Why is Mike Spence so angry about everything? The person who thought he would be Governor of the State of California by now and can’t even get off the local school board. Spence even lost his claim to fame when another person took the title of “Youngest Board Member” in WCUSD history. When he ran for the Water Board a few years ago, he spent more than $50,000, 10 times the amount of the other candidates combined and lost 2 to1.
Mike Spence complains of how long time government employees are over paid when they retire. What does this fiscal conservative do – he uses the fact that when he was elected as a member of the school board he was covered under PERS. Spence takes a job for one year in state government at $89,000 per year so his pension goes from a few hundred dollars per year to tens of thousands of dollars per year. Spence continues to show his hyprocisy over and over. If Spence is complaining about it – he is probably doing it.
UPDATE: Mike Spence realized that his one year pledge would cost him thousands on his government pension, he decided to continue to work for two more years to get the 3 years he discovered he needed to live off the taxpayers – those indivduals he claims to work hard to protect.
Since Mike Spence has become the President of California Republican Assembly, membership has dropped to levels not seen in decades. Spence claims 10,000 members, but the total is closer to 2,000. Under Mike Spence’s leadership the California Republican Party has not won a single state wide race in which the CRA backed the candidate, except 1. Steve Poizner won the insurance commissioner race against Cruz Bustamonte. The CRA did not support Govenor Arnold. The CRA and CRP wonder why Arnie ignores them.
Spence has held the elected position of Board Member in West Covina for 16 years, yet if not for the Charter School and political pressure, he would not let his own children attend school in the district he has run for 16 years. Mike Spence has openly advocated allowing “anyone” to carry a gun onto school grounds, including the same criminals he accuses other school board members of allowing to hold an elected position. Mike Spence was quoted in the LA Times as saying the school district in which he is elected has “no hungry children and if they do it is because the parents spent the welfare money they receive on drugs.”
This is the same Mike Spence who voted against a bond to modernize schools in his district, but had no problem claiming how wonderful the outcome of the expenditures were for the school district during re-election campaigns. This is the same Mike Spence who was reprimanded by a Superior Court Judge in Los Angeles County for making false claims in court documents – another word for “telling” lies.
Mike Spence names his daughter “Reagan” after, you guessed it Ronald. He wanted to name his son “George”, but a local official who Spence dislikes is named George. At least, he had the common sence not to pick Richard. He did not pick Dwight as the teachers union president has that first name. You know he could never pick Theodore, because he would be called “Ted” as in Kennedy. That left Herbert ”Great Depression” Hoover, Warren “Corruption” Harding, and Calvin “I am so boring” Coolidge. If he had picked Calvin everyone would probably ask “Where’s Hobbs” I am not sure why he did not pick William (McKinley/Taft) - they could call him Bill (Clinton), but enough of 20th Century Republican Presidents.
Spence claimed in fundraising letters that the CTA was trying to take over the WCUSD. The only problem was one of the people he accused of being a “lacky” for the CTA – a candidate he was supporting. Again, this guy will say anything, except the truth.
It is easy to tell when Mike Spence is factually challenged – he is either speaking or writing.
