{"id":513,"date":"2006-06-13T19:21:07","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T02:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=513"},"modified":"2006-06-13T19:23:56","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T02:23:56","slug":"angelides-deception-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/06\/13\/angelides-deception-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelides&#8217; Deception of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the campaign already underway for the California Governorship, both sides are cranking up the rhetoric. Phil Angelides recently criticized Governor Schwarzenegger&#8217;s performance with regard to education in the state. The Governor&#8217;s camp produced this in response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFresno schools Superintendent Dr. Peter Mehas issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As an educator of 44 years, I am disappointed that Phil Angelides continues to bring his negativity and pessimism to one of the most important issues to Californians &#8212; education funding.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0606\/pho.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/>&#8220;Like a typical politician, he is distorting the facts by <em>using data from 2003<\/em> to talk about our schools. Angelides ignores that Governor Schwarzenegger has put unprecedented amounts of funding towards educating our students. Two years in a row he raised per-pupil funding, bringing it to over $11,000, which is more than $1,400 higher than just two years ago. Governor Schwarzenegger is fully funding our schools, while Phil Angelides offers no real plan &#8212; just his promises for higher taxes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Peter G. Mehas is the Superintendent of the Fresno County Office of Education.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Image: Phil Angelides using deceptive data<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>(note: image was not a part of the Schwarzenegger release.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the campaign already underway for the California Governorship, both sides are cranking up the rhetoric. Phil Angelides recently criticized Governor Schwarzenegger&#8217;s performance with regard to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-whacko-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}