Comments on: Elites and People Divided on Taxes https://calwatchdog.com/2011/04/25/elites-and-people-divided-on-taxes/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 06:04:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: MIlan Moravec https://calwatchdog.com/2011/04/25/elites-and-people-divided-on-taxes/#comment-4770 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 22:04:50 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=16693#comment-4770 Until action is applied by the University of California (UC) Board of Regents to chancellors, like Birgeneau, UC shouldn’t come to the Governor or public for support for any tax increase.

(The author has 35 years’ consulting experience, has taught at UC Berkeley (Cal) where he observed the culture & way senior management work)

Cal. Chancellor Birgeneau ($500,000 salary) has forgotten that he is a public servant, steward of the public money, not overseer of his own fiefdom (these are not isolated examples): recruits (uses California tax $) out of state $50,000 tuition students that displace qualified Californians from public university education; spends $7,000,000 + for consultants to do his & many vice chancellors jobs (prominent East Coast university accomplishing same 0 cost); pays ex Michigan governor $300,000 for lectures; in procuring a $3,000,000 consulting firm he failed to receive proposals from other firms; Latino enrollment drops while out of state jumps 2010; tuition to Return on Investment drops below top10; NCAA places basketball program on probation: absence institutional control.

It’s all shameful. There is no justification for such practices by a steward of the public trust. Absolutely none.

Birgeneau’s practices will not change. UC Board of Regents Chair Sherry Lansing and President Yudof must do a better job of vigorously enforcing oversight than has been done in the past over Chancellors who, like Birgeneau, see the campus as their fiefdom.

]]> By: Susan https://calwatchdog.com/2011/04/25/elites-and-people-divided-on-taxes/#comment-4769 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:13:56 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=16693#comment-4769 I noticed there was QUITE a BACKLASH to the first L.A. Times article — i.e., the one with the lying headline and buried story: Nearly 1,000 comments, probably 80% or more of them from people who are fit to be tied about taxes, Jerry Brown, where California is headed and, not least, the treacherous L.A. Times and its clones. The second, more accurate L.A. Times article, which showed fed-up poll respondents who want concessions and adjustments from public employee pensioners and unions, does seem to have been written in direct response to the huge, passionate backlash against the first article. Encouraging.

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