I did too... ROFLMAO!!!

I predict, and I don't do so often, that he takes a job in DC for the DOE and Arne Duncan's charterization push in public ed. Of course, it too will be about as successful as KJ's SMI.... Good riddance...

The only 'speciousness' was KJ's rationalization of the benefits of his proposal, with not ONE SCINTILLA of evidence to support his claims. I believe Rob Fong captured it best when he challenged the veracity of the claims of '50,000 people' who 'signed a petition', given not only HUNDREDS of anecdotal refutations of just what subject matter was discussed when petitions were presented to signers, but also several investigations and actions against Arno Political Consulting, the signature gathering firm, for similar violations of law and simple human decency..., and the notion that this measure was anything about a 'vote of the people'... when in fact, it was one helluva shady process cloaked in the dark of night and secrecy of the backroom to paint deception as 'accountability' and the work of a few well heeled corporate thieves as 'the people'... This whole SMI debacle is filled to the gills with corruption, and attempted to open a pandora's box of insidious enabling of a willing petulant stooge of a mayor to abet such deeds... Frankly, I find the arguments, nay, demands, of those who voted 'no' on the measure to be most compelling -- First, there was no hue and cry to move this measure AT ALL, despite claims to the opposite by KJ and his crowd. Second, like it or not, process matters, especially when amending a city's charter/constitution, and there are quite deliberate steps provided in our state's constitution for doing so -- NONE of which were either acknowledged or adhered to by the SMI's backers, who seem cast aside the constitution of our state as some sort of pesky aside, in order to cynically bamboozle the same stupid people who voted for KJ in the first place, given the profound amount of evidence in his background that should have set off an atomic bomb of red flags against doing so... That the SMI's original drafters flaunted their attempted bypass via the inept drafting of such an instrument should, if the backers were so inclined, result in an errors and omissions claim against the firm and its manipulative Hiltchakkak (sp??? whatever...) in chief for just plain stupidity. Third, Thursday night's presentation of SMI backers, especially the cheap sales pitch by Kunel Merchant and that cheaper San Diego rep (who I am sure was paid more than he was worth by the measure's backers -- under the table, of course), was so fraught with lies and deceptions about the construct and comparisons of the measure that one could easily have driven a Mack Truck through the holes in the deal... It would have been interesting, and fun, actually, to have had an Oxford style debate on the matter, fully evidenced, and fully penetrating the flawed logic to leap to an SMI solution for problems that simply would never in a million years be enhanced by its adoption... In essence, the SMI has been our city's first incursion into 'big lie' territory, all on this very public stage... And KJ got caught in his abetting of the 'big lie', and demonstrated ever so clearly during his pathologically passive aggressive diatribe at the hearing's closing, overcompensating for just how culpable he really has been.... To paraphrase Shakespeare, methinks the KJ doth protest too much....

Mayor Meltdown's little lecture was better than a GLEE rerun, for sure....

KJ is a featured speaker at some charterization shindig hosted by the DOE next month, and Duncan has been courting him to mayoralize public ed in America for months. Duncan is no prize either,for he is reflective of the way Obama has turned his back on the progressives who 'brung him to the dance', on nearly every front, including healthcare and the sellout to ins co's and big pharma with no public option, Wall Street reform with no derivatives oversight and with a consumer protection agency hanging on by a thread in the Senate, with big oil and sanctions for deepwater offshore drilling until this BP thingy, and with public education and Duncan's 'charterization madness' in light of mounting evidence that charters just won't work for everyone -- of course Duncan has never taught in an elhi classroom in his life and is just a well placed well heeled Harvard lawyer associated with the DFER (Dem's (DINO's) for Ed Reform).... Btw, when you seem a Dem talking ed 'reform', head for the hills, for it's 'code' for 'charterization/privatization/choice' and union busting.... Given the Obama administration's 'magic hands' intervention to protect KJ from what would most certainly have resulted in a federal prosecution from the IG's report, I'd say that Duncan would indeed 'risk' appointing KJ to a federal makework job... They've attempted to conceal what really happened at St. Hope, and that's a fitting thing to do for someone 'in grooming mode' for some ephemeral post in DC.... I voted for Obama, and fundraised for him as well. I am PROFOUNDLY disappointed in his administration on almost all fronts.... However, the alternative, with Uncle Fester and his bimbette sidekick, would have been worse...