"Exciting" is not the way everyone describes the program.
"You've got to be kidding," Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor and vice presidential running mate, tweeted last month.
But Tubbs responded with a Twitter touche.
"Actually modeled after the Alaska Permanent Fund," he wrote. "Are you familiar with it?"
The Alaska fund shares the wealth on state oil revenues, awarding residents roughly $2,000 a year.
The first thing you need to know about Stockton's stipend plans is that taxpayers aren't footing the bill.
Nor will they pay for Tubbs' "Stockton Scholars" program, which will tap a $20-million grant from the California Community Foundation in an effort to triple the number of Stockton students who go to college.
Absolutely NOT modeled after the Alaska Permanent Fund. That is a fund set up to pay a stipend to ALL Alaska original natives (regardless of their propensity toward crime). What a load of BS spoken by a small thinker in California.
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