Posts Tagged ‘California Teachers Association’
Posted by Craig P. Alexander on April 27, 2016
Everyone agrees that education for our children is a critical pathway for those children to grow into adults who are ready to earn a living and become responsible members of our society. Unfortunately labor unions including teachers unions have a different focus – to benefit their union bank accounts with your tax dollars more than the quality and success of students in those schools. Often to balance a school district’s books the union elected Board of Trustees will give raises to District employees and increase class sizes (with layoffs of younger teachers with less seniority). How does this help children in these schools? Not at all. In fact classroom overcrowding and teachers kept due to seniority instead of quality and student progress is detrimental to their education.
Let me pause and say there are many great teachers in the public school system. It is not their actions that are the problem. It is their unions who want to hold onto power who are the problem.
Many parents choose to send their children to private schools or choose to homeschool their children to assure that they are doing everything they can to provide a quality education for their child. But there is another route parents can take: public charter schools. The success of public charter schools is beyond refutation. The fact is that public charter schools, with the freedom to not unionize their staffs and focus on children’s academic progress rather than just seniority in teacher evaluations, have resulted in long waiting lists for children to gain entrance into good public charter schools. What is the response to this by government employee unions? To block public charter school applications at every turn. First via the Board of Trustees at the local level. Then with a rubber stamp Orange County Board of Education that denied charter school application appeals routinely. That changed two years ago when Linda Lindholm joined Trustees Robert Hammond and Ken Williams to form a pro public charter school majority. Since then charter schools that formerly were routinely denied appeals have had their appeals granted and more charter schools opened to the benefit of children, parents, teachers who work there and ultimately all of us as these children graduate with a quality education.
This June 7th voters in Orange County will have an opportunity to re-elect Trustees Hammond and Williams to keep that pro-charter school majority in place. The teacher unions are running Tustin Councilmember Rebecca Gomez and Irvine School Board member Michael Parham against Hammond and Williams to replace the current majority with a board majority that will bring the OC Board back to the days when charter school application appeals are routinely denied no matter the quality and demand by parents for a viable alternative to sometimes failing public schools their children are enrolled in.
Former State Senator Gloria Romero has an excellent opinion article in the Orange County Register (Teachers unions trying to take back O.C. board). Follow the link to her article where she has set forth how this is a deceptive campaign by the unions to smear Trustee Hammond and Williams to place their handpicked Trustees on the board.
Here is a part of her article:
“The name “Teachers for Local Control” undoubtedly was poll tested and determined to be a resonant mantra with Orange County voters. What backers probably won’t reveal is that Teachers for Local Control is a chameleon group for the Santa Ana Educators Association, a local affiliate of the powerful Sacramento-based California Teachers Association, which has fought virtually every public education reform and law granting parental school choice in California.
In fact, the legal phone number for Teachers for Local Control provided to the California Secretary of State’s Office is the same number as for the Santa Ana teachers union office.
Whoops.”
Teacher unions what to give parents less choice in the education of their children by opposing public charter schools. Trustees Hammond and Williams want to preserve choice and excellence in education. Voters will have an important choice regarding education in Orange County on June 7th.
Re-elect Robert Hammond and Dr. Ken Williams to the Orange County Board of Education.
For more about former Marine Robert Hammond go to: http://www.robertforocbe.com/
For more about Dr. Ken Williams go to: http://www.williamsforocbe.com/
For more about public charter schools in general go to: http://www.ccsaadvocates.org/ and Parents Advocate League.
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Posted in Orange County Board of Education, Uncategorized | Tagged: California Teachers Association, CCSA Advocates, Michael Parham, Orange County Register, Parents Advocate League, Rebecca Gomez, Santa Ana Educators Association, State Senator Gloria Romero, Teachers for Local Control, Trustee Ken Williams, Trustee Linda Lindholm, Trustee Robert Hammond | 5 Comments »
Posted by Chris Nguyen on March 29, 2016
This morning, the United States Supreme Court issued a one-sentence ruling in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association: “The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court.”
That single sentence ruling while not setting a precedent leaves in place a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that it does not violate the First Amendment to require public employees (in this case, public school teachers) to object to having their dues used for political purposes rather than requiring they consent to political uses of their dues. In other words, the Ninth Circuit ruled an opt-out system was constitutional, and unions did not have to subscribe to an opt-in system to use public employee union dues for political purposes.
This the second such 4-4 ruling since the February death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia had been widely expected to support striking down the Ninth Circuit ruling.
Had Scalia lived and the petitioners prevailed 5-4, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association would have represented a sea change in American and California politics and governance.
The 4-4 ruling in what would have been a landmark decision demonstrates the incredible impact of Scalia’s death on the closely-divided court. This will only further highlight the importance of the nominee to succeed Scalia on the Supreme Court, which in turn will draw the Supreme Court further into the presidential election.
Public employee unions’ enormous sums of money for political campaigns have been fueled by the dues they collect from their members. For an individual employee to opt out of contributing their dues for political purposes, that employee must during a six-week period each year send a letter to the union stating they wish to opt out (there’s even a confusing box on the CTA’s regular dues form that implies employees can opt out entirely but is actually a box that accomplishes a far narrower task).
Had the Supreme Court simplified the opt-out system or switched opt-out to opt-in, there would have been a precipitous fall in the amount of union money in politics. This would have made it much tougher for union allies to win elected office in Congress, the State Legislature, and local government. Fewer elected officials would have been beholden to teachers unions.
Led by Orange County teacher Rebecca Friedrichs, ten California teachers and the Christian Educators Association International had filed suit against the California Teachers Association (state teachers union), the National Education Association (national teachers union), and ten local teachers unions, including four from Orange County:
- Savanna District Teachers Association
- Saddleback Valley Educators Association
- Orange Unified Education Association
- Santa Ana Educators Association
Also among the respondents were the Superintendents of the Savanna School District, Saddleback Valley Unified School District, Orange Unified School District, and Santa Ana Unified School District.
For those wondering about the Supreme Court’s first 4-4 ruling, it was issued last week in Hawkins v. Community Bank, a case on whether spouses who guarantee commercial loans constitute “applicants” under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, which would trigger protection from marital-status discrimination.
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Posted in National, Orange Unified School District, Saddleback Valley Unified School District, Savanna School District | Tagged: Antonin Scalia, California Teachers Association, Christian Educators Association International, CTA, Equal Credit Opportunity Act, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, Hawkins v. Community Bank, National Education Association, Orange Unified Education Association, Rebecca Friedrichs, Saddleback Valley Educators Association, Santa Ana Educators Association, Savanna District Teachers Association | 1 Comment »
Posted by Chris Nguyen on August 6, 2015
This is the third in my series on the education revolution brewing in Orange County. The first piece was on the growth of charter schools in Orange County to catch up to the number of charter schools in the rest of California. The second piece was on the use of the Parent Trigger Law at Palm Lane Elementary School. Today, in the final piece, we turn to an Orange County case that has reached the United States Supreme Court seeking to overturn the “agency shop” rules for California school districts and to overturn the opt-out procedure for the “nonchargeable” portion of union dues.
Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association is the most sweeping part of the education revolution in Orange County. The plurality of the teachers, unions, and school districts in the case are from Orange County.
The growth of charter schools in Orange County is just OC playing catch up to its neighboring counties. The Palm Lane Elementary School case is Orange County being one of the early adopters in the efforts around the Parent Trigger Law. Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association is Orange County seeking to pave the way for the nation.
If the petitioners (Rebecca Friedrichs, et al.) prevail in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, collective bargaining in this country changes forever and the influence of public employee unions in elections, particularly California elections, will wane significantly.
Public employee unions’ enormous sums of money for political campaigns are fueled by the dues they collect from their members. For an individual employee to opt out of contributing their dues for political purposes, that employee must during a six-week period each year send a letter to the union stating they wish to opt out (there’s even a confusing box on the CTA’s regular dues form that implies employees can opt out entirely but is actually a box that accomplishes a far narrower task).
If the Supreme Court simplifies the opt-out system or switches opt-out to opt-in, you will see a precipitous fall in the amount of union money in politics. With this fall in union money, it will be much tougher for union allies to win elected office in Congress, the State Legislature, and local government. Fewer elected officials will be beholden to teachers unions.
If the petitioners prevail, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association will represent a sea change in American and California politics and governance.
What does “agency shop” mean? What are “nonchargeable” portions of union dues?
(The petitioners describe describe “agency shop” rules as: “The State of California empowers school districts to require public-school teachers, as a condition of employment, to either join the union representing teachers in their district or pay the equivalent of dues to that union.”)
(California Government Code Section 3546(a) describes “agency shop” rules as: “the employee shall, as a condition of continued employment, be required either to join the recognized employee organization or pay the fair share service fee,” and the “nonchargeable” portion of union dues are the part of the “fee that is not devoted to the cost of negotiations, contract administration, and other activities of the employee organization that are germane to its function as the exclusive bargaining representative.”)
Who are the petitioners and the respondents?
Led by Orange County teacher Rebecca Friedrichs, ten California teachers and the Christian Educators Association International filed suit against the California Teachers Association (state teachers union), the National Education Association (national teachers union), and ten local teachers unions, including four from Orange County:
- Savanna District Teachers Association
- Saddleback Valley Educators Association
- Orange Unified Education Association
- Santa Ana Educators Association
Also among the respondents are the Superintendents of the Savanna School District, Saddleback Valley Unified School District, Orange Unified School District, and Santa Ana Unified School District.
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Posted in Orange Unified School District, Saddleback Valley Unified School District, Santa Ana Unified School District, Savanna School District | Tagged: California Teachers Association, Christian Educators Association International, National Education Association, Rebecca Friedrichs | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Chris Nguyen on July 23, 2015
An education revolution has been brewing in Orange County. We’re seeing massive change in Orange County thanks to charter schools, the Parent Trigger Law, and litigation against compulsory union dues by the California Teachers Association. I’m going to do a three-part series on this.
Charter schools are a recognition that one-size-fits-all does not work for all students. There needs to be competition because some students need a different kind of school, just like there are many different types of colleges and universities.
Despite Orange County’s conservatism, the education community has long known Orange County as an anti-charter school county. It’s not the voters who were anti-charter school. It was the school board members.
The 2007-2008 Grand Jury even issued a report where they recommended, “The chartering authorities should follow the intent of the legislature by encouraging the establishment of charter schools by granting more charter school petitions provided they meet the State requirements.”
At the time of the Grand Jury report, there were 11 charter schools in Orange County. Over the next six years, just three new charters were approved. Keep in mind there are 29 chartering authorities in Orange County: the Orange County Board of Education and the 28 local school districts.
Here’s what the state of charter schools looked like in May 2014. This shows Orange County’s four neighboring counties, plus tiny Humboldt County.
| County |
Number of Charter
Schools in 2014 |
Population |
| Orange |
14 |
3,010,232 |
| Humboldt |
15 |
134,623 |
| Riverside |
26 |
2,189,641 |
| San Bernardino |
37 |
2,035,210 |
| San Diego |
120 |
3,095,313 |
| Los Angeles |
341 |
9,818,605 |
Then in June 2014, with assistance from the California Charter Schools Association, South County voters tossed the County Board of Education’s most virulent anti-charter school member, 32-year incumbent Liz Parker, who to the surprise of many, was a registered Republican. By a 57%-43% margin, the voters sent in Linda Lindholm to replace Parker.
Things have changed significantly for charter schools in Orange County since Lindholm replaced Parker. We have overtaken Humboldt County. Local school districts got the message and approved two more charter schools in the latter half of 2014. In the first half of 2015, the Orange County Board of Education approved another two charter schools. Orange County has grown its charter schools to 19, still a bit behind Riverside and far behind San Bernardino, and way, way behind San Diego and Los Angeles Counties (even when adjusting for population).
As I noted in a post a month ago:
Trustee Ken Williams, elected in 1996, has a voting record generally supportive of charter schools. Trustee Robert Hammond, elected in 2012, has a voting record consistently supportive of charter schools. Between 2012-2014, Williams and Hammond often found themselves on the losing ends of 3-2 votes on charter school applications. Lindholm’s victory in unseating Liz Parker shifted the Board to a pro-charter school majority. To their credits, Trustees Jack Bedell and David Boyd, along with the Orange County Department of Education staff, recognized the sea change delivered by the voters. Staff reports for both Vista Heritage and CCPA have recommended approval of the charter schools. Bedell and Boyd joined a unanimous vote in favor of Vista Heritage’s application and are expected to join a unanimous vote for CCPA.
The Orange Unified School District provisionally approved a charter school in May by a 5-2 vote. Unfortunately, due to absences, the OUSD Board’s vote on final approval was 3-2, one vote short of the necessary four votes. That charter school, Unity Middle College High School, has appealed to the County Board of Education with a vote expected in August. Considering OUSD’s rejection wasn’t a real rejection, and was more of a fluke, we should expect Orange County’s 20th charter school before the close of summer.
Next in the series: the Parent Trigger Law and Orange County’s 21st charter school…
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Posted in Anaheim City School District, California, National, Orange County, Orange County Board of Education, Orange Unified School District | Tagged: California Teachers Association, College and Career Preparatory Academy, CTA, David Boyd, Elizabeth Parker, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, Jack Bedell, Ken Williams, Linda Lindholm, Palm Lane Elementary School, Rebecca Friedrichs, Robert Hammond, Unity Middle College High School, Vista Heritage Charter Middle School | 2 Comments »
Posted by Craig P. Alexander on November 25, 2014
In today’s Orange County Register former State Senator Gloria Romero discusses a pending case where several public school teachers have sued the state and the California Teachers Association (CTA) challenging the Plaintiffs being forced to be in a public employee union in order to have their jobs as teachers. The case (entitled Friedrichs, et al v. California Teachers Association, et al) was pending at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. However, the Court granted Plaintiff’s attorneys’ motion to affirm the trial court’s findings against the Plaintiffs without the need for an oral argument. Part of the reasoning, according to Senator Romero’s op ed piece, is the 9th Circuit recognized that only the United States Supreme Court can overturn its own prior decision of Abood v. Detroit Bd. Of Ed. 431 U.S. 209 (1977). This has significantly sped up the appeals process hopefully getting the case before the Supreme Court (and a decision from it) by over a year – as early as 2015 or 2016.
A few months ago the Supreme Court issued an important decision in Harris v. Quinn which I posted a blog about on July 1st (Harris v. Quinn, an Important Limitation on Forced Unionization). I noted that while the Harris case did not overturn the Abood case or declare that all government employee unionization is not lawful, the Harris court majority noted serious misgivings about the Abood cases’ underlying rational and the public policy of allowing government employee unions to require people to join them (and pay dues) against their will in order to keep their government jobs. Senator Romero also noted this about the Harris case in her op ed piece. Here is a link to her opinion piece (which is not behind the Register’s pay wall): Union-dues case moves closer to Supreme Court. I highly recommend you read her article.
The Supreme Court is not required to take and hear Rebecca Friedrichs and her friends’ case. But I certainly hope it does and I hope the Supreme Court overturns Abood allowing government employees to make a voluntary choice to join a government employee union or not as they desire. I hope the Court recognizes that when someone is forced to join a union by operation of law and forced to give the union money to spend in ways that employee may not agree with, this is a violation of the 1st Amendment of the Constitution. Liberals always complain about wanting people to be able to make their own choices. A decision by the Supreme Court to end forced unionization of government employees, would be a victory for individual liberty and freedom.
Finally, I have met Rebecca Friedrichs and her husband. They are wonderful long serving teachers who love their profession. If you ever have the opportunity to hear her speak on this subject, you will find a person of passion on this issue and a fighter who is not afraid to stand up to the unions and their bullying tactics. I wish her, her co-plaintiff teacher friends and their legal team well.
Craig P. Alexander, Esq. is an attorney who practices law in the area of insurance coverage, construction defect, HOAs, business dispute and general civil litigation. His office is in Dana Point, California.
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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Abood v. Detroit Bd. Of Ed., California Teachers Association, CTA, Former State Senator Gloria Romero, government employee unions, Harris v. Quinn, Orange County Register, Rebessa Friedrichs, State of California, United States Supreme Court | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Walter Myers III on June 15, 2014
A beautiful thing happened this past week. It was not Barack Obama’s visit to Laguna Beach where, as usual, he was whisked into a private gated community at taxpayer expense where the public had no access to him, where he held a $32,000 a plate fundraiser that only the super-rich could attend. These happen to be the same super-rich that he calls “fat cats” for not paying their “fair share” of taxes while telling the rest of us who have no access to him that he is fighting against them for us. Sure thing, Mr. President. We’re just that gullible and stupid to believe people like you who say one thing and do another while you enrich yourself and those who have sold their souls to jump into bed with big government. I believe it is called crony capitalism. Anyway, this article is not about the injustices of the lawless Obama administration foisted on an American populous that should have known better than to have voted him into office the first time, let alone a second. It is about the astounding legal victory handed to California students and parents, striking down the state tenure and seniority system as unconstitutional that has consigned poor and minority students to less than a quality education.
Those children of California who have been least able to defend themselves due to circumstance of birth have, in effect, been subjected to racist policies driven by the stunning hutzpah, avarice, and greed displayed by the California teachers unions, all the while supported by Democrats in the state legislature who were more than happy to take union campaign contributions and look the other way while California’s children were failing to be educated. The teachers unions continue to defend bad laws and are promising to appeal the ruling handed down by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf M. Treu, who judged that five statutes of the California Education Code are unconstitutional since they violate the fundamental right of all students to receive a quality education. Notably, and truthfully, Judge Treu compared the Vergara v California case to the landmark Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court case that ordered desegregation 60 years ago in 1954, which ended “separate but equal” educational facilities that everyone knew to be inherently unequal. The Vergara case is based on nine public school students’ claims (the plaintiffs) that “grossly ineffective teachers obtaining and retaining permanent employment… are disproportionately situated in schools serving predominantly low-income and minority students.” The case they made couldn’t be more clear, as the judge noted.
While my view is that the state laws did not have the original intent to be racist, that was their effect. And that has been their effect for a very long time with the full knowledge of both the teachers unions and the Democrat-controlled legislature in Sacramento that is beholden to the California Teachers Association $300 million war chest. Just as Barack Obama has an insatiable desire for the $32,000 a plate breakfast fundraisers populated by coastal gentry liberals and billionaire tech oligarchs, the Democrat Party of California has an insatiable desire for teachers union money since it is easy and plentiful. If a poor education for children other than their own is the consequence, then that’s a small price to pay to stay in office. When these children reach adulthood and enter the workforce unequipped, then they will become easy pickings for government handouts, and thus lifelong Democrat voters to keep the Democrat majority in power. And you know who is going to be asked to foot the bill. It’s just too easy when you don’t care that lives are destroyed in the process when they have barely just begun. The good news is that the parents and their brave nine children who took action over this grave injustice have emerged victorious as have all other parents and their children in California, at least for now. Let’s only hope that governor Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala Harris will come to their senses and cease upholding what are clearly bad laws. Let’s end this injustice now with no more appeals.
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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: Brown v Board of Education, California Teachers Association, Vergara vs. the State of California | 3 Comments »
Posted by Mark Bucher on June 11, 2014
The California Teachers Association is the most powerful special interest in California. They often run ads touting how much they care about education and our students, while at the same time steadfastly defending laws that make it virtually impossible to fire grossly ineffective teachers who can have a devastating impact on the education of students. Yesterday a judge in Los Angeles exposed this hypocrisy by ruling that CTA-backed laws protecting ineffective teachers are illegal because they deprive our children of a quality education.
The judge found:
“Evidence has been elicited in this trial of the specific effect of grossly ineffective teachers on students. The evidence is compelling. Indeed, it shocks the conscience…There is also no dispute that there are a significant number of ineffective teachers currently active in California classrooms…The number of grossly ineffective teachers has a direct, real, appreciable, and negative impact on a significant number of California students, now and well into the future for as long as said teachers hold their positions.”
“This Court…finds that based on…the evidence presented at trial, Plaintiffs have proven, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the challenged statutes impose a real and appreciable impact on students’ fundamental right to equality of education and that they impose a disproportionate burden on poor and minority students.”
The CTA and their allies set up this system, profit by it, and will fight to keep it this way. But this landmark court case, Vergara vs. the State of California, has been a long time coming. The interests of students are finally being heard.
Vergara claimed that three current statutes violate the civil right to equal education. The first challenge regarded tenure, which requires an administrator’s decision after only 16 months, which the plaintiffs argued is far too short a period of time in which to identify an ineffective teacher. The second concerned dismissal practices, which are costly and time consuming, making it impractical to fire a teacher. The third challenge was to the “last-in, first-out” layoff rules, which force school districts to fire top teachers and retain ineffective ones.
This ruling, which will be appealed by the CTA (of course – why would they put the education of students before the interests of grossly ineffective teachers), is far reaching.
In a mesmerizing 56 minute closing argument, plaintiff attorney Marcellus McRae dissected the objections of the defense. As he repeatedly cited, it was the witnesses for the defense who, withering under cross-examination, provided some of the most compelling testimony. Again and again they admitted that yes, it is impossible to evaluate a teacher for tenure in only 16 months, yes, it is for all practical purposes impossible to fire ineffective teachers, and yes, LIFO layoff rules cause districts to lose some of their finest teachers, while retaining many who are ineffective.
McRae’s argument concerning the disproportionate harm these rules cause low-income and minority communities was impossible to refute. Good teachers accept new job offers and migrate to better schools while poor teachers take advantage of their tenure to remain in place. Vacancies are then filled by poor teachers getting transferred out of good schools because they can’t be dismissed. The few good new teachers who are attracted to poor schools are lost whenever there’s a layoff.
The judge agreed.
In their official response the CTA made this accusation, “Students Matter is supported by Michelle Rhee and Students First, Parent Revolution Executive Director Ben Austin, Billionaire and school privatizer Eli Broad, former lawmaker Gloria Romero, and other corporate education reformers with an interest in privatizing public education and attacking teachers’ unions.” But their logic doesn’t hold up.
If anything, the abolition of current laws that protect ineffective public school teachers will not further the agenda of private education special interests, but rather help to rescue public education. A Machiavellian strategy to push private educational solutions would be to allow the public school system to fail completely. If proponents of private education and charter schools are supporting Vergara, it’s because it’s the right thing to do for California’s students.
The coalition that opposed the Vergara plaintiffs was obvious – the public employee unions representing teachers. Apart from sharing a conviction that California’s students deserve better, the group supporting Vergara defies simple characterization. That they have coalesced on this issue, and are likely destined to fundamentally improve the rules governing California’s public schools, should be cause for great hope to anyone who wants to reform California’s public institutions. All of them.
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Mark Bucher is the president of the California Policy Center
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Posted in California | Tagged: Ben Austin, California Teachers Association, Eli Broad, Gloria Romero, Marcellus McRae, Michelle Rhee, Vergara vs. the State of California | 2 Comments »
Posted by Former Blogger Chris Emami on June 5, 2014
Chris Nguyen posted a humongous grid of endorsements that broke down all the major organizations and what candidates they endorsed for non-partisan offices in Orange County. You can take a look at his humongous grid of endorsements here. As a follow-up I have done the math on how the endorsed candidates fared in the Tuesday election and have given credit to an organization for endorsing a candidate that either won outright or advanced to the November election.
Here is a guide to the abbreviations: OC GOP = Republican Party of Orange County, DPOC = Democratic Party of Orange County, CRA = California Republican Assembly, HJTA = Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, CWLA = California Women’s Leadership Association, OC Tax = Orange County Taxpayers Association, OCBC = Orange County Business Council, and CTA = California Teachers Association.
Anybody that got 75% and higher can be considered an organization with a valuable endorsement but the big winners from this election cycle were the California Women’s Leadership Association (Orange County Chapter) and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association both of which managed to endorse no losers.
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Posted in 2nd Supervisorial District, 4th Supervisorial District, 5th Supervisorial District, Anaheim, Buena Park School District, Democrat Central Committee, Irvine Unified School District, Orange County, Orange County Assessor, Orange County Auditor-Controller, Orange County Board of Education, Orange County Clerk-Recorder, Orange County Public Administrator, Orange County Treasurer-Tax Collector, Republican Central Committee | Tagged: Al Mijares, Allan Mansoor, Atlas PAC, Bob Vu, California Republican Assembly, California Teachers Association, California Women's Leadership Association, Carmen Luege, Carolyn Inmon, Claude Parrish, David Boyd, Democratic Party of Orange County, Derek Johnson, Elizabeth Parker, Eric Woolery, Evolve, Family Action PAC, Frank Davies, Frank Ury, Fred Fascenelli, Gary Pritchard, Greg Diamond, Helen Hayden, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, hugh nguyen, Ira Glasky, James Benuzzi, Jeff Ferguson, Jim Moreno, Joanne Motoike, Joe Carchio, Joe Williams, John Willard, Jorge Lopez, KC Jones, Kevin Haskins, Lincoln Club, Linda Lindholm, Lisa Bartlett, Measure A, Measure B, Measure C, Measure D, Measure E, Michelle Steel, Mike Dalati, Monica Maddox, Orange County Business Council, Orange County Labor Federation, Orange County Register, Orange County Taxpayers Association, Planned Parenthood, Republican Party of Orange County, Robert Ming, Rudy Gaona, Sandra Hutchens, Shari Freidenrich, Shawn Nelson, Steve Rocco, Thomas Martin, Tom Pollitt, Tony Rackauckas, Wayne Philips, Webster Guillory, Women in Leadership | 2 Comments »
Posted by Chris Nguyen on May 30, 2014
One of our most popular posts from the November 2012 General Election was “Humongous Grid of Endorsements,” so we’re back this election with the Giant Grid of Endorsements for the June 2014 Primary Election.
I did abbreviate for some groups, so OC GOP = Republican Party of Orange County, DPOC = Democratic Party of Orange County, CRA = California Republican Assembly, HJTA = Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, CWLA = California Women’s Leadership Association, OC Tax = Orange County Taxpayers Association, OCBC = Orange County Business Council, and CTA = California Teachers Association.
If you’re particularly interested in a group, click their name to view their endorsements on their web site. You can learn more about the group there, such as HJTA being the state’s leading taxpayer advocate group or Women in Leadership being a single-issue group with the sole goal of electing “pro-choice women candidates to local, regional and state-wide office who support keeping abortion legal.” (In light of their mission, does anyone else find it odd that Women in Leadership’s two endorsements on this grid are both for school board?)
Candidates in each race are listed in alphabetical order by last name, except incumbents got listed first in their respective races. Party affiliations are listed except for judicial candidates Thomas Martin and Wayne Philips, as I could not tell their affiliation from the voter database (common names combined with obscure judicial races make figuring out their affiliations challenging).
Whether you love a group and want to vote with their endorsements or hate a group and want to vote against their endorsements, here are the endorsements for county offices and school board, along with local ballot measures:
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OC Register |
Lincoln Club |
Atlas PAC |
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Family Action PAC |
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| Jorge Lopez (D) |
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| Claude Parrish (R) |
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| Auditor-Controller |
| James Benuzzi (D) |
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| Mike Dalati (D) |
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| Frank Davies (R) |
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| John Willard (NPP) |
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| Eric Woolery (R) |
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| Clerk-Recorder |
| Hugh Nguyen (R – incumbent) |
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| Monica Maddox (R) |
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| Gary Pritchard (D) |
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| Steve Rocco (NPP) |
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| District Attorney-Public Administrator |
| Tony Rackauckas (R – incumbent) |
X |
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| Greg Diamond (D) |
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| Sheriff-Coroner |
| Sandra Hutchens (R – incumbent) |
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| Superintendent of Schools |
| Al Mijares (R – incumbent) |
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| Treasurer-Tax Collector |
| Shari Freidenrich (R – incumbent) |
X |
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X |
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| Judge, Office #14 |
| Fred Fascenelli (R) |
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| Kevin Haskins (R) |
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| KC Jones (R) |
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| Thomas Martin |
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| Judge, Office #20 |
| Derek Johnson (D – incumbent) |
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| Helen Hayden (R) |
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| Judge, Office #27 |
| Joanne Motoike (D – incumbent) |
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| Wayne Philips |
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| Judge, Office #35 |
| Jeff Ferguson (R) |
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| Carmen Luege (R) |
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| County Board of Education, Trustee Area 2 |
| David Boyd (R – incumbent) |
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X |
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X |
| Tom Pollitt (R) |
X |
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X |
X |
X |
X |
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| County Board of Education, Trustee Area 5 |
| Elizabeth Parker (R – incumbent) |
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X |
X |
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X |
X |
| Linda Lindholm (R) |
X |
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X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| Irvine Unified School District (Special Election for Six-Month Term) |
| Ira Glasky (R – incumbent) |
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X |
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X |
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| Carolyn Inmon (D) |
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| Bob Vu (R) |
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| Measure A (Orange County) |
| Yes |
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X |
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X |
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| No |
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| Measure B (Buena Park School District) |
| Yes |
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| No |
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| Measure C (Anaheim) |
| Yes |
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| No |
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| Measure D (Anaheim) |
| Yes |
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| No |
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| Measure E (Anaheim) |
| Yes |
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X |
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| No |
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*The Democratic Party of Orange County did not endorse David Boyd or Elizabeth Parker, instead the DPOC issued anti-endorsements against Tom Pollitt and Linda Lindholm.
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