Thank You, Dewhurst, We Didn’t Know That.
Okay, in the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse race to win the Republican nomination for Texas Lt. Governor, it’s a tough job to name a crazy of the day.
The reason this race is important is because in Texas the Lt. Governor has all the power. We’re going to talk more about that later.
Anyway, incumbent David Dewhurst has tied his shoelaces together and tried to promenade. Get this —
“At the end of the day, we’re paying our school teachers — when you count in cost of living — a very fair salary,” Dewhurst said. “We need to have better results. We need to make sure that we’re not just paying more money and we need to look at more choice for parents.”
Texas consistently ranks near the bottom nationally in average teacher pay according to many groups that track classroom salaries, including teacher unions. One expert testified in the state’s pivotal school finance trial last year that Texas’ average teacher pay was about $47,300 in 2009-10 dollars — lower than the national average of nearly $55,000, and less than what 32 other states pay educators.
You know for a dead solid perfect fact that he wanted to add, “after all, they are mostly women at the end of the day results flag guns God taxes amen.”
David Dewhurst is one of the richest dudes in Texas. You know what I wanna see? I wanna see David Dewhurst for just one day teach a class of 30 kids in an inner city school. Just one day. And then live on a teacher’s salary for a month. Just a month.
Now you know why Ted Cruz beat him in the primary when he up and ran for the senate. You know how arrogance and ignorance sound kinda alike? That’s because Dewhurst and Dumbass do, too.
Great closing sentence!
1I looked it up. “As of 2010, there were 321,092 public school teachers in Texas.” And they are all old enough to vote!
That’s a pretty large voting block to piss off all at once.
2Is Dewhurst perhaps Perry’s squeeze?
Sorry, but the glamour shot threw me.
3I am a retired teacher. I worked at jobs that paid into social Security. As a teacher, and as many teachers must, I worked a second job that paid into Social Security. I retired in 2003 and still work. I work a total of about 2 1/2 months a year and make more in that short time than I did as a teacher with an advanced degree. I got my first increase of $30 a month on my retirement income. My Social Security benefits are reduced because of the GPO and WEP. I pay more into Social Security because of my income than I get from it. If any teacher votes Republican, they are voting against themselves because things will just either stay as bad as they are, or get worse.
4I believe that Dan Patrick is going to be beat Dewhurst and that Senator Van de Putte can beat Patrick
5@ hilary- Is it a glamour shot because he appears to be resting on a well-polished,seldom used saddle or is it his clothes and makeup?Either way it does make you wonder. You know that saddle has seldom seen a horse and you know Dewhurst wasn’t in it if it did.
6Didn’t Dewhurst’s first campaign ads feature shots of him galloping across the plains, in full Lone Ranger wannabe mode? Sad to say, it got him elected.
As God-awful as Dewhurst is, I’d rather have him in office than Dan Patrick. Of course, I have a dachshund I’d vote for before Patrick. I pray that Van de Putte prevails over them all.
7Mygawd, when I taught school in a tony suburb of Detroit I still had to work nights and weekends to keep body and soul together. I taught in urban, suburban and rural schools and no matter where I still had to wonder if I would end up with enough $$ to get simple food for a week. The clerical workers in the school just down the street from me count themselves lucky to get $700 a month! Starting teachers make less than a rookie cop. And this in one of the so-called wealthiest counties in the country. The only place I have ever hard of in this country that paid teachers decently straight out of the box was Rochester, New York. Doo-hurst simply never got past the ninny stage to come out and say those things.
8Fitting. Dewhurst and a saddle of finely tooled leather. Two tools sticking together.
9I’ll bet there are some teachers in inner Erie, PA, who would love to have a class with only 30 kids. Thanks to Gov. Corbett’s “kill all the unions” education cuts, there is, I’ve heard, a special ed class with 43 kids and one teacher, no aide.
10Just as the Repugs have set us back politically, they have reduced the standard of living for public servants because they want to paint the unions as the enemy. While their children attend private schools, they want to destroy the public schools and promote vouchers to take money out of the public schools. Poor test scores are of course the teachers’ fault, regardless of poverty, lack of materials, poor attendance and parental
11neglect. Public education built this country and must be championed by those inelligent enough to see its value.
It is possible that Texas’s students would be better educated if Texas politicians didn’t spout of quite so much ignorance.
I agree that students should be educated about climate change, Constitutional equality, evolution, science in general, etc.
I suspect that Dewhurst’s definition of education does not include those things.
12Hilary @3. Snort. I didn’t notice the glamour shot. My usual practice is to not look at pics of Dewdrops.
13@JJ:
don’tchaknow THIS is gonna see its way onto the signature of may personal email… “results flag guns God taxes amen”.
Too good not share in all those red places I gotta travel.
14Let’s not forget that the Lt.Gov. has only the power the Senate gives that position in voting on their rules every session. The job itself has little or no power without the rules.
15Last night on Faux TV Sean Hannity said he was planning on moving out of NY because the state was in deep debt and was going to move to TX because of the vast surplus. No wonder there is a surplus in Texas’ budget. They don’t pay teachers a decent wage. They don’t pay for environmental oversite. They probably don’t pay anyone a decent wage. And they have all those oil companies paying under the table.
16tied his shoelaces together and tried to promenade…..hilarious!
17I’m a GA retired teacher. Since GA is a right-to-work-for-less-state, I was never a member of a union. The state legislature sets teacher salaries. When democrats are the majority and hold the governor’s mansion, teachers are more likely to get decent raises, but when republicans are in power, teachers’ salaries are stagnant. They are currently funneling more and more public education funds into charter and Christian schools. Nathan Deal, whom I’m sure all of you know as the former jack*ass of the House of Representatives, is our governor. Since he took office, teachers here have been furloughed to death. Now that this is an election year, he’s suddenly interested in increasing teacher salaries and spending more on public education. The pandering ass has had no sympathy for teachers for the last four years and must have a suspicion that many plan to vote against him in November. I certainly hope this is the case. I know I didn’t vote for him or any of the other education and healthcare killing GOPTPers in 2010 and don’t plan to vote for them this year.
18Explain to a foreigner exactly what Dewhurst has accomplished. Would he be happy with outcome based compensation for the job he’s done? How about congress? Or the hospitals that run all those tests and still send you home in a worse state than when you were admitted?
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