Petition vs. David Crane as Regent

Gov. Schwarzenegger nominated David Crane for the Board of Regents just before he left office in December 2010. The nomination is currently stalled in the Senate, opposed by Senator Leland Yee and others, but Governor Brown has yet to withdraw Crane and nominate a better candidate. Crane is outspoken opponent of public sector unions. He recently published an inflammatory editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle attacking collective bargaining rights for public employee unions, couching these rights as threats to public higher education and good governance. You can read and sign the petition here Please sign and distribute widely. Chris Rosen, co-Chair of BFA P.S. Senator Ted Lieu’s excellent rebuttal of David Crane Senator Ted W. Lieu (D-Torrance), Chair of the [...]