John Shewmaker, Leave My Kids Out Of It!

For over a year I have been attacked falsely on various blogs. These attacks were always anonymous. Today, I finally found out whom the coward was that was doing it. As it turns out that someone was John Shewmaker. John Shewmaker is a failed several times over school board candidate and gadfly that is also the father of the newest school board member Jessica Shewmaker.
 
I set up this blog as a way to inform voters about decisions of the school board, partially as a response to the secretive blog postings. John has set up a site 
 
It is a slash and burn personal vendetta site. He has posted some of the comments on other websites. That’s how I found out who it was.
 
I would like to answer all the questions he raises if anyone wants to know the answers. But his blog and responses are so full of inaccuracies it is hard to know where to begin. There is no quote about welfare and drugs. There is no reprimand by a judge. From what I’ve been told CalPers rules are different than he states. Convicted felons can run for office in California after their term is complete. I have criticized bond spending and in fact voted against several projects. The list of make believe positions he cites go and on and on.
 
I’m happy to discuss all those things publicly with John or Jessica.
 
I do want to express my outrage of dragging my children into the long running political dispute he has with me. I love both my kids. We waited along time for them.
Shewmaker has attacked their names, their schooling and things that we would have stopped had he been a third grader in our classrooms.

When they are adults, I hope we would have raised our children to be able to defend themselves in the court of public opinion, if they choose to be in it. But they are 8 and 5 and don’t deserved to be attacked in cyberspace.
 
John you may not like me, my politics and you may secretly run around lying about me. Have at it. I’m adult and can deal with the malevolent lies from an overly obsessive malcontent.
 
But John, leave my kids alone. A decent person would.

WCUSD Majority Support Tax Increases

At the last meeting of the West Covina Unified School District the board majority, (Jessica Shewmaker, George Fuller and Camie Poulos) voted to support a resolution to support “new revenue sources” to solve the state’s budget problem. The resolution itself contains no effort to streamline bureaucracy or cut out waste in the budget, the only specific solution was “new revenue sources”. In other words tax increases. One board member, who has a history of supporting tax increases claimed he wanted more federal monies, like more federal intervention through NCLB is the answer. Right.

Just so you know some of the tax increases under consideration include eliminating the home mortgage interest deduction, raising taxes on gas, sales tax etc….

While, the Governors budget is a mess and should be defeated or changed, the answer is putting more money in the classroom, not raising taxes on working people.