Dear Everyone;
The SF Chronicle and The SF Bay Guardian have endorsed Prop. A the School Parcel Tax. I wrote two separate LTE's to each of them for publication. Time will only tell if either will publish.
Each was written to address issues they had in their endorsements and was written to the audiences of each and [ hello - Starchild 
] in 150 words or less.
Ron Getty - SF Libertarian
Hostis res Publica
Letter to SF Chronicle After Endorsement of Prop. A
Dear Letters;
The $28.8 million in school parcel tax [“Yes on teachers”, 5-6-08 ] for increasing teacher salaries hides the real use. Large amounts of the $28.8 million tax will pay for non-teaching staff salaries, training programs, technology purchases and other non-salary purposes.
New teachers start at $43,000 and experienced teachers can earn $82,000. SFUSD teachers aren’t street panhandlers who sleep in alleys. California teachers statewide average $56,000 the third highest pay nationally.
By comparison, private industry workers in SF average $50,000 with SF public employees’ averaging pay and benefits of $85,000.
With declining student enrollment consolidate schools. Sell the vacant property for “affordable” rental housing development. Give the land-sale money to the SFUSD specifically for teacher pay raises.
Vote No on 20 years of a special tax indexed to inflation. The SFUSD with its $350 million budget is like Oliver Twist asking for more but unlike him not saying please.
Ron Getty
Chair-Initiatives Committee
Libertarian Party of San Francisco
Letter to SF Bay Guardian after endorsement of Prop. A.
Dear SFBG;
I read the initiative for Proposition A the School Parcel Tax. I didn’t read where it stated the $28 million in taxes raised goes specifically to the benefit of new teachers or teachers within their first 3-5 years. The Prop. A shopping list has substantial sums going to items as pay for non-teaching staff, training programs and technology purchases.
It doesn’t state that based on teachers union work rules and approved pay scales that the
$28 million in taxes will be allowed to go to new teachers pay without the teacher’s union approval. New teachers can start at $43,000 and senior teachers can earn $82,000 which means SFUSD teachers aren’t street panhandlers who sleep in alleys.
Put up the evidence that the $28 million in taxes will go exclusively for new teachers pay or shut up and pull your endorsement of a pig-in-a-poke proposition.
Ron Getty
Chair-Initiatives Committee
Libertarian Party of San Francisco