{"id":11424,"date":"2010-03-30T22:48:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T22:48:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-30T22:49:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T22:49:35","slug":"poizner-attacks-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/30\/poizner-attacks-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Poizner Attacks Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object id=\"9522\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0\" height=\"394\" width=\"448\"><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowscriptaccess\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/syndication?id=89524772&#038;path=%2Fstation%2Fcommunity\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Usually when you come out with a campaign book, they tend to be banal. And they certainly don&#8217;t try to attack anybody. &nbsp;But Steve Poizner has always been something of a wild card, so why not call students at the school that he taught kinda slow? &nbsp;Here&#8217;s what he said about students at Mt. Pleasant High School<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From an intellectual standpoint, I absolutely know not to expect Silicon Valley-type caliber ambition and smarts from East San Jose schoolkids.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is offensive in the extreme, and a rookie political move. Look, money, and the good fortune of running against Cruz Bustamante have made him a formidable candidate, even with those poll numbers showing a huge deficit to Meg Whitman. &nbsp;But, sometimes you have to marvel that he could get to where he is while saying some Bell Curve-y nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>Poizner needs to apologize to these students, and to the entire community. America is supposed to be about the promise of tomorrow and upward mobility. &nbsp;Poizner seems more interested in knocking those at the bottom rungs of the social strata off the ladder completely. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><object id=\"9522\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0\" height=\"394\" width=\"448\"><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowscriptaccess\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/syndication?id=89524772&#038;path=%2Fstation%2Fcommunity\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/syndication?id=89524772&#038;path=%2Fstation%2Fcommunity\"  type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"394\" width=\"448\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Usually when you come out with a campaign book, they tend to be banal. And they certainly don&#8217;t try to attack anybody. &nbsp;But Steve Poizner has always been something of a wild card, so why not call students at the school that he taught kinda slow? &nbsp;Here&#8217;s what he said about students at Mt. Pleasant High School<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From an intellectual standpoint, I absolutely know not to expect Silicon Valley-type caliber ambition and smarts from East San Jose schoolkids.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is offensive in the extreme, and a rookie political move. Look, money, and the good fortune of running against Cruz Bustamante have made him a formidable candidate, even with those poll numbers showing a huge deficit to Meg Whitman. &nbsp;But, sometimes you have to marvel that he could get to where he is while saying some Bell Curve-y nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>Poizner needs to apologize to these students, and to the entire community. America is supposed to be about the promise of tomorrow and upward mobility. &nbsp;Poizner seems more interested in knocking those at the bottom rungs of the social strata off the ladder completely. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[415,770],"class_list":["post-11424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-415","tag-770"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Yg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}