Thursday, January 25, 2007
Three Weeks in New Hampshire and Cathy Peschke Has Invitation to Testify Before Legislature
You have to hand it to Cathy Peschke.
She and her husband Jim started CRAFT, Citizens for Reasonable and Fair Taxes. Here's their old, but still current, blog. Here is their new one, Croydon Citizens for Reasonable And Fair Taxes.
She, Jim and the little one moved to New Hampshire three weeks ago and she has already made trouble for the same kind of people she took on in Illinois.
I hope you enjoy this email from her:
She and her husband Jim started CRAFT, Citizens for Reasonable and Fair Taxes. Here's their old, but still current, blog. Here is their new one, Croydon Citizens for Reasonable And Fair Taxes.
She, Jim and the little one moved to New Hampshire three weeks ago and she has already made trouble for the same kind of people she took on in Illinois.
I hope you enjoy this email from her:
Today The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy had a meeting in Concord titled Education Funding and the Constitution.
The long and short of it is about 13 years ago I think I am right on the number. A school district sued the State of NH over the funding of education. Recently the Supreme Court said the legislators must define "adequate education" by July 1st or the Supreme Court will decide and impose a tax if need be. By the way I am sure you know that, that is not the job of the Supreme Court.
They had a Martire type dude there.
I was able to make a comment.
Essentially I said the legislators defining an adequate education takes away a parents right to define an adequate education for their child. I also said that the legislators should run with the idea that they must define education and take the bull by the horns and revamp the system and have the money follow the child and not the institution or system.
I directed my question to the Martire dude. I basically said the rhetoric he spewed is all too often what I hear from the teacher’s unions and administrator’s associations I asked how much funding he gets from these groups.
His response was I do not know but our group is made up of NEA members, school board associations, teachers, etc. ..........
After the meeting a Representative who has a school choice bill up asked if I would be willing to testify.
Another Representative came up to me too and asked the same thing. Someone thanked me for my question to the Martire dude.
Three weeks in New Hampshire and legislators actually want to here what I have to say. This is so unlike Illinois.
