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Sandoval plan to cut state workers' pay includes teachers
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LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Updated: Jan. 13, 2010 | 7:23 p.m.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Sandoval says Nevada should cut pay by 4 percent for state workers, including teachers, reduce public employee benefits and divert Clark County school construction funds to the general fund.
Those and other proposed cuts could save $542 million and were part of Sandoval's short-term plan for Nevada.
"All Nevadans are facing tough times, and our state budget is experiencing unprecedented deficits," Sandoval said. "Revenues are down significantly, caseloads are up, and tough decisions will have to be made to keep our state solvent."
Policy activists across the ideological spectrum critiqued the plan.
Launce Rake of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada said cuts to schools and social services "will scare away investment and put us even deeper in the hole."
Geoff Lawrence from the Nevada Policy Research Institute, a conservative think tank, said Sandoval is overlooking many more potential savings.
"We proposed deregulation of a lot of regulated industries, which could have allowed for the dismantling of the agencies overseeing them," Lawrence said of the group's own budget proposals. "We actually just eliminated the class-size reduction program. Research has shown the most influential factor on students' learning ability is the quality of the teacher, not so much the size of the class."
A spokesman for Clark County Commission Chairman Rory Reid, the Democratic candidate for governor, said Sandoval's plan is similar to the vision of unpopular incumbent Gov. Jim Gibbons.
"Maybe the governor left his office door open last night, because it seems like one of his opponents came and stole all his budget ideas right off his desk," Reid spokesman Mike Trask said.
Contact reporter Benjamin Spillman at bspillman@reviewjournal.com or 702-477-3861.
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I thought that Clark Co. School District school construction was funded through LOCAL property taxes, which is why CCSD has to request Clark Co. voters' approval to issue construction bonds every few years.
So, if Sandoval has CCSD school construction funds diverted to the State's General Fund, isn't that making Clark Co property owners contribute more taxes to the state than property owners in other counties? And is it even legal to divert funds from one source that was specially approved by voters and put it in a completely unrelated account that was not approved by voters (and very likely wouldn't have been approved by voters if they had known about the potential for diverting the funds)?
If someone has some facts about this, please let me know.
Just like the current Governor and his Education Reform Plan, all Sandoval has managed to come up with as a "plan" is same old, same old Republican core ideas. Gibbons is done, but Sandoval's kind of a nobody. Saw Sue Lowden on Fox the other night and she was a public speaking disaster. Danny Tarkanian is a two time loser at the local level and these are the people the Republicans are hanging their hat on in Nevada?? The polling data now may show head to head matchups of these candidates beating the Reids but get real...none of these candidates are actual competition. Senator Reid and Governor Reid, here we come.
Who Cares? what you've just posted is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this forum is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Never has this statement been more needed for a brain-dead troll such as you. You are the best argument for 500 month term abortion and sterilization.
Well,
I guess I'm not voting for this idiot. I'll be voting Democrat this upcoming election.
Sandoval has a plan wrote on January 13, 2010 08:23 PM:
Oh, so Princess Sandoval has a PLAN?
Roooooooooooooorrry Reid has a PLAN, too.
Sandoval just lost 30,000 votes, the unions, all the teachers, college professor's.
Yeah, he the hombre (looks gay)
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I knew that Sandoval plan would pucker up a bunch of dummycrat a-holes.
LOL!