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Ongoing NC GOP debacle thread

The NC GOP wants to kill public education and encourage good teachers to draw a paycheck from private citizens. That way they can use taxpayer money toward vouchers to send their kids to religious and corporate run schools with little to no accountability. Why else would Republicans so blatantly not run education like a business and add so much government intrusion?
 
There are roughly 125K teachers in this state. If those stats are accurate, that's an awfully big chunk of voters to have upset with you.
 
WFFaithful said:
That still won't persuade many of the Pubs to vote Dem.
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Maybe not...but taking money out of the pockets of large groups of voters isn't going to win them any votes, and maybe turn just enough to make some races closer than is comfortable. I'm betting you see an about face on a few of these issues before November.
 
Thanks Obama.
 
Heard on the radio that more county schools systems are joining this lawsuit. I hope they win. The assault on the public school system in North Carolina is one of the worst aspects of this legislature.

NC Groups Sue State Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Private School Vouchers

The lawsuit was filed in Wake County Superior Court, and claims that the law is a violation of fundamental provisions of the state constitution. It points to a mandate that says public funds for education are to be used “exclusively for establishing and maintaining a uniform system of free public schools.”

http://wunc.org/post/nc-groups-sue-state-over-unconstitutional-private-school-vouchers
 
"Then on Monday, Gov. Pat McCrory made yet another defense of the generous contributor to his campaign whom he appointed as DHHS secretary, Aldona Wos. The governor said the mix-up wasn’t her fault. The blame, he said, belonged to Democrats who allowed DHHS to become dysfunctional during their long stay in power. He suggested that Wos’ problems with flawed computer systems, questionable hirings and firings, and wrong addresses are all reflective of the “broken” agency she inherited and is resolutely trying to fix.

“There’s been 10 years of operational neglect – not only in that department, but others,” McCrory said. “You can’t fix that in one year.”

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/01...eflects-blame-for-problems.html#storylink=cpy
 
Instead, the governor made a joke about the matter. He said anyone who believes such a large and complex department could be fixed so quickly “has probably spent time in Colorado in the past week,” a reference to the newly legal sales of marijuana there.

What is happening at DHHS under Wos isn’t funny. She ignored warnings from the state auditor and launched a faulty computer system that has delayed payments to Medicaid providers. Another troubled DHHS computer system has held up food stamps. She has hired two 24-year-old McCrory campaign workers as top staff members and paid them each in excess of $85,000 while she has run off DHHS veterans. She has paid consultants and contractors outlandish sums, including $228,000 to a longtime employee of her husband’s for less than eight months’ work. Carol Steckel, whom Wos hired to fix the state’s “broken” Medicaid system, resigned as state Medicaid director after eight months.


Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/01...eflects-blame-for-problems.html#storylink=cpy
 
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