Which makes the following from the L.A. Daily News even funnier (the details keep piling up as the excerpt goes on):
Los Angeles Unified [School District] will pay $200,000 and give lifetime health benefits to settle a sexual-harassment allegation filed by a facilities executive against retired Superintendent Ramon Cortines, officials said Wednesday.
Scot Graham, who has worked in the Facilities Division for 12 years and is now director of leasing and asset management, claims that Cortines made unwanted sexual advances during a weekend spent at the superintendent's second home in Kern County in July 2010.
Graham's attorneys notified the district in March - nearly a year after Cortines retired - that he intended to file a sexual-harassment claim.
Hoping to avoid potentially expensive litigation, the school board met three times in executive session before voting 4-3 on Tuesday to approve the deal.
The settlement gives Graham $200,000 cash, plus lifetime health benefits that officials valued at roughly $250,000. In exchange, the 56-year-old Graham agreed to retire from his $150,000-a-year job on May 31.
During a briefing for reporters, officials released a statement from Cortines that outlined his years-long friendship with Graham and how he'd alerted his buddy to a job opening at the district in 2000. He also admitted to a single incident of consensual sex in 2010, but denied that his advances were inappropriate.
"As the district's former top staff member, I regret allowing myself to engage in such spontaneous, consensual behavior," said Cortines, 79, who has never beeen married. "However, Mr. Graham had never indicated to me that our interaction was unwelcome."
Is this $450k coming out of retired Superintendent Cortines's pension? If not, what evidence is there that this isn't one Big Gay Collusive Scam?
Cortines was chancellor of New York City schools in the 1990s. Mayor Rudy Giuliani pressured him into quitting by telling him to not "be so precious." So, now we know what Rudy was hinting at.
P.S. The more I look into this, the more interesting material turns up. But, that will have to wait for another time.
Public officials have really lost their nerve. To qualify as "harassment," conduct has to be "severe" and "pervasive." And did he travel to Ridgecrest at gunpoint?
ReplyDeletetax payers get f---ed in the ass too.
ReplyDeleteThese types of suits and settlements are outrageous and only happen with regularity with so little evidence of like of consensuality in the Anglosphere.
ReplyDeleteThis stuff is a real drain on our economy. Not as bad as the affirmative action / diversity /disparate impact huge inefficiency and internal HR compliances costs, but bad.
Layer after layer of legal and regulatory sludge over our competitiveness.
gay power is perfect metaphor of modern liberalism: decadent, sterile, and buggering America in the ass.
ReplyDeleteTaste the rainbow.
ReplyDeleteCan't these aging queens ever give it up? Do they have permanent erections or something?
ReplyDeleteActually, this sounds like a good deal for the LAUSD: the guy makes $150k per year, so they would have had to pay him $450k if he just stuck around and fogged a mirror for another 3 years -- and that's not counting any retirement benefits he might have been due on top of that.
ReplyDeleteobamanomics is homoconomics. boof the tax-payer and call it love. 'same sex marriage' is perfect metaphor for homoconomics of obama. it's same people in the elites hogging the power.
ReplyDeleteSo THAT's why Ramon Cortines became the superintendent of education in San Francisco.
ReplyDeleteOkay, the dude on the bottom gets $450,000.
ReplyDeleteBut did the dude on the top have to sacrifice anything?
Was he fired?
Did he have to give up his own pension?
Did he have to pay any fines?
'Cause, if not, then Top & Bottom sure do have the makings of one whale of an awesome con game - boff each other once or twice, collect hundreds of thousands from the taxpayers, and then laugh all the way to the bank...
If I invite my secretary out to my summer house for a weekend, and he or she accepts, how in the world is anything that happens there my employer's fault? How did we get to the point where serious people with robes and suits and large salaries based on extensive educations could sit around in impressive rooms and make decisions like this as if they make any sense at all?
ReplyDelete"So people who engage in anal penetration just don't live very long."
ReplyDeleteWhat about women who engage in anal sex?
The gray Japanese robot - so fn funny - Steve at his best.
ReplyDeleteThis story was put on on a tee for you.
What a disaster your state is.......when are they gonna put a pink tutu on the bear in your state flag?
Dan in DC
At least when a gay bishop buggers someone, and the Catholic church is expected to pay for it, the members of the church have the option of showing that the behavior and the expectation that they foot the behavior, are unacceptable by leaving and/or withholding offerings. When gov't officials behave this way, and the taxpayer is shafted, he has little recourse; he can't withhold taxes, and can't demand a retired school administrator be fired. Though Steve's suggestion of seizing the pension to cover for it is a good start.
ReplyDelete"What a disaster your state is.......when are they gonna put a pink tutu on the bear in your state flag"
ReplyDeleteThey're working on it right now, having decided to ditch the bear. They're arguing over whether the Mexican flag or the Rainbow flag will fly highest.
Nothing says "Visual and Performing Arts" like the legendary name Ramon C. Cortines.
ReplyDeleteAgree with the commenter who pointed out that the alleged harrassment occurred on private property during non-work hours... how on earth is the state a defendant here?
"How did we get to the point where serious people with robes and suits and large salaries based on extensive educations could sit around in impressive rooms and make decisions like this?"
Your question answers itself in the first section: because "robes and suits and large salaries based on extensive educations (sitting) around in impressive rooms."
Google the phrase "hostile elite."
Yep, this is an obvious fraud.
ReplyDeleteP.S. The more I look into this, the more interesting material turns up. But, that will have to wait for another time.
ReplyDeleteDon't leave us hanging. Hopefully you'll post about it soon.
Yep, this is an obvious fraud.
ReplyDeleteMaybe that's what Steve means when he says "P.S. The more I look into this, the more interesting material turns up."
Evidence indicates that were the money spent in the classroom, it would be more or less wasted there as well.
ReplyDeleteI have nothing to add to the already quite good comments here on the Double Whoopsie Squeeze, soon to be a classic con-job, I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteBut, My God, those two buildings are ugly - ridiculous, inhuman, and ugly. I'm surprised that James Kunstler hasn't featured them on his "Eyesore of the Month" page.
I just wish all this cash was shovelled at talented but poor white kids with high IQs - to give them scholarships or private tutoring rather than 'casting pearls before swine' ie the soft-headed, soft-hearted attempt to magically transform mestizo penguins into eagles.
ReplyDeleteJust think, the nation I might have actually benefitted by educating a high IQ white kid trapped in a poor family somewhere.
Seems as though the higher-ups in the education field all get some pretty high salaries, and for what exactly? This is the case throughout the country whereby tax money is spent on excessive salaries, expensive structures, consultants, advisors, contracts for various providers, and so on, all this before the little geniuses even walk through the door. Your tax money at work here. Yet every year they cry about not having enough money and want another tax increase, or else the children will suffer.
ReplyDeleteIF the fellow who retired was permitted by the settlement to do so without any age penalty (I am assuming that in California, as in New York, a teacher cannot retire at full pension prior to age 62 without at least 30 years of service), then this does look more like a scam. The full pension is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars more, and might be enough to live on without working(salary of $150K = a lifetime pension of what, $90,000 per year?). Of course, the San Fran cost of living has to be factored in.
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ReplyDeleteHow do you know you they didn't merely engage in fellatio? I think you just like to talk about anuses.
Kai
"What about women who engage in anal sex?"
ReplyDeleteIf they do it enough, sure. I knew (though not in the Biblical sense) a girl who was promiscuous at gay-male levels, and sure enough she eventually died of AIDS.
Wow, that freeway is badly in need of repair.
ReplyDeleteThe "victim" probably has AIDS, making his "lifetime health benefits" potentially very costly, especially since he has probably been exempted from the usual "$1 million lifetime cap" which applies under normal insurance plans but not legal settlements.
ReplyDeleteAs my colleague pointed out, his early retirement probably leaves him with a large pension, so his agreement to "give up his $150,000 job in exchange" is no kind of a trade, especially with the $200K sweetener and his likely poor job performance if he's 56 and already ill.
(The official estimate that lifetime health benefits for a 56-year-old are only worth $250K is obviously bogus if the beneficiary is an AIDS patient, and likely bogus in any event.)
eah linked to the: 'LAUSD 2nd worst HS grad rate in US; CA ranks 41st among states' story.
ReplyDeleteBut note how they illustrate the story with three beaming white students. The anti-white media never sleeps!
Well, I would not pick on California. CoOnservatives love Texas and according to stats let's say on liberal Austin Texas its going minority. White population is dropping and Austin Texas metro area has increase in all three minorities categories. I agree that some job grwoth in the great state of Texas was not good paying jobs but low paying for foreign botn. Texas use to only have whites, blacks and hispanics now more asians. Texas has a high school dropped out rate close to California now and in certain in fact Austin, Dallas, and Houston have more high school dropped outs than San Diego does. Austin was 4.4 percent asian now 5.8 percent asians. Asians do better than Hispanics but Austin the so-called Silcon Valley of the Southwest is growing much faster in hispanics and its projected to be over 40 percent hispanic.
ReplyDeleteWell, people hate Santa Clara County here because of its liberal politics but that county actually had an increase in the white population and while its havy minority hispanics are behind asains there. For jobs, most of the counties that are doing the best still have hispanic populations under 40 percent. Both Orange and San Diego are doing better than La. Orange has suffered a lot of white flight particlary during the Bush years since housing was driven out of the roof, yet south county is going forward since some housing developments that appeal to whites and some of the housing in Ladera Ranch where kids look as white as OC kids did in 1980 has dropped down. Hopefully less white flight maybe some gains like San Diego County did recently.
ReplyDeleteMy old high school, Canoga Park High, one of the oldest schools in the district hasn't had any major facilities upgrades or major construction since 1978; which was the administration building. The only reason LAUSD did that was due to the fact the original administration building was destroyed in the 1971 Sylmar earth quake. If it wasn't for the quake the last major construction took place in 1968. I think LAUSD has it's priorities screwed up. And, as usual, "over the hill" from the valley always gets more funding. The valley should leave the city of Los Angeles. . .
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