Sanchez, Art
'Progressive left' drives Capo Unified's agenda
April 23, 2010
Art Sanchez, The Orange County Register
On Friday, April 17, the
teachers' union in Capistrano Unified School District voted to go
on strike. You might think that this strike is mostly about wages
and work days, but you would be wrong. The 10 percent compensation
cut that the Capo school board has proposed is in line with what
the mutually-agreed mediator proposed and what employees have
experienced from private companies to state universities. Capo
faces a $34 million deficit next year unless cuts of this magnitude
are made. The strike is more importantly about political power and
influence in Orange County. What television host Bill O'Reilly
calls "the secular, progressive left" has long been frustrated
here, where voters are mostly conservatives and libertarians who
mostly cast Republican ballots...