This just in from Gloria Johnson:
Gloria Johnson to run for State Representative
Statement from Gloria Johnson, candidate for State Representative, District 13
Knoxville, Tenn. -- Today 280,000 Tennesseans woke up again without access to health insurance. Almost 1,000,000 Tennessee students woke up again as special interests try to cut funding from public education. More than three million Tennessee women woke up again knowing they will continue to earn about 20 cents less per dollar than a man makes. Day after day, Tennesseans are waking up just like Bill Murray in the movie Groundhog Day, knowing that their futures will not change because the Republican led legislature is focusing this day just like they did the last, on the wrong priorities for Tennessee. There are changes we can make, we don't have to make those mistakes over and over again.
Our neighbors deserve a Representative who will wake up every single day, committed with dogged determination to stand up and fight for Tennessee's working families who deserve better. Our children deserve fully funded public education where all kids have an opportunity to succeed, Tennessee's women deserve equal pay for equal work, and our 280,000 uninsured neighbors should not lose everything they have worked hard for just because they get sick.
We can and we must work together to improve this state for Tennesseans and find a solution to our current unenviable and seemingly unending situation. We can and we must pass Governor Haslam’s Insure Tennessee plan. We can and we must fully fund and support public education and find ways to ensure every child has equal opportunity for a world-class education. We can and we must fight to provide Tennesseans with good jobs with good wages, lower our unemployment rates, respect and maintain our great state employees, and grow new business.
This is why I am waking up today determined to spend my day just like I will tomorrow and the next - committed to fighting for a future that is in the best interest of all Tennesseans and not one that is being bought by billionaire special interests. It’s time to stop reliving the same day over and over and move forward. That is why I am announcing that I will be pulling my petition at 2 PM today to run again to represent the people of District 13 in the State Legislature.
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Wonderful!
Wonderful!
Who is cutting education?
Is it Groundhog Day to hear central platform announcements that contain lies from the start?
Cutting education?
The GOP is going along with the Governor who is spending more than ever on public education at all levels. The spending is higher than under Bredesen.
Her second lie is about equal pay for equal work, which has been the law of the land for decades. Do women get paid less for the same work? No they do not. Do Hillary and Obama pay women less in their offices than men? Yes they do. When they are questioned about it, they say that it is because they are doing different jobs and have different qualifications.
Does Eddie Smith even have a PR person to respond? Did she just gift wrap this statement herself?
Tennessee ranks 17th in
(in reply to Anonymousalso)
Tennessee ranks 17th in population, 19th in GDP, and 44th in education spending.
And now we want to divert (cut) public education funding with a voucher scheme.
Why anonymous comments aren't allowed at RoaneViews.com
(in reply to Anonymousalso)
Equal pay for equal work has been the law of the land for decades? Really?
The elephant in the room is
(in reply to Anonymousalso)
The elephant in the room is that the GOP (and the private investors who bankroll them) are hot to institute vouchers, which could divert as much as $70 million from public schools to non-public schools by FY 18-19.
And we saw how well the "law of the land" held up for the provision of safe drinking water to the people of Flint. Same goes for labor and employment law. This is why information about private sector salaries is so opaque in the U.S.
Entire amount of increase
(in reply to Anonymousalso)
If the entire amount of the governors increase went to teachers pay the would each get a 74.00 a week pay raise. This would start to offset the recent corresponding cuts to their healthcare and retirement. Cutting teachers benefits and wages is cutting education.
Gloria Johnson lost to Eddie
Gloria Johnson lost to Eddie Smith by only 182 votes out of over 13,000 votes cast in 2014.
Go Gloria!
Those darn Federalist Papers
Hot garbage due to the anonymity of the authors.
Gloria indeed as an incumbent lost a very close race.
I believe she can compare and contrast herself effectively.
The equal pay canard has been discussed so much I am astonished it is still effective as a talking point.
Here are some articles of interest:
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As far as education spending? When the Gov. announces $261,000,000 in new K-12 spending, the very next day portraying the GOP as the evil folks trying to gut public education is silly.
How does our education spending per pupil compare to Alaska? California? What about our student achievement? The most enjoyable stat to examine for liberals who love to talk about per student spending is the lovely District of Columbia. Anyone know how much they spend per student compared to Knoxville? What about test scores compared?
From one "anonymous" poster to another...
(in reply to Anonymousalso)
None of us Evul Libruls said anything about "gutting" education spending; just pointed out the "nod and a wink" nature of various school spending schemes in Tennessee, which includes the proposed vouchers. And by the way, Haslam proposed $248M in K-12 public education spending, not $261M. Get your facts straight.
And why are you so obsessed with how much the president or HRC pay their staff? Do you really think you can compare outcomes and per capita spending from Knox County schools to those of D.C., Alaska, or California? Get real.
Let's start here
(in reply to Anonymousalso)
Do you believe education is better controlled by our government or by a private enterprise?
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You're out of your damned mind.
Already, Governor Haslam has brought us the removal of any cap on charter schools, a state level charter school authorizer able to by-pass local BOEs, and a mandate that LEAs must annually report "underutilized" facilities to enable charter schools to move into those buildings. He has also abolished the requirement for teacher contract negotiations, effectively abolished teacher tenure, and for a time enabled teachers' very career licensure to be linked to how well a given teacher's students (or even how well some other, completely unrelated teacher's students) performed on a standardized test. Let's not forget that he has also brought us a for-profit virtual school and an under-the-radar private school voucher program for SPED students, too.
This legislative session, we will be battling a drop in the threshold of votes necessary to enact a so-called "parent trigger law" converting a traditional school to a charter school, the advent of for-profit charter school management organizations, and of course a new voucher program to the primary benefit of private religious schools both unable and unwilling to accept the students most costly for public schools to educate.
If you imagine for one minute that any of these moves have improved or will improve public education, you're a blooming idiot.
Every last one of these moves will benefit someone, somewhere, in the private sector hoping to divert public monies to his personal profit.
Yup.
(in reply to Tamara Shepherd)
I would also note that Governor Haslam offered a 4% raise for teachers last year, but because of the vagaries of the BEP formula and the extreme need of the local school systems (because they aren't being funded properly), those funds were diverted away from currently-employed teacher salaries, and teachers only saw an average raise of around 1.8%. I suspect similar shenanigans will occur with the next teacher raise.
Go Gloria!
Go Gloria! You can do this!
Go, Gloria, and know that WE are going to work hard for you!
And even tho' we know that your opponent will again be subsidized by the Haslams, the For Profit Charter Schools, the For Profit Vouchers sellers, and of course the AFP and the BEACON Center, we strongly support you. In your first term, you wrote the Bill that created the State-wide Community Schools. This County needs and deserves your continuing support for ALL our public schools TEACHERS and the parents in our Knox County who want and deserve better representation in Nashville than the wholly-owned current seat filler.
I recently attended a Forum where he spoke, and I do not remember him saying anything he has done, or will do, for our public schools or families in this County.
BTW, folks, if the 'BEACON CENTER' doesn't sound familiar, it was described in a KNS article last Spring as an entity set up in Nashville, and given $1 million to start its efforts to destroy any uninsured citizen's chance, NO MATTER their health situation, TO EVER receive ACCESS to apply for affordable health INSURANCE.
Go, Gloria! The public schools, teachers, parents and children in Knox County, and across Tennessee, need your leadership in Nashville once again!
We won't let you down this time, Gloria.
No how; no way. The stakes are too high.