{"id":11482,"date":"2010-04-07T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-07T22:08:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T22:08:17","slug":"annoy-the-governor-until-he-cries-for-his-mommy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/07\/annoy-the-governor-until-he-cries-for-his-mommy\/","title":{"rendered":"Annoy the Governor Until He Cries For His Mommy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Funny or Die has produced what has to be one of the best political videos we’ve seen in California for a very long time. Starring Megan Fox (of Transformers<\/em> fame) and Brian Austin Green (of 90210 fame, of course!), it mocks Arnold Schwarzenegger while showing the impact of his war on public education. It’s a must-see:<\/p>\n

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Hot for Teachers w\/ Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green<\/a> from Megan Fox<\/a><\/div>\n

The ad directs viewers to Say No To Cuts<\/a>, a website put together by the California PTA and the Wonderland Ave PTA that is collecting signatures on a petition that will be delivered to the governor and to legislators later this month.<\/p>\n

What the video shows, once again, is that Californians do not support<\/strong> Arnold Schwarzenegger or his budget cuts. They just don’t. The polls that have been done so far indicate that the public prefers higher taxes to cutting K-12 budgets, and while nobody seems to have asked “do you support the $17 billion in education cuts made since 2008?” such a poll would likely find widespread public opposition and outrage. There’s a reason Arnold’s disapproval rating is at a record level of over 70%.<\/p>\n

It’s taken Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green to tell Californians what their media should have been telling them all along – Californians want to fund schools properly. We’ve been saying that here at Calitics for years, but maybe it takes a clever Hollywood video to get the state’s political and media elite to wake up to that reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Funny or Die has produced what has to be one of the best political videos we’ve seen in California for a very long time. Starring Megan Fox (of Transformers<\/em> fame) and Brian Austin Green (of 90210 fame, of course!), it mocks Arnold Schwarzenegger while showing the impact of his war on public education. It’s a must-see:<\/p>\n

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Hot for Teachers w\/ Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green<\/a> from Megan Fox<\/a><\/div>\n

The ad directs viewers to Say No To Cuts<\/a>, a website put together by the California PTA and the Wonderland Ave PTA that is collecting signatures on a petition that will be delivered to the governor and to legislators later this month.<\/p>\n

What the video shows, once again, is that Californians do not support<\/strong> Arnold Schwarzenegger or his budget cuts. They just don’t. The polls that have been done so far indicate that the public prefers higher taxes to cutting K-12 budgets, and while nobody seems to have asked “do you support the $17 billion in education cuts made since 2008?” such a poll would likely find widespread public opposition and outrage. There’s a reason Arnold’s disapproval rating is at a record level of over 70%.<\/p>\n

It’s taken Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green to tell Californians what their media should have been telling them all along – Californians want to fund schools properly. We’ve been saying that here at Calitics for years, but maybe it takes a clever Hollywood video to get the state’s political and media elite to wake up to that reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Zc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}