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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Union LOVE vs Tea Party VIOLENCE


Union Love vs Tea Party Violence

Here are video and still documentation of the difference between Unions events and Tea Party events

WARNING, SOME OF THE TEA PARTY VICIOUS VIDEOS ARE VICIOUS - NOT FOR SMALL CHILDREN

UNION RALLY LOVE



Notice in the Union video above how clean the grounds are around their feet.  Everyone is being very careful to be sure not to leave trash lying around on the ground because someone might get hurt....................accidentally?

People getting to know each other, lots of idle chit-chat going on...



This Union rally at the Wisconsin Capitol was kept very clean because  the union members knew that a lot of cheese is made in Wisconsin, so every effort was made to keep all cheese as clean as possible.










At this union rally, the members had gotten a little tired from a long prayer vigil, so everyone went home after the ambulances left, to get some rest so they could get up early the next morning to come down and tidy up a little.












Here is absolute proof of the nasty old Tea party mobs - the union members had put all their trash in garbage cans, and all of a sudden the Tea Party set their dogs on the Union members, and the dogs, when they weren't biting, started pulling union trash out of the garbage cans.  You can see in the picture how the dogs frightened all the kids at the rally!



This was a joint rally where the Union members protested on the RIGHT side of the fence (they were all chuckling because they "were on the right", and The Tea Party mob was on the left side of the fence, screaming out racist insults.














The union members are such health nuts!  Someone suggested they do calisthenics while waiting for the next speaker.


Notice the clean grounds around their feet, and I think it must have been a cool morning, because looks like someone dropped their gloves as they were lending them to another lady who didn't have any gloves....oops, looks like the lady left already?







Here three union members are helping a comrade get on his scooter because he had to leave the rally early.  Notice the other union members in the background are busy picking up the trash while they are waiting with nothing to do.






 A police officer rushes to help a union member having an epileptic episode, who bumps into the back of a fellow union brother, who is pushed forward, while the third union brother tries to catch him before he falls to the ground and hurts himself.


You can just SMELL the love at these union rallys!

 






Here, a Sheet Metal Union Workers Local No. 104, who works part time in the evenings as a chiropractor gives an "adjustment" to another brother who got a kink in his neck.








Careful with the children on this one!  An evil, racist Tea Party member has created an obscene rap song for a video he is trying to get on Cartoon Network!
TEA PARTY RALLY VIOLENCE


As he gyrates back and forth singing the hideous rap song, you can see the trash and filth all over the ground as the camera follows his racist dance.



Here is a Tea Party trans-gendered member.  He/she has horrible, slimy Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) slogans written all over the back of the innocent looking sign he/she "appears" to be holding.


Look carefully and you will see that there is a small innocent child who had been dragged to the mob rally, and the child appears to me "mesmerized" by the obscene nature of the back of the sign.


Right before I took this picture, the rest of the mob was kicking all the trash and filth out of the picture frame, so it would not appear here in this picture - believe me it was horrible!


This picture just speaks for itself - one of the Tea Party flash mobsters brandishing a black (racist) sign, threatening the transparent laws, past in the open (although late at nite because its cooler then when one has to carry 2000+ pages) by our President!

Notice her "sista", name calling and defaming progressives EVERYWHERE!  And as usual the filthy trash everywhere...it's actually kinda "behind" them.






Again the filthy trash - I can almost smell it from here!  I had to throw away all the clothes I was wearing at this rally!





Here the Tea Party only had 7 people show up for this rally, but the same forger who forged President Obama's Hawaiian Record of Live Birth, also PHOTO-SHOPPED this picture, duplicating the 7 people 143,857.1429 times.  If you look carefully it is obvious that most of them are wearing the same 7 caps!

Also notice the forged layer hides all the filthy trash the 7 left on the street!  I think the Tea Party had to pay a little extra for that?




Here two drunken midgets, who got to the Tea Party mob event late, because they had been out all night for a "midget tossing" contest at one of the local bars.








This Tea Party reveler obviously rented these two kids at the local Rent-A-Kid Center - they look nothing like him!  Notice both are MUCH shorter!

Notice the other mob member sitting next to the female Rent-A-Kid - the "both hands clasped on the right knee" is the International LGBT sign indicating "I am available - TO ANYONE".




HEY LOOK!  Here are Tea Party mob members cleaning up after their..... no, wait, this is some Tea Party members who volunteered to clean up the UNION side of the "Joint" Rally at Boston on February 22, 2011............ Never mind, I will delete this picture later!





Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Obama's Communist Party USA (CPUSA) Support



Obama’s Communist Connection!

Read the below post containing the writings of Jarvis Tyner, the executive vice chair of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).  The reason he supports every word out of Obama’s mouth is because OBAMA’S AGENDA FULLY SUPPORTS THE GOALS OF THE CPUSA!  Obama often uses the Communist tactic of “altering history” to advance their agendas.
 Do we really want to re-elect the man who has the public support of EVERY EXISTING enemy of the United States:  Socialist Party USA, Communist Party USA, Hamas, federal Labor Unions, Al Jazera, Hugo Chavez, illegal aliens, North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), various foreign governments (Venezuela, Mexico, North Korea, etc.), abortion groups, Muslims, and on, and on, and on?

When President Obama met with Hugo Chavez the dictator of Venezuela, Hugo presented him with a book, an anti-American rant titled "The Open Veins of Latin America," published in 1971 by Uruguayan Eduardo Galeano.  Obama seems pleased to accept the book from the dictator in the picture below?

Obama’s mentor and friend William Ayers, the terrorist founder of the Weather Underground in the 1960s is also a Communist.  Ayers wrote a Weather Underground “training manual” titled PRAIRIE FIRE, written and published in 1974.  The following quotes are taken from Prairie Fire:  “We are a guerrilla organization.  We are communist women and men, underground in the United States for more than four years.  We need a revolutionary communist party in order to lead the struggle, give coherence and direction to the fight, seize power and build the new society.”



During candidate Obama’s campaign in 2008, concerning Barack Obama's past associations with William Ayers, many media reports and articles blandly described Ayers as a "Vietnam-era radical" and the Weather Underground as a group that set bombs "to protest against the Vietnam War."  Both of these characterizations are demonstrably inaccurate.


Obama and his supporters at first claimed he barely knew who Ayers was, but when public awareness of the connections between Obama and Ayers became too numerous and too strong to deny, they resorted to “downplaying” the relationship.  This is the Obama/Communist tactic of “altering history” to advance their agenda mentioned above!  Ayers was a violent, communist domestic terrorist revolutionary in his younger years, and is NOW a communist, academic, still bent on overthrowing the US Government, seizing power in the United States, and promoting his “world view” worldwide!  Speaking before Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Ayers said, "Teaching invites transformations, it urges revolutions small and large.  La educacion es revolucion!" 
 





So Obama hardly knows William Ayers?  They may have known each other since  AS FAR BACK AS 1981.  Ayers mentions Obama by name, as a “close neighbor” in a BOOK AYERS WROTE IN 1997.  They served together for four years on a SCOOL REFORM PROJECT called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC).  Obama’s political state senatorial “coming out party” was held in the living room at the home of William Ayers and wife Bernardine Dohrn in 1995.





SO OBAMA HARDLY KNOWS BILL AYERS???  Watch this GREAT CNN VIDEO exposing Obama's LIES!
WHATS WRONG?  WHATS WRONG?  Whats wrong Ms. Dunn, senior Obama adviser, is that you try to change the topic of our patriotic concern when you claim we have some concern about Obama participating in communist, domestic terrorist bombers, Ayers/Doern bombings when Obama was only 7 years old!  You are switching to give us an answer to a question that NO ONE has asked!  We know (or at least feel pretty sure), that the 7 year old Obama didn't help prepare any of the Weather Underground bombs!  Although we are VERY concerned with the questions you attempted to misdirect us away from - LIKE WHY THE ADULT OBAMA PUBLICALLY LIED ABOUT HIS EXTREMELY CLOSE PERSONAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, FINANCIAL, AND POLITICAL RELATIONSHIP WITH DOMESTIC TERRORIST BOMBERS AYERS/DOERN,  and like why YOU, Ms. Dunn, senior Obama adviser, LIED about state congresswoman Alice Palmer setting up the political coming-out event for Obama at the Ayers' home, when SHE says she didn't, and like why the "charitable" Chicago Annenberg Challenge Foundation created by Ayers, and chaired by Obama BEFORE he and his wife Michelle had "voluntarily" surrendered both their attorney's licenses to the Chicago Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, paid millions to "Ayers' supported experiments, "satellite", "external partners", radical community organizer type organizations,  instead of, TO SCHOOLS, and Ayers/Obama worked on funding several other organizations "charitable" organizations like Obama's and Rev. Wright's church, the Trinity United Church of "God damn America" infamy, and also funded a  Children's and Family Justice Center where Ayers' wife Bernadine Doern worked.  Obama's and Ayers' "funding jobs" were recognized and honored by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley before he lost his 16 year job as mayor for "FUNDING CORRUPTION" as reported in the ultra-liberal New York Times!  By that time, then President Obama paid back the favor by publically honoring the "wonderful" job Richard Daley had done as mayor!  The struggle to fill the Chicago Mayor's vacated position was won by Obama ex-Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, whom Obama had immediately replaced with William Daley, who is yes, ex-Mayor Richard Daley's brother.  Jesse Jackson also wanted the Chicago Mayor position, but I guess was not close enough to Obama to get Obama's recommendation?  Looks like a lot of paybacks for things known...and unknown?  I bet that's a lot more in the video above than you thought, huh?  Seems to be a lot of dishonesty floating around the Obama administration?

EVERY word from the mouth of comrade Tyner, is exactly as it comes from the mouth of Obama and his administration, with the singular exception that Tyner admits that his fellow communists also correctly criticize Obama’s failure with JOB CREATION (last several paragraphs of this post).  He says that is OK, because the Dangers from the GOP is much greater than the job problem!


In candidate Obama’s campaign year (2008), Tyner campaigned for Obama, traveling for him across the whole country and back again.



But Jarvis Tyner reveals something even MORE important in his praise for Obama.  He reveals that HIS LOVE OF OBAMA IS ONLY EXCEEDED BY HIS HATRED OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY – TRANSLATE “HATRED” AS “FEAR” exactly the same way the Democrats attack the MOST shamefully, the Republicans that they FEAR most!
 

HE REVEALS THAT COMMUNISTS LOVE OBAMA, BUT HATE REPUBLICANS MORE!

Communist Leader: The Republicans Must be Defeated!
Posted by TREVOR LOUDONTrevor,  August 26, 2011 – on NEW ZEAL


In 2008, COMMUNIST PARTY USA (CPUSA) executive vice chair JARVIS TYNER criss-crossed the United States drumming up support for his PARTY’S “FRIEND” BARACKOBAMA.


In 2011, three years after Obama’s election, Comrade Tyner still loves Obama, but perhaps even more than he loves Obama, he hates the Republicans.  Boy does he hate the Republicans!  Tyner makes it clear how he regards the GOP when he writes of CPUSA picking their next “fuehrer”, speaking of Obama.



Jarvis Tyner writes in the latest communist party’s PEOPLE'S WORLD:
“After watching the recent Republican presidential debate in Iowa, I am sure millions have been convinced more than ever that the Republicans must be defeated in 2012.
This motley crew of right-wing fanatics is not in favor of giving any concessions to the working class, the poor or the victims of systemic racism.  They have no regard for historic levels of poverty, unemployment, home foreclosures, hunger and homelessness that people of color suffer.  They don’t care about the youth and children who attend run-down, understaffed and underfunded public schools every day.
The fact that tens of millions of youth who should be going to college or starting their first real job but instead face the prospect of years, decades, perhaps even a lifetime of joblessness, underemployment, federal indebtedness,  and incarceration is a non-issue to them.



They didn’t get the memo on global warming and the health care crisis.  The Iowa debate convened the real “death panel,” because if the GOP policies prevail a whole lot of people won’t survive.


In their debate, the war hawks pushed for more war, more squandering of blood and treasure while claiming to support the troops.



With the addition of Rick Perry, the political debate among the Republican contenders has moved even further to the right.  The process of picking the next Republican “fuehrer” shows a party whose time has long past.  The GOP candidates oppose the concept of people before profits.  As Mitt Romney put it last week, “corporations are people.”  Their uncompromising priority is protecting the wealth and privileges of the super rich, which means they are uncompromisingly against the general welfare of the people, particularly multiracial working majority.

They say they’re opposed to big government, but that is a cover up.  By opposing raising taxes on the super rich and cutting the military budget and subsidies to big oil, they oppose jobs for the unemployed, rebuilding the collapsing infrastructure, ending the foreclosure crisis.  Theirs is not a noble cause.


The very premise of their policies is a fallacy.  If the dominant policies of the current Republican contenders prevail, our nation will be driven into a far deeper crisis economically, socially and politically.
 
The truth is that the crisis will not be overcome without increasing the wellbeing and buying power of working people.  And that is what they are fighting tooth and nail.  The racial dynamic of their policies are something that should alarm all democratic minded people.
It is no accident that the tea party’s largest base is among southern whites, who according to a recent Notre Dame study, continue to be highly influenced by the ideology of racism.

They considered black people inferior before Obama, and they continue to be motivated to defeat Obama because he is African American.



The driving force for progressive activism in the coming 2012 election is not how serious one can criticize Obama’s concessions to the right but the grave historic danger from the right. The Republicans must be defeated.  Having  just watched the movie The Help, and as the son of a mother and father who grew up in the Jim Crow South this writer is reminded of what is at stake.  If the Republican-Libertarian-tea party Axis thinks we are going back to the days of Jim Crow, they are mistaken.


The extreme right has done enormous damage to the national spirit of unity and hope. And it is true that Obama didn’t fight hard enough and succumbed to the enormous pressure from the right on too many occasions. However, the democratic forces have to take our country back from the fanatic right-wing minority.




One has to be impressed by the new militant spirit of fight back that is gaining momentum across the country. Grassroots folks from people’s and labor organizations are confronting tea party elected officials at their town hall meetings.

Labor is gearing up for the big fight for jobs and decent contracts. The immigrant rights movement is on the move.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus and Black Caucus are holding hearings on the issue of jobs creation through public works to repair our neglected infrastructure.


Taxing the rich has become a majority demand.  Tens of thousands are lining up at job fairs organized to get corporations to step up and hire the nemployed, veterans and youth.
 Peace forces are pushing to bring the troops home and transfer the money to create jobs and stop the massive number of foreclosures.  This is a crusade to put the people first.

Before the announcement of Hurricane Irene on Sunday, tens of thousands were planning to come to Washington to welcome the now postponed opening of the monument to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  What are they demanding?  Jobs.  Jobs.  Jobs!!

DESPITE THEIR CORRECT CRITICISM OF THE PRESIDENT, they understand that the main danger comes from the right.

If the GOP regains all three branches of the government, the crisis of human suffering can and will become far more severe.  The majority of the American people understand that the reelection of Obama is not an option. It is part of what is necessary to win this epic battle.”

Could comrade Tyner make it any clearer?

President Obama chooses CPUSA NATIONAL COMMITTEE member Mark Froemke! 

MARK FROEMKE, an important leader in the U.S. labor movement and a member of the National Committee of the Communist Party USA, actively campaigned for Obama’s 2008 campaign and has been chosen as the poster boy for Barack Obama's 2012 campaign.  Congratulations to Mark Froemke!

Nifty hat, by the way.

Sam Webb, National Chair, CPUSA
Posted by CPUSA National Board at KeyWIKI


The 2012 election is not about Democrats versus Republicans.  It is about almost certain socialist/Marxist/Communist tyranny versus the opportunity to restore liberty in America.

But make no mistake about it – IN NOVEMBER 2012, ANY VOTE CAST FOR A CANDIDATE OTHER THAN THE GOP CANDIDATE IS A VOTE CAST DIRECTLY FOR OBAMA.  THE DEMS HAVE SPLIT OUR VOTES WITH “RINGER” CANDIDATES BEFORE, AND ARE NOT ABOVE TRYING IT AGAIN.

IN THE GOP RUNUP, VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATE OF YOUR CHOICE, BUT IN THE GENERAL ELECTION, ANY VOTE FOR ANYONE OTHER THAN THE GOP CANDIDATE WILL BE A VOTE FOR OBAMA!  WE MUST BE SMARTER IN NOVEMBER 2012!

GOD BLESS AMERICA

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Medicare is For ALL of Us - NOT Just Seniors!

We must transform Medicare into a retirement program that is protected from Federal criminal misuse of the funds contributed by taxpayers!  This way it can protect EVERY  participant's investment - not just the current seniors who have suffered tragic federal mis-appropriation of their contributions.  It can then also protect the babies born this year when they become senior citizens and need the funds they will have contributed into a new, PROTECTED Medicare system.


President Obama is trying to destroy the Medicare system so the government will have their hands on the throats of all of us forced into ObamaCare, if he can prevent ObamaCare's demise.  For those of you who are on Medicare, read the article below. It is about the monthly amount of money you are going to pay in Medicare premiums in 2011, 2012 and the huge increase you will pay in 2013. It's a short but very important article: 


Congress will not allow an increase in the social security COLA (cost of living adjustment); however, the per person monthly Medicare insurance premiums are being increased as follows:

2009 premium of $96.40
2012 premium of $104.20
2013 premium of $120.20
And increases to a whopping $247.00 in 2014!
Thank You Obamacare!

Congress also gave themselves a $3,000 a month Cost of Living Adjustment!

Obama must be defeated in 2012 in order to have a chance to repeal ObamaCare.  If that doesn't happen, the only chance to stop ObamaCare will be to use Nullification on the State level, or get a federal waiver.  Government officials, most Unions, Senator's  Pelosi's districts,  and Senator Reid's whole state!

Here is what Michelle Malkin had to say about most of these waivers going to Obama supporters who SUPPORTED the implementation of ObamaCare:


"Hear that? It's the escalating cry of American employers and workers trying to hold on to their health care benefits in the age of stifling Obama health insurance mandates: Gangway! Gangway! Save me! Waive me!

Obamacare refugees first began beating down the exit doors in October 2010. As I've documented since last fall, waiver-mania started with McDonald's and Jack in the Box; spread to Dish Networks, hair salon chain Regis Corp and resort giant Universal Orlando; took hold among every major Big Labor organization from the AFL-CIO to the CWA to the SEIU; roped in the nationalized health care promoters at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (whose board of trustees includes health care czar Nancy Ann DeParle); and is now gripping entire states (Maine, New Hampshire and Nevada all recently got in on the act).

The latest to catch the waive? West Coast liberals.

Yes, smack dab in the middle of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi's congressional district, a cluster of San Francisco small businesses is among the latest recipients of get-out-of-Obamacare passes. As Jamie Dupree of Cox Media Group and Matthew Boyle of The Daily Caller pointed out this week, there are at least two dozen Bay Area companies -- including bars, restaurants, hotels, tourist shops, real estate and auto firms -- that have secured temporary, one-year reprieves from the federal law. It's the San Francisco Treat that voters didn't foresee until after the bill was rammed down their throats.

Another noteworthy waiver winner: Seattle-based REI. The trendy Pacific Northwest outdoor equipment retailer's progressive CEO and Democratic campaign donor, Sally Jewell, appeared with President Obama in 2009 to tout White House health care reform initiatives. Two years later, REI snagged a waiver to protect the health benefits of a whopping 1,180 workers from the very tentacles of the big government bureaucrats Jewell embraced at Obama's roundtable.

To date, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has granted federal health care law exemptions to more than three million American workers covered by more than 1,300 unions, companies and insurers who had voluntarily offered low-cost health plans with annual benefits limits. Meddling Obamacare architects outlawed those private plans -- nicknamed "mini med" plans -- in the name of "patients' rights." But without special waivers, the escapees would have been forced to hike premiums or drop insurance coverage altogether for mostly low-wage, seasonal and part-time workers.

Among the most recent union affiliates to secure pardons from the one-size-fits-all health policy that their bosses spent hundreds of millions of dollars of worker dues lobbying for:

- Teamsters Local 485 Health and Welfare Fund in Brooklyn, N.Y.

- Detroit and Vicinity Trowel Trades Health and Welfare Fund_

- Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1182 Security Benefits Fund_

- CWA Local 1183 Health and Welfare Fund

- Bakers Union and Food Employees Labor Relations Association Health and Welfare Fund

- Service Employees International Union Healthcare Illinois Home Care and Child Care Fund

- United Food and Commercial Workers San Diego Employers Health and Welfare Trust

- Welfare Fund of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 15, 15A, 15C, 15D AFL-CIO

- United Steelworkers Local 1-0318 Health and Welfare Trust Fund

- United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices Local 198 AFL-CIO Health and Welfare Trust

- Teamsters Local 617 Welfare Fund in Ridgefield, N.J.

- Teamsters Local 734 Welfare Fund in Chicago

- Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 60 Health and Welfare Fund

- New York State Nurses Welfare Plan for New York City Employed Registered Professional Nurses

The ultimate goal, it bears repeating, is to force a massive, revolutionary and irreversible shift from private to public insurance designed by government-knows-best bureaucrats.

Pelosi and the Golden Ticket Administrators in Washington deny preferential treatment for waiver beneficiaries. But the stench of waivers-for-favors won't be dispelled until and unless the Obama administration releases a full list not only of those who won exemptions, but also of those who applied and were denied.

With San Francisco businesses caught with their hands in the waiver jar, Pelosi's office could do nothing else but pout: "It is pathetic," said Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill, "that there are those who would be cheering for Americans to lose their minimum health coverage or see their premiums increase for political purposes."

It is far more pathetic to have cheered, as Pelosi did on the one-year anniversary of Obamacare, the law's onerous benefits limits from which thousands of her own constituents have now been exempted.

Once again, the rest of America wants to know: Dude, where's my waiver?"


Michelle Malkin is the author of "Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies" (Regnery 2010).


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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Union-osaurus








Tennessee loves their children more than they love their Unions!



To fix public schools, you have to control public schools.  And there’s little control when teachers unions, with their self-serving agendas, question every cost-cutting proposal and reform on the table.

That’s why so many state governments have taken swift action to limit the power of organized labor in public schools. Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Idaho and Michigan were the first, and Tennessee added itself to the list on Wednesday.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam affixed his signature on House Bill 130 and Senate Bill 113, ending collective bargaining and giving local school boards the full authority to operate their districts in the manner they choose.

That doesn’t mean the unions are shut out of the discussion. The new laws create a process called “collaborative conferencing,” where the school board, administrators and union officials will be forced to sit and discuss many of the normal issues, including salary, insurance, grievance procedures and working conditions.  If the two sides agree on any number of issues, they can sign binding “memorandums of understanding,” that will serve the same purpose as collective bargaining agreements. But any issues that are left unsettled will be the sole domain of the school board, with no appellate procedure available to the unions.

School boards will also have the option of not entering into any sort of agreement with the union. In that case they would have full authority to deal with all issues in an arbitrary manner.  Nobody elected the unions Tennessee lawmakers were careful to leave a few key items off the discussion table, including personnel and staffing decisions, how to use grant money, the evaluation process for employees and whether or not payroll deductions can be made for political purposes.  That means the end of the road for the treasured union concept of seniority, particularly when it’s applied at layoff time.

Basically, lawmakers allowed the unions to keep their bark, but wisely took away their bite. And if school boards get tired of the barking, they will be allowed to close the windows, pull the shutters and go about their business.

Democrats in the legislature, outnumbered in both chambers, have been fuming about the legislation.
“This bill does nothing except take away every part of professional negotiation, every single part,” House Minority Leader Craig Fitzhugh told knoxnews.com. “Don’t be fooled.”  Actually, we’re not fooled at all. And we kind of like the unique process created by collaborative conferencing.  There are certainly thousands of great teachers in Tennessee, and they’re the soldiers on the front lines. School boards would be stupid to ignore their input when making major decisions.

On the other hand, it was necessary to take away veto power from the teachers unions, due to their stubborn opposition to money-saving contract concessions and education reform efforts.  School boards are elected by the public to run public schools. Nobody elected the unions, so get your hands out of our pockets!

Come-on Texas, lets get with the program!