Linda Lingle is the right-wing idiot who serves as Governor of Hawaii. She's known for her bizarre claim that regulating gasoline prices would increase the price of gas. (That ranks right up there with Reagan's insistence that cutting taxes and increasing 'Star Wars' spending would reduce the deficit.)
And now she's made a fool of herself yet again.
Last year, when the union representing Hawaii teachers was voting on a new contract, Linda Lingle ordered a clause added that would require teachers to take a drug test. The clause is clearly illegal, and it led the ACLU to prepare a lawsuit against Lingle.
Education officials now tell Lingle they can't pay for the drug tests without looting important classroom programs. So what's the Lingleberry's response? She's doing what every Republican does best: She's stamping her feet and throwing a big fit! She's threatening to withhold the pay raise that the teachers were promised.
She wants teachers to abide by an illegal clause in their contract that she forced them to sign? You're an idiot, Linda.
What's just as bad is how the schools end up being robbed to pay for this shit.
Lingle's temper tantrum also makes the Aloha State the only state in the U.S. to require teachers to take drug tests.
(Source: http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080702/NEWS07/807020371/1012/LOCALNEWSFRONT;
http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2007/only-hawaii-requires-teachers.html)
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Governor threatens to withhold pay raises if teachers don't submit to drug tests
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ReplyDelete"Lingle's temper tantrum also makes the Aloha State the only state in the U.S. to require teachers to take drug tests."
Should have said "the first state...to require teachers to take drug tests". Because we all know the Repubs across the country will imitate such beedledickery.