Stan Geiger

Stop SQ 744

I have to believe SQ 744 is DOA, but you just never know. So I reckon it's time for all good men and women to stand up and start ripping this thing. I have put up a link to the right. You might think about hitting it from time to time.

If you are not aware of the educators' latest attempt to screw this state silly for their own benefit, you will be made aware in the coming 90 days. You will be asked to vote, up or down, on an educator proposal that would mandate an $850 million bump in state funding for common education. That bump, by the way, would just be for starters. There would be more to come for years and years and years.

There was a poll done at the first of the year, January, I think. It showed 61 percent in favor. I put no stock in that poll at all. Aside from the fact that polls don't have a very good record of predicting the future of late, those poll results are old. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since January.

I don't know of a single prominent politician that has not condemned this measure. Our two candidates for governor have condemned this measure. Our sitting governor, Brad Henry, Mr. Education himself, has condemned this measure.

Even the Oklahoma Policy Institute---a liberal stink tank---has condemned the measure. It condemns the measure from a liberal standpoint, of course. The institute complains of no funding mechanism. The institute logically figures if common ed gets another $850 million, funding for its other socialist darlings will get gutted.

The institute is quite right.

Educators claim their constitutional amendment would not result in gutting of funding for other things. Educators claim their constitutional amendment would not result in a tax increase. They seem to think a billion dollars can magically fall out of a tree.

I'm sure I'll have more to say on this topic. For now, I'll just tell you that if you have more than 3 living brain cells, you'll decide to vote no on this issue long before election day.

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