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Related: About this forumThe Indy: The Top 10 Republican mistakes
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9. HATING ON EDUCATION... The Republican budget added here and subtracted there from public school aid, making it hard for critics to prove that the schools are worse offwhich they are. But flaunting their disdain for education, the Republicans ended (with some exceptions) pay increases for teachers who earn master's degrees. Such an easy story for TV news: the Republicans are against better-educated educators.
8. ...AND THEN LYING ABOUT IT The Republican budget gave teachers no pay hikezero. Our teachers' pay was already near the bottom, and this new goose egg could put us dead last. But then Gov. Pat McCrory, in a speech to the N.C. Chamber of Commerce, claimed that with "tax reform," teachers would see a 1 percent hike in their take-home pay. Not true. Only people making $250,000 or more will see a 1 percent gaina point we might've missed until the clueless McCrory spoke up.
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4. FRACKING UP GOVERNMENT The N.C. Rural Center was a dubious idea when the Democrats invented it. Public funds were doled out for economic development by a political board without much oversight. The Republicans shut it down, while inventing a new " public-private partnership" for development deals brought in by their own political cronies. The deals can be financed, Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker proposed, using a slush fund from fracking revenues. Good thing the press isn't here, Decker told a business crowdand a News & Observer reporter duly jotted it down.
3. CHAPPING ON CHARLOTTE McCrory, a former Charlotte mayor, was popular in the Queen City, but not so much since the Republicans took away its airport. After realizing that they should've heeded the state treasurer's warnings about bond defaults, the GOP gave it back, but not really. The Charlotte Observer can't get enough of this Republican screw-up story, which is now in courtand will be for months.
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http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/the-top-10-republican-mistakes/Content?oid=3690361
9. HATING ON EDUCATION... The Republican budget added here and subtracted there from public school aid, making it hard for critics to prove that the schools are worse offwhich they are. But flaunting their disdain for education, the Republicans ended (with some exceptions) pay increases for teachers who earn master's degrees. Such an easy story for TV news: the Republicans are against better-educated educators.
8. ...AND THEN LYING ABOUT IT The Republican budget gave teachers no pay hikezero. Our teachers' pay was already near the bottom, and this new goose egg could put us dead last. But then Gov. Pat McCrory, in a speech to the N.C. Chamber of Commerce, claimed that with "tax reform," teachers would see a 1 percent hike in their take-home pay. Not true. Only people making $250,000 or more will see a 1 percent gaina point we might've missed until the clueless McCrory spoke up.
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4. FRACKING UP GOVERNMENT The N.C. Rural Center was a dubious idea when the Democrats invented it. Public funds were doled out for economic development by a political board without much oversight. The Republicans shut it down, while inventing a new " public-private partnership" for development deals brought in by their own political cronies. The deals can be financed, Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker proposed, using a slush fund from fracking revenues. Good thing the press isn't here, Decker told a business crowdand a News & Observer reporter duly jotted it down.
3. CHAPPING ON CHARLOTTE McCrory, a former Charlotte mayor, was popular in the Queen City, but not so much since the Republicans took away its airport. After realizing that they should've heeded the state treasurer's warnings about bond defaults, the GOP gave it back, but not really. The Charlotte Observer can't get enough of this Republican screw-up story, which is now in courtand will be for months.
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http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/the-top-10-republican-mistakes/Content?oid=3690361
I missed the slush fund from fracking revenues... it's a challenge keeping up! Grrr.
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The Indy: The Top 10 Republican mistakes (Original Post)
WorseBeforeBetter
Aug 2013
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msongs
(67,496 posts)1. mistakes? they control the state government, as people voted them to do. what mistakes? nt
mmonk
(52,589 posts)2. Mistake in judgement?
Anyway, it's hard to claim a mandate or talk about elected by the people in a gerrymandered state.
barbtries
(28,818 posts)3. i hadn't seen that one either.
it is almost impossible to keep up with my current work schedule.
eta if it wasn't for DU i'd be seriously ignorant. thanks to everyone who posts.