Matt Bevin Becomes Latest Red State Republican To Find Out You Don't Mess With Teachers

[skews13]

One of the big fights that contributed to the downfall of Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin was with teachers in his state. He insulted them, he went after their pensions, he blamed their activism for the death of a child, and, as he was losing on election night, a tweet saying “Hey @MattBevin, we finally found something you can accurately blame the teachers for” went semi-viral.

Kentucky was one of several states where teachers organized against Republican attacks and inadequate education funding. But have other Republicans (and other opponents of public education) been punished for their attacks on teachers and education? Not in every case—but often enough you’d think they’d start paying attention.

Matt Bevin becomes the latest red state Republican to find out you don't mess with teachers

You mess with funding for public schools. You die.

You mess with Medicaid. You die.

You mess with Obamacare. You die.

But hey, you guys keep on doing what you're doing.

 

[B. Kidd]

He had a great showing for being behind 20 pts. in July and going up against an opponent who has a well liked political family legacy in KY..
Also, Reublicans ran the table on the undercard!
The Trump factor was at play and IS still alive and well no matter how Dems and their media propagandists spin it.

 

[Thunk]

They're trying to get us to believe that 14% of KY voters voted for all other races but not for governor.

I could see 0.01% doing that...possibly as high as 0.5%...but 14% give me a fucking break!

 

[mamooth]

Bevin was always favored to win. Before Trump had his rally, Bevin was polling ahead by 5. Then Trump arrived, and Bevin lost.

What went wrong? In addition to attacking teachers and everyone's health care, Bevin ran on being a fanatical Trump supporter. Tying yourself entirely to Trump is political suicide. Look at the other Kentucky Republicans. They ran nice bland campaigns, and they won comfortably. It's only Trump and Trumpism that's toxic.

 

[Andylusion]

One of the big fights that contributed to the downfall of Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin was with teachers in his state. He insulted them, he went after their pensions, he blamed their activism for the death of a child, and, as he was losing on election night, a tweet saying “Hey @MattBevin, we finally found something you can accurately blame the teachers for” went semi-viral.

Kentucky was one of several states where teachers organized against Republican attacks and inadequate education funding. But have other Republicans (and other opponents of public education) been punished for their attacks on teachers and education? Not in every case—but often enough you’d think they’d start paying attention.

Matt Bevin becomes the latest red state Republican to find out you don't mess with teachers

You mess with funding for public schools. You die.

You mess with Medicaid. You die.

You mess with Obamacare. You die.

But hey, you guys keep on doing what you're doing.

So you are supporting all those things, even though they are going to bankrupt the entire country? Did you learn nothing from Greece?

The bottom line is, we spend way way too much on education, and have poor results for it. We need to mess with education. And for you to support the Teachers unions, when they are way over paid for way under performance, makes you a supporter of unions at the expense of the public, and destruction of the children's future.

 

[B. Kidd]

Bevin was always favored to win. Before Trump had his rally, Bevin was polling ahead by 5. Then Trump arrived, and Bevin lost.

What went wrong? In addition to attacking teachers and everyone's health care, Bevin ran on being a fanatical Trump supporter. Tying yourself entirely to Trump is political suicide. Look at the other Kentucky Republicans. They ran nice bland campaigns, and they won comfortably. It's only Trump and Trumpism that's toxic.

Nice lame, last minute spin.
But you fail.

 

[okfine]

One of the big fights that contributed to the downfall of Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin was with teachers in his state. He insulted them, he went after their pensions, he blamed their activism for the death of a child, and, as he was losing on election night, a tweet saying “Hey @MattBevin, we finally found something you can accurately blame the teachers for” went semi-viral.

Kentucky was one of several states where teachers organized against Republican attacks and inadequate education funding. But have other Republicans (and other opponents of public education) been punished for their attacks on teachers and education? Not in every case—but often enough you’d think they’d start paying attention.

Matt Bevin becomes the latest red state Republican to find out you don't mess with teachers

You mess with funding for public schools. You die.

You mess with Medicaid. You die.

You mess with Obamacare. You die.

But hey, you guys keep on doing what you're doing.

A good talk on this issue was on NPR radio today. I learned more about Bevins in 15 minutes. The same as your 1st paragraph, but more in depth. Teachers have had a big fight going for awhile and the last few elections are giving them wins. Thanks to the voting public.

 

[Mousterian]

So you are supporting all those things, even though they are going to bankrupt the entire country?

No, Andy, what's bankrupting the country is tax cuts for the 1%, and the huge drain of military spending. Which, incidentally enriches the same 1%.
It is the oligarchs who are destroying the country, not the teachers.

 

[mamooth]

Nice lame, last minute spin.

Given that my side won big, I don't have to spin. What I do is called "gloating".

Tell us again, about how a Democratic winning in a 63-33 Trump state against a candidate who tied himself to Trump means doom for the Democrats. Now that's some desperate spin.

 

[B. Kidd]

Nice lame, last minute spin.

Given that my side won big, I don't have to spin. What I do is called "gloating".

Tell us again, about how a Democratic winning in a 63-33 Trump state against a candidate who tied himself to Trump means doom for the Democrats. Now that's some desperate spin.

Getting the undercard completely run on ya' is winning bigly in a losers mind.
Politically speaking, saavy you ain't!

 

[okfine]

One of the big fights that contributed to the downfall of Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin was with teachers in his state. He insulted them, he went after their pensions, he blamed their activism for the death of a child, and, as he was losing on election night, a tweet saying “Hey @MattBevin, we finally found something you can accurately blame the teachers for” went semi-viral.

Kentucky was one of several states where teachers organized against Republican attacks and inadequate education funding. But have other Republicans (and other opponents of public education) been punished for their attacks on teachers and education? Not in every case—but often enough you’d think they’d start paying attention.

Matt Bevin becomes the latest red state Republican to find out you don't mess with teachers

You mess with funding for public schools. You die.

You mess with Medicaid. You die.

You mess with Obamacare. You die.

But hey, you guys keep on doing what you're doing.

So you are supporting all those things, even though they are going to bankrupt the entire country? Did you learn nothing from Greece?

The bottom line is, we spend way way too much on education, and have poor results for it. We need to mess with education. And for you to support the Teachers unions, when they are way over paid for way under performance, makes you a supporter of unions at the expense of the public, and destruction of the children's future.

The curriculum itself. Not the teachers.

 

[Third Party]

One of the big fights that contributed to the downfall of Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin was with teachers in his state. He insulted them, he went after their pensions, he blamed their activism for the death of a child, and, as he was losing on election night, a tweet saying “Hey @MattBevin, we finally found something you can accurately blame the teachers for” went semi-viral.

Kentucky was one of several states where teachers organized against Republican attacks and inadequate education funding. But have other Republicans (and other opponents of public education) been punished for their attacks on teachers and education? Not in every case—but often enough you’d think they’d start paying attention.

Matt Bevin becomes the latest red state Republican to find out you don't mess with teachers

You mess with funding for public schools. You die.

You mess with Medicaid. You die.

You mess with Obamacare. You die.

But hey, you guys keep on doing what you're doing.

There is no accounting for stupid

 

[mamooth]

Getting the undercard completely run on ya' is winning bigly in a losers mind.

When "but ... but ... we won minor races in one of the reddest red states in the nation!" is what you're trying to call a victory, that means you got slaughtered.

You got slaughtered.

 

[Andylusion]

One of the big fights that contributed to the downfall of Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin was with teachers in his state. He insulted them, he went after their pensions, he blamed their activism for the death of a child, and, as he was losing on election night, a tweet saying “Hey @MattBevin, we finally found something you can accurately blame the teachers for” went semi-viral.

Kentucky was one of several states where teachers organized against Republican attacks and inadequate education funding. But have other Republicans (and other opponents of public education) been punished for their attacks on teachers and education? Not in every case—but often enough you’d think they’d start paying attention.

Matt Bevin becomes the latest red state Republican to find out you don't mess with teachers

You mess with funding for public schools. You die.

You mess with Medicaid. You die.

You mess with Obamacare. You die.

But hey, you guys keep on doing what you're doing.

So you are supporting all those things, even though they are going to bankrupt the entire country? Did you learn nothing from Greece?

The bottom line is, we spend way way too much on education, and have poor results for it. We need to mess with education. And for you to support the Teachers unions, when they are way over paid for way under performance, makes you a supporter of unions at the expense of the public, and destruction of the children's future.

The curriculum itself. Not the teachers.

Oh bull crap. I had the high school basket ball coach for math. He didn't 'teach' diddly squat. He would put in a DVD into a DVD player, and hit play. At the end of class he would turn it off. Every Friday, he would give us a quiz, that was 20 questions long, and have a student in the class grade them.

There are many ridiculously terrible Union teachers, with high pay, low-to-no skill, and are failing at doing their job of education.

And further, the teachers unions routinely intervene with curriculum.

Former California School Teacher Says Teachers Unions Are At The Root Of Progressive Sex Education

So if the curriculum itself is bad, then we still can lay most of the blame on the Unions.

 

[g5000]

I checked the voter turnout. Voter turnout for this election was 40 percent higher than the last gubernatorial election.

Republicans do lousy when voter turnout is high, which is why they do everything they can to suppress it.

 

[Third Party]

Getting the undercard completely run on ya' is winning bigly in a losers mind.

When "but ... but ... we won minor races in one of the reddest red states in the nation!" is what you're trying to call a victory, that means you got slaughtered.

You got slaughtered.

No, it means it was badly handled-with lessons to be learned from it.

 

[whitehall]

So Ky. teachers who apparently had a child die in their care managed to blame the republican governor for bullying them? How does that work?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

They're trying to get us to believe that 14% of KY voters voted for all other races but not for governor.

I could see 0.01% doing that...possibly as high as 0.5%...but 14% give me a fucking break!

Voter Fraud

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Bevin was always favored to win. Before Trump had his rally, Bevin was polling ahead by 5. Then Trump arrived, and Bevin lost.

What went wrong? In addition to attacking teachers and everyone's health care, Bevin ran on being a fanatical Trump supporter. Tying yourself entirely to Trump is political suicide. Look at the other Kentucky Republicans. They ran nice bland campaigns, and they won comfortably. It's only Trump and Trumpism that's toxic.

So, you're saying that "Trump has no path to the White House -- again"

Hillary 2020

 

[okfine]

One of the big fights that contributed to the downfall of Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin was with teachers in his state. He insulted them, he went after their pensions, he blamed their activism for the death of a child, and, as he was losing on election night, a tweet saying “Hey @MattBevin, we finally found something you can accurately blame the teachers for” went semi-viral.

Kentucky was one of several states where teachers organized against Republican attacks and inadequate education funding. But have other Republicans (and other opponents of public education) been punished for their attacks on teachers and education? Not in every case—but often enough you’d think they’d start paying attention.

Matt Bevin becomes the latest red state Republican to find out you don't mess with teachers

You mess with funding for public schools. You die.

You mess with Medicaid. You die.

You mess with Obamacare. You die.

But hey, you guys keep on doing what you're doing.

So you are supporting all those things, even though they are going to bankrupt the entire country? Did you learn nothing from Greece?

The bottom line is, we spend way way too much on education, and have poor results for it. We need to mess with education. And for you to support the Teachers unions, when they are way over paid for way under performance, makes you a supporter of unions at the expense of the public, and destruction of the children's future.

The curriculum itself. Not the teachers.

Oh bull crap. I had the high school basket ball coach for math. He didn't 'teach' diddly squat. He would put in a DVD into a DVD player, and hit play. At the end of class he would turn it off. Every Friday, he would give us a quiz, that was 20 questions long, and have a student in the class grade them.

There are many ridiculously terrible Union teachers, with high pay, low-to-no skill, and are failing at doing their job of education.

And further, the teachers unions routinely intervene with curriculum.

Former California School Teacher Says Teachers Unions Are At The Root Of Progressive Sex Education

So if the curriculum itself is bad, then we still can lay most of the blame on the Unions.

DVD's in school. Way after my school days. Oh sure, there is a big difference between instruction and teaching. And thats about curriculum and the executive side of schooling.