[PAA-Discuss] Accountability for Legislators that Voted YES for HB 1

Thu Apr 7 14:14:11 EDT 2011

Here is the latest Texas AFT Legislative Hotline showing how "our" state
representatives voted on the fascist HB 1 which completely destroys public
education in the state of Texas! I strongly suggest you people send a letter
to your so called representative if he or she voted YES for the stinking
pile of shit that is HB 1. Feel free to send one thanking them if they voted
NO on this pile of shit, but remember, their fucking job is to represent the
people of the state of Texas and in my opinion, having an educated populace
is in the best interests of this state. So, it's really a fucking NO BRAINER
to vote NO on HB 1! I sent a very strongly worded letter to the piece of
shit masquerading as a human being, Dwayne Bohac. He has never replied to
previous letters that Ron and I have sent regarding public education in this
state because he is a fucking global corporate tool, and he's on his fucking
knees for them. I am not playing games with this mother fucker. His office
sent an automated e-mail to me asking for my name, address and phone number
LIKE THEY ALWAYS DO before he would deign to reply to me! He already knows
my information, and he's had it for years. He doesn't give a shit! He had
the audacity to show up at a public meeting in SBISD some weeks back acting
like he gave a flying Philadelphia fuck about Texas school children and
teachers. This sorry ass piece of shit is a waste of human flesh! Don't
treat these mother fuckers with kid gloves. Get in their goddamned faces!
These state Rethugs are pulling out all the stops this year and are
literally rolling back years of reforms meant to help the poor and middle
class. If these fucking Rethugs get their way, you can kiss Medicare,
Medicaid, Social Security and public education goodbye in this sorry ass,
backward ass state and a whole lotta other states! My daughter, who is a
teacher assistant, already told me that several people at various Pre-K
schools have gotten their pink slips. A lot of them came into her school
yesterday crying because they are now out of work with no fucking chance of
finding another teaching job!!! What good is a teaching degree if they can't
find work?!!! What good is majoring in education if there aren't any jobs
once you get out of college buried under mountains of goddamned student loan
debt?!! You can't even leave this fucking two bit state to find work
elsewhere because the same shit is going on in other states!! 

Now get on your keyboards, people and get in these fuckers' faces! By the
way, did anybody notice how the so called "democrat" Sylvester Turner voted
or in this case DID NOT VOTE! He was present and not voting! Why is that?
Because he is a sorry ass coward and a sack of steaming shit!

Below is the e-mail I sent to the shit head Bohac when his office asked for
my personal information:

You know my goddamned information, Dwayne and you already have it! I don't
expect you to reply to my latest e-mail regarding the fact that you voted
YES for the fascist HB 1 which will totally destroy public education in the
state of Texas!! Get off your knees for global corporate, you frigging tool
and do the job you were hired to do! YES, YOU ARE A PUBLIC EMPLOYEE, YOU
SACK OF CORPORATE OWNED SHIT! How dare you show up at the public meeting in
SBISD and act like you give a shit about Texas school children and
teachers!! You are a goddamned bought and paid for lackey with no
conscience. You make me want to puke! You are a sorry ass excuse for a human
being. Get off my planet!

Kris Graham

2639 Palo Pinto Drive

Houston, TX 77080

281-796-8577

These fucks are piles of human flotsam and jetsam! They don't deserve any
respect at all. They are worse than the lowest form of life on this planet,
and they are fucking taking up space and precious oxygen on my planet!

Kris

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TEXAS AFT LEGISLATIVE HOTLINE
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2011

* Accountability for Legislators, Part One 
* Accountability for Legislators, Part Two
* Standardized Testing Under Fire in Texas House

Legislative Accountability, Part One:  How did your state rep vote on the
House budget bill? We encourage you to send your rep a "Thanks" or "No
Thanks."

 <http://action.aft.org/c/435/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1853> Send
your state representative a quick note either thanking him or her for voting
against HB 1, which would cut some $9 billion from public education, or
expressing your disappointment if he or she supported this unbalanced
approach to balancing the state budget.

Here for your information is the unofficial record of the key vote on HB 1
on April 3. (The official House Journal for April 3 is not yet available at
this writing.)

AYES - 98
Aliseda(R); Anderson, Charles(R); Anderson, Rodney(R); Aycock(R); Beck(R);
Berman(R); Bohac(R); Bonnen(R); Branch(R); Brown, Fred(R); Burkett(R);
Button(R); Cain(R); Callegari(R); Carter(R); Chisum(R); Christian(R);
Cook(R); Craddick(R); Creighton(R); Crownover(R); Darby(R); Davis, John(R);
Davis, Sarah(R); Driver(R); Eissler(R); Elkins(R); Fletcher(R); Flynn(R);
Frullo(R); Garza(R); Geren(R); Gonzales, Larry(R); Gooden(R); Hamilton(R);
Hancock(R); Hardcastle(R); Harless(R); Harper-Brown(R); Hartnett(R);
Hilderbran(R); Hopson(R); Howard, Charlie(R); Huberty(R); Hughes(R);
Hunter(R); Isaac(R); Jackson, Jim(R); Keffer(R); King, Phil(R); King,
Susan(R); Kleinschmidt(R); Kolkhorst(R); Kuempel(R); Landtroop(R);
Larson(R); Laubenberg(R); Lavender(R); Legler(R); Lewis(R); Lyne(R);
Madden(R); Margo(R); Miller, Doug(R); Miller, Sid(R); Morrison(R);
Murphy(R); Nash(R); Orr(R); Otto(R); Parker(R); Patrick, Diane(R);
Paxton(R); Perry(R); Phillips(R); Pitts(R); Price(R); Riddle(R); Ritter(R);
Schwertner(R); Scott(R); Sheets(R); Sheffield(R); Shelton(R); Smith,
Todd(R); Smith, Wayne(R); Smithee(R); Solomons(R); Taylor, Larry(R); Taylor,
Van(R); Torres(R); Truitt(R); Weber(R); White(R); Woolley(R); Workman(R);
Zedler(R); Zerwas(R)

NAYS - 49
Alonzo(D); Alvarado(D); Anchia(D); Burnam(D); Castro(D); Coleman(D); Davis,
Yvonne(D); Deshotel(D); Dukes(D); Dutton(D); Eiland(D); Farias(D);
Farrar(D); Gallego(D); Giddings(D); Gonzales, Veronica(D); Gonzalez,
Naomi(D); Guillen(D); Gutierrez(D); Hernandez Luna(D); Hochberg(D); Howard,
Donna(D); Johnson(D); King, Tracy(D); Lozano(D); Lucio III(D); Mallory
Caraway(D); Marquez(D); Martinez(D); Martinez Fischer(D); McClendon(D);
Menendez(D); Miles(D); Munoz(D); Naishtat(D); Oliveira(D); Pena(R);
Pickett(D); Quintanilla(D); Raymond(D); Reynolds(D); Rodriguez(D);
Simpson(R); Strama(D); Thompson(D); Veasey(D); Villarreal(D); Vo(D);
Walle(D)

PRESENT-NOT-VOTING - 2
Straus(R); Turner, Sylvester(D)

Legislative Accountability, Part Two: More than 5,000 Texans showed up at
the capitol steps at noon today for a well-timed rally against the budget
cuts in HB 1 and for a balanced approach to balancing the budget. This "Save
Our State" rally was led by the Texas State Employees Union and the Texas
Forward coalition. (Texas AFT is part of the Texas Forward group and Texas
AFT members were pleased to participate in today's rally.) If lawmakers who
voted for HB 1 think the pressure will let up now that that ugly vote is
behind them, we suspect they have no such illusions after today's rally.
That vote could well come back to haunt them all the way to the 2012
elections, unless they reverse course before this session is over.

Standardized Testing Under Fire:  HB 500, a bill by Rep. Rob Eissler,
Republican of The Woodlands, would reduce to four from 12 the number of
end-of-course tests a student must pass in order to graduate under the new
STAAR testing regime for students entering high school in the fall. Among
other things, his bill also gives districts discretion to decide how much
end-of-course exams will count toward a student's final grade.

Today Rep. Eissler brought this bill to the floor, where he derided what he
called "self-styled education experts" who claim HB 500 would lower academic
standards. Eissler also fended off amendments proposed by lawmakers who
attacked from the opposite direction, voicing their frustration with the
excessive emphasis on standardized testing. Ultimately, the bill passed
easily on second reading without a record vote (it faces a final House vote
tomorrow), reflecting Eissler's success at channeling anti-testing sentiment
without fundamentally changing the test-driven accountability system.

There remains nonetheless a high-level of discontent among lawmakers with
that system. Today's debate in the House is one more sign that the
legislature needs to rethink and reduce the role of standardized testing,
putting it back in its proper place-as a primarily diagnostic tool to guide
instructional improvement, not as the centerpiece of a "gotcha" system of
punitive accountability sanctions.

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