Public Eye

Talk about being asleep at the switch! PCC's trustees need to wake up. I can't remember mismanagement quite this bad in a long, long time. Larry, come on...you guys seem to have given them a pass on this one...why is the board keeping the now former prez on the payroll in some obviously 'busy work' job, how much is it going to cost us and when are they going to start telling us what they're doing?

Larry, how can you say already make a judgment that the interim president is "great" ?

She hasn't done anything as PCC's president, yet.

Seriously, Larry, you dole out cheap applause to government agencies and bureaucrats as if you're the stagehand at NBC's "The Tonight Show" whose job is to get everyone to applaud and smile while the cameras are on.

She may be a nice lady, and she may have a track record as a junior college administrator, but that is not yet evidence of "greatness" as president.

Let's see her actually perform over a period of time, before we languish her with over-the-top praise, huh, big guy ?

See, that was the problem with the recently departed PCC president...we were assured that SHE was "great" before we learned that, well, she couldn't do the job.

And this is the bigger-picture problem with those of you whom are tireless proponents of the expansion of the bureaucratic state at tax-payer expense---you don't pursue the metrics of accountability, and frankly, you're not interested in the metrics of accountability, nor are you interested in demanding efficient outcomes.

That's because your objective is "good intentions," rather than effective and efficient outcomes.

California is a disaster, yet you don't hold the Democratic controlled legislatures accountable for disastrous tax, spend, tax some more, spend some more policies which are responsible for the hole our state is in.

In fact, you continue to endorse those tax and spend policies...yet you then act all self-righteous about how we all need to band together to "solve" this crisis.

Yeah, solving it means forcing a change in the behavior of our legislators, and thereby allowing California's citizens to breathe freely without the chokehold of burdensome, insane regulation, insane taxation, and insane spending...all of which scares away businesses, consumers, and quality of life.

Toyota just announced it is moving the Corolla facility out of California, and it will re-locate in Canada of all places.

When Canada is friendlier for businesses than California, it's time for snarky lefties like you to wake up and smell the Canadian bacon, because our state's goose is getting cooked.

By the way, it would be interesting to see how you characterized the recently departed PCC president when she initially took the reins. I wonder if you wrote that she was "great."

Larry,

The recently resigned president of PCC is STILL going to be on the payroll...and you're just turning a blind eye to it. You should investigate what types of wrong-doings she was involved in during her tenure at PCC, and report the compensation terms of her new high-paying job at taxpayer expense.
We are taxpayers---we have a right to know.

A journalist is supposed to keep an eye on government, but instead, you're winking AT government waste and incompetency.

Mr. Wilson,

I see why you have earned a reputation for being too soft on the waste and corruption which takes place within government bureaucracy.

In the real world, when a person is incompetent or corrupt in their job, they're told they will no longer be receiving a paycheck from that organization.

However, within the community college bureaucracy, it appears they just re-shuffle the deck...and the same incompetent people merely go wreak their incompetence under a different job description...all at taxpayer expense.

As taxpayers, we have a right to know what the former president of PCC did wrong---after all, WE are paying her.

Some people have said that you're gagging the Star News from revealing to the public exactly what she did wrong while President of PCC.

Larry, is this true ? Are you protecting her ?

Back in 2007, when former PCC president Paulette Perfumo had just been appointed to serve as the school's president, a news article appeared in the Star News which reported the following about Perfumo;

"...Her choice of a $54,244.46 Cadillac DeVille Touring Sedan that gets about 14 mpg in city driving raised some eyebrows on the campus when the school's trustees - with one exception - approved the purchase last month."

Larry, the school's trustees actually approved the taxpayer funded use of such a gas-guzzling vehicle.

Since you're so obsessed with so-called global "warming," as well as with an automobile's miles per gallon, did you ever publicly write anything questioning Perfumo's choice of an expensive car that got a mere 14 miles per gallon ? And did you ever question PCC's trustees for approving that car ?

To a lot of people whom are familiar with you, it sure does appear that you are quick to judge people whom you disagree with politically.
By the same token, you are quick to give a pass to those whom are your political allies...even when they do things you theoretically disapprove of.