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Power play: OEA isn't in the voters' corner
Category: Blocking · State: Oklahoma · Source: The Oklahoman
WHEN it comes to creativity, the Oklahoma Education Association deserves a failing grade. Time and again, the state's largest teachers union has made clear that it cares more about teachers' paychecks, money grabs and the status quo than taxpayers and the state's overall well-being. The latest evidence is an effort to amend the Oklahoma Constitution and force taxpayers to spend millions of dollars more per year on common education. The union has started an initiative petition drive to get the proposed amendment on a 2010 statewide ballot. If the drive is successful, voters would be asked to change the constitution and require lawmakers to fund schools at the regional average in per-pupil expenditures. The change could shift $850 million in state funding to common education from other state services or require tax increases.
No Power to the People
Category: Blocking · State: · Source: National Review
Ward Connerly, Jennifer Gratz, and the state leaders in Colorado, Arizona, and Nebraska have collected enough signatures to put civil-rights ballot initiatives before the voters there this November. These initiatives will ban preferences based on race, ethnicity, and sex — a.k.a., affirmative action — in public contracting, education, and employment. It wasn’t easy. Similar measures have passed overwhelmingly now in blue states like California, Washington, and Michigan, so the defenders of such discrimination are increasingly desperate to keep these initiatives away from the voters.
Mischief-Making Blockers are Signature Gatherers’ Bane
Category: Blocking · State: Nevada · Source: Las Vegas Sun
Russ Stevens walks out of the North Las Vegas DMV office and is approached by a woman asking him to sign a petition in favor of raising casino taxes to benefit teachers and schools. Suddenly, a young man descends on them, yelling. Say no to the tax grab! Think before you ink! Just say no! Confused, Stevens trudges off, leaving Andrea Grefrath without a signature. Nevadans may think the election is still six months away, but for the various interest groups gathering signatures to get their initiatives on the November ballot, the zero hour is May 20.
MI Speaker Employs State Paid Thugs to Stop Recall
Category: Blocking · State: Michigan · Source: New Media Journal
Here is a story that details how far Democrats will go to destroy the people's ability to be heard in government. It also shows Democrat's penchant to abuse their power, their blatant waste of government funds, and the incestuous relationship that the anti-democratic process unions have with Democrats. Up in Michigan, the thieves in the Democrat Party voted in a gigantic tax increase. Michigan has been mired in a one state recession for quite a while and Governor Jennifer Granholm's only solution has been to raise taxes to pay for government "shortfalls" -- and by "shortfall" you can read government waste. Well, after years of this localized recession in Michigan, the state legislature finally okayed this massive tax increase meant to "save" the state from its financial ills.
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