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As a young girl, Precy (nickname) watched her little brother and then her infant sister die because there was no doctor in her poor war ravaged fishing village. Then she was struck with rubella, slowly dying, so her mother Milagros prayed to God for a miracle as her dad Pedro frantically rowed his outrigger into heavy waves to get her to a hospital. Precy lived, but the doctor said her cornea was so damaged she would never see clearly again.

At age 13 she made a decision to leave her village because there was no school and she someday wanted to be a teacher, so with a dollar in her purse she made an 800 mile journey. Working as a nanny, she saved enough to go to college. Serving in the Citizens Army Training Corps, considering being an army officer, she was also waitress in a pizza restaurant. One night a drunken foreigner made lewd comments to her, but a stranger at the bar told the man to leave her alone. That was Richard who took her to dinner the next night and asked her to be his wife. With the help of Congressman Jerry Lewis, she came to America and continued her schooling at Crafton Hills College, making the Honor Roll and advancing to UC Riverside, earning a teaching certificate.

She worked first as a court appointed interpreter for the district attorney and helped put away a violent criminal who car jacked an elderly woman who could not speak English. She then became a preschool teacher, however when a two year old little girl suffered a dislocated elbow, she desperately pleaded with the preschool director to call 9-1-1. They not only refused, making the toddler suffer for an hour, they fired "Miss Precy" for interfering.

Precy, angry and very concerned, fought back, winning at the highest court in California and getting the largest such lawsuit settlement in county history. Precy then decided to write with Richard a new book, Who Cries for the Children, exposing the child abuse and corruption rampant in the day care industry, where her employer was sentenced to ten years in Federal Prison, yet still owns the largest preschool chain in America. Her book tells how parents pay $12,000 a year to send their children to substandard schools, with low paid teachers and directors who care nothing of child safety or education, just profits for the convicted criminal owner. Worst still, her book reveals, Community Care Licensing hired by taxpayers to protect toddlers, cares more about the profits of felon owners.

While life was hard for Precy there were rewards, such as walking down the red carpet with her husband Richard and Will Smith getting a big chuckle out of Will because her famous war photographer husband couldn't work her new camera. Precy is now learning sign language, hoping to start a new program for deaf and autistic toddlers.


Richard, Glen, Patty and Precy in front of a Forest Falls landmark. The best Restaurant around.Patty is Co- Chair of the Hermanas Libre organization and Glen is a key strategies for teachersforachange.com Patty was a school teacher in Mexico and keeps in contact with the teachers organization

STORY: Glen y Patty Burbano Duenos Del Mexicano Restaorantes en Oak Glen y Forest Falls Les Pide su Apollo y su voto para elsenor Richard
David Boyle an esposa Eufracia "Precy" Boyle candidatos por San Bernardino Comunidad Colegio Board De Gobierno . En 14 anos ellos an sido nuestras amigos y toda la comunidad latina con lo cual. A demostrado mucho respeto y amistad a todos los latinos

BREAKING CAMPAIGN NEWS, WEEK 4

DA to investigate voter registration fraud.

The District Attorney's office told Richard Boyle that the allegations of voter registration fraud are being investigated, despite apparent retractions, as reported in the press, by the Democratic Party which first made the charges.

The issue revolves around four Wal Mart Stores in the Inland Empire where the Democrats allege that voters were duped into registering Republican on an anti-crime ballot measure. Then the Democrats said they withdrew the charge, but would still monitor voter fraud. Political insiders believe that the Democrats, who are paying five dollars for certain new registered voters, themselves may be subject of DA scrutiny if they blow the whistle on the Republicans.

The Wal Mart connection gets even more bizarre because the teachers union, usually pro-Democrat, voted to endorse and give money to Carleton W. Lockwood, Jr, a Republican who does not allow unions in his family owned company. Lockwood Engineering, but also represented Wal Mart before the Highland City Council when they tried to create a super store. Wal Mart later backed out of the deal.

The District Attorney's office said correctly that is it not against the law to accept donations from the teachers union, or for that matter friendly fellow contractors who make money off the half billion dollar building projects at both colleges in the district. In fact contributing money or endorsing candidates, such as to Lockwood Jr , while maybe unethical or even failing to pass the "smell test," it is not against the law as it now written.

It is position of Teachers for a Change (TfaC), that the basic problem in politics is because lobbyists, such AIG, which gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to various congressional leaders including Obama and McCain, then ask for favors, such as a $700 billion dollar bailout with taxpayer money. (See Richard's Blog, right column)

TfaC (Teachers for a Change) meets with District Chancellor, Congressional and U.S. Senate aides to discuss agenda.

In extensive talks with Dr. Noelia Vela, Chancellor of the Community College District and Mike Trujillo, administrative assistant to Congressman Joe Baca, the future of the community college education system was discussed in detail.

Dr. Vela met with Richard and Eufracia Boyle for over an hour recently to discuss several topics, including pay and travel expenses for administrators, restoring infant care programs previously cut, creating a sports program at Crafton Hills College and discussions with the teachers union. While all sides agreed not to disclose the outcome of those talks, it was deemed by everyone to be very frank and informative. Eufracia presented a plan for a bold new pilot program to detect autism in infants and toddlers, hopefully funded with grants from the private and public sector. Richard and Eufracia Boyle also met with Mr. Trujillo, to discuss working with congress on bettering community college education. They also met with the staff of Senator Barbara Boxer and will send a report to Washington.

Two landmark court victories hailed.

Richard Boyle won two huge legal victories last week. Corks flew off champagne bottles when Richard, one of about l50 Hollywood television writers who filed an age discrimination class action lawsuit against production companies and talent agencies, learned that ICM, one of the biggest agencies, agreed to a $4,500,000 settlement.

Richard, a long time activist in the Writers Guild of America (WGA), which represents television and film writers, called this land mark victory "a break in the dam, and we hope the networks and studios will also cave in." The WGA filed a report to the courts that older writers were "significantly underrepresented on staffs, particularly at the major networks."

"This settlement agreement with ICM provides these talented writers with a fair resolution of their claims," said Richard's attorney, Steve Sprenger. On Nov. 3, Richard and the other writers will present evidence to the court of age discrimination in Hollywood. Richard, who won nominations for best screenplay from the Oscars, WGA and IFC, could not get work as a television writer because he was over forty years old, the cut off for writers according to the lawsuit.

On another legal front, the United States Attorney agreed not to oppose oral arguments by Plaintiff Richard Boyle in another landmark 1st Amendment case on the right to petition for a redress of grievances and the right to freedom of speech.

Therefore the United States Federal Court in Los Angeles will hear oral arguments from Richard and the Deputy U.S. Attorney on this constitutional issue. It will be the first major court test of the right to petition clause in the First Amendment since the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the United Mine Workers v. Illinois State Bar case. The Right to Petition is "among the most sacred precious liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights... the very idea of government." It was then ruled.

Richard and Eufracia Boyle filed a four page brief with the San Bernardino Registrar of Voters objecting that the $11,000 statement fee violates both the First and 14th Amendments because there is now no public scrutiny or even transparency of where the money, unlike other campaign expenses, comes from and gives an unfair advantage to those candidates wealthy or well connected enough to put up that money. Voters are not told of this statement fee, assuming that candidates who did not pay the fee simply did not care enough to write a statement. This is a clear violation of federal and state law, according the brief that may be filed with the court and California Secretary of State.

Only three of eight candidates did pay that fee and by a stroke of "luck" that defies all laws of probability, won the first three spots on the ballot. The teachers union, which deals in contracts with the College District governed by the same board, endorsed these same three candidates, thinking, according to one union insider, they the three were virtually assured of victory because of fee payment and ballot position.

The Registrar's office said the drawing of names for ballot order was random and members of both the Democrat and Republican parties were witnesses. Many doubt this, considering that the odds of the three candidates who did pay the registrar $11,000 coming in one, two and three in ballot order were between 60-1, according to one Democrat party spokesman to over 1000 to 1 in calculations by mathematics professors.

CAMPAIGN TRIVIA

Boyle and McCain, two things in common:

Richard Boyle and John McCain have two things in common. They are only a few of the candidates for public office in America who have been prisoners of war. John McCain was captured by the North Vietnamese when his plane was shot down and Richard was captured by the Khmer Rouge in 1975. McCain was a navy pilot, shot down and Richard was AP bureau chief in Phnom Penh who stayed behind to try to save little children dying of cholera in a Khmer Rouge concentration camp.

They also have something else in common, both consider the film "Viva Zapata" as the best movie of all times. Richard, who taught history of political film as a professor at USC in 1988, ranked the great film starring Marlon Brando as the Mexican rebel leader, as the best film of all times. McCain on CBS last week also called Viva Zapata as his favorite film. Richard's movie Salvador, which won an Oscar nod, was recently ranked by voters in Great Britain as one of the top 35 war films of all times.

CALIFORNIA'S FIRST LADY'S LETTER TO RICHARD & EUFRACIA

While the Obama or McCain senate staffs have refused to respond to fax letters, phone conversations or emails, the Teachers for a Change campaign did get a letter from Maria Shriver, First Lady of California:

"Thank you so much for your thoughtful letter. I appreciate you taking the time to share your important message about your book. (See page 5 of this website about book, Who Cries for the Children) I am always continuously amazed at the remarkable strength, courage and resilience of Californians across the state. I truly appreciate your genuine concerns because I'm a big believer that everyone's voice should be heard. Again, thank you for taking the time to write and for believing that together WE can create change. Best, Maria Shriver."

RESPONSE: Dear First Lady Maria Shriver: "Thank you for your encouragement and we totally agree with you that together WE can create change and that is why we are candidates, Teachers for a Change movement, for the Community College Board of Governors in San Bernardino County. We applaud you and your husband's efforts at winning passage of Proposition 11, which would create truly free and fair elections. We agree with the governor that because districts in California are so gerrymandered that there is seldom a real choice for voters, a clear violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, freedom of speech and right to petition as well as the l4th amendment. Best, Richard and Eufracia Boyle"

Women Have A Voice

During World War II the "V" sign stood for victory and later decades for peace, now it stands for the "V" symbol in sign language, V for voice: Women have a voice in politics and will not be silenced, is the cry of women everywhere in the County. This "V" sign is sweeping the County as women's group plan how to get elected the only woman running, Eufracia "Precy" Boyle. She and her husband Richard David Boyle, a screen writer and former USC professor, are running an uphill battle for reform, but are being outspent ten to one by some of their opponents. The Boyle campaign seeks to stop waste in the San Bernardino Community College District and spend that squandered money on real education goals such as free schooling for low income students, men and women's sports and restoring infant care. Eufracia "Precy" Boyle is a preschool teacher and co-author of a new e-book exposing institutionalized child abuse in preschools where convicted a Federal felon makes billions in profit, yet subjects little children to danger such as exposing them to wildfire smoke. It is called "Who Cries for the Children." (Pg.5: book-donations) This is the second week of the campaign, and each week this website will be updated with breaking news.

Eufracia "Precy" with women pals and supporters flashing V for a Women Have a Voice sign.

Phony Party Endorsement Cards

Two private companies are hitting up candidates to pay for mailers that try to trick voters into thinking these "Democratic" or "Republican" mailers are the officially sanctioned endorsements of those parties. That is simply a lie and a deception to fool voters. It is a total scam because both parties have absolutely nothing to do with these slate mailers. Anybody who ponies up between $6,000 for the alleged Republican flier and $2,500 for the so-called Democratic Slate, can be endorsed on the fake slate card. What is really bizarre to even the people pitching these slate cards is that the Republican mailer endorses two Democrats, John Futch and John Longville, who both coughed up the $6000. As of press time, no Republican has signed on. Futch seems to have a lot of money to throw around because he also paid $2500 to be on the Democrat mailer as well, but at least he is a member of that party. Many wonder, spending that kind of money, what kind of guardian of the tax dollars of homeowners he would be if elected. "I sure don't want to be on a bogus Republican endorsement mailer with two Democrats, that would be the kiss of death," Richard Boyle told one salesman. Richard has said he doesn't care about endorsements because the idea that someone can tell somebody else how to vote is insulting and demeaning to the intelligence of the voters. "When you pull the curtain, it's up to you and whatever higher power you listen," Richard added, "not some politician or something bought and paid for, a fake party "endorsement" flier that tells the voter how to vote."

Richard's Blog, Week 3

The campaign is getting wilder each week as the various sides of the battle are lining up. The reform side is led by me and Eufracia, we call "Precy" and the status quo side by the Carleton W. Lockwood, Jr. faction. Lockwood Jr. owns Lockwood Engineering and has two allies, both fellow well heeled members of the old time GOP white male establishment. I spoke with John Longville on the phone and discovered we go back to the campaign of Robert Kennedy against Gene McCarthy in the 1968 presidential primaries. I was working for Irish labor to get out the vote for Kennedy and Longville supported McCarthy. If Longville, Precy, the only woman running and I were elected, we would need only one more vote to make real changes on the seven member Board.

There are eight candidates going for the Community College District. Three are incumbents, the Lockwood Jr. faction, that has earmarked nearly a billion dollars on questionable items such tearing out a golf course, travel and a whopping $15 million for their pals, a few hundred high paid administrators.

I met Carleton Lockwood Jr. at the Crafton Hills College Job Fair and he really did not say to me what he was for, but he was against the idea of a sports program including football at the college until it was "studied."

Last year the District spent over five million dollars to hire outside consultants to study things to death. The end result is that nothing ever gets done, but the consultants get rich off us hard working, tax paying home owners.

My wife and I met John Futch at the farewell bon voyage dinner for Dr. Herbert Fisher and he seemed like a pleasant man, but he didn't say anything about what he stood for, only that his campaign was "going well." I guess if he can afford to pay for two both the phony Democrat and Republican party slate cards, $8500, plus the $11,005 filing fee, things must be going well.

$11,005 Statement Fee Question In Legal Brief

The Registrar of Voters requires $11,005 for a statement fee, to go on the ballot for each candidate wealthy enough or has rich pals in his pocket with cash to spare. It is the opinion, stated in a four page legal brief and petition the Teachers for a Change campaign filed with the Registrar of Voters on the first week challenges, that this practice is illegal. The legality of not telling voters that there was a fee for the issue statement, doubled from the last election, is the key legal question since this practice violates a precedent U.S. Supreme Court decision.

The voters are left with the assumption that those candidates who did not make a statement are either to stupid, uninterested, or simply could not write proper English. This assumption is in effect written into the voter guide sent out by the Registrar of Voters, and violates previous U.S. Supreme Court decisions as well as California and 9th Circuit decisions on the issue of fairness of elections. It also violates three amendments of the U.S. Constitution. That brief will be in this website next week.

"The registrar did not agree with this legal position in a written response, however we decided not at this time file a writ of mandate, because we were just starting our registration drive. Nobody in our campaign thought it a good idea to ask voters register and then to cast ballots in an election our legal petition, using the U.S. Constitution and Supreme Court decisions, calls in legal terms, a sham," said Richard Boyle

The main problem we believe, that while there is transparency in all other contributions to a political campaign over $1000, there is absolutely no scrutiny or even any documentation of who paid the candidate's $11,005 fee. It could be anybody, and since a teachers union insider said that in the endorsing meeting it was considered that those who paid this fee, which lacks any transparency, had an overwhelming edge over those candidates who did not pay the fee.

This is exactly the main point in our legal petition to the registrar of voters, the payment of undocumented or even not even scrutinized money from unknown sources puts a candidate that pays $11,005 in an almost overwhelming lead over those who did not pay it. "We are trying out best to get the word out to voters that we did not refuse to make a statement because we either have nothing to say or are too stupid to write it. We believe that $11,005 could be better spent paying for at risk high school students to go for the first year of college free," said Richard Boyle. The Teachers for a Change campaign, with Washington Mutual Bank and others have created a fund to help at risk youngsters go to community college. "For the cost of two statement fees, we could hire a preschool teacher to watch over infants at Crafton Hills, helping low income moms survive and train teachers to watch for the danger signs of autism," said Eufracia Boyle, who worked as a teacher at Crafton Hills infant care unit until it was abolished by Lockwood Jr. and gang and his allied administrators.

The Democratic Party yesterday also questioned registrations of voters outside of a Wal Mart store in which they claim that citizens were duped or tricked into signing on as Republicans. It is not known now if Democrats will file a court challenge to this election, but they did file a complaint with the Secretary of State.

Grand Jury Report

The Grand Jury in a report issued Tuesday, blasted waste by the County government for travel expenses, such as trips to China. The Boyle campaign, Teachers for a Change, also questions the half million travel budget of the Community College District. Once the president of Crafton Hills College flew to Italy to look at swimming pools.

The Grand Jury also investigated Assessor Bill Postmus, who is getting taxpayer money while on drug rehab and former assistant assessor Adam Aleman who is facing six felony charges. The Boyle campaign investigators are looking into the assessment by Postmus' of property owned by Lockwood Jr. Engineering Co. in Fontana. Both are leading Republicans in the district, and seem to have a cozy relationship. The Grand Jury is also looking into using government computers to do political campaigning.

Eufracia & Richard Talk With Students About Sports Program.

Teachers for a Change asked Crafton Hills College students on Tues., Sept. 9 if they wanted a sports program, 68 said yes and two said "no," but even of those, one said he would join a fencing club and the other said she liked to watch sports. Some were very emphatic about wanting a sports program, can't wait to get sports," wrote Jason and Aaron wrote, "we need more sports." Eufracia and Richard Boyle had a table at the Job Fair and handed out a list of questions to all students who came over. They are reform candidates in an uphill fight for the Community College Board of Governors on Nov. 4.

"We were very pleased with the response, which was overwhelming in favor of starting a sports program," said Eufracia Boyle, who handed over the results to President Gloria Harrison's office.
"There are right now enough players who were starters in high school to create a pretty darn good men's soccer team and we would have the core of an excellent basketball squad," said Richard Boyle, a former high school football and soccer coach. Some students said the new team should have a nickname, and one suggested a contest to ask all the student body to enter a contest to pick the best name and mascot to go with the green and gold school colors.

One of the opponents even came over to the table. Richard Boyle asked Carleton W. Lockwood, Jr. if he likes football. "I'm a dude, aren't I," said Lockwood, who is the president of his father's company, Lockwood Engineering and a long time board member. "Well since the majority of the students want a sports program, will you vote for it," Richard asked.
"That would take time," Lockwood Jr. said. "We would first have to make a study and then review it."
"If that was the attitude after Pearl Harbor we'd be living under the Empire of Japan," Richard replied.
"Well those were different times," Lockwood Jr. replied.
"Our campaign wants to bring back those times," Richard said "when America rose to greatness to meet that challenge. That challenge is that the governor and state legislature can not get together to deal with the $15.2 billion shortfall, and because of party politics and back room deals, it is schools and the students that suffer when they put the ax to the education budget. That is our crisis, our campaign Teachers for a Change believes." This impasse goes on and nobody knows how to solve it. "We only know it is our children who suffer the most," said Eufracia Boyle.

Dedicated teachers for a change, are candidates for the Nov. 4 critical election for San Bernardino County Community College District Board of Governors. They seek to get students to stay in high school and go on to community college, and if they don't have the money, will help low income students: Business, Labor & Citizens, through the great STEM program and the pilot Colton "First Year Free" project are helping. Washington Mutual Bank will match 3% of money spent. You too can save an at risk youngster, restore ethics in politics and fight for the U.S. Ratification of the U.N. Child Abuse Law.


Eufracia, right, with pals Delia, Grace and Irma celebrate at event.

Event with Key Advisors
To Discuss Presidential Race.

Richard asked advice from his most trusted advisers, both active duty and retired military. "Anyone who has served our nation in combat deserves to be listened to and I do," said Richard, who was wounded twice in combat in Vietnam and was a POW of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Men such as Navy destroyer service veteran Steve Jones and newly retired army Master Sergeant Ray Dungao, whose wife is a teacher, were there. There were others such as Andrew Mezurecky, a psychologist and famous 10th degree black belt karate expert and Greg Kenna, a corporate chief financial officer.

Most agreed the race for president is now razor thin, and Obama should have picked Hillary Clinton and was trumped by McCain, by picking Sarah Palin. Obama's lead has dropped in the last weeks, but it could have been worse except for the comments by McCain when asked by a reporter how many houses he owned. His handlers should have told him not to say, "huh, I really don't know."

Eufracia had discussions with her women friends about the slide in education in California, once first in the nation, now ranking 47th in teacher-student ratio. Marine Lance Corporal Robert Fraijo was so fed up he took his kids out of the overcrowded classroom and decided with his wife to home school them.


Ray, Steve, Andrew, Greg, Richard and Robert enjoy talking about presidential politics.

There was outrage expressed by the teachers and parents that the SBTA, the teachers union which has the contract with the community college district, will go ahead and endorse or even donate to the president of a company that does not allow it's workers to organize and has voted anti-labor on the Board of Governors. That is Carleton Lockwood, Jr. "They are not going to take my union dues to go to a guy who backs Bush, doesn't have a union shop, votes against us teachers and not endorse Eufracia, the only woman running, a teacher and a fighter for workers rights," said one teacher. Her husband was also angry and fired off this email to David Sanchez, President of the California Teachers Association. Richard, as this video shows, helped pass Prop. 98 which stopped school administrators from wasting money on non-education projects and insure teacher rights, wrote:
"If the local chapter goes ahead and makes the glass ceiling out of reach to a woman, a dedicated teacher, a Democrat and a fighter for the rights of working men and women everywhere, then the values we fought for in the Prop. 98 campaign, it seems, have been betrayed by a new generation of so-called labor leaders, who would rather 'shake hands with the devil' than support one of their own, a fellow teacher."

At the deadline for this website neared, it seemed, according to both the national NEA headquarters and the State CTA office that the local union would endorse Carleton W. Lockwood, Jr. and not support Eufracia Boyle, who if not elected would mean that the same old all male club, wealthy and well connected, would continue to run the half billion dollar community college district.

There was a lighter side to the event, as Andrew and his wife Tata laid out a l5 course feast with suckling pig and everyone had a great time, joking, dancing and having fun.

PLEASE REGISTER AND VOTE IT IS A RIGHT MANY DIED FOR.
Richard and my heartfelt prayers go out to the victims of the hurricanes in the Gulf Coast. We know how they feel. The coconut plantation I bought in 2000 to help support my village was destroyed by a typhoon last year, meaning many, especially children, would go hungry. When I became a citizen last year the first thing I did was register to vote and have voted in every election since. It was the second proudest day of my life (after the day I married Richard) because I swore a sacred oath before God to defend the our Constitution and the principle that: Men are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights---"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." In my native homeland, the Philippines, I knew dear friends that Ferdinand Marcos' death squads dragged off in the night. Civil rights workers, labor leaders, even priests and nuns, all who opposed his cruel dictatorship were tortured and horribly mutilated. I fled my southern Samar village at age 13 and went north to go to school. On Feb. 25th 1986 the people of the Philippines rose up because Marcos murdered Ninoy Aquino and declared victory in an election against his widow, Cory Aquino. Everyone, even poll workers, knew that election was rigged and it was a sham. My entire class and our Sister marched down to the military camp, where 200 brave Filipino soldiers were surrounded by 20,000 of Marcos’ troops, including tanks, backed up by fighter planes and attack helicopters. As Marcos' tanks approached we all stood in their way. We gave the soldiers flowers and begged them to join us. We prayed to God for a miracle. Then the lead tank driver got down from his turret and told his commanding colonel, "Sir, if you want to run over these people, you drive it", and he then us joined in front of the tank column. We cried and cheered. That was the end as helicopter crews joined our revolt. Marcos and his wife Imelda then fled to Hawaii. My husband Richard was there with Defense Minister Enrile and General Ramos, and 200 heroic soldiers, outnumbered 100 to 1, but all ready to die for liberty. I would not meet Richard until eight years later. The right to liberty and the right to vote is denied in many countries. It is a sacred right, not handed down by political parties or politicians, but derives from our creator. We are now starting our registration drive and our goal is to register 10,000 new voters by the registration deadline and then get everyone we can to the polls on Nov. 4. Women, new citizens of this great nation, those who think that elections here too are a sham…..we know your frustration, with corrupt politicians, lies, deceptions, all of it. Still, we implore you, exercise your right to vote. Too many brave Americans, at Valley Forge, Gettysburg, Iwo Jima, Pork Chop Hill, Firebase Pace and Baghdad have given their full measure of devotion to defend this right. Good luck and God Bless.

-Eufracia "Precy" Boyle

RICHARD'S BLOG
A SCREENPLAY NOBODY
WOULD BELIEVE.

I am a screenwriter, yet if I tried to show anybody in Hollywood the story of this campaign, nobody would believe it.

The cast of characters would be unbelievable. There is the college president and other officials who fly to Italy to look at swimming pools. The problem is that when the college was built 1972, it was decided to spend a lot of taxpayer money to build a state of the art golf course. One might ask who first thought up the idea building a golf course and then of flying to Italy to look at swimming pools to replace that golf course? This college was once the only one on earth that had no school newspaper, no organized sports whatsoever, nothing, but a beautiful golf course. But shucks, folks, it's only somebody else's money so let's fly off to Italy to find a swimming pool.

Well who might profit from such a bizarre plan. Being a member of the Board of Trustees (or Governors) of the San Bernardino Community College District is not only a mouthful, it doesn't pay much, only about $400 per month.

Why then would anybody serve on it? Now the first act moves along, or as they say in Hollywood pitch meetings, we're making a plot point. Well there is one gentleman whose daddy owns a large engineering company and presto, his son goes on the Board in 1991 and becomes president. He also becomes president by luck of his father's company as well as a key member of the Board. Engineering companies are in the business to make money off engineering, one would assume, so the College Board is a nice place to be.

There is a lot of money to be made, a half billion dollars to be exact. That is how much the whole entire scheme will eventually cost tax payers to chop up golf courses to build swimming pools and other stuff.
At this point in the pitch meeting, the producer would say, OK go on. This guy is a who owns the engineering company is staunch Bush style Republican and keeps unions out of his company and votes anti-labor but still gets the teachers union endorsement and cash. He is also very cozy with, in theory, the other side, management. $500,000,000 is a lot of taxpayer money to be spread around.

The plot thickens further: a congressman once ran against and beat the college president's brother in law and there is deep hatred and that same congressman has his own man in the race for the new board of governors. The Indian gaming casinos have their man. Everybody has a dog in this fight. Not for the $400 a month, maybe something else?

A spokesman for the college president says he has no personal knowledge of any profit that has been made or will be pocketed by any member of the board, who owns an engineering company, or anything else. Nobody, as far as he knows, is making a nickel for himself, his company or his cronies on the board or elsewhere says the spokesman. "Yeah, I believe in the tooth fairy?" The producer says, laughing.

Well taxpayers, they maybe all serve for civic duty, not the $400 a month. If I was the cosmic screenwriter, I would insert my wife Eufracia, who everybody calls Precy, and me into this screenplay. Why not, I believe we are all the directors and writers of our own movie.

At this point the producer handing me a bottle of Diet Pepsi, would say "hey, we need some good characters, this plot is a downer." Yes folks, there are some great people in this movie, and they are described inside this website.

The best is Mark Seay. We talked for over an hour last week and he told me about his dad from Little Rock, who barely missed being at Pearl Harbor, and became crippled from too much work at too little pay. One day the elder Seay told his son that he knew Mark would someday achieve greatness. His dad's words stuck with Mark, but when a drive by gunman's bullets destroyed 90 percent of his left kidney, his chances of living, let alone ever playing football again, were slim.

But Mark, who nobody wanted in the draft, still had his dad's promise in his heart, kept on going and finally got his chance for the San Francisco 49ers. Mark was assigned to the practice squad so each morning he would go at 7 a.m. to work out before team practice with the second string quarterback. They bonded and developed a lasting friendship. That was aging Joe Montana, probably the greatest quarterback of all time, relegated to second string by Steve Young.

Joe believed, as did his dad, that this third string wideout had a lot of guts and would make it. The 49ers, loaded with talent, put Mark on waivers and he was quickly grabbed up by the San Diego Chargers, who also were deep in receivers. Nobody gave the Chargers a chance at breaking even, let alone going to the playoffs.

But when the preseason began, the coach suddenly turned to his young rookie, Mark, and said get in the huddle, "from now on it's up to you." Like his father, and Joe Montana, Mark lived up to the coach's expectations and had one of the greatest rookie years of all times, catching 58 passes for 6 touchdowns and leading his team to the Super Bowl. Mark had the confidence of his team mates, he as a rookie took them there, but his old team had Steve Young, a great offense and unbreakable defense. They faced off in the Super Bowl.

The Chargers were down in the scoreboard and needed something to get them back in the game. When they scored, still far behind, they took a desperate gamble, go for the two point conversion. Nobody ever did it before in Super Bowl history and if the 49ers defense shut it down, it would be totally demoralizing. QB Humphries knew he could trust Mark to catch the quick down and out but what about that great 49er defense led by DB Hanks. Mark, his dad's voice with him, knew he could beat Hanks and he did.
Mark is in Super Bowl record books, the first two point catch ever.
Mark Seay has a remarkable story that any movie producer would love, but it isn't over. He goes to schools all over the county preaching his sermon of hope to students of all ages, many who have given up all hope.

"Nothing in life is a guarantee. It's up to you to make your life worthwhile," he told thrilled elementary students last week. Mark and the new Board candidate, that's me, talk and have an idea. Someday this college with a gutted golf course making way for a swimming pool, where 95 percent of the students want sports, but nobody listens to them so there isn't any, where money flows like water in a bucket full of holes that maybe on a field of dreams a championship football team could be created.

So the producer would say that's a great story who would play Mark? Forest Whitaker was once a great football player in Los Angeles until he was hurt or maybe Will Smith. Who would play you, James Woods?

There are plenty of other characters such as the county assessor who is a meth freak and pockets taxpayer money while in rehab, but everybody is afraid to do anything about it. There is the evil child predator who gets a job running the government project to protect little children. Nobody does anything, it is all covered up until it is too late. Everybody it seems is on the take, or are cronies of somebody on the take, or get money for doing nothing or even committing crimes, such as child sexual abuse. It would make Taminy Hall or old time Chicago look tame by comparison.

Well, concluding the pitch meeting, the producer would say, we'll pass on the script, I don't think the audience will believe it. At this point every screenwriter tries one last time. Maybe we can make it a political thriller. Did the district really make the contracts for the half billion dollar boondoggle on a really competitive basis, going to the lowest bidder, or did some go to the buddies of our engineering company president, who not only sits on the board, but is big pals with the union bosses and the few administrators who made $15,000,000 last year. Who really thought up the Italy swimming pool expedition and who really made money out of it? It was certainly not the taxpayers.

Yeah, well says the producer, what shall we call this movie? How about "Golf Gate?" Not catchy enough, says Mr. Producer. Well then we could make it a musical, use the music from Evita, "the money keeps rolling in," and that catches the producer's interest.

Yeah a fantasy musical. Ok, write an outline, people might accept that.

For Immediate Release

STOP WASTING TAX MONEY

No one really knows the final price tab to bail out AIG and other corporations, whose bosses made incredibly stupid decisions. The final figure now $700 billion will probably hit one trillion dollars of taxpayer money with no end in sight.

So far Barack Obama and John McCain seem to go along with the idea that tax dollars should be handed over to corporations, that because of bad management caused a financial disaster. AIG corporate bosses did make some smart decisions, giving over $80,000 to Obama and over $100,000 to McCain and almost a quarter million dollars to Senator Chris Dodd, a key senate banking committee chair.

The FBI is now investigating AIG as well as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack, which made huge contributions to members of congress and other banking firms such as Lehman Brothers, and even some lawmakers and government officials also may come under scrutiny. The Bush administration claims dire results if the bailout does not pass congress, put public outrage in letters and calls shows Main Street doesn't buy that theory.

Officers of these institutions that failed pocketed $39 billion in bonus checks. Now these same executives want Obama, McCain and other Senators to pay with tax dollars for their mistakes while they get go keep their billions in bonus money.

Even if AIG does go under despite the federal bailout, it is sure the CEO will bail out on a parachute of gold with taxpayer money. Like a loser in a poker game who is gambling his children's and grandchildren's inheritance on continuing losing hands, our government, from Washington D.C. to the lowest levels here in San Bernardino County, seems to look upon tax dollars as manna from heaven, to be thrown away at will.

Taxpayers here pay the high salaries of men such as County Assessor Bill Postmus while he is languishing in drug rehab, and a boss of the Phoenix Program, designed to save at risk children who turned out to be a child sexual abuser.

The Community College District spent $14,000,000 to pay salaries and benefits for a few administrators and another half million on their travel, yet cut the infant care program at Crafton Hills College, reducing the number of badly needed preschool teachers, such as my wife Eufracia Boyle, to pay for these costly indulgences. It is working moms who now have nowhere to go for child care and their infants who suffer the most, not the administrators making yearly hundreds of thousands of dollars.

When will the taxpayers, homeowners like us who face rising mortgage costs and lower home values, in this county down 40 percent in one year, refuse to pay for this waste, both at the national and local levels. How long will the voters let them get away with it, before somebody yells, "enough?" This bailout alone will cost each man woman and child in America $2300 each.

The national debt, now reaching into the $12 trillion mark if this bail out goes through, has led to devaluation of the U.S. dollar, once the standard currency of the world. It is even rejected for entrance payment at tourist sites in India that prefer the Euro or Yen. None of the major candidates for president seem able or willing to address these economic problems except to voice well scripted and rehearsed platitudes written on the teleprompter by their campaign handlers.

The bottom line is it is very hard for presidential candidates to accept large donations from corporations such as AIG, and when their CEO blunders by making bad loans and investment choices, not to come to their rescue with our hard earned tax dollars. And will they continue this welfare program for rich corporate owners? Since lobbies for banks and other failing companies, with millions to spend, entertained key congressional leaders at both Republican and Democrat conventions with lavish parties, this corporate welfare will continue forever until the federal treasury becomes as bankrupt as the banks and companies such as AIG they seek to rescue.

Like the bad poker player, they are gambling with the futures of our children and babies yet to born, insulting the great American legacy that hard work pays off, owning a home was a good thing, and thrift or wise investment choices were better than stupid blunders.

I wonder if George Washington or Abe Lincoln were alive today, would they tolerate this mess created by greedy politicians and bureaucrats who look upon public service as a way get rich and fat, like pigs feasting from the trough of the taxpayers, rather than serve their nation, community and future generations.

Richard Boyle served as a national security adviser to Rep. Pete McCloskey, was a professor at USC and Stanford, and is now with his wife, Eufracia Boyle, a preschool teacher, reform candidates for San Bernardino County Community College District Board of Governors.

Eufracia "Precy's" Blog

Busy Friday Night

As our campaign entered its third week, Richard and I had a busy Friday night, first attending the retirement dinner for Dr. Herb Fisher and then rushing to watch the Yucaipa High School football team play.

We met many old pals and made new friends as well. We first met our dear friend Pastor Randy Rodden, who was a former Academic Dean at Community Christian College in Redlands as well as the Pastor of our own Valley of the Falls Church in beautiful Forest Falls. I first met Pastor Rodden when I worked for six years at Forest Home Christian Ministries and have been good friends with he and his lovely wife Leslie for 14 years. Richard was very interested in speaking with Pastor Rodden about the budgets of faith based colleges, such as Community Christian, which is one of the few Christian community colleges in the nation. "I don't think you spend $15,000,000 for administrators and a half million on travel," Richard asked Pastor Rodden, who shook his head. "We try to reach at risk youngsters who never dreamed of going to community college, and over 80 percent graduate and go on to four year colleges," Pastor Rodden replied. They do it for a lot less per student than the over bloated non-education budget in the college district.

Eufracia "Precy" and Pastor Randy Rodden discuss education. Richard and I discussed our campaign, Teachers for a Change with State Superintendent of Education Jack O'Connell and he said he would check out our website. www.TeachersForAChange.com

Deputy Zach Beckum, Precy and Reserve Lt. Manny Acosta discuss law enforcement issues.

We then discussed law enforcement issues with Deputy Zach Beckum, Community Liason representative for the San Bernardino Sheriff's Dept. and Reserve Lt. Manny Acosta, President of Pepe's Towing. "You blow it, we tow it," he joked as we all agreed that our Sheriff's department is one of the best in the nation, covering the largest land area in the lower 48 states.

Deputy Beckum was a former star linebacker at Crenshaw High School and Richard talked about football with him and the great NFL receiver Mark Seay, who like Deputy Beckum, tries to convince at risk youngsters to stay in school and go on to college.

Richard and former NFL star Mark Seay talk football.

Richard has followed Mark's career since he was a star at Long Beach State, and created a fantasy NFL league with fellow high school football coaches in those years. Richard drafted Mark in his fantasy first round, but the NFL owners passed on him. Richard's draft choice paid off when as a rookie Mark caught 58 passes and took his San Diego Chargers to the Super Bowl. They talked about football, a subject I really do not understand very well.

We also met the delightful Christine Case, the wife of the great labor leader, Allen Case, President of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 477. She is a skilled stunt person for film and television. We couldn't stay for the dinner, rushing off to watch the opening kick off of the Yucaipa High School football game. Richard told Mark Seay he was interested in watching the new junior quarterback Wyatt Padgett as well as other players in hopes of creating a football program at Crafton Hills College in 2010.

Eufracia "Precy" having fun on the sidelines with Mrs. Candy McLeod.

At the game we met many wonderful people, including Air Force Master Sergeant Charles (Mac) McLeod, aerospace science instructor at the school. His wife of 34 years Candy McLeod and I had fun on the sidelines making our "V" sign as Richard and M/Sgt McLeod talked about the success of the Air Force ROTC program at Yucaipa High. Richard and "Mac" were both veterans of the Vietnam War and discussed the old days. Richard was wounded twice in combat and was a prisoner of the Khmer Rouge and M/Sgt McLeod served in not only Vietnam, but the Philippines, Korea and elsewhere his nation sent him.

Many high schools and colleges, under pressure, are closing ROTC programs, but both Richard, who served in the ROTC and me, who was an officer candidate in the Philippine Citizens Army Training, both support these programs which build character and train young people to be prepared for war. While Richard and I disagreed with using falsified intelligence, a deception that led us into war in Iraq, we both strongly support our fighting men and women. M/Sgt McLeod proudly told Richard they have 80 members of the ROTC including a large number of women.

After a week of campaigning with Richard, we were glad to get back to Forest Falls, where there has been much sadness since one of our neighbors was found dead on a hiking trail not far from our mountain chalet. We had a chance to relax at parties with Building Contractor Jim McCune and his wife Barbara and hang out with our niece and nephew and baby Brooke on our deck.

Richard, Precy and Brooke relax looking at the beautiful mountains from their home.

It was because of little children like Brooke that we decided to run for the Board of Governors. College administrators decided to abolish the excellent infant care program at Crafton Hills College, where I worked as a teacher, to pay for other programs such as over a half million dollars on their own and professors' travel.

Now working parents and single moms have no where to go, except spending $12,000 at shoddy schools such as the KinderCare chain owned by a convicted Felon, sentenced by Federal Court to ten years in prison.

Besides the campaign, I am taking two night classes at Crafton Hills, one in American Sign Language and the other in Public Health Management. I am writing a paper on why did so many children die in my home fishing village in the South China Sea, where I lost a little brother and sister, plus an older brother because of an untreated ulcer. There were no doctors in my village, so I asked two experts for the thesis, my husband Richard and our nephew, the renowned author, Eugene Schoenfeld, M.D.

I am lucky since they both worked for and were mentored by two of the greatest humanitarians in the 20th Century, Sean MacBride, founder of Amnesty International and Asst. Secretary General of the United Nations and the world famous Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Both men won Nobel Peace Prize awards and both were served by Richard and Gene as key lieutenants and trusted aides. Richard helped save dozens of little children during a cholera epidemic, with French doctors and nurses, when he was a prisoner of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Gene, working as a doctor with Schweitzer's medical clinic in Gabon, Africa, also saved countless little children.

Why we ask, when 193 nations of the earth signed the U.N. Charter of the Rights of a Child, abolishing child rape, torture, slavery, sexual mutilation and forced military service, only two did not. One was the worst offender, Somalia and the other the United States. We have asked the senate staffs of both Obama and McCain why? Obama's staff says that answer is up to his campaign and McCain has said nothing.

Dreaming Big Dreams, Finding a QB

By Richard David Boyle

The key to any good community college football program is finding a starting quarterback, who can lead his team, and has the character to face adversity.

If the Crafton Hills College is to field a championship team in 2010 it is a very daunting task since right now the idea of team sports doesn't have the support of either the faculty or administration. However, a sample opinion poll of the 5900 students showed 97 percent of them do dream big dreams, and want their Green and Gold No Names to not only play football as well as women's sports, but to achieve victory.

At a dinner for retiring San Bernardino School Superintendent Dr. Herb Fisher, I told Mark Seay, the great NFL receiver who took his San Diego Chargers to the Super Bowl as a rookie, about the excitement around junior Yucaipa High School quarterback Wyatt Padgett.

I told Mark that he has four very good receivers, but has a new and inexperienced front line and will be tested early. "Well then I guess he will learn fast," said Seay. The day before Seay, the first player in history to catch a two pointer in the Super Bowl, talked about wide outs getting "in the face" of the defensive back to win the ball.

My wife Eufracia, and I, as guests of Mark Anderson, Athletics Director, watched Yucaipa lose the home season opener to powerful Rancho Verde. "We are up against one of the best" said Anderson, who showed a lot of guts to schedule the best opposition on opening night. Before the game I went out to shake Padgett's hand, wish him luck and he said "thanks." I told him of our dream to create a football team at Crafton Hills and asked if signed a letter of intent with any other school. He said not yet and would be interested.

Thunderbird Stadium is a beautiful place to play football, a possible good choice for the Crafton Hills No Names, but that is yet to be decided. Just as expected, Padgett's line collapsed and an early fumble gave Rancho Verde a quit one touchdown lead. But Padgett, under pressure all night, kept his poise, and showed he could run. We really didn't get a chance to see how good his arm is, but he kept the game from being a total blowout.

However Harvey Cohen, the San Bernardino Sun writer covering the game and I were very impressed with Thunderbird defensive back, Cody Meservey, who reminded me of a young Ronnie Lott his first year at USC. Meservey was brilliant on defense, making tackles over the field, and when it looked like a wipe out early in the first half, the 6-4 defensive back leaped in the air in the end zone, "in the face" of the end, to pick off a sure touchdown toss from Mustang soph QB Travis Champion. The final score was 35-0. =0 A Cohen, who knows as much about high school football as any sports writer I ever met, said the Thunderbirds were lucky, thanks to Meservey, to be only l4 points down at half. The sports writer knew of our record at Ribet Academy in La Canada, where I took as head coach a new football team to an undefeated season in league play and our basketball team won the California state championship the same year, 1988. Again in the third quarter Meservey made another key interception, and if he is not snapped up by a four year college, would be a great cornerback for our Crafton Hills No Names.

The Thunderbirds under first year coach John Hallenbeck are sure to get better as his line gains experience and we are very anxious to see them play Redlands East Valley, which has one of the best high school quarterbacks in the nation, the 6-4 Tyler Shreve. He had an injured shoulder, and struggled in the first half, missing his first six passes, but still, with his running, led REV to a very "lucky" 24-16 victory over a very tough Riverside North on Friday. The east county is loaded with great junior quarterbacks, including Big Bear's Craig Hall, however the big problem is that good players often go to community colleges elsewhere. San Bernardino Valley College got its bell rung by Riverside Community College on Saturday, 51-10. Riverside CC has l8 players from the Redlands-Yucaipa area, including QB Coy Glass and wideout Corey Ham, both from Redlands.

Young quarterbacks often make a big mistake by signing on with big four year football programs, and then end up playing third string defensive back or some other position other than signal caller because there are so many good players on the roster. I sat in class with O. J. Simpson at San Francisco City College in the early sixties. He could have gone to a lower division four year school and be overlooked, but chose community college instead, where he got the attention of scouts from all over America and ended up at USC, where he broke almost every rushing record. His problems of character were showing up even then, but he still ranks as one of the great running backs in history.

The big problem, as I said to Dean Crowley, Commissioner of the Foothill Conference, is that nationwide, community college football programs have been hit by hard times. In the old days there was a national community college championship played every year at the Rose Bowl between the best team in the east versus the best in the west. It was nationally televised and always sold out, bringing millions of dollars to the colleges involved.

That is now a lost dream, ended by college administrators who would rather spend tax money on their own travel budget. But as I said to Crowley, why not bring it back in 2010? If we are to believe in Mark Seay's concept of dreaming big dreams, why not bring back the east-west championship, and who knows, maybe=2 0our Crafton Hills No Names will be there. Ah, it's just a dream, but there is no law against dreaming.

Everybody keeps telling me it will never happen, but that was also said to the coaches and players at Redlands East Valley, when that school tried to create a new startup football program, and with raw players and went 0-10 the first season. But the REV players and coaches did dream big, and look at them now. Last year they went 10-0 in league play and are 1-0 this year, a football power.

I was a professor emeritus at USC where the alumni screamed in horror when they hired Pete Carroll, considered a bad choice as a NFL coaching castoff. But Pete had a big dream, and by whipping Ohio State 35-3 proved to all dreams do come true. We also did at Ribet Academy. It's OK to dream big dreams, if you don't even try you will never achieve victory.