The Alliance for a Better California, the coalition that led the effort to defeat Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s special election agenda last year, has released two new television ads focusing on Schwarzenegger’s broken promises and questioning his trustworthiness.
The 30-second commercials feature teachers, firefighters, nurses and police officers citing Schwarzenegger’s broken promises on funding public education and other issues, and questioning the governor’s integrity based on his policy reversals, including his promise to be a different kind of politician. The ads can be viewed on the ABC website [www.betterca.com].
CTA is continuing the relationship with the coalition partners because “we believe it’s important to remind voters of the governor’s broken promises, the taxpayer money he wasted on the special election and the attacks he made on teachers and California’s working families,” says CTA President Barbara E. Kerr. CTA is supporting Phil Angelides in the election for governor “because we believe he is the best candidate for the job and because we can trust him to truly put public education first.”
“Governor Schwarzenegger is again promising to make education his top priority because it’s election time and he knows that’s what voters want to hear,” says Glendale teacher Sandra Fink, who appears in both of the ads.
“But how can we trust him? What happens if the governor who broke his promises to our students and schools — the governor teachers had to sue just to get back the billions he borrowed from education — shows up again next year? We can’t trust this governor.
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In the Eye’ spot
San Juan teacher Shannan Brown: We sat across the table from Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Sacramento teacher Carlos Rico: He looked us in the eye and promised to repay the $2 billion he took from our public schools.
Glendale teacher Sandra Fink: But he broke that promise.
Brown: Parents and teachers protested.
Rico: We had to sue him to get the funding back.
Brown: He also wasted $70 million on a special election…
Fink: To get more power to cut school funding without asking anyone.
Rico: But voters said no.
Fink: When he first ran, he promised schools would be his top priority.
Rico: Now he’s promising it again.
Brown: But why would we trust him?
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