So far, everybody loves Charlie [re GOP FL Gov Charlie Crist]

St Pete Times ^ | March 9, 2007 | Adam Smith

[summer]

GOP Gov Charlie Crist's approval ratings are very high, something like 65%+. (Same as Gov Jeb Bush when Jeb left office.) Gov Crist seems unfraid of doing things how he sees best. He's unafraid to lead -- and in that sense, I think he is very much like Gov Bush.

[summer]

FYI. Peace. :)

[Fawn]

What? He just proposed like a 10% raise to teachers. Milions to reduce class size. MIllions to 'global climate change' and you say the Dems hate him???

[jjw]

He's also unafraid to automatically restore felon voting rights.

[NonValueAdded]

Yeah, but are we headed toward the cliff? (not an easy item to find in Florida)

[Fawn]

His whole family is involved in public school teaching, etc. He's a RINO

[crosslink]

This guy has destroyed the insurance market by demanding rate cuts. This will drive rates 10 times higher in the long run and force everyone in the state run insurance company ,Citizens, which will loss billions and cause taxes to sky rocket.

But everyone loves him right now because he is sticking it to the MAN.

Oh wait I am the MAN? No the taxpayers are the man.

[summer]

I think FL will be just fine.

[Joe Brower]

Florida Freeper

[summer]

I think you've got that wrong - the insurance companies almost destroyed FL with their rate hikes. I know someone now paying $19,000 per year on their home for insurance due to the hurricanes, etc.

[summer]

FYI, there are many conservatives on this forum who are public school teachers.

[summer]

Well, maybe that needs to be done - otherwise, how will people like Scooter Libby (now a convicted felon) ) ever vote again?

[summer]

Also, FYI, new teachers often can not survive in this state, because many local school districts pay their superintendents a ton, and have layers of adminsitrators, but forget about the teachers (and, local districts set their own salaries here). That's why Gov Bush (not Crist) wanted to raise all new teachers' salaries to a minimum of $35,000. But, he was never able to pass that through the FL legislature.

[summer]

BTW, for the first time, last year more people moved out of Florida than into Florida. I think it had something to do with sky high real estate prices and out of control insurance rates. Meanwhile, salaries of the average Joe have not exactly skyrocketed.

[Fawn]

Anomaly's happen

[Fawn]

What county are you in? Do you know if there is a public list of how much teachers starting salaries are and what they will be within 5 years?

I would like teachers to work a normal year like the rest of us for that starting salary of $35,000 a year. Not the 7 months they do now (if that?)

Gov. Bush was never for the class size admendment like Crist, and Jeb certainly wouldn't have poured millions into this GLobal Warming Hoax like Crist wants to.

[Constitution Day]

Good for Crist!
I wish NC had a better Governor.

...and the fact that Charlie drives the Terribots into apoplectic fits can only be a plus.

[crosslink]

No the hurricanes destroyed Fl. The rate hikes is what it cost to spread the risk of Millions of homes built next to the sea destroyed every other month. The amount of loss dollars paid will not change. You will now pay the government instead of the insurance company. I am sure they will do a great job of paying your claim.

Do you think insurance companies are pulling out because they made millions???????????

[Rb ver. 2.0]

"He's also unafraid to automatically restore felon voting rights."

Which is the right thing to do after a person has paid their judicially decreed debt to society.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

The important thing is, what does Judge Greer think?