Bill seeks to limit teachers’ political activities

Bill seeks to limit teachers' political activities http://t.co/iNVULJeHqA #ncga #ncpol #nced

— NC Policy Watch (@NCPolicyWatch) March 27, 2015

It would seem that a few members of the NCGA is afraid of the voices of our teachers, so they want to limit those voices.

Senate Bill 480 would disallow school employees from working on political campaigns during working hours, use the authority of his or her position to secure support or opposition for a political candidate, and use public funds to these ends.

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Today’s Great Read, The 7 subplots of the Session

Stop by the NC Policy Watch site and read their 7 Subplots of the Session, Click there..

The issues themselves are not a secret. The state budget will dominate the session and it should. That’s why short legislative sessions in even-numbered years were created back in the 1970s, to allow state lawmakers to make adjustments to the two year budget they passed the year before.

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Have, Do You Read The Follies at NC Policy Watch

If you don’t you should..

This week it centers on a Distorted Debate and a whooper of a lie from Phil Berger

Click here to go there and read this post.

here is nice quote,

The law is increasingly popular and the ideologues know it, so they have gone into overdrive with their distortions, claiming it’s a “job-killer” when studies show it will create 23,000 jobs in the state. The proclaim that it will “bust the state’s budget” when in reality it will save the state money in the long run, roughly $63 million in the next ten years according to the widely respected Institute of Medicine.

And they claim it will force thousands of medical providers to leave their profession, though they offer no evidence to support the assertion. Dozens of doctors who support Medicaid expansion were sitting in the Senate gallery Monday night watching the debate.

here is the actual tweet it self,

#Obamacare will kill jobs and bust #ncga budget. Sign our petition now to stop it in NC! bit.ly/VH1rPv #ncpol #ncgop #tcot

— Senator Phil Berger (@SenatorBerger) February 7, 2013

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