[capecodder]

Thank you for asking Governor Bush a question primarily for me.

Among your posts, there are few with primary material, such as his answer. As you have noted, he has said the opposite in the past. How like a politician.

You are sinking to an ad hominem attack against me by characterizing my posts as "screaming" and by asserting that I like to yell. Please try to remain civil.

When you have a chance, please take a look at the Code of Federal Regulations and the mandate for state assessments.

All 50 states take fed ed funds. Therefore, all 50 states have accepted the regulations that accompany those funds.

The facts are there. Your exuberant opinions and personal experience cannot and should not be used as fact in a discussion about the legal requirements that are attached to government funds.

Additionally, history teaches us that government expands its bureaucratic power constantly and uses our money, with strings attached, in order to do so .

Next time you contact Governor Bush on my behalf, please ask for the statutory material about vouchers in Florida along with the attendant regulations. I'd appreciate the factual information.

[summer]

As you have noted, he has said the opposite in the past. How like a politician....

Not true at all, capecodder -- and I am surprised you would say that.

I pointed out on this thread to you he was in fact accurate in his letter to USA Today in 1999 (A+ voucher students take state tests is what he said then, and is what he is saying now).

And, he was again accurate in his 2002 letter to the NYT, wherein he pointed out the parent is responsible for accountability in the case of a disabled student receiving a voucher -- which is exactly what he reinterated here.

He has not deviated at all -- what he said here repeated exactly what he said before.

The actual problem is that you and I were trying to assign only one rule for all three groups of voucher students. We were wrong in how we were approaching this.

[summer]

Among your posts, there are few with primary material, such as his answer.

And, I find this comment from you to be rather odd as well.

In my posts, I am constantly linking to information, but I notice people who want to stick to an agenda rarely, if ever, take note of that fact.

For example, in my two essays linked in my earlier posts on this thread, there are dozens of links therein to many sources of information -- these links are not "my opinion."

Consequently, I think you are being unfair both in your assessment of Gov Bush and of me.

[summer]

....Your exuberant opinions and personal experience cannot and should not be used as fact in a discussion about the legal requirements that are attached to government funds.

Well, since my asking Gov. Bush a question -- for you -- has resulted in your characterization of his answer being my "exuberant opinions and personal experience" then -- I am forced to conclude you actually have no interest whatsoever in: the facts.

[summer]

You are sinking to an ad hominem attack against me by characterizing my posts as "screaming" and by asserting that I like to yell. Please try to remain civil.

I am not sinking. I am remaining civil in my responses and always have with you. And, yes, your constant posts do "scream" about the FL situation, without knowing the facts, the laws, nothing. You are not even in FL.

Why are you appointing yourself the FL Voucher Expert when all the facts about FL vouchers are of no interest to you?

Or, is that question not "civil"? Does one not have the right to ask why you repeatedly post misinformation? People read your posts. People get upset.

You must like making people upset, because you sure did fall silent when some FACTS came your way....

[summer]

When you have a chance, please take a look at the Code of Federal Regulations and the mandate for state assessments.

No thanks. You don't have the courtesy to thoughtfully consider my information -- from Gov. Bush -- so I don't think I will waste my time with your posts and agenda anymore.

[summer]

All 50 states take fed ed funds. Therefore, all 50 states have accepted the regulations that accompany those funds.

The facts are there.

Why are you the only one allowed to be in possession of the facts? Why does the governor of the 4th largest state in this country not count in your book as an expert in this matter?

[summer]

Additionally, history teaches us that government expands its bureaucratic power constantly and uses our money, with strings attached, in order to do so.

So, even when Gov. Bush tells you himself that two of the three voucher programs in FL do not require state assessments, that FACT has to be tossed aside, just so you can keep repeating your mantra above?

[summer]

Next time you contact Governor Bush on my behalf, please ask for the statutory material about vouchers in Florida along with the attendant regulations. I'd appreciate the factual information.

capecodder, Don't worry -- I will not contact Gov. Bush on your behalf again. You can keep on posting all your erroneous threads about FL vouchers without any factual information from me appearing on such threads. Frankly, YOU are the one who sounds like "a politician." Are you?

And, BTW, next time you want information, here's a polite suggestion: call up a lawyer in FL, pay him or her $350 per hour, and ask all the questions you want about FL vouchers. Then, when you get the facts -- and after you pay your legal bills --- continue to ignore the facts, as you did here.

[summer]

Thank you for asking Governor Bush a question primarily for me.

BTW, You're welcome. Take care.