Representative Bill Coleytook out a half page ad in the Pulse Journal during the October 28th, 2010 edition to proclaim that looking to Ohio for tax increases to fund education is not the solution to the funding problems at Lakota, and public education in general.
I personally like Bill. But I don’t think he understands what I and others with similar concerns are talking about regarding the statements that funding is the responsibility of the state under constitutional mandate. And his comment that the state is financially broke, and has no money to give to education exacerbates the situation further.
I, like many others, sent money to the state. If the State of Ohio spent that money on the wrong things, then education wasn’t very high on the priority list.
And the money they did use for education, they spent on districts not friendly to republicans. The way the funds were allocated show an attempt at bloc voting, using our tax dollars to buy democratic votes.
Why is that important? After all, education should be politically neutral. Well it’s not.
Bill Coley stated in his tremendous ad that he did not want to surrender decisions for Lakota School to outsiders. Yet, it is the teachers lobby that creates the unfunded mandates that come back to all districts. And it is the teachers union that takes the money they collect from members, and spends money on democratic candidates. That is a bit of a problem.
The purpose of this No Levy campaign is not to raise taxes to pay for education. It’s not to have state control. But it is to get the costs of education under control, and to get Ohio to properly fund school districts the way the constitution of Ohio dictates.
Notes: From the State Supreme Court case of March 24, 1997.
Section 2, Article VI of the Ohio Constitution requires the state to provide and fund a system of public education and includes an explicit directive to the General Assembly:
“The general assembly shall make such provisions, by taxation, or otherwise, as, with the income arising from the school trust fund, will secure a thorough and efficient system of common schools throughout the State.”
“We recognize that disparities between school districts will always exist. By our decision today, we are not stating that a new financing system must provide equal educational opportunities for all. In a Utopian society, this lofty goal would be realized. We, however appreciate the limitations imposed upon us. Nor do we advocate a “Robin Hood” approach to school financing reform. We are not suggesting that funds be diverted from wealthy districts and given to the less fortunate. There is not a “leveling down” component in our decision today.
Our state Constitution makes the state responsible for educating our youth. Thus, the state should not shirk its obligation by espousing clichés about “local control.”
The Supreme Court specifically addressed the Robin Hood scenario, and that is exactly what has been happening. And it is obvious that Mr. Coley and many others have aligned themselves with the many, many factions that have their hands in our collective cookie jars. And they want to encourage us all to just stay asleep while they continue to misappropriate our state taxes. And I will say that I expect those state taxes to decrease, not to increase while still funding education.
The strategy used by Mr. Coley and several others intent on maintaining the status quo in government reminds me of a film I love called “Dreams” directed by the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.
In this scene, four mountain climbers are exhausted from climbing a mountain, and they have lost their camp. (hint, in my mind the taxpayers are represented by the mountain climbers just trying to find their way home) I would encourage you to take the time to watch these three clips. Because I think it is a metaphor that directly applies to our national crises. Because we are lost in a snow storm, and people like Bill Coley are just wanting to lay down and die.
Here the leader is the only one standing. And he sees someone coming. But who is it? Only the strongest leader can see it. But his fellow climbers have given up the fight. And eventually, the leader is ready to give up too. The being that comes to him tells him that the snow is warm, and the ice is hot. She sings a sweet melody to him to usher him to sleep. And he slowly gives way to the being, until near the end of this clip where he begins to regain his will to fight.
Thats right, the being was a demon trying to steal away their souls with a sense of hopelessness. (In this example, the teachers unions are the metaphorical demon) And once the leader fights back enough, the demon’s true identity is revealed and it flies off in anger.
And the climbers find that their camp was always just right there.
If we’re going to fix all our trouble, we have to get rid of the soothsayers that are trying to usher us away to sleep.
And Mr. Coley, based on your comment in the Pulse, you are one of the climbers that have given up.
The below press release is a typical campaign assassination attempt that has led our nation into bankruptcy. People like David P. Little make their entire livelihoods manipulating the facts and shaping the opinions of the voting public. In this letter Little shows how “little” he truly knows. For instance, and I’ll go into greater detail at the end of this essay, he denigrates tea party types as using simplistic language, where in reality, most tea party types are more sophisticated and currently read much more than the typical public employee. So to use terms to attempt to reduce public perception of tea party types is to confuse his own political opinions with facts which he presents below as truth, when in fact they are only the opinions of a man with limited understanding.
So without any further delay, enjoy the below Press Release from David P Little. You can listen to Darryl Parks reading the press release along with my appearance on his show by clicking on the video below.
From: DPLITTLE [mailto:dplittle@fuse.net] Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 9:24 AM To: David P. Little Subject: Bullwhipping Quality Education in Butler County
Dear Friend of Public Education,
Every year opponents of adequate funding for public education become more vocal and hostile to the historic mission of public education in America. Each election season our schools are reduced to pleading for support from constituencies that are being told that we should abandon our traditional system of public education and institute more private or unregulated for-profit charter schools without elected boards or genuine accountability to the citizenry.
It is clear that the simplistic language and tactics of tea party type enthusiasts are now being utilized in these battles; this is reason enough for their efforts to be strongly and consistently opposed. So I write to invite you to join us—now.
This year these perennial battles feature a wealthy businessman in the Lakota School District of Butler County who is intent on bullwhipping our educational system by withholding all financial support and making hostages of the students and staff in these institutions.
Pretending he is Buffalo Bill while flailing with dueling enflamed leather whips, Lakota levy opponent leader, Rich Hoffman, a wealthy businessman and anti-government activist, is leading the attack on a school system which is the envy of many across the region, widely known for opportunity and excellence.
Using hostile talk radio and YouTube video as vehicles, Hoffman and other levy opponents are intent on bullwhipping the administration, teachers, and the thousands of students and family members that depend of the Lakota Public Schools. While pretending that he inhabits a wild west show, steeped in pioneer values and individualism, Hoffman presents Confederate battle flags in his videos and ignores the fact that public education was among the very first accomplishments of all frontier settlements in the United States and remains the steadfast goal and anchor of all quality communities.
Please review the links below for additional information and details of how you can assist in the fight against opponents of quality education in our region. Battles such as this impact the success of public education in all of our communities and disinformation of this variety must be opposed with energy equal to the task.
Thank you,
David P. Little
David P. Little Public Affairs/Political Consultant 207 Woolper Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45220 Cellular: 513.477.2651 dplittle@fuse.net
Now Mr. Little, its time for some facts about your note; public education was not “organized” during the foundation of the country. We had public education, but the organized portion of public education started with 4 employees during 1847 in Ohio. The OEA officially formed in the early 1900’s ahead of the NEA. You are confused when you assume that public education must involve organized labor. The fact that you associate those two issues together means you cannot understand how to solve the problem. Frontier towns made the teacher a central part of the town’s foundation, as they should be. But organized collective bargaining is an entirely different matter. This is the problem since you need help understanding the difference.
I’m not pretending to be Buffalo Bill. He had a beard. Do I have a beard? I’m Rich Hoffman, and there’s only one of me. Buffalo Bill was Buffalo Bill. Do you understand that? Or is it too difficult? I’ll make it easy for you. Buffalo Bill is in the old photo. I put my wife in the one with me in it. That way you can see the difference. (I was chewing my food)
You mention that I use confederate flags in my videos. You use that term in a plural sense, when in fact confederate flags appear in only one of my videos, one that was shot at a Wild West Arts event, where confederate flags, pirate flags, and American flags are very common. In those events, the confederate flag does not represent slavery the way people like you that have perpetuated as progressive ideas that have moved through our culture. In the Wild West groups, those flags celebrate history, and the Civil War is important in reflection because our country grew as a result. But in my video, the flags are flying in the wind on one of the vendors booths at the site. Confederate Flags are quite common in Gatlinburg, Tennessee as well, and are part of southern culture which I happen to like. But saying that doesn’t automatically mean I’d ever endorse slavery, quite the opposite. If slavery existed today in the United States, I’d be against it with the same voracity that I protest school levies. The trouble with you is that you are seeking to make an issue of that, as if it somehow reflects racism, which is a typical progressive strategy. When they can’t win an argument, they just call people names and hope it sticks. It’s kind of like throwing darts in the dark and hoping they hit a target. So you completely misrepresented that one video, and there certainly aren’t any plural videos.
You used the word pretending twice. I’m not doing any pretending, David. I have video of some of the Wild West Events I’ve been in. And they are steeped in pioneer values and individualism. There’s no pretending about it. Or maybe you don’t understand what the word pretend means.
Hey, and the firewhips are specially made with Kevlar. If they were leather, they’d burn, and I couldn’t reuse them. But I’ll give you a pass on that. Doing so much desk work like you have, I wouldn’t expect you to know that.
And I, or none of the people I know who are against tax levies want to withhold all support and hold students and staff hostage. The trouble is, organized labor has attached itself to our children and it is difficult to remove those elements because the organized labor is a radical system that threatens to destroy our children if we don’t give them more money. That is why one of the first cuts is busing in order to pass a levy. In Lakota they have a budget of over $160 million dollars. So that is not withholding all funds as you’ve stated above.
Now you had a six paragraph letter, and you told 4 complete fabrications of the truth in the whole body of that document. The only reality of those statements is in your own mind, but yet you wrote them down and sent that information out to many important people as though it was truth. Very, very, very irresponsible. And what disinformation specifically have we pointed out in the No Campaign? And what action are you calling for in that letter? Violence? You said the word fight. That means violence to me. And none of us are against quality education. We’re businessmen. We expect results, and we expect quality. But we are against the way organized labor has driven the budget to the level it currently is. We see it as the fault of your clients and your personal philosophy that has irresponsibly spent themselves into crises. And we also blame the same for hiding that irresponsibility behind our children. These radical slanders from your side will not be tolerated unchecked.
And let me take issue with your very first paragraph. You say, and I quote “Each election season our schools are reduced to pleading for support from constituencies.” Excuse me? These are public employees. They have to make a case for their existence. Yes. That’s a fact of life. But you’re term about being reduced to pleading states that you believe the people you represent are somehow entitled, and are therefore above the taxpayer. You forget who your boss is. And David, because you do so much work for politicians, you also work for the taxpayer.
I did a little checking on you.
David Little’s Experience Strategist & Communications DPL Political Consulting Services (Public Relations and Communications industry) January 1993 — Present (17 years 10 months) Public Policy/Political Consultant David P. Little, Consulting Services (Public Relations and Communications industry) March 1987 — Present (23 years 8 months) INDEPENDENT PUBLIC AFFAIRS CONSULTING EXPERIENCE:
• Regional Director Statewide Campaigns /Media Consultant; Four Ohio constitutional offices including Governor, Attorney General, Auditor, and Secretary of State
• Five U. S. Congressional Campaigns; Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky; Campaign Director and/or strategist; Responsible for strategic planning, issue briefing and development, press relations, issue development, opposition research, campaign publications, select speech writing and intensive debate coaching
• Reform Ohio Now Campaign, Southern Ohio Director Constitutional Ballot Initiative; Managed regional office and activities, volunteer staff, and media relations as part of a statewide seven million dollar ballot initiative to reform elections, redistricting, and campaign financing in Ohio
• Natural Resources Defense Council; Washington, D.C. (2008) Year long legislative climate change/global warming assignments in conjunction with M+R Strategic Consultants, New York & Cleveland, Ohio
• Alliance of American Insurers, Chicago, Illinois; Developed and implemented rapid-response media strategy and maintained political/legislative relations in New York, New Jersey, & Pennsylvania
• ProgressOhio.org, Columbus, Ohio; Three year staff retainer with numerous press spokesperson assignments, State Capitol and statewide media events for environmental, social justice, multiple other clients
• Americans United for Change; Washington, D.C. Statewide press events & public Issue development political education efforts in Ohio (2006) AFL-CIO & related organizational financing of assignments
• Healthcare Leadership Council; Washington, D.C.; Midwest Field Director; Represented coalition of 50 healthcare industry CEO’s on national healthcare legislation. Created and maintained relations with Governors, Congress, business allies, editorial boards, and U.S. Senatorial tours
So what do you mean by fight, David P. Little? I’m just a guy that doesn’t want to see taxes increased. I see you, and your side with a hand out, with a lack of business understanding, and with a political agenda that I’d consider dangerous to the country I live in. And you better think hard about whether or not you want a fight with me.
Is this mainstream America? It looked like an episode of South Park to me, compare them below.
Who are these people?
This is what progressives have in mind for the United States? What planet did these people come from?
I took particular notice that the Ohio Education Association was promoting the event as well. And people wonder why I think Teacher’s Unions should be illegal in government positions. They openly endorse this strange mentality.
And what is Ed Schultz talking about here?
And again, when people wonder why we need education reform; listen to how much he talks about public education. Who in the world wants these types of ideas in our schools? I don’t. I’m a conservative, and I’m certainly not evil. And you bet we want to change this country away from what people like you have turned it to under our sleepy eyes. Who makes the jobs, Ed?
The good thing in all this is that hardly anybody showed up to this rally considering all the power that was behind it. That is because like the ambition in socialist governments is reflected in union membership, where a majority of the people functions like they are half asleep. They get their dander up when they want something, but once their needs are met, the go back to sleep like a baby sucking on the bottle. And that is what happened at The One Nation Rally. And with over 200 union organizations busing their members in, and a month’s notice, this is all that showed up. And the one’s that did were mostly asleep.
I would like to thank the people who put the rally on, I laughed hard for 4 solid hours at the display of comedy that was presented. Not at the effort of the participants, but at the level of seriousness for which it was presented against the background of what is truly occurring.
The 8/28 Rally much more reflected my view points. And it is nice to know that the people that went to that still represent sanity and American virtue.
Below, the 8/28 Restoring Honor Rally
You see all you progressive minded people out there, and this was reflected in the One Nation Rally, you have about as many fans for your cause as the WNBA does. And this rally reminded me of this Family Guy episode.
That’s what the crowd sounded like during Ed’s speech, which was the most energized of the day. Thanks guys, that was funny stuff.
What is the Progressive Philosophy and why it’s a misguided and naive journey that millions of good Americans have fallen to?
What follows is a video journey of progressive ideology. The below video is a clip from Angeles in America. You will recognize Meryl Streep and Al Pacino, both of whom I think are fantastic actors. But you have to remember, they are actors, and their thoughts generally come from a writer, which makes them perfect pitchmen of political philosophy. They often don’t investigate matters too deeply, the same as everybody else in every workplace. Because the money in Hollywood goes to projects and people who embrace progressive thought, naturally successful actors will reflect that philosophy. That’s how they stay in work.
This is the platform:
This is the implementation:
This is the reality:
The Warning from 1946.
The hope to stop the Snake oil salesman that have dominated our political system.
The War:
What are the weapons and when did they strike hardest………sex:
This in 2003
And this in 2004
After these events, sex officially became mainstream on public air waves. Films then had to take the next step, and the pornographic industry had to turn up the marketing blitz. And during this great distraction, which is so very easy and seductive, progressive ideas have grown deeper roots.
With this information, do what you will with it. But don’t be gullible in thinking that this is not an organized insurrection from foreign powers no different than mankind has always experienced. For all those literature buffs out there, read Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, one of my all time favorite plays. The motives from then are the same as now.
For the last couple of months I have received a lot of email asking me why I spent so much time dealing with education issues but not addressing the obvious problems involved in law enforcement and the incredibly top-heavy budgets involved with them. Well, it’s a bigger issue and can’t really be dealt with locally like education issues can. And to me, I knew I recently completed the first draft of my second book The Tail of the Dragon that takes a hard look at just how far law enforcement has a right to go into our lives and the impact ethically that having too much restriction can have on the human soul.
It has been quite a journey writing that novel. It started with a trip my wife and I took to the Smoky Mountains, where we ran the famous Tail of the Dragon on our motorcycle. On that trip we witnessed the heavy hand of the THP as shown proudly in the video below.
I’m a small government guy. My childhood roots are in great car chase films like Hooper and Smokey and the Bandit. The way the Tennessee Highway Patrol acted toward drivers on the Tail of the Dragon set my blood boiling a bit. So I wanted to do a story about The Tail of the Dragon, and the aggressive, and in some cases oppressive police presence there, and make the whole story like the climax of Hooper. View that video below.
It is my belief that writing a novel can add new mythology to the embroidery of human existence, and is the most important, and responsible job on the face of the planet.
While most of the old car chase stories are considered to be low brow entertainment, I see a level of sophistication in simplicity that is missing from modern stories, which prevents readers from falling in love with the characters like some of the beloved characters of those old films and TV shows.
The Dukes of Hazzard, which was on every Friday when I was a kid, still has a popular appeal to many. To this day they still have these Dukesfest events where they jump and crash cars and everybody has a great time. I love events like this, because everything is so “unsafe,” and people have fun knowing how dangerous everything is. It’s a culture that most in New York and Los Angeles don’t know much about, but it represents a huge part of the country, particularly in the south. And it’s a market that has been largely ignored.
Below is the famous Blues Brothers mall scene. Nobody has done a mall car chase like this in over thirty years! This is still a classic and beloved by millions, many for this scene alone. So I made sure there was a mall scene in my book.
This past election put me on every news station in southwest Ohio, I was quoted in every newspaper, my presence was in high demand on talk radio, but above all those efforts, it was my ability to write, and communicate that made the difference on the unpopular issue of forcing education reform and defeating issue 2. But I don’t plan to stop there. Those of you that know me best understand I am not new to taking positions where I speak out on topics. The issues explored in the Tail of the Dragon however, are larger and more complicated and require a broader public tapestry than what I can explore in a blog, and those other forms of communication.
I think it’s time that something in our modern culture can reflect the happy-go-lucky attitude and tenacity displayed in scenes like this one from Hooper. Socially, we’ve all become so sensitive that we’re all about to burst with frustration. I offer theTail of the Dragon as a relief valve for that frustration.
I wrote The Tail of the Dragon to entertain, and provoke thought. It is an exploration of an authentic human existence explored through Rick Steven’s who after 20 years of marriage and a grown son that has just moved out of the house, finds he and his wife had seen their personal hopes and dreams drift away over the years. Rick had put aside a career as a race car driver to raise a family, a decision that had always haunted him. Rick meets Chet Watson, a powerful attorney and former candidate for governor of Tennessee and finds himself caught up in the games of Watson and the current Governor of Tennessee in a plot to run for President of the United States by increasing the hiring of police officers all over the state.
CLICK BELOW AND LISTEN TO ME READ THE FIRST TWO PAGES:
After reading the first draft, I feel the work is close to what I’m looking for. The story is there and I’m happy with how the scenes go to together. Now it’s time for some re-writing. But, I am happy that I was able to capture the good old fashion thrill of the car chase story spewing with romance and danger, and to have characters that people might actually invest their emotions in.
And for the record, it’s OK to thumb you nose at the law……………..it’s even healthy for our republic. So please, enjoy my new novel Tail of the Dragon, seen in the clip above and celebrate the law breakers who keep America free.
The Overmanwarrior 