"Our illustrious Ohio Republican leadership is pitching a fit over this legislation that will increase the annual cost of state assessments from the FY2011 budgeted amount of $56,703,265 to a staggering $305,369,575. Will that also be spun to be the fault of the teacher unions and local district mismanagement?
These people are just brilliant. Why do we even try to argue educational philosophy when they can’t even comprehend the basic financial implications of this legislation?"
Great read: http://www.plunderbund.com/2011/06/04/doing-the-math-batchelder-wants-addl-330-million-for-education/
Showing posts with label budget. Show all posts
Showing posts with label budget. Show all posts
Monday, June 6, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Another Miserable Poll for Governor Kasich
sicWill he take the entire Republican ship down with him?
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2011/05/another_poll_shows_low_approva.html
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2011/05/another_poll_shows_low_approva.html
Friday, May 20, 2011
How Ohio's Budget Battle Could Decide Who Wins the White House
"...But a funny thing happened on the way to political nirvana: one by one, Walker’s fellow Republican governors began to come out against his hardline proposals. Last week Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett said they would not repeal collective bargaining. In Indiana, Gov. Mitch Daniels asked Republican lawmakers to table legislation that mirrored Wisconsin’s. “There [is] a better time and place to have this … issue raised,” he said. Even Garden State Gov. Chris Christie, who’s spent the past year branding himself as the party’s most avid union adversary, refused to adopt Walker’s tactics, telling The New York Times that “I’m ready to embrace the collective-bargaining situation.” By the time Gallup released a poll last week showing that 61 percent of voters oppose laws designed to do away with collective bargaining, there were few Republican governors on Walker’s side.
All of which invites an important question: have Republicans gone too far, damaging their political prospects in the process? Or are Christie, Daniels, Branstad, and Corbett missing some sort of golden opportunity here? Ohio may be the best place to look for answers. In part that’s because Kasich is one of the only governors still waging war on collective bargaining. But it’s also because the political stakes are higher in Ohio than almost anywhere else. In the general assembly, Republicans outnumber Democrats 82 to 50, which means the bill has a better chance of passing than in the more evenly divided Wisconsin legislature. But it also means a lot of Republican lawmakers now represent union-heavy districts that usually elect Democrats. If they overreach, they risk losing their seats. The presidential politics are even chancier. Since 1944, Ohioans have sided with the losing candidate only once—opting for Nixon over Kennedy in 1960—and few Republicans have won the White House without winning the state’s electoral votes. Any passions unleashed by the collective-bargain battle could alter the local political landscape heading into 2012—and potentially swing a crucial battleground state. “Something like this can tilt the balance one way or the other quite easily,” says John C. Green, a political-science professor at the University of Akron. “It really doesn’t take very much in Ohio.”
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/27/showdown.html
All of which invites an important question: have Republicans gone too far, damaging their political prospects in the process? Or are Christie, Daniels, Branstad, and Corbett missing some sort of golden opportunity here? Ohio may be the best place to look for answers. In part that’s because Kasich is one of the only governors still waging war on collective bargaining. But it’s also because the political stakes are higher in Ohio than almost anywhere else. In the general assembly, Republicans outnumber Democrats 82 to 50, which means the bill has a better chance of passing than in the more evenly divided Wisconsin legislature. But it also means a lot of Republican lawmakers now represent union-heavy districts that usually elect Democrats. If they overreach, they risk losing their seats. The presidential politics are even chancier. Since 1944, Ohioans have sided with the losing candidate only once—opting for Nixon over Kennedy in 1960—and few Republicans have won the White House without winning the state’s electoral votes. Any passions unleashed by the collective-bargain battle could alter the local political landscape heading into 2012—and potentially swing a crucial battleground state. “Something like this can tilt the balance one way or the other quite easily,” says John C. Green, a political-science professor at the University of Akron. “It really doesn’t take very much in Ohio.”
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/27/showdown.html
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