Posted by
Mark on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:55:20 PM
In last Saturday’s edition of the Sacramento Bee, Rocklin citizen Joe Scharrer burst on the scene as a major political player when it comes to advocating for Rocklin families the right to send their children to their school of choice.
Mr. Scharrer believes that parents should make the decision on what type of school is best for their children. He has been an outspoken critic of the Rocklin School Board and the Rocklin City Council for not supporting Rocklin Academy and Western Sierra Collegiate Academy.
We all know from past elections that people like Rocklin City Councilman Peter Hill and Rocklin School Board Member Steve “I never read my agenda” Paul have used character assassinations to silence the opposition.
Mr. Scharrer, the owner of a research and development company, decided to go high tech against the political establishment in Rocklin. He bought many web site domains that include the names of some of the elected officials that oppose charter schools and school choice. He even bought up some of the domain names of the Rocklin Chamber. Watch the papers for an alternative to the Rocklin Chamber of Commerce. A new Rocklin Chamber will soon be organized that will be free to all members.
Rocklin School Board member Steve Paul said, “to have something like this happen in our community is very disturbing.” This is very strange coming from a person that had to lie to the Placer County Central Committee in 2006 about his support for charter schools and his views on the California Teacher’s Association (CTA). Mr. Paul said, the CTA was a radical group but then took thousands of dollars in donations. How unethical. To have Steve Paul as President of the Rocklin School Board is very disturbing.
For some reason Bill Halldin, a member of the Rocklin Chamber, likes to see his name in the paper. I guess that helps promote his public relations firm. He said that it is “morally wrong to take somebody’s domain name and use it for your own personal purposes. It is very abusive.” Mr. Halldin will not admit that he supports the same character assassination tactics just like his good friends Peter Hill and the slick attorney Todd Lowell, a Trustee on the Rocklin School Board. Anyone remember the website rocklinparents.com, probably not. This was Bill Halldin’s unethical attempt to denigrate the good work of the people at PEER (www.rocklinedu.org). Bill needed to lie about people running for the Rocklin School Board in 2006 to cover up for the incompetence of the good ole' boys.
Mr. Scharrer has been offered money to sell the domain names. He refused. Finally, there is someone else in Rocklin that has the character and strength to stand up to these political hacks.
Mr. Scharrer is a reasonable man. He said he would release the domain names when the Rocklin School Board and the Rocklin City Council support charter schools.
Word of advice to the other politicians in town, if you are not going to support school choice, you better purchase your domain name or this Rocklin man will continue his web assault.