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Tea Party guide to legislative supporters

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The Dispatch ran an article titled "Tea party has had it with GOP"

Feeling betrayed by the Republican Party and its leaders, tea party groups in Ohio appear to be uniting and moving toward either a split from the GOP or action to punish Republican candidates who fail ideological purity tests.
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It remains uncertain, however, just how much the Ohio GOP and its candidates could be hurt by an insurrection because it is difficult to assess the true strength of tea party groups. A 2012 poll by The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation found that about 28 percent of Republicans identified themselves as tea party supporters.

To gage how much support the Tea Party has within the Ohio GOP legislative House caucus, we took a look at who had signed on to the Tea Party's pet union busting "right to work" cause. Spread across HB 151 (Private Employees "Right to work" bill) and HB 152 (Public Employees "Right to work" bill), the following Republican state Representatives sponsored or cosponsored one or both of these Tea Party bills

Adams
Beck
Becker
Blair
Boose
Brenner
Buchy
Hood
Lynch
Maag (sponsor)
Roegner (sponsor)
Rosenberger
Stautberg
Terhar
Thompson
Wachtmann
Young

This represents 28% of the GOP house caucus, identical to the number of Republicans the Kaiser Family Foundation found identified as Tea Partiers. You will also note Rep Terhar on the list, he is the spouse of the Hitler referencing Debe Terhar, the President of the State Board of Education - quite the family of anti-working people policy advocates.

28% is quite a sizable rump for the more moderate Republicans to have to deal with, and it might be growing

But tea party leaders say their ranks are being swelled by social conservatives who oppose abortion and gay marriage and who are angry with the Republican Party.

This also corresponds with the information we published as to why some on the Ohio GOP were wanting to push "right to work" - it's all about bigotry

Harvey said the NEA has supported an “immoral, deviant and destructive” gay agenda for at least 25 years, citing its gay and lesbian caucus started in 1987. Harvey criticized the union for supporting a gay and lesbian history month, diversity training that included homosexuality, and pro-homosexual school counseling. She said the NEA has asked schools to protect students and staff from sexual orientation harassment and discrimination and has replaced the word “tolerance” with acceptance and respect.

“Kids are being trained as activists now,” she said.

Harvey said the NEA has voted to lobby for same-sex unions and said petitions are currently circulating to overturn the 2004 Ohio marriage amendment, which stated that that only a union between a man and woman would be recognized as a valid marriage. The OEA opposed the amendment.

It's hard believe that the "Tea party has had it with GOP" when at least 28% of the Ohio GOP's elected Representatives is made up of tea partiers.

Education News for 11-19-2012

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State Education News

  • A school-rating revamp? (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Ohio schools won’t receive an overall grade on state-issued report cards for the next two years under a Republican plan to ramp up the school-accountability system…Read more...

  • 35 district jobs to be cut to fill $2.8M budget hole (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Teachers cried and students begged the school board to change its mind, but in the end, few in a crowd of probably 200 people left on Thursday night with much hope that 35 district jobs can be saved…Read more...

  • Disabilities board asks districts to pay fee for school programs (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Starting next fall, the Franklin County Board of Developmental Disabilities will ask local school districts to pick up part of the tab when children attend its preschool and school-age programs…Read more...

  • Schools changing texting policies (Middletown Journal)

    • At a time when many school districts are crafting stricter regulations about teachers text messaging with students…Read more...

  • Student turnover dependent on several factors at local schools (Zanesville Times-Recorder)

    • Elementary school students in Zanesville City Schools lost about 20 percent of their classmates in two years. In contrast, the turnover in the East Muskingum Local Schools was only 8 percent between 2009 and 2011…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Fourteen more Jackson High victims identified, total is 38 (Canton Repository)

    • Police have identified 14 more Jackson High student-athletes who were videotaped nude in locker room showers…Read more...

  • Two panels debate options for schools levy (Columbus Dispatch)

    • After the Columbus Board of Education scrapped plans to put a tax increase on the presidential-election ballot, Superintendent Gene Harris has been preparing for the next push with two groups of community leaders…Read more...

  • Diabetes a challenge for schools (Columbus Dispatch)

    • A rapidly rising rate of students with diabetes in Columbus public schools and persistent struggles in reading proficiency are among the challenges…Read more...

  • Districts recognized for financial transparency (Middletown Journal)

    • Twelve of the 45 school districts or schools in Ohio that earned a Certificate of Excellence in Financial Reporting for fiscal year 2011 are located in the Miami Valley…Read more...

Editorial

  • Crossing the finish line (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Despite being the seventh-most-populous state, with colleges and universities almost everywhere one looks, Ohio is 37th in the nation for the percentage of adults…Read more...