SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER: 'LET'S DON'T TALK ABOUT COMMON CORE'

Breitbart ^ | 24 Mar 2014, 6:17 PM PDT | DR. SUSAN BERRY

[SoConPubbie]

Under increasing pressure because of his support for the Common Core standards, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) said Saturday, “Let’s don’t talk about Common Core.”

“Let’s talk about standards,” Alexander continued. “Education is not just a problem in West Tennessee. It’s a problem in Middle Tennessee and East Tennessee.”

As the Jackson Sunem> reported, Alexander said, “I’d like to see a discussion about standards with no national school board,” continuing to cite an issue called the “national school board” that has never been put forward on either the federal or state level.

Alexander is being challenged by conservative state Rep. Joe Carr (R) for his U.S. Senate seat.

“Unfortunately for Senator Alexander, our campaign and grassroots conservatives throughout Tennessee are going to continue to talk about – and continue to fight against - Common Core,” said Carr in a press release. “His increasingly nonsensical attempts to change the subject won’t work and won’t fool a single voter.”

“Just like Obamacare, Common Core is Washington telling us what to do, and Senator Alexander is once again saying one thing and doing something else,” Carr added. “We want local control over how we teach our children, not uniform standards dictated by education bureaucrats.”

On March 13, the Tennessee state House voted 82-11 to delay the controversial Common Core standards and the aligned assessments for two years, despite Common Core champion Gov. Bill Haslam’s (R) warning to his GOP colleagues that repealing or delaying the standards would be “exactly the wrong thing to do.”

Last Wednesday, Alexander met with strong criticism for appearing with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), another Common Core champion, in Nashville at an education roundtable event sponsored by the pro-Common Core Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Tennessee Business Roundtable, and

[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[Viennacon]

Terrible grammar. Terrible senator.

[bakeneko]

Please somebody eliminate the plaid wearing douchebag.

I can’t stand these aw-shucks pseudo down-home GOPe assholes.

[latina4dubya]

let’s don’t talk...? my goodness... “let’s not talk about Common Core.”

[mountainbunny]

“Education is not just a problem in West Tennessee. It’s a problem in Middle Tennessee and East Tennessee.”

Perhaps. But the solution isn't handing your educational system to the federal government, which is exactly what Common Core does. So, could we talk about that for a while?

[VerySadAmerican]

Alexander is no different from any other elitist politician. For some reason they seem to hate this country and try to do everything they can to destroy it.

[TigersEye]

Yo, Lamar!

"The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide." - 0bama (video, six seconds)

[BenLurkin]

Get FEDGOV out of K-12

Completely.

[Impy]

Education was apparently a problem wherever Lamar grew up.

I is thinking us should wanting to get rid of him!!

http://www.carrfortn.com/

If wish Carr was getting 1/4 of the attention that Obama’s cousin Milt is.

[BillyBoy]

>> I wish Carr was getting 1/4 of the attention that Obama’s cousin Milt is. <<

Well since Milt and Wayne Allyn Root have managed to get their name in the news constnatly by mentioning some extremely vague relationship with Obama even though they never met him, Carr could try doing the same (I was thinking of doing likewise and claiming my election would "embarrass Obama" since I happen to be from the same congressional district as him).

I wonder what hook Carr could use... maybe tell people his aunt is Obama's mom former roommate! He can begin every speech and article with that (claiming his election will "embarrass Obama"), and the $$$ will come pouring in from the people who drank the Dr. Wolf and Wayne Allyn Root kool-aid. ;-)

[Fledermaus]

Well, Lamar, you are from East TN where YOU once were President of UT.

West TN is a joke unless you exclude Memphis in that. To say Middle TN is a problem is to mean Nashville. Williamson County runs circles around the entire state.

What a moron. Glad I didn’t live here when he was governor and proud to say I’ve never voted for him for Senate.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Come on Tennesee,dump that loser.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Let’s don’t talk about how the GOP-e is helping the Democrats ruin America. /sarc

[grame]

Mike Pence, Gov of Indiana said no thank you.

We will use our our standards determined at state & local levels.