that were cut from some districts.
Increasing the corporate minimum tax and redirecting the corporate kicker into a rainy day fund.
Fully funding Head Start. About 3,000 eligible children currently are on waiting lists.
Providing health care coverage for all Oregon children via an increase in the tobacco tax.
"This session, I think we're going to spend the money on the kids," Courtney said. (sure you are)
Thirty busloads of supporters from across the state attended the noontime rally, which was supported by the Oregon Bus Project, Oregon Head Start Association, Upward Bound Capstone Class from Portland State University, Oregon Business Association, Children First for Oregon, Children's Institute, Rural Organizing Project, Our Oregon, Oregon Education Association, American Federation of Teachers -- Oregon and Oregon School Employees Association.
(The Oregon Bus Project owned by the Democratic Party of Oregon)
"I feel like my taxes need to be invested in my children," she said. "We need smaller class sizes and music, physical education and art."
Stand for Children also is calling for $6.3 billion in education funding for the next two years. That's $240 million more than the governor has proposed.
Ok..informative post klatu (and a nice departure from your usual) - but this does nothing to prove an email was sent from PPS, etc. - as is claimed.
http://www.pps.k12.or.us/ is this the website???
This is the real offender in my opinion www.osba.org/
and Ah yes the "Oregon Bus Project"
lets find out if the Democrat party's Bus Project had the gas charged to the "TAXPAYER", for this Annual Charade.
and Meals charged to the Taxpayer??
THE US ATTORNEYS OFFICE PHONE # for Oregon is ???
The FBI's phone # is ????
I'm not sure what you're asking klatu...
Oh, no. Looks like Victoria's taking her ball and going home ...
If the proof is in the pudding, Victoria, you are a woman who apparently has no pudding.
I wonder if the Mercury or Willamette Week would be interested in following up on this?
Go ahead and ban people .. then, those two publications will DEFINITELY hear about this thread.
Go for it.
She has no ability to ban anyone. The most power one has with Blogger is to delete comments or turn them off all-together. She could ban visitors if she ran her own blog software, and actually stopped using this freebie from the company she's boycotting (but that's a different topic).
Anyhow, I don't think she yet understands, that what she has posted in her blog entry is a reject email header, i.e. an undeliverable email sent by someone not allowed to send to the PPS list(s).
Her "proof" is her undoing, yet I'm trying to give her the benefit of the doubt.
1. Illegal "SENT" emails
2. Illegal gas purchases
3. Illegal meal purchases
PEOPLE ARE GOING TO PUBLIC HOUSING FOR A WHILE
THE US ATTORNEY GENERALS PHONE # AND MAILING ADDRESS IS????
That's a lot of charges klatu. Do you have any credible evidence?
R_equals_BS Are you part of this annual crime???
Although it tilts toward the Democrats, "the Bus Project" is independent of political parties.
What a Lie of course The Bus Project is The Democrats. From their Website http://www.busproject.org/
Ps did you take the BUS DOWN TO Salem last monday
r_equals_B_---?????
From the Bus Project website http://www.busproject.org/
Presidents Day Education Rally with Stand
Date: 02/19/2007 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
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1500 people on the Capitol steps in 2004 was fun, but this year we are going to make the difference!
WHAT ABOUT 2005 & 2006??
Contrary to popular belief, education is not going to fund itself. "Stand for Children" is organizing the ultimate education rally in Salem, and The Bus is on the way to help. This could be a good year in Salem, but legislators need to know that you care.
We’ll be loud, and we are going to ask the Legislature to meet these goals:
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Ps STAND FOR CHILDREN AAAAAAAA
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An estimated 3,000 Oregonians rallied together on the State Capitol steps, asking legislators to reinvest in public schools after a decade that cut $1 billion from classrooms around the state. Read more about the role the rally played in raising statewide awareness of these issues.
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Pull your Kids out of Public Schools Folks.
Oh yes klatu, I had forgotten that taking part in civics is illegal and communistic, or socialist (hard to say since you use both as if they're the same).
You have the freedom to speak how you feel, and to engage in civics in the manner in which you believe (within the law). Yet, you want to say that anyone doing the same with a different opinion than you is committing crimes? That makes you a fascist.
Do you know what is, if not criminal, unethical? Calling people criminals for having a different opinion than you, and creating fake email to slander a public institution you don't happen to agree with.
Why are you so intent on forcing people out of public schools and into your choice of private school?
R_equals_BS:
It's Thursday 10:31am 1-22-07 as I write this.
shouldn't you be heading down to Salem to begg for more cash with
the rest of your socialist PSU comrades. It starts at 12:00
ends at 1:00 Socialist. I'm sure the DEMOCRAT Bus Project is about to leave. Hurry Hurry
Of Course the Bus must fill up
first on expensive BioDisel (paid for By the Taxpayer)
or should I say vegetable oil.
Wow, it took you a month to write that and you STILL have all those errors?
Of all things, EDUCATION funding is something I really think you ought to be supporting, because what you got didn't work so well.
Bottom line, it's not unethical, nor is it illegal for PPS to lobby legislature in it's interest. In fact, I'm pretty certain they have a staff dedicated to doing just that. Had we been talking about an election campaign, it'd be a different story.
What's wrong is that the information you provide as "evidence" is clearly manufactured, and not very well at that. You seem to have a hot button in regards to information you feel is misleading or a mis-characterization of your person. So, just what exactly is it you think you are doing with this post - heaping flowers and candies on PPS?
Criticize them if you like, but don't manufacture your own evidence to defame them. Jeeze.
If you'd like to send me the entire email you claim to have, instead of post it here, I'll accept that also. requalsbs@hotmail.com is the addy...
Correction, requalsbs@gmail.com
(It's hard to drop that hotmail habit)
Join us Thursday February 22 from noon to 1pm
Steps of the Capitol Building in Salem
Don’t miss OSA’s rally for a massive Tax increase for education! Come and tell your legislators to make Oregon stronger by Increasing Tax's for a quality Indoctrination education in Oregon. Stand with students,Democrats, alumni, faculty, administrators,Illegals, staff,Comrades, and Carl Marx, in the fight for increased TAX'S for the Oregon University System and Community Colleges! Bring yourself and Comrades who care about Indoctrinating Kids, warm (non-fur) clothes, and signs that make your case for INCREASED TAX'S. For more information, call our office at 503-655-Communists (or email Melilea at M@Communists.org
Socialists just can't help their addiction (Tax's). Nor can Liberal KGW ch.8
Ps I wonder if its legal for PSU
to have had this on their TAXPAYER FUNDED WEBSITE, just like the E-mails sent from PPS headquarters????????? Hmmmmmmmmm
PPs Today Thursday Feb. 22 2007
was not another Holiday. The Staff,The Faculty, got paid for this protest?? Really?? Hmmm
I think the term is
YOUR FIREDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Here is another view on the story, and this one has additional facts (as opposed to focusing more on just opinion and personal slams, although there is a little of that as well).
Here's the link:
The Portland Mercury's Take...
My last word, Victoria, wouldn't it have been easier to just post the entire email than to claim I was the one "misrepresenting and lying?"
Thanks R,
That was the article I meant to link to (but somehow failed to accomplish).
The foundation of all my beliefs lay shattered at my feet! She was ... was ... oh, I can't even say it, I'm so badly shaken!
Oh, curse you, you lousy little facts! Grr!
Thanks for *cough* finally posting the email. In case your readers might want to know,
According to ORS 260.432 -
http://www.sos.state.or.us/elections/publications/restrictions.pdf
7. Legislation and Lobbying: Support or Opposition of Legislative Bills
ORS 260.432 does not address the activity related to support or opposition to legislative bills before Oregon’s state legislature, unless the bill is one that results in a referral to an election (usually a House or Senate Joint Resolution). If a bill results in a referral to an election, at the time the issue is certified to be included on the ballot for an election as a ballot measure, ORS 260.432 would take effect and any public employee would be restricted from using their work time to support or oppose the measure, and this office would investigate complaints of alleged violation. This however would not prohibit a public entity and its public employees from continuing work that might be related to the same subject as the measure, as long as the activity does not constitute support or
opposition to the ballot measure.
Additionally, a public agency’s activities supporting or opposing legislation do not make the agency a “political committee” within the
meaning of ORS Chapter 260. A political committee involves the purpose of supporting a candidate, measure or political party. Supporting or opposing bills before the state legislature does not fit into the definition of a political committee and therefore no campaign
finance reports are required.
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