I disagree. This veto may jump start his faltering campaign and he may well draw the Dems and independents over to him. OR if what you say is correct, he may pull a Lieberman and run as an independent and that may well give him the seat. Charlie is a flip flopper and a RINO, but he has been VERY VERY good to gun owners since he's been the governor. I wouldn't be very uncomfortable with him in the Senate. Remember something else, there are a whole lot of good Republican Teachers whom this bill will hurt. That might make the difference in a close primary with Rubio.
I disagree. This veto may jump start his faltering campaign and he may well draw the Dems and independents over to him.
No. Crist’s support has always been a mile wide and an inch deep. He’s also burned too many bridges. And he will find himself to be a Specter if he were to join the Democrats.
I hate to tell you but schoolteachers are not popular, especially on the right. Tenure and working 9 months out of the year does not win many friends.
Yes, I know there is a justification for each, but the politics in the classroom, the stranglehold of unions and the flight of parents to homeschooling is not showing a lot of affinity for the public school system.
Personally, I think you should have to choose: the union or tenure.
I know the value tenure has, for one it keeps costs down. The benefits of not being fired except for cause is worth a little less pay.
But the original meaning of tenure was to protect scholars against punishment for unpopular research. Universities have a very painful system for obtaining it and it is quite easy to be turned down for tenure.
And academia has gone very far afield without much supervision. I think that’s the major problem that people are reacting against. There is no quality control.
I’d like to think that Republican public school teachers are a force, but I just don’t see it.