Dave Min’s Entirely Partisan Proposal to Interfere with OC Board of Education Elections – Orange County Register
State Senator Dave Min of Irvine considers himself key to pushing the “election reform” bill (Senate Bill 286) under a ruse to get Orange County voters to participate more. What Min claims, however, is actually a double word from Orwellian from Sacramento, especially when he says the measure “will bring Orange County in line with the rest of the state.” Consider the unwritten and fundamental motives of the SB 286 that Min is promoting.
Min works collaboratively and at the request of Sacramento lobbyists and California Teachers Association (CTA) union bosses. He is a partisan legislator who has misled voters who have voted in the primary cycle for the past fifty years, the leadership of the Orange County Department of Education (OCDE), i.e. members of the Orange County Department of Education. County Councilmember and Director of Education.
If approved by the legislature and signed by the governor, SB 286 would change the election cycle of Orange County Board of Education members to the November general election, leaving the County Superintendent of Education elections in place. Orange in the June primaries. This fundamental change in voting for OCDE leadership positions creates the exact problem Min says he wants to correct, i.e., more confusion and greater disenfranchisement.
The bill was so clearly partisan that Senator Tom Umberg removed his name from his role as co-author because of his terrible political views. Min is deceiving you – the very voters who have elected county board members and district Superintendent of Education during the last half-century of primary election cycles. Because the CTA was unsuccessful in convincing Orange County voters to vote for their candidates, they are now looking to change the election rules to try to help their chosen associates. .
SB 286 has nothing to do with reforming any electoral rules. Instead, it is a ruse to change the political philosophy and governance philosophy of the current reform-minded district board of education, which has: 1) many public schools approved in the past four years than any other county, 2) expanded parental choice and rights, 3) revealed state curricula that eroded our children’s innocence, and 4) made Critically shed light on recent state ethnic studies program, advancing critical racial theory and left-wing ideology in our K-12 classrooms. Min undermined the people of Orange County because he and the CTA simply wanted to control the administrative and decision-making positions of the Orange County Board of Education.
Working in partnership with the CTA and union bosses, Min wanted to include in the state’s 5-inch Education Code, unique and specific language that impacts only one of the 58 counties in California, i.e. the Commission. Orange County Education. President of the Association of County Boards of California, Joe Ross, hit back at the partisan bill by stating, “it is folly to call a single district in the Education Code. It’s dirty play dressed up as a virtue. Min’s actions were truly “crazy” and reflected the shameless partisan cooperation with CTA union bosses to undermine the reform-minded Orange County Board of Education and support. parent household.
Why should state legislators in Sacramento decide when Orange County elects their board of education? The people and leaders of Orange County should decide when to hold elections to the Orange County Board of Education. State legislators from northern California should not mandate meaningless electoral changes.
The message we need to send to Senator Min and the California Legislature is “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.”
Ken Williams and Lisa Sparks are members of the Orange County Board of Education.
https://www.ocregister.com/2022/01/18/dave-mins-purely-partisan-proposal-to-meddle-with-oc-board-of-education-elections/ Dave Min’s Entirely Partisan Proposal to Interfere with OC Board of Education Elections – Orange County Register