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Old 03-11-2011, 12:08 AM
ThetaDancer ThetaDancer is offline
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Originally Posted by AGDee View Post
You thought Wisconsin was out of control. Our new Governor's plan now:
The governor or his administration can declare any city or school district to be in financial emergency and can then dissolve or disincorporate them and appoint people to be in charge of them. The emergency person can strip the town of union rights unilaterally AND suspend or dismiss elected officials. There are two different versions of this bill .. one in the House, one in the Senate. So we would lose our right to elect local government. In the meantime, he is cutting state funding to cities and school districts drastically, putting them in dire financial straits.
I've been trying to learn more about this...thanks for the info! Will you keep us updated?

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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06 View Post
An Ohio state legislator (and SB 5 supporter) recently said teachers "only work part-time" because they get summers off.

WTF?
I saw that! That seemed like straight out of The Onion...except, it wasn't.
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