How to deal with wolves that try to take your guns during a period of martial law that was brought on by a lack of family values.

This would have been funnier at Kevin's blog...

Brian, you don't now own the copyright so that I can't post this there too, do you?

Rep. Nonini (surely the most ironically-named legislator ever) and cohort are already well on their way to sending the Governor a bill that would allow school districts to declare a fiscal state of emergency and lower the salaries of faculty members from year to year without regard to contracts achieved through collective bargaining.

Now his true colors are even more evident: docking the transportation budget this amount will ineluctably create just such a fiscal emergency, especially in the larger, more rural districts. Many of these districts have students riding an hour or more each way, to and from school. Any financial reserves they might have to help offset the Governor's funding cuts will be wiped out in order to transport students. This will trigger the salary decreases already set up in the first bill.

Nonini says his motivation in putting forth this legislation is to "spread the pain around", so faculty won't bear the whole brunt of the budget cuts. Mr. Nonini is either incapable of reason or he is a mendacious, lying oaf. Districts could survive without field trips for some time, but daily transportation to and from class is an inescapable cost of instruction. Nonini knows this and he could not care less.

period.
He sees the Education Assoc. as labor and will do all he can to kill it. He along with Luna want to break the back of education to run it as THEY see fit.
Track may very well be dead on.
He's spreading the pain around alright to; kids, parents, support staff and teachers.

Trackmonster, I would vote for your second option to describe Nonini. Having dealt with the man on multiple issues, I have found that I always have to question the accuracy of his information and his tactics. He is the kind who stabs you in the back and then apologizes saying, "oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize that would really hurt."

I guess stupid is a republican family value........!

Boisestfan, you are right on as far as I can see. Since Sup. Luna has come into office it seems he is trying his best to bust the teachers' union. Nonini is doing his part in this same endeavor.

The statement about how 'money that goes to transportation is being taken away from educating' is specious. There's not a lot that schools can do to reduce transportation costs, so taking money away from transportation makes it *more* likely that whatever contingency funds there are will be spent on that. Passing that bill makes it *more* likely that teaching money will be cut.

If the goal was really to deal with the financial emergency, it would have had a sunset clause.

Boisepoet, I have a liberal arts degree too in what is probably the most Marxist of social sciences, but I also have critical thinking skills that enabled me to ace my classes without being brainwashed as you apparently have been. Perhaps the greatest failure of the American education system is that it allows people to think they have been educated when they have not.

I sure hope this CRISIS is the end of Luna and Nonini. They have showed their true colors and at least I see the larger percentage of people see right thru them and their tactics. They have been waiting for just such a crisis to try and force their agenda on every one. Now is the time for every one to stand together and run these under educated dinosaurs out of the Valley.

A young person who is conservative is without a heart. An old person who is liberal is without a brain.

NO WEENY

LUNATICK

O'Turd

the 3 of them should be ran out on a rail for what they are doing to education!
short term gains for LONG TERM consequences.

They have an agenda.....ruin the future of our children. create a slave labor state while they sip the good stuff!

SHAME on them!

never ever again!

why education bills make House Republicans VERY BIG ANGRY. Education makes them feel small.

I bet if you looked at the cumulative years of post-secondary education of D's and R's in the House, the D's would win hands-down despite the fact they are outnumbered nearly 4-1. Now, if you just read that sentence and thought, "So? So what? Who cares about a stupid piece of paper?!" then I have one question for you...do you play the banjo or the spoons? The problem is that the Republican party has gone from endorsing true statesmen to promoting the likes of Joe the Plumber and Rush Limbaugh.

If you don't value education, and worse, consider those with advanced degrees to be elitist snobs, why would you care about cuts to education? That just means less liberal city-folk telling you your business some day down the road.

And until we can change the composition of our legislature, Idaho will continue to be one of the most intolerant, uneducated, and unhealthy states in the nation.