Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin is one of the most revolting figures in the Republican Party. He is a former hedge fund manager and current Tea Party shill.
He calls for “breaking the back” of the teachers union. He says the union is “suffocating” teachers and students.
Kentucky is a right to work state. Anyone who belongs to the Kentucky Education Association does so voluntarily.
How would he feel if someone suggested “breaking Bevin’s back”?
He really is a vile person.
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As this documentary shows, the KY teacher unions KEA/JCTA have no back to break. They have been AWOL. Brent McKim and Stephanie Winkler of Presidents of JCTA and KEA respectively, should be ridden out of town on a rail for their lack of action.
Randy Wieck, founder TRELF, Teacher Retirement Legal Fund
https://dianeravitch.net/2015/09/05/kentucky-history-teacher-challenges-nations-largest-equity-funds-in-court/
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If there’s any justice left in the United States, TRELF should prevail.
What a fool! Teachers, parents and students should all get to the streets and let the public know what his views are.
KY Teacher unions KEA and JCTA led by Stephanie Winkler and Brent McKim have no “back” to break. They have been AWOL in this battle. SEE: https://shop.pbs.org/frontline-the-pension-gamble-dvd/product/FR61817?camp=DIS_PBS
He obviously didn’t learn the definition of irony when he went to school. Pathetic, malignant irony at that.
Bevin uses the same language as the ed reformers. Frederick Hess quoted them, “…We’ve got to blow up (the opposition).” It’s in the article, “Don’t Surrender the Academy”, posted at Philanthropy Roundtable. The American Enterprise Institute, the Chamber of Commerce, tech tyrants and hedge funders, etc. don’t entertain nor will they tolerate differing opinions. They have no legitimacy in a nation that was founded as a representative democracy. The United Staes should be rid of their menace.
These Tea party/far right wing libertarians will not be satisfied until they have stamped out unions into a fine dust. But wait there’s more: no pensions for you, no health care for you, say goodbye to tenure, seniority, LIFO and any other worker protections that might exist. That’s still not good enough for these vampires who are salivating at the prospect of eliminating Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and what’s left of the ACA. Hopefully, the Democratically controlled House will place a speed bump on the destruction of the middle class and teacher rights by the GOP/libertarian cult.
That’s still not good enough for these vampires who are salivating at the prospect of eliminating Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and what’s left of the ACA.
Yes. And that destruction will now be rationalized as imperative because we have an unprescedented national debt…created in part by Trump’s tax-breaks to the richest people.
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Sometimes bullies pick the wrong person to fight.
C’mon Kentucky teachers, show him that he picked the wrong fight!
I would love to see Bevin’s back broken. Where are the guillotines when you need them?
But Kentuckians also have to wisen up and stop voting for politicians who act against their interests just because they appear pious, Christian, laden with family values, and pro-military and pro-guns to keep us all safe.
The good people of Kentucky must rise up and stop behaving like children with big patriarchal daddies inculcating all the values and mindsets. Ditch Mitch is what I say.
These daddies might have gentle and civilized voices, but they are the oligarchs who want to surreptitiously swallow working class Kentuckians – and most Americans – alive. I think the people of Kentucky have the ability to learn and grow tremendously. They are intelligent people innately.
But Kentuckians also have to wisen up and stop voting for politicians who act against their interests …
They indeed have some responsibility to act and elect people who will attend to their needs. They give away their power and vote for people who wish to control them.
I don’t disagree with you.
Break the teachers union’s back?! Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, the choke Clintons, Arne Duncan, and Michelle Rhee must love this guy. Eli Broad, Austin Beutner, Nick Melvoin, and Monica Garcia must love this guy. Maybe he can break the teachers’ backs with evaluations that include high stakes standardized testing. Maybe some TFA. And of coarse, with school choice.
He’s trying!
What exactly is the status of a “union” in a right-to-work state? Looks like KEA’s back was already broken nearly 2 yrs ago.
2018 teachers’ strike was of the wildcat variety… and subsequently, GOP legislature overrode Bevin’s veto of addl ed funding. Guess he figures on riding to re-election next May on fumes of pre-Right to Work debate, hoping to stir a backlash among senile anti-union conservatives… hoping the general populace will be too busy trying to make a living in that poor state & forget to go to the polls & defeat him– even tho they supported teachers & that veto override.
Could happen. Pro-public-school activists both Dem & Rep have their work cut out. Go door to door, drive folks to polls if necessary to vote this creep out of office.
Bevin’s “Christian” facade wouldn’t hold up without him painting his victims as bullies who deserved to have their backs broken. If teachers were understood to be hard working people who earned the promise of funds when they were past working age then, Bevin would be accurately seen as pack leader for predatory, legal thieves who target the Biblical “meek”.
What Bevin is, is explicit in his former career choice. The whole self-congratulatory blessed, Christian routine is hedging his bets that there is a heaven. He does the “faith” thing as a counter to living his life in a way that was rejected by Jesus.