Legislative Update and Newsletter

From Tea Party Patriots:  November 28, 2011

Federal Budget & Overspending


 Today is the 944h day since the Senate, under Harry Reid’s (D-NV) leadership, has passed a budget.
 Another credit rating agency, Fitch, has cut our outlook to “negative,” though they are keeping the actual rating at AAA for now.

Regulations, Jobs, & Growth

 ClimateGate II: 5,000 more emails leaked, showing global warming scientists fudging data and conspiring against skeptics.
 
Education


 Charter Schools and Choice: What’s All the Fuss About? By Debra England.
 America is falling further and further behind economically as a result of our failed government education monopoly. Competition through school choice can reform education. If you believe that Parental Choice = Freedom, then contact Bruce Gardner (bruce@teaforeducation.com ) or Beverly Elliott (beverly@teaforeducation.com ) or visit our website at http://www.teaforeducation.com to find out how you can help make transform education in America.
 Schedule film viewings (“Waiting for Superman”, “The Cartel”) to educate the public and your elected officials---use the Power of TEA to get comprehensive school choice legislation passed. After all, isn’t it time education is about the children?

Agenda 21

 Is Agenda 21 a part of Obamacare? You bet it is!
 Florida: Gov. Rick Scott recently urged repeal of the 30-year-old “smart growth” law as one way to increase jobs in FL. If you live in FL, keep this momentum going! Research shows “smart growth” hurts economic growth.

 Wisconsin: Check out the bills that would allow local governments to opt out of Agenda 21! Assembly bill and Senate bill.
 New Jersey: A “redevelopment plan” was approved on Nov. 14, which will supplant local policies. Public comment supposedly was solicited by "invitation" earlier this year. Email Shelly Kennedy for info on how to fight this at shellyskennedy@yahoo.com.
 KAREN BRACKEN STILL NEEDS VOLUNTEERS IN THE FOLLOWING 16 COUNTIES – to fight against the regional 40 year “Growth Plan.” Email her at karenbracken5@gmail.com. If you live in the following counties, you probably will want to know what’s going on.

o TN: Bledsoe, Bradley, Hamilton, Marion, Meigs, McMinn, Polk, Sequatchie, Rhea
o GA: Catoosa, Dade, Murray, Walker, Whitfield
o AL: Dekalb, Jackson

Illegal Immigration


 Remember, if you are interested in participating in the Tea Party Immigration Coalition’s weekly phone call, please send an email to berksteaparty@berksteaparty.org, expressing your interest.

Special News

 After the Richmond Tea Party called attention to the unequal treatment perpetrated by the Mayor of Richmond, in terms of charging the tea party for their events while forcing taxpayers to pay for Occupy Richmond’s events, the city is now auditing the tea party group. Retribution and intimidation, also known as “hope and change.”

House of Representatives

 The big item this week in the House is the bill (HR 3049) that would counter a proposed rule by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that seeks to rush union elections through, thereby disallowing employers enough time to make their case to employees. The NLRB is yet another executive agency overstepping their bounds and a bill to reel them back in is long overdue.

Senate

 Most of the time this week will be spent on judicial confirmations and the DOD Authorization bill. Within the DOD bill is a provision that has been making the email rounds today. The provision supposedly says that American citizens, on American soil, can be picked up by the military for alleged crimes in the name of homeland security. One of our state coordinators heard from Marco Rubio’s office that said that this is not true, but that he is also offering an amendment to ensure that this could never happen. Hmmmm… we aren’t sure what the exact truth is yet so we encourage everyone to see what you can find out from your Senators (if you trust them) or from other trusted sources, and let us know what you find out/think.
 Harry Reid also wants to use a vote on the payroll tax cut extension, combined with

increased taxes on higher earners, to pin Republicans down on taxes in preparation for the elections next year. Because the Republicans will oppose the bill due to it’s increased taxes, Reid is hoping to be able to say that the Republicans want to raise taxes on middle class families while protecting "millionaires and billionaires." KEY POINT: many small business owners file their tax returns as individuals rather than corporations so they would be hit hard by any increase in taxes on "higher earners." So while Reid claims to want to protect small business owners, the reality is that they would suffer.

LEGISLATIVE UPDATE September 14, 2011

Thanks to NC Federation of Republican Women and Brenda T. Formo for this update!

NC General Assembly


1. Defense of Marriage Amendment (SB514)

The Defense of Marriage Amendment passed in the Senate in a vote of 30 to 16 with 4 excused absences on Sep 13. All Republicans present voted for the bill and all Democrats present voted against it.

The four excused absences were:

•Republican Senator Fletcher Hartsell (Cabarrus, Iredell). Recall that we asked that you call him because we had information that he might waver on the vote.
•Democrat Senators Eric Mansfield (Cumberland); Michael P. Walters (Hoke, Robeson); and Stan M. White (Beaufort, Camden, Currituck, Dare, Hyde, Pasquotank, Tyrrell, and Washington)
 
SB514 Defense of Marriage Act states that "Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State. This section does not prohibit a private party from entering into contracts with another private party; nor does this section prohibit courts from adjudicating the rights of private parties pursuant to such contracts."


The bill passed in the House on Monday, Sep 12th.

The Defense of Marriage Amendment will be on the ballot in the first primary in 2012, which is May 2012. The people of NC will determine its outcome.

Senator Phil Berger, President Pro-Tempore, said of the Senate vote: "We think the people of this state--not judges, bureaucrats, or politicians--should define marriage, which I personally believe should be between one man and one woman. We look forward to eight months of healthy debate before voters decide this issue at the polls."

(Thanks again to everyone who worked for this amendment so that the people can vote on it. See the NCFRW Special Report dated Sep 13, 2011.)

2. Speaker/Pro Tem Term Limits (HB823)

The bill is an amendment to the NC Constitution to "limit the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to serve for four consecutive two-year terms in those offices."

•On Monday, Sep 12, the Senate passed the bill in a vote of 35 to 9 with 1 not voting and 5 excused absences.

All Republican Senators voted 'Yes," except Senator Hartsell who had an excused absence.  Five Democrats voted "yes:"

Senator Daniel G. Clodfelter (Mecklenburg)
Senator Malcolm Graham (Mecklenburg)
Senator Ed Jones (Bertie, Chowan, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Northhampton, Perquimimans)
Senator Josh Stein (Wake)
Senator Don Vaughan (Guilford)

Nine Democrats voting "no:"

Senator Bob Atwater (Chatham, Durham, Lee)
Senator Doug Berger (Franklin, Granville, Vance, Warren)
Senator Dan Blue (Wake)
Senator Charlie S. Dannelly (Mecklenburg)
Senator Eleanor Kinnaird (Orange, Person)
Senator Floyd B. McKissick (Durham)
Senator Martin L. Nesbitt (Buncombe)
Senator William R. Purcell (Anson, Richmond, Scotland, Stanly)

Senator Gladys A. Robinson (Guilford)

Senator Stan White (Beaufort, Camden, Currituck, Dare, Hyde, Pasquotank, Tyrrell, Washington) did not vote.

The following Democrat Senators had excused absences: Linda Garrou (Forsyth), Clark Jenkins (Edgecombe, Martin, Pitt); Eric Mansfield (Cumberland), and Michael P. Walters (Hoke, Robeson).

•In the House on Tues, Sep 13 the bill passed in a vote of 118 to 0 with 1 not voting and 1 excused absence. Democrat Representative Marcus Brandon (Guilford) did not vote; and

Republican Representative D. Craig Horn (Union) had an excused absence.

Star News reported that Senate leader Phil Berger said,"the change approved Monday would keep any single person from holding power for decades." Star News added, "His predecessor as president pro tempore, Sen. Marc Basnight, D-Dare, served a record 18 years at the post."

•The Term Limit Amendment will be on the November 2012 ballot for the people of NC to decide.

September 14, 2011 Calendar for NC House

The following vetoed bills may be reconsidered today: Voter Photo ID (HB351), the Energy Jobs Act (SB709), No Dues Checkoff for School Employees (SB727), and Water Supply Lines/Water Violation Waivers (HB482).


US Congress

1. Leahy-Smith America Invents Act regarding patent awards. The Senate passed the legislation in a vote of 89 to 9 with 2 not voting on Sep 8. Both Senators Burr and Hagan voted for the bill.

2. Motion to Proceed on Debt limit disapproval - The Senate rejected the motion in a vote of 45 to 52 with 3 not voting. The motion would have initiated a resolution to disapprove a $500 billion debt limit increase, according to MEGAvote.

"Under the budget law enacted on August 2, the debt limit was increas[ed] by $400 billion. A second increase of $500 billion will take effect unless Congress passes a disapproval measure."
(Megavote)

Senator Burr voted for the Resolution to stop an automatic increase of $500 billion to the debt limit. Senator Hagan voted against the Resolution to stop the automatic $500 billion increase.

The bottom line is that Senator Burr does not want the debt limit automatically increased another $500 billion; and Senator Hagan agrees with an additional $500 billion added to the debt limit already enacted ($400 billion), resulting in a total of $900 billion in increased debt limit to date.

3. "Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act" HR2218 - On Sep 13, the House passed the legislation in a vote of 365 to 54 with 12 not voting. The legislation replaces current laws on charter schools with special attention to grants. All NC Representatives voted for the legislation.


Sources: ncga; Press Release from Senator Phil Berger, Sep 13, 2011; Star News Online, "Gay marriage ban will be on May ballot in NC," by Gary D. Robertson, AP, Sep 13, 2011 and "House, Senate versions on NC leader limits differ," AP, Sep 12, 2011; senate.gov; house.gov; Megavote: NC 6th, 9/12/2011.

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Tuesday at the North Carolina General Assembly

The Washington Examiner
March 23, 2011


HEADLINES: 
Senate considers pardoning governor who was impeached, convicted in 1871 after fighting KKK
Lawmakers consider increasing state worker health insurance costs, cutting benefits
Charlotte-area lawmaker files bill that could put brakes on faster rail service
Ex-NC state senator says activity to keep up with charter school bill falls short of lobbying

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N.C. Tea Party Targets Education Reform

Carolina Journal Exclusives

Tea Party leader Gardner wants activists to push lawmakers on charters

By Jim Stegall

January 04, 2011

RALEIGH — Charter school advocates have picked up a significant ally in their fight to reform the state’s laws governing charter schools in the upcoming legislative session. Leaders of North Carolina’s Tea Party movement are showing increased interest in charter schools, and plan to be at the table when lawmakers consider changes to the charter school law.

A leader of this effort in North Carolina is Waynesville resident and retired retail manager Bruce Gardner, a leader of the group Tea Party Western North Carolina. The connections between Tea Party activists and school choice go far beyond the state’s borders. “We are working with Tea Party leaders throughout the country on moving forward legislation that helps to reform our public school system,” Gardner said in a recent interview. “We must get our education system back [to being] student-centered.”

For Gardner, charter school activism is a natural outgrowth of core Tea Party philosophy. “One of the three major tenets of the Tea Party is free markets,” he said, “and one emphasis of the Tea Party nationally is education. The most basic free market should be in education.”

Gardner sees charter schools as one part of a broader solution to the nation’s education woes. The solution also includes vouchers and scholarships to enable parents to send their children to private and parochial schools, he said. In his view, education funding should follow the child to a school of the parents’ choosing.

““We feel that parents should be able to choose to send their child to a public charter, or a private school, even [providing tax credits] for homeschoolers,” he said. “If that taxpayer has paid to educate the child, they shouldn’t have to pay twice.”

The Tea Party’s interest in charter schools comes at the time a strongly pro-charter Republican Party is set to take control of the General Assembly for the first time in more than a century. Republicans ran on a platform calling for the elimination of the state’s cap of 100 charter schools. Many who won legislative races received significant backing from local Tea Party affiliates.

Tea Party Western North Carolina endorsed two victorious Republican challengers in the last election, helping swing the state Senate into Republican hands. Community college administrator Ralph Hise defeated incumbent Democrat Joe Sam Queen in District 47, and dentist Jim Davis edged out incumbent Democrat John Snow in District 50.

Gardner says that activists put out voter guides, staffed polling places, and held events for these and other favored candidates. And now that they’ve won, Tea Party activists will be pressing them for action on issues like charter schools.

He’s urging Tea Party activists to call their legislators “to not only support school choice legislation but to sponsor the bills.” Noting that Tea Party activists tend to be “fiercely independent,” he says he’ll be asking them “to become personally involved with their state senators and state representatives.”

Gardner says Tea Party groups are “working with several people to try to help design formal legislation. The intellectual work is pretty well done. The problem is that none of it has ever gotten any traction because there has never been a grass-roots movement like the Tea Party,” he said. “There haven’t been any boots on the ground to carry these concepts, these models forward. The difference now is that we have millions of Tea Party people in the country, thousands of Tea Party organizations, and these people right now are carrying an awful lot of political influence as we head towards 2012.”

Eliminating the cap on the number of charter schools is an obvious first step, Gardner says, “But simply getting rid of the cap is only part one.” He called for “comprehensive reform” of the state’s charter school law, adding, “we would like to suggest that the body that oversees the chartering and provides the oversight and monitoring of the charter schools be put under an independent appointed commission, rather than under the Department of Public Instruction. We think it should be independent of those departments.”

That move could pose difficulties should the General Assembly address it. Some observers within the charter community have questioned whether an independent oversight commission would run afoul of the state’s constitution, which gives the State Board of Education authority over all public schools, including charters.

Article IX, Section 5 of the North Carolina Constitution states that the board “shall supervise and administer the free public school system ... and shall make all needed rules and regulations in relation thereto, subject to laws enacted by the General Assembly.” Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson has said she believes that section gives the state board oversight authority of charter schools.

Atkinson has experience dealing with constitutional issues in education — she waged a successful court battle to restore the constitutional powers of her office after the General Assembly had reduced the superintendent’s position to little more than figurehead status.

Another area of concern for Gardner is charter schools’ access to funding for facilities. Under current law, charter schools receive no public funds for construction, and counties (which provide the bulk of the funding for district schools’ building needs) are forbidden to give money to charter schools for buildings.

Gardner says that ought to change. “Charter schools need the ability to issue bonds for the construction of facilities,” he said.

Like many Tea Party activists, Gardner became involved seriously in politics only recently. The retired retail manager living in Waynesville says he got interested in the “9-12 Project” touted by Fox News commentator Glen Beck, primarily as a result of the federal stimulus bill passed in the early days of the Obama administration.

Gardner recently formed a group called Tea for Education and is working with activists in the Carolinas and Georgia to establish similar groups. If his efforts are successful, he plans to take the group national.

Jim Stegall is a contributor to Carolina Journal.

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NORTH CAROLINA Awarded Millions

NORTH CAROLINA Awarded Millions in Race to the top funding

North Carolina learned Tuesday that it will receive millions of dollars in the second phase of federal Race to the Top funding, a federal grant designed to reward states for ambitious educational innovation.

After failing in its first bid for the education-reform initiative, North Carolina was selected earlier this month as one of 19 finalists for part of the $3.4 billion in federal funding.

Advocates for public charter schools are alarmed that the administration's decision to reward North Carolina may signal a shift in the original intent of the Race to the Top initiative.

Applications were scored on a 500 point scale, 40 of which were directly tied to "successful conditions for charter schools." On its original application, North Carolina was deemed to have forfeited at least 17 points due to its restrictive charter cap.

State lawmakers did not take measures to lift the cap during the short legislative session, an oversight that some critics believe should have prevented North Carolina from advancing in the second round. Education reform advocates remain convinced that the state is not competitively positioned.

"From the beginning, the Race to the Top program placed heavy emphasis on the role of charter schools and the importance of supporting high-quality charter school movements," said Darrell Allison, President of Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina. "Rewarding a state like North Carolina, where charter laws are restrictive not only because of the arbitrary cap but also because of inequities in funding and operation, is confusing to say the least."

Todd Ziebarth, Vice President for Policy with the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, agrees that the decision is not in keeping with the original intent of Race to the Top.

"Considering that other states took meaningful legislative action on charter schools to better compete for the federal initiative, we did not expect the U.S. Department of Education to select a state like North Carolina," said Ziebarth.

In June, Education Week and the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center released their 2010 Diplomas Count study on national graduation rates, ranking North Carolina 45th out of 50 states. According to the study, the state's graduation rate is 57.8%, which is 11 points worse than the national average.

Reform advocates cite national studies linking choice initiatives such as public charter schools to improved graduation rates. In a 2009 study by the RAND Corp, for instance, charter graduation rates and college attendance rates were shown to be better than traditional district school rates by 15 percentage points and eight percentage points, respectively.

"Ultimately,” said Ziebarth, “this decision sends the wrong message to the rest of the nation about the role of charter schools in educational reform.”

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NC Session Offers Disappointment, Not Much Surprise

John Hood's Daily Journal: Session Offers Disappointment, Not Much Surprise


By Becki Gray, July 23, 2010
 
This week’s “Daily Journal” guest columnist is Becki Gray, Vice President for Outreach at the John Locke Foundation.


RALEIGH — During the recent legislative session, I relied heavily, as you have, on Carolina Journal, The Locker Room, and JLF policy reports and briefings to understand the debate and decisions made by North Carolina’s 50 senators and 120 House members.

In addition, in my role as the Locke legislative liaison, I spent most of my time since May 12 at the General Assembly, walking the 206,000 square feet of the Jones Street complex, monitoring meetings of the 67 legislative committees, talking with lawmakers and many of the 500 legislative staffers, and attending session on the 35 days they met (at a cost to the taxpayer of $62,500 per day, or $2,187,500 for the short session), along with 734 registered lobbyists and 93 government agency liaisons. Since the principal clerks dropped hankies and adjourned sine die at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, July 11, I’ve had time to reflect on the 2010 short session, the 876 bills considered, and the 127 new laws passed.

And here’s what I think…
I think government is too big.

In the last 15 years, North Carolina’s budget has more than doubled while population has grown only 28 percent. There are more than 661,000 current and retired state employees, all eligible for state-sponsored health insurance and pensions, both grossly underfunded. Instead of shoring up the plans, legislators added 863 new government jobs this year. Medicaid is the fastest-growing segment of state government and now consumes 16 percent of the budget. Almost 20 percent of North Carolinians are eligible to receive Medicaid. Estimates show government agencies will seek next year at least $3 billion more than the state has available from recurring taxes and fees. When government becomes bigger than the sources that pay for it, the whole system becomes unsustainable.

I think government costs too much.

This year’s final budget topped out at $20.6 billion. General Fund spending increased by $200 million when you count the $1.6 billion in federal stimulus money. (Why wouldn’t you count it?) Instead of lowering the corporate tax rate for all businesses, legislators authorized more than $350 million in new corporate welfare for targeted businesses, including a $1 million tax break for big name movie stars. There are $1.45 billion in new fees and taxes this year. Our state debt is more than $6 billion, over a third of it non-voter-approved, and service on that debt now eats up 4.25 percent of the state budget.

I think government should mind its own business.

In the ultimate nanny-state legislation, the honorables decided kids are too fat. Thus government should regulate the amount of juice kids in day care should be served and whether it should be in a cup or a bottle. The honorables wanted to outlaw 2 percent milk for children over 2 years old, as well as chocolate milk and sodas. A watered-down version of these ideas passed. Now they are guidelines, rather than mandates. But the point was made — government knows better than parents what kids should eat.

They banned the use of plastic bags in all stores in several coastal counties. They tried to outlaw country stores from making and selling peanut butter and banana sandwiches and pimento cheese sandwiches. They continued to cap the number of charter schools at 100, limiting education choices for students and their families. In spite of concerns over privacy issues, arrests for most felonies will warrant DNA collection.

Only after a very loud public outcry was a plan to use taxpayer money to fund more political campaigns for Council of State and municipal offices rejected. A two-year fight continued to wrestle a federal license for hydroelectric plants away from the company that built and owns them. Cities still have the ability to annex property owners against their will, and efforts to protect property owners constitutionally from government land grabs through eminent domain were dropped.

I think government is not being entirely honest.

Aside from the budget, ethics reform was the must-do issue of the short session. Lawmakers argued long into the final hours to pass a bill that claims to clean up bad behavior. It turns out that the final bill regulates lobbyists, contributors, and other elected officials; makes public records more accessible; and offers little additional oversight of lawmakers themselves. Efforts to expand the cooling-off period longer than six months for lawmakers who want to become lobbyists were unsuccessful, and a key provision to eliminate pay for play was dropped at the last minute.

They claimed to help small businesses while maintaining a high marginal income tax rate that affects most businesses, along with a high corporate tax rate. They offered minimal tax breaks that may sound good, but affect few businesses and actually help even fewer.

They preached open meetings, transparency, and fairness while backroom deals continued. Lengthy, complicated bills were changed with little notice and even less time to review. A budget technical corrections bill that did much more than make technical corrections was introduced in the final hours of the session with virtually no time for review. New provisions that were not included in either version of the House or Senate budgets showed up in the final budget conference report — a clear violation of legislative rules. Most bills considered were sponsored by the majority party, and most of the minority party’s bills were never heard.

Legislators loved gambling when the lottery passed in 2005 (with the tiebreaking vote cast by then Lt Gov. Bev Perdue), but they hate it now that video poker and sweepstakes have proliferated. Despite claims of the potential of 10,000 lost jobs and a $576 million revenue loss, video sweepstakes were banned. Thirty-one legislators who voted no for privately operated gambling voted yes for state-run gambling in 2005. They promised lottery proceeds would never supplant existing education spending and then passed a budget that uses lottery money to fund teacher salaries.

I think government is headed in the wrong direction.

Next year the $1.3 billion state tax increase sunsets, and the $1.6 billion federal stimulus money runs out, creating a $3 billion shortfall. The state treasurer has advised that the debt limit has been reached and that pension contributions will require $1.2 billion next year. The reserve accounts have all been drained. Lawmakers took more than $30 million out to balance this year’s budget with plans to take $152 million more if Congress doesn’t come up with FMAP money. North Carolina’s economic recovery is expected to be slow. The years of spend-and-tax ratcheting, dependence on one-time revenue to fill recurring obligations, and offering short-term solutions for long-term problems finally have caught up with us.

I think we need to change the way we look at government.

The years of excessive spending, government growth, infringement on rights, nanny-state regulation, and hollow claims of responsible governing continued during the short session and have left us with an unsustainable system. North Carolina’s tax system, which was established in the 1930s, needs to be updated. It should be fair, revenue-neutral, rooted in a respect for liberty, and dedicated to freedom of choice. Government has a role, and it’s defined in the Constitution. Growth in government should be tied to population growth. People should be given ample freedoms to make choices without government interference, and they should be held accountable for those choices, as should elected officials.

The 2010 short session was a disappointment, but not a surprise.

I think we can do better.

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