McDaniel will cut federal education funding
Posted on 06/09/2014 5:31:49 AM PDT by cotton1706
Establishment Republicans backing Sen. Thad Cochran have launched a campaign to brand GOP challenger Chris McDaniel a candidate who would deeply cut federal education dollars on which Mississippi schools rely. The six-term senator, they said, would protect money for students and teachers.
Former Gov. Haley Barbour offered a preview for what his pro-Cochran super PAC and its allies had planned for the weeks before McDaniel and Cochran face off in a June 24 runoff for the GOP nomination for the Senate. That contest reflects the philosophical split between the establishment-minded Republicans and the new-to-politics tea party outsiders who relish upending longtime political figures.
A McDaniel spokesman said Barbour was “spouting Democratic scare tactics about the dangers of fiscal responsibility.”
Democrats, meanwhile, were preparing for the prospect that their nominee, former Rep. Travis Childers, could face not the genteel, entrenched Cochran but McDaniel, a state senator and former talk show host with hours of audio, some provocative, in the public realm.
No one predicts Democrats have a realistic shot at winning the seat in a state that last elected a Democratic senator in 1982. But the failure of either Republican to win the nomination in Tuesday’s primary re-set the race for the runoff.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Barbour said voters soon would be hearing plenty about McDaniel’s opposition to the Education Department and the roughly $800 million the state receives for students from kindergarten through high school.
“Not 1 percent of Mississippi voters know he says that,” Barbour said.
That was likely to change.
McDaniel, elected to the state Senate in 2007, has said the federal government should have no role in education, not even in helping pay for it.
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Even Rick Perry didn't forget that eliminating the Dept. of Education was at the top of the list ...
and, even more importantly, he lacks the mental stamina ...
He probably believes campaining is below him. After all, he's been there for so long, it's "his" seat...
Good. There’s a problem with that? Guy just went up in my book.
“Education” is a money pit that can never be filled. The ROI is poor and funding has little to effect on the generational ignorant.
Smart kids are going to do well no matter what, so funding is just another government handout to raise another generation of dependency class, non thinking, state supporting, robot voters.
That would be so great! Have Cochran buried in all the liberal politicians in places like golf course, lunches, fund-raisers, Hawaii, Paris, and pick him out like Where's Waldo. Then there could be a final one with an empty chamber.
“I have NO idea why education is a federal matter?”
Since there is NO area into which Mordor on the Potomac will not extend its tenacles, you don’t think they would pass up the opportunity to nationalize and “standardize” the education of young skulls full of mush, do you?
So, why hasn’t all of the money Cochran sent to Mississippi changed Mississippi’s education status within the US from bottom of the 50 states to bottom of the 50 states? Its been 40+ years so why hasn’t there been a change?
Haley, or one of his sons, must be getting the Senate appointment when Cochran retires next year.
Haley makes that sound like it’s a bad thing...
Haley is a democrat. I would never have believed it 20 years ago. But he sure sounds like one now.
McDaniel will cut federal education funding
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“Haley, or one of his sons, must be getting the Senate appointment when Cochran retires next year.”
Never thought of that. You’re probably right. McDaniel is upsetting the apple cart.
Did you see Mr. Smith goes to Washington? Haley reminds me of James Taylor in the movie “you were supposed to ask me! You didn’t ask me!” As if everything regarding power in the state needs to go through Barbour. So since they won’t be able to control McDaniel and he won’t owe anything to them if he does win, then they are trying to destroy him.
“Where in the world is Waldo Cochran?”
He is AWOL from his own campaign.
If I did not know better, it seems Boss Hogg Haley Barbour is the guy
running for the senate seat.
The Party of Big Government fights back....
how are RINO’s different from Democrats again?
That is why they created Common Core, to make things so bizarrely stupid that smart kids have little to no advantage and everyone is graduated dumb as dirt
This mississippi race is the epitome of the Uniparty.
If democrats vote for you. Than you are going to vote like them.
“I’m from the government and I’m here to help”
Get Bent Government.
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