Money back in the classroom?? Proves she is not IN the classroom!

That $10.4 million settlement from RBC Capital Markets sure comes in handy when you want to lie about Walker's plan "working." Rajnicek is a political hack and a liar. (http://bit.ly/uyre90)

It's sad how people like Karin are just puppets, who are mindless pawns making Waukesha a less desirable place to live.

Phil Scarr: Are you a college grad?

The wonderful union members/liberals are sending this woman's email around on twitter and telling people to send a message to intimidate her. They also are sending around this poll telling people to "crash" it. Tomorrow they will display all of their thuggish, violent, boorish behaviors in front of the television cameras in their attempts to scare the wife and kids of Scott Walker.

The Union mantra... Freedom of speech for me, not for thee. Good for Karin getting out there and telling it like it is. I hope this encourages more school board members to come out and publicly support the budget reforms that Walker and the legislature put into place to help their districts.

Of course the unions and other lefties will not be happy about this, but they are never happy. However, if a politician or school board member were to support their side in a commercial, they would say what great leadership they had and how principled they are.

Just because she is on the school board does not mean that she loses her right to speak out on issues.

Walker's reforms are helping the Waukesha School District:
http://maciverinstitute.com/2011/08/waukesha-district-uses-the-tools-to-fix-budget-improve-schools-for-kids/

Don't believe me when I tell you Scott Walkers' reforms are working. Hear it for yourself from school districts and municpalities around the state.
www.reforms.wi.gov
Thank you Karen R. for having the guts to tell the truth.

Doesn't the school board have a policy about members not making statements like this commercial while representing the school board? I remember that it was discussed during a candidate forum back in March.

It is my understanding that while school board members are certainly welcome to their personal opinions, those opinions are not to be expressed in connection with their work on the school board. These critical, elected, nonpartisan, positions need to remain neutral in their "work". Making these types of public statements, especially in the forum that she chose, could be a catalyst for creating a poor working relationship among the school board. The last thing the district needs is warring factions like we see in our state legislature and in the MPS school board. I'm not saying it's easy, especially in these politically charged times, but it's simply in appropriate and I would guess an infraction against policy as I know that principals, teachers and staff; within the confines of the school need to remain neutral. I'm proud to say that the teachers at my children's school, despite strong personal opinions have been very good about maintaining neutrality.

It appears she violated policy. http://bit.ly/uQMUpf

She is entitled to her opinion. The ad did not mention where she is a school board member or what district. The tools that our local shcool district had available did help us to balance our budget. THAT is factual information.

Nice try but sorry, not correct. She IS entitled to HER opinion, but she is NOT entitled to express her opinion as a BOARD MEMBER without concurrence from the other board members and the superintendent. She's in hot water now.

http://bit.ly/uQMUpf

Keith if that teacher in Portage did that, then she should be reprimanded just like this school board member should. Rules are rules and she violated one and there are repercussions for that. No different than if another school board member stood outside the next school board meeting with recall Walker petitions - it simply doesn't belong in this setting.

Shouldn't we be shocked that a *SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER CAN'T ADD???* I mean seriously, people. What does that say about Waukesha schools????

If you're concerned as I am with the politicization of this non-partisan school board position, please reach out and let Todd Gray the Waukesha Superintendent of Schools, at 262-970-1012 and let him know what you think.

If you want to know what's really happening with Education in Wisconsin, read the official report from Scott Walker's own DPI: http://bit.ly/sKs87t

Absolutely love her!

@ Phil Scarr
Lying?? She is telling the truth . Said Todd Gray, Waukesha School Superintendent, in a prior Patch article, "I think it’s a good budget overall.”
He also thanked others throughout the district for their sacrifices regarding changes in their benefits that resulted in savings for the district.
The recent changes at the state level in teachers' benefits has been cited as a substantial savings mechanism for the district.
The budget amounts to $160 million in expenditures, a decrease of nearly 14 percent from last year.
You cannot argue with the FACTS!
Do you even reside in the Waukesha School District????

"This is a partisan ad intended to sway people away from voting in favor of the recall." Phil Scarr from Blogging Blue.
http://bloggingblue.com/2011/11/15/pro-walker-school-board-member-violates-policy/
Excuse me? Did I miss something? Did someone submit 540,000 signatures to initiate a recall election?

I'm sure Phil Scarr will encourage nasty phone calls to Tom Barrett for using his non-partisan office to make partisan pronouncements.

Scarr's ignorance of government is telling. Walker's DPI? Does he understand that the DPI Superintendent is an elected position? The $10 million he keeps babbling about is part of the school district's failed investment scheme to cover retirement benefits. That $10 million is spent and then some. School board members aren't answerable to the superintendent. The superintendent is answerable to the school board.

However, I do encourage Scarr to call Todd Gray so Scarr can learn how Act 10 in Gray's opinion benefited the Waukesha school district this year and will benefit the district in the future. I had a great conversation with Gray on that very subject. http://maciverinstitute.com/2011/08/waukesha-district-uses-the-tools-to-fix-budget-improve-schools-for-kids/

There's that amusing straw man logical fallacy again. The TeaOP seem to rely on that as their primary debate tactic despite the obviousness of it's absurdity. Once again:

"A straw man is a component of an argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position, twisting his words or by means of [false] assumptions. To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position."
(http://bit.ly/3P9WUj)

So, let's get to the heart of the argument, shall we? Yes, I *incorrectly* referred to the State Superintendant as "Walker's DPI" Superintendant. Mea culpa. I should have realized that if he really WERE a Walker appointee, the damming report (http://1.usa.gov/sI6Pvk) released by the DPI which showed a wide swath of devastation to our educational landscape would never have seen the light of day. My mistake.

But the real issue at hand, and the on that I expect to continue to hammer, is that Ms. Rajnicek clearly violated school board policy by appearing in a partisan advertisement for Walker. Even Patch has the story now. (http://bit.ly/tz7dRl) and I'm curious to see what the school board will do about it.

I'm concerned that the ad doesn't provide full disclosure: Karin's been a school board member since April and ran as anti-union. A believable commercial would be a non-partisan/impartial school board member who ended up concluding that Act 10 actually did help. Many districts squeaked by with the current budget, mainly because of all the retirements. Many school districts started the next budget sooner than normal to try to find more cuts for the next yrs. budget. Check out the Institute of WI's Future report on the economic and job effects of Act 10/32. http://www.wisconsinsfuture.org. When Waukesha county loses $47 million in local spending, how many jobs will the equate to? These reforms are only partially impacting local economies as the local budgets don't take affect until January. In next 6 months: we'll see more job losses (9700 lost in Oct), next group of school employees get contract non-renewal notices, more houses are foreclosed due to job losses, houses lose value causing property tax revenue decreases. State agencies have been told to find more budget cuts because tax revenues are going down. Recently state agencies have been told to find an ADDITIONAL 3-5% cuts due to expected revenue decreases along with the same amount as an additional contingency for more revenue losses. These agencies have been cutting & cutting for years. Anyway, we need truth, not fiction & there's been so much fiction this year. Research for yourself, don't accept blindly!

.gov Can we trust what the government says anymore? I voted for Walker and I feel violated. The reports in which DPI surveyed administrations of school districts tells you the direction schools are headed toward if this problem doesn't get fixed. Teaching every child by following the law FAPE is difficult in todays society, so difficult many schools including the school mentioned in the commercial currently doesn't follow without excuses. Teachers every day struggle to differentiate for 30 students in a classroom, wait until that number becomes 60 similar to what schools in Michigan are facing. Does your child need support to learn todays concept? I hope you can teach them patience because they have to wait in line behind 59 other students before they can get that help. As a teacher, I struggle to have lunch on a daily basis because your children come first, and I only wish I could spend the entire weekend prepping for the next day, week, month, but unfortunately to pay for losses, I had to keep my part time job as well as continue to beg my husband to get a part time job. I don't need anyone to pitty me, the point is my personal opinion is that the republicans have lost my vote thanks to walker. Good bye republicans, good morning democrats. Walkers wimpy kitten tap to my face was enough to wake me up, and I'm not sleeping until I help the little kitty get fired, no problem! PS @ republicans, my parents moved out of state, that's 3 less votes your way and counting...

Phil Scarr:
1) You reference the "damming report released by the DPI”... blah, blah, blah. If Karin Rajnicek missed out on math skills and Keith Best missed out on logic skills, it would follow that you have missed out on grammar skills. In the same condescending fashion as you do it, I will define “damming”: (verb) to furnish with a dam; obstruct or confine with a dam. I think that you probably meant to use the word "damning". By the way, thanks for defining the “straw man” for all of us conservative types with lesser intelligence than you. By graciously taking the time to educate us about this concept, we might just recognize the tactic the next time we see the master of it (Barack Obama) using it.
2) You make several references to the $10.4 million settlement being the major factor that helped the school district with their budget. Graciously again, you were kind enough to provide Superintendent Todd Gray's phone number for people to contact him. When you call Mr. Gray, be sure to ask about that $10.4 mil. He'll tell you that it went to pay down debt related to the bad investment. None of it went toward this year's budget.

I don't fault her for estimating, people do it all the time, something costs $1.75 people say it cost me two bucks big deal.

I was more concerned with the clearly partisan tone of the Patch. If the Patch had done the opposite and sided with Walker many of you would be going bizarre. You can't have it only your way, other people's opinions deserve fair representation and equal time.

Each time the liberal left and union flunkies try to shout down, threaten, intimidate and harass to support your positions it only strengthens the opposite position as you further confirm your insecurities and thuggish behavior to the citizens in the middle and right of you.

Want everyone to listen to you, stop yelping, threatening, intimidating people's children, act like adults who are in control of themselves on juvenile bullies whose only argument is I'll hurt you if you don't give me your lunch money.