Democrats and RINO Republicans Fight Against Teacher Pay Raise
Last Monday we witnessed a despicable sight. Many of the same RINO Republicans that pushed for a half billion dollar tax increase to fund teacher pay fought to defeat a conservative bill that would have paid up to $4000.00 per year in increased teacher salary by using money that is currently illegally being funneled back into a trust fund.
HB 3340 by Rep Tom Gann barely survived a committee vote by 15 to 13. Sooner Politics wrote an excellent story on the battle that you can read at this link. House Leadership kept their promise to support the measure and voted for it however that doesn't mean they don't have a plan to kill it using the Floor leader or over in the Senate in committee.
John Bennett, Jon Echols, Lepack, Pfeiffer, Calvey, Hall, McCall, Russ, Casey, Jordon, O'Donnel, Wallace, Cockcroft, Komrade Kannady, and Orgtega voted for the bill.
Dunnington, Lesile Osborn (running for Labor Commissioner), Sanders, Watson, Inman, Ownbey, Sears, Kouplen, Proctor, Stone, Loring, Dustin Roberts, and Emily Virgin all voted to kill the bill. The eight Democrats on the committee voted to kill the bill and were joined by five RINOs, Osborn, Sanders, Watson, Ownbey, Sears, and Dustin Roberts. Sanders is planning on running again for his seat, Osborn is running for Labor Commissioner, the rest of the crowd except for Dustin Roberts is either termed out or isn't going to run again.
Why would Democrats and RINO Republicans vote against a teacher pay raise? Because it removes the crisis that they had been hoping would lead to billions of dollars in new taxes every single year and the conservatives will look like heroes to the teachers while the RINOs and Democrats look like fools or worse. STP doesn't believe that teachers really need a pay raise, they are paid well for what is essentially a part time job with less than half the year working compared to the rest of society and frankly, their performance is completely dismal, but passing the raise does deny the use of this issue for raising taxes.
