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April 22, 2015 04:02 PM UTC
31 Comments
Targeting and executing sound so martial. Someone sounds like he wants a raise, and like someone who has very carefully targeted his audience of faux addicted junkies.
This ought to make the next board meeting interesting. I might even have to go.
Safe to say that Caldara didn’t just decide to do this all by himself for lack of having anything better to do. “Follow da’ money,” please! Who’s shoveling money upon the II for this week’s latest dirty work?? That’s as much the story here, as Caldara’s screed!
Pull the images if you care about the redactions.
You should always use totally opaque materials, like black electrical tape. With a few minutes in a decent editor, I can tell you the recipient.
The images are as forwarded to us–but we did just edit the first page to black out the recipient completely. Thanks.
The image is still accessible at its URL, Pols
Nuked it, thanks.
I’m shocked I tell you. Just shocked.
Isn’t Jon Caldara the brother of ALEC Caldara?
Dang, he really let the cat out of the bag this time. Way to go, Jon!
Well….he didn’t just target conservatives or members with this mailer.
I received one too, and I don’t qualify as either. Also, I was a teachers’ union member.
I’m not in Jeffco. But I am glad to see he wasted about $1.00 in postage to me.
But when Progressnow sends out an email attacking Julie Williams for things she didn’t even say and has already apologized for — that’s okay??
More double standards from Colorado Pols. How typical.
“. . . things she didn’t even say and has already apologized for –“
Huh? Why would she – or anyone – apologize for something they didn’t do?
Look who’s back. First, I don’t recall anything about Julie Williams claiming she didn’t say whatever it is you think she didn’t say but apologized for. It was about something she claimed to have shared on her page for parents’ information even though she said she hadn’t read it, begging the question of what gave her the idea that it contained any information, much less information that would be useful to parents. Second, Nobody’s attacking Caldera for sending out email. Just educating the public about what’s in it with some background and context. So your comment makes no sense. Let me help. What you probably meant to say was…. why do you libs hate freedom? Benghazi!
Yep, this one’s a doozie. (I wonder how they managed to find an even dumber fuck to give their Moderatus account passwords to?)
That seems like a barrel that has no bottom…you would think that someday they would get to a “dumbest fuck” and give that one a title ..or scepter…or gun…whatever. But they just keep on turning out trolls with ever more stupid running out their ears…
I reckon they must be having a contest or something….
It’s dumb fucks all the way down.
Ummm, looks like Jon is trolling for money. Is it true he’ll say anything to get people to give money to join Independence Institute? Who bankrolls this organization? This type of attack is all about getting political power and money. What has changed about teachers’ unions in the past few years that the attacks have ramped up and gotten so vitriolic? What the heck is he talking about with teachers pushing agendas? Perhaps we can move public education in Colorado to a Madrasa format – memorize and regurgitate. From what I can see he and the Independence Institute are all about agendas. My progeny all went to public school and they are just fine in their ability to be critical thinkers. Perhaps Mr Caldera and his followers are afraid their children won’t be so able.
He gets it from here…it is part of the “Koch Doctrine”:
hat tip to Zap…
You see.. the point of school is not to teach critical thinking (that creates those damned unruly Liberals)…it is to indoctrinate and train (religious schools are best at this..)
They are John Birchers, all dressed up and grinning ear to ear. Elitism oozes from their pores. They are so weird, I would not be surprised to find they’re also scientologists. I’m not implying that they are, just that they present as so self absorbed and actually not fully socialized.
Government schools, indeed! They just don’t want to pay for an educated public. We have public schools because private schools couldn’t fill the need to teach so many children. But who wants an educated public anyway? Authoritarian plutocrats certainly don’t. They don’t seem to undertand how societies and modern economies work, so they could destroy the goose to corner the market on golden eggs. And the payout on that is a big “oops!”
No compulsory education means an illiterate peasant class pool of cheap, helpless, ignorant labor and a small middle with enough money to educate themselves sufficiently to serve the professional needs of the elite. Could they possibly be more blatant in where they’d like to see society going? Of course, in their back to the future Gilded Age, with more and more automation and less and less use for much cheap human labor, the final destination they envision might be less Gilded Age and more Soylent Green Age.
Lower labor costs is exactly the end goal … In the short run, it is also control of one of the largest school budgets in the country – the Board has made it clear their aim in accessing that money as much as they can to fill the pockets of those supporting their cause. It is a reasonably smart strategy that must be stopped.
Caldara and his pals are Fascists in Libertarian clothing…..albeit with Smiley Faces.
They would be OK with us going “full Lib” now — and who would that leave in charge right after the Koch Brothers and all their market-manipulating, Cash-is-King cash?
I don’t even know what to say. This is bullshit. Finally someone stupid enough on the WNW side of things to tell the truth about their agenda.
This is nothing more than blind union-hate and a political power grab for students’ minds.
Clearly the students staged a collective action in protesting last year. If that isn’t “the union”, then what is? This is the same as those annoying class action lawsuits, where many people get together to gang up on a single, overworked and underpaid CEO to hurt his company.
What ever happened to rugged individualism and FREEDOM?
Benghazi…
ALEC funded the Douglas County Board takeover, is probably funding the conservative board members as well. I’ll look into it.
I don't follow what happens in the Douglas County Board (since I don't live there) but are they as screwed up as the Jeffco School Board?
Among others, this part made me slap my forehead:
So, “leftist” teachings or not, you’re fully admitting that what’s been going on in the past decades, for the most part IS WORKING, those teachings are responsible for it. So, like any loyal right-wing nutjob, you want to throw a stick in the gears to make sure that success and prosperity comes to a screeching halt. Idiot!
Our poor kids.
All that lefty stuff seems to be working a whole lot better than all the rightie stuff in Kansas and where’s a scrap of evidence the that we’re less free here than they are? We have a better economy and we can actually keep our public schools open. Oh wait. That must be the “freedom” agenda. Setting all those kids free from school and plenty of their parents free from jobs while slashing the safety net. That must be the kind of “freedom” Caldara has in mind.
Well put, ma’am.
I am so totally stealing this , BC. I think you are on to something. “The Freedom Agenda”…
I like it..
Freedom from rational thought…Freedom from social responsibility…Freedom from tolerance…
The list is endless…