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West Virginia Teachers Strike

‘Educator spring’ spawns wave of teacher candidates

The fallout from the teacher protests is even reaching deep-red Arizona. One hundred fourteen Democrats will compete in the Aug. 28 primary for legislative seats — the most on record, according to the Arizona Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. Teachers are also running a ballot measure campaign that would tax the highest income earners for an additional $690 million to spend on schools.
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[h=1]Oklahoma Teachers Just Purged the Statehouse of Their Enemies[/h]http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/08/teachers-strikes-oklahoma-gop-primaries-house-2018-elections.html

The strikers were pleased, but unappeased. They promised to make lawmakers pay for refusing to finance broader investments in education with larger tax hikes. “We got here by electing the wrong people to office,” Alicia Priest, president of the Oklahoma Education Association, told the New York Times in April. “We have the opportunity to make our voices heard at the ballot box.” Hamm and his fellow gas giants (almost certainly) made an equal and opposite vow — that those few Republicans who held the line against tax hikes of any kind would not regret their bravery.
Last night, Oklahoma’s GOP primary season came to an end — and the teachers beat the billionaires in a rout. Nineteen Republicans voted against raising taxes to increase teacher pay last spring; only four will be on the ballot this November. As Tulsa World reports:
Republican voters handed out more pink slips to House members Tuesday.


Six of 10 GOP incumbents involved in runoffs were turned out and a seventh narrowly survived, as perhaps the most extraordinary primary season in state history drew to a riotous conclusion.
Between the first round on June 26 and Tuesday’s final results, a dozen incumbents — all Republicans, and all but one of them House members — lost primary or runoff races.


Such turnover is unprecedented for any recent decade, let alone year, and seemed to mark a dramatic shift in the Oklahoma Republican Party.


Each of those defeated Tuesday had, in some manner, earned the wrath of public education supporters during last spring’s occupation of the state Capitol.
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Last spring, state representative Jeff Coody told students in his districts that their teachers’ demands were “akin to extortion.” On Tuesday night, GOP voters returned Coody to the private sector. His colleague, Bobby Cleveland — who scolded teachers for whining at the Capitol instead of teaching in their classrooms — will now be taking a hiatus from politics. In May 2017, State Representative Tess Teague mocked the ignorance of protesters who were demanding tax hikes on fracking companies — in a Snapchat video that made heavy use of animal filters.
 
So I assume Oklahoma has open primaries ?

Oklahoma still requires a three-fourths majority to pass a tax increase of any kind. That's crazy.
 
Based on a quick look, OK has a closed primary but each party can allow independents to vote. Democrats allowed independents to vote. Only Republicans vote in the Republican primary.
 
The people who watch state races have been saying to keep an eye on Oklahoma for a bit. People are fed up and the governor has a 19% approval rating and 74% disapproval rating. I love that teachers are leading the way.
 
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I don’t know if it’s included in that piece but saw that a lot of AirBnB renters are teachers that need the extra income.
 
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