Let the countdown begin!
The election will be over soon, and we will all know our destinies. I, personally, will be so sad when all the drama concludes. The nitpicking and off-color remarks are what I live for!
But I am sick of the text messages and emails. Leave me alone, Kamala Harris! I don’t have $5 to give your multi-million-dollar campaign for president.
Will Arroyo Grande mayoral candidate Gaea Powell continue her tirade against the Arroyo Grande City Council if she loses? She was pretty quiet after current Mayor Caren Ray Russom beat her in 2022.
What if she—OMG, it’s hard to fathom—actually wins? Will any semblance of order just run out the door? Will her first matter of business be to remove “the overwhelming volumes” of “child pornography and lewd books” from the Arroyo Grande High School library?
There is no porn in the library, according to Lucia Mar Unified School District Marketing and Communications Director Amy Jacobs.
Well, I guess that’s already taken care of!
Powell’s recent grandstanding knows no bounds, and while it is entertaining, repeated attacks on local government during public meetings are debilitating.
“We must stand against any effect of government censorship,” Powell said. “Free speech protects us from government tyranny.”
Man, she’s confusing. Is waiving a Pride flag not protected speech? Asking for a friend.
Paso Robles City Councilmember Chris Bausch, who doesn’t have to run for office this year, is free-speeching by endorsing a couple of candidates to take a seat next to him on the dais. Why? Well, New Times asked the three musketeers the same question!
Bausch refused to comment, as did 3rd District candidate Michael Rivera. Chickens! But the third musketeer, 1st District candidate Linda George, gave the paper the 411.
“We all met happenstance, and we all happenstance have the same nemesis,” George said.
Nemesis? That’s a little extreme.
It’s Paso City Manager Ty Lewis, she said.
Rivera accused Lewis of physically assaulting him earlier this year, when Rivera was asked to leave a homeless committee meeting and refused, so Lewis escorted him out.
Back to Bausch, Lewis filed a complaint with the city against him, alleging the council member created a hostile work environment. So maybe Bausch free-speeched a little too much?
Why are you targeting the city administrator? He is literally just trying to do his job. And you, three musketeers, just aim to make it and governing more difficult.
Sounds an awful lot like the hitch Grover H20 has in its giddy up over Grover Beach City Manager Matt Bronson and City Clerk Wendy Sims.
The group has targeted both in public meetings and online and recently received enough signatures (738) to get a measure on the 2026 ballot to make the city clerk an elected position. Grover H20 seems to believe that an 18-year-old can keep the city in compliance with all the state and federal laws the city has to follow, all while juggling the duties of a board clerk and city administrator. Sounds like a fantasy.
Maybe the group could call Paso Robles Joint Unified School District board candidate Hunter Breese? He’ll be 21 by then, and I’m sure he could just find a little Grover Beach address to throw on his candidate application. Seems like he might be into that kind of thing—but I don’t know for sure, yet.
I almost feel sorry for the Grover Beach City Council, which legally had to vote to approve putting that city clerk initiative on that 2026 ballot. Just like it legally did earlier this year when it put Grover H20’s recall of City Councilmember Dan Rushing and a measure that would defund any future water and sewer projects if it passes on the upcoming November ballot.
Things are a mess down south. But I’m not done with Paso Robles yet! Race is back on the school board’s agenda, unfortunately.
The Paso Robles Joint Unified School District board actually approved an inclusivity training for teachers to help them get a handle on racism in the classroom. I’m shocked! And a Cal Poly staffer is running it! Yes, the liberal freedom-taking, indoctrinating public university!
I guess the school district’s 2021 ban on racism so white people couldn’t be discriminated against didn’t work. And the way the district board micromanaged the high school’s ethnic studies curriculum to avoid teaching history through a contemporary lens—that didn’t work either?
Maybe Bausch could weigh in on this, since he was on the school board back then and participated in those and other racism-tinged conversations while he posed as an “anti-racist.” But he might be too busy with his war against the city manager to think about important things, like second graders calling fellow second graders the N-word.
Kenney Enney and Dorian Baker still managed to color the discussion with culture war commentary, even in the face of residents’ real-life experiences with discrimination and racism.
“I want politically charged culture … stuff out of it,” Baker said.
“It’s not your struggle, because it’s not your reality,” fellow board member Laurene McCoy said. “If you haven’t gotten a glimpse tonight by the people who have spoken at the podium who look like me, then I don’t know if you will ever get it.” Δ
The Shredder knows Baker will never get it. Send politically charged culture to shredder@newtimesslo.com.
This article appears in Oct 17-27, 2024.
Thank you for another SHRED. Always entertaining!
Is Amy Jacobs lying, or have they remove the pornograhpy from AG High School overnight, or does Amy truly believe that children performing oral sex, illustrations of intercourse positions, masterbation, and content that includes incest, rape and so on is appropriate for minors, though it is against Federal law?
Gavin Newsom has made it a law that pornographic (including child porn) along with sexually explicit lewd, vulgar …content be in our public schools (we pay the bill). The Government has no right to force these books into our school libraries – if Districts refuse he sues them and withholds funding. Chino and Huntington Beach are good examples. Our system was designed to allow each community to decide what books are best for the children in their community, not the State or Federal government.
TakeBackTheClassroom.com lets you look inside the books in question. Let’s stop the mudslinging and demand the truth as children are the victims while adults behave like kids calling each other names without doing their own research.
Here is the AGHS Library book link: https://lmag.goalexandria.com/search
This is not about LGBTQIA+, this is a distraction/shining object to divide people while there is an aggressive effort to normalize sexualizing children, as there are many books with inappropriate sexual content found in our public schools. Subjects, some with graphics – oral sex, incest, masterbation, intercourse with differing sexual positions, and so on.
There are also boys being allowed in girls’ sports, bathrooms, and locker rooms. I interviewed one of the girls who has graduated since. She claims she was victimized as her rights and protests were ignored. In fact, she claimed the boy harassed her for complaining. Less mudslinging (bigot, racists, homophobe – meaningless and mindless – while the abuse continues) and more investigation in an effort to prove me wrong or right would be the correct path. Afterall, children are the victims, while adults do nothing.
To me, it is absolutely mind boggling that our local News outlets and/or reporters don’t research the link and attachments I have provided, share what they find and consider going to the High Schools in our area to investigate. At the very least to PROVE ME WRONG! I would love to be wrong as this is an horrific nightmare. The poor kids who have been victimized are already demanding to know – WHERE WERE THE ADULTS THAT SHOULD PROTECT THEM!?
TakeBackTheClassroom.com – Look inside these books so you can ‘see’ for yourself. If you don’t feel as if this is pornograrphy and is age appropriate for minors, please let me know. I would love to hear your perspective.