Consider the example of Buelna. The Administration and Faculty spent one million dollars to on the campaign to elect him. One million dollars.
As one of the seven Trustees on the Board, he oversaw a twenty million dollar disaster on the Los Angeles Valley College theater complex.
Why? One million dollars to put a part-time professor of Chicano Studies into $24,000-a-year position as a part-time Trustee? He oversaw a multi-million disaster. And the faculty and administation supported him for re-election. Why?
Buelna votes on their contracts of the Faculty, Administration, and Staff -- salaries, benefits, and the right-to-retire-in-place. They spent a million dollars to elect Buelna. He will approve the demands of the Faculty and Administrators. They think of it as an investment. Their contracts will run for years. They will get millions of dollars in returns on the investments in the Trustees.
Now they support Iino and Vela for re-election. Why? Again, they will vote on salaries, benefits, and the right-to-retire-in-place.
The Faculty and Administrators want higher salaries, more benefits, the Faculty fewer classes, the Administrators no oversight of academic rigor, no expectations of innovation -- the tenured, retired-in-place Faculty and Administrators want their contracts rubber-stamped without questions.
And they want no changes in the salaries and benefits of the part-time adjuncts who actually teach more than 70% of the classes. The State of California funds the colleges based on enrollment, the part-timers work the courses for wages and no health care or retirement, while the Faculty and Administrators get the high pay, full benefits, generous retirements. They even get an $1,800 medical debit card for 'other medical expenses.' Such as their dog or cat or parakeet.
The Trustees will vote as the Faculty and Administrators dictate --or they lose their opportunities to collect 'campaing contributions' from the construction corporations. Even though the Trustees play no role in the oversight of the construction projects, they amass funds for their future political campaigns.
Consider the example of David Vela. See the information appearing below.
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You have a choice:
Support incumbents who use their positions to accumulate funding to advance their political careers and personal interests.
Or:
Support me, Robert Payne, and vote for an independent voice not corrupted by the Faculty and Administration regimes.
I have world experience. I know what confronts students. I will not use the position to get a ticket to Sacramento. I will work only for the students, the innovative faculty, and staff, the District, and the community.
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