The ultraconservative video-blogger behind the Not a Ferry Fan videos seems confused about the City’s proposal to “seize” three County libraries in town:
If he weren’t so blinded by anti-City rage, NAFF might realize that what the City wants to do is essentially privatize the operation of our public library system by outsourcing staff to a privately-held, for-profit library services company in Maryland.
Under the city’s preferred scenario, those highly skilled, educated and -yes!- unionized library employees in the SCV would either get the boot and have to work at other LA County Libraries or leave their jobs and apply to work for the private corporation, ending their time on the public dole.
This outcome, it seems to me, would be a most favorable one for a conservative guy who has appeared at Tea Party rallies holding “GREEN IS RED” signs and who drives around town in a Hummer with an anti-Jane Fonda bumper sticker.
But because the library seizure is proposed by the City (which he -without irony- attempts to tar with Obama’s Hope ‘n Change mantra) it’s toxic to him, and so he sides by default with public unionized library employees.
The folks who have a real, honest beef with the direction of the SCV need a better spokesperson than Not a Ferry Fan.
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