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Rep. Amy Carter in Valdosta & Letter to citizens...
August 16, 2012
Hello World!
I received this letter from Leigh Touchton and want to share it with the general publicd!
See "Bostongbr" on You Tube
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From: Leigh Touchton leigh.touchton@gmail.com
Date: Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:33 PM
Subject: Dear Representative Carter, did you vote for this?
To: Rep. Amy Carter
Dear Representative Carter,
Did you vote for this in addition to the charter school amendment? If so,
then I think you really need to explain a few things to us.
http://www.southerneducation.org/News-and-Events/posts/May-2012-(1)/The-New-York-Times-expands-on-findings-in-SEF%E2%80%99s-20.aspx
I sat through your photo-op tonight, I appreciated the clever way you
arranged the tables and chairs on stage to make it look like you were truly
concerned about our respective Lowndes and Valdosta Boards of Education,
but since I was only one of 3 concerned citizens there tonight, you really
didn't convey that you were that interested in engaging your constituents.
I liked how you opened the meeting by stating "This is an Open Meeting."
I've only tried to contact you about half a dozen times trying to get an
answer to that question. Then I called the Attorney General, Sam Olens.
He's getting ready to speak in Florida at the GOP Convention so he wasn't
available to answer my question. I think he was chatting up Donald Trump
to see if he can roll out another birther or Obamacare lawsuit, but I
digress.
Back to your photo-shoot. You looked good for the 30 photographs that the
Valdosta Daily Times reporter took of you. I liked the way your hair
framed your face, and the nice suit you picked out. I liked your shoes.
The photographs in the Valdosta Daily Times are going to make you look like
you really care about parents and students. It's a good thing you didn't
invite the television stations, they might have videotaped the empty room
with no parents, teachers, students, or taxpayers. That would have looked
bad for you. And some other folks might have booed or hissed. I just
rolled my eyes a lot when y'all pretended to "feel our pain".
I really liked when Bill Love made a suggestion to save money and unfund
some of the state projects that don't work, and your experts said "If you
know of some, please share them with us."
What the photo-shoot won't convey is how the hard questions were
sidestepped, dodged, and ignored. After listening to your experts
soliloquize somberly about the drain on Georgia's budget due to education,
how health benefits and retiree benefits are sucking us dry, Fred Davis, of
the Lowndes BOE, asked about why the legislature had passed the charter
school amendment if they were really concerned about the austerity budget
cuts on our school systems.
Representative Dixon changed the subject quickly. It wasn't faster than
the speed of light, but I certainly have known some photons that dawdled by
comparison. I'm sure he knew that you voted for it to be put on the
ballot, whereas your opponent, JC Cunningham, is strongly opposed. JC was
not invited to your unadvertised "open meeting". Nor were any parents.
Nor were any students. Nor were any teachers. In short, the very
constituents most profoundly affected by Amy Carter's voting record were
uninvited, marginalized, and ignored. Did I tell you I contacted you about
half a dozen times and you igged me for 2 days? I certainly would have
advertised your event if I had known that attendees were not going to be
arrested for crashing a private meeting.
If you cared about public school education, you would have come to our
community and educated our citizens about why charter schools absent local
school board control is a really bad idea. You certainly wouldn't have
voted for it to go on the ballot in the form of a referendum.
You know charter schools are a bad idea because you are a teacher at
Lowndes High School. We are about 30 miles away from Florida, we get
Tallahassee news channels and many of us get Florida newspapers. Because of
our close proximity to Florida we know all about the abject charter school
failures in the state of Florida. You know this, because the latest
Education journals are all abuzz with the statistics that charter schools
do not perform better than public schools, and many if not most perform
worse. If the charter school amendment to our Georgia Constitution passes,
we'll have charter schools forced on local communities by the state
legislature and there will be no local School Board to administer them.
You know this, how could you not know this, since you are Governor Deals'
special colleague, the one our Chamber of Commerce proclaims as having the
Governor's ear, the one who can bring the Governo to Valdosta by dropping a
dime. You know that the Georgia Supreme Court already ruled this
unconstitutional taxation without representation, so you and your
Republican colleagues decided to do an end-run and amend the Georgia
Constitution.
You didn't tell us where your next appointment at 8:30 was. I'm guessing
some of your big country club donors are having a fete, thanking you for
helping to privatize education through charter schools so they won't have
to pay private school tuition. Or maybe you were meeting with the Chamber
of Commerce Consolidation and CUEE crowd, who are rumored to want to build
that charter school. I'd have liked to have asked you, but you literally
ran out of the building before the hoi polloi (the 3 of us) could approach
you.
Best wishes for you next photo-shoot.
Leigh Touchton (who voted for you when you were a Democrat)
Hello World!
I received this letter from Leigh Touchton and want to share it with the general publicd!
See "Bostongbr" on You Tube
==================
From: Leigh Touchton leigh.touchton@gmail.com
Date: Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:33 PM
Subject: Dear Representative Carter, did you vote for this?
To: Rep. Amy Carter
Dear Representative Carter,
Did you vote for this in addition to the charter school amendment? If so,
then I think you really need to explain a few things to us.
http://www.southerneducation.org/News-and-Events/posts/May-2012-(1)/The-New-York-Times-expands-on-findings-in-SEF%E2%80%99s-20.aspx
I sat through your photo-op tonight, I appreciated the clever way you
arranged the tables and chairs on stage to make it look like you were truly
concerned about our respective Lowndes and Valdosta Boards of Education,
but since I was only one of 3 concerned citizens there tonight, you really
didn't convey that you were that interested in engaging your constituents.
I liked how you opened the meeting by stating "This is an Open Meeting."
I've only tried to contact you about half a dozen times trying to get an
answer to that question. Then I called the Attorney General, Sam Olens.
He's getting ready to speak in Florida at the GOP Convention so he wasn't
available to answer my question. I think he was chatting up Donald Trump
to see if he can roll out another birther or Obamacare lawsuit, but I
digress.
Back to your photo-shoot. You looked good for the 30 photographs that the
Valdosta Daily Times reporter took of you. I liked the way your hair
framed your face, and the nice suit you picked out. I liked your shoes.
The photographs in the Valdosta Daily Times are going to make you look like
you really care about parents and students. It's a good thing you didn't
invite the television stations, they might have videotaped the empty room
with no parents, teachers, students, or taxpayers. That would have looked
bad for you. And some other folks might have booed or hissed. I just
rolled my eyes a lot when y'all pretended to "feel our pain".
I really liked when Bill Love made a suggestion to save money and unfund
some of the state projects that don't work, and your experts said "If you
know of some, please share them with us."
What the photo-shoot won't convey is how the hard questions were
sidestepped, dodged, and ignored. After listening to your experts
soliloquize somberly about the drain on Georgia's budget due to education,
how health benefits and retiree benefits are sucking us dry, Fred Davis, of
the Lowndes BOE, asked about why the legislature had passed the charter
school amendment if they were really concerned about the austerity budget
cuts on our school systems.
Representative Dixon changed the subject quickly. It wasn't faster than
the speed of light, but I certainly have known some photons that dawdled by
comparison. I'm sure he knew that you voted for it to be put on the
ballot, whereas your opponent, JC Cunningham, is strongly opposed. JC was
not invited to your unadvertised "open meeting". Nor were any parents.
Nor were any students. Nor were any teachers. In short, the very
constituents most profoundly affected by Amy Carter's voting record were
uninvited, marginalized, and ignored. Did I tell you I contacted you about
half a dozen times and you igged me for 2 days? I certainly would have
advertised your event if I had known that attendees were not going to be
arrested for crashing a private meeting.
If you cared about public school education, you would have come to our
community and educated our citizens about why charter schools absent local
school board control is a really bad idea. You certainly wouldn't have
voted for it to go on the ballot in the form of a referendum.
You know charter schools are a bad idea because you are a teacher at
Lowndes High School. We are about 30 miles away from Florida, we get
Tallahassee news channels and many of us get Florida newspapers. Because of
our close proximity to Florida we know all about the abject charter school
failures in the state of Florida. You know this, because the latest
Education journals are all abuzz with the statistics that charter schools
do not perform better than public schools, and many if not most perform
worse. If the charter school amendment to our Georgia Constitution passes,
we'll have charter schools forced on local communities by the state
legislature and there will be no local School Board to administer them.
You know this, how could you not know this, since you are Governor Deals'
special colleague, the one our Chamber of Commerce proclaims as having the
Governor's ear, the one who can bring the Governo to Valdosta by dropping a
dime. You know that the Georgia Supreme Court already ruled this
unconstitutional taxation without representation, so you and your
Republican colleagues decided to do an end-run and amend the Georgia
Constitution.
You didn't tell us where your next appointment at 8:30 was. I'm guessing
some of your big country club donors are having a fete, thanking you for
helping to privatize education through charter schools so they won't have
to pay private school tuition. Or maybe you were meeting with the Chamber
of Commerce Consolidation and CUEE crowd, who are rumored to want to build
that charter school. I'd have liked to have asked you, but you literally
ran out of the building before the hoi polloi (the 3 of us) could approach
you.
Best wishes for you next photo-shoot.
Leigh Touchton (who voted for you when you were a Democrat)
Thursday, July 5, 2012
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