{"id":12293,"date":"2010-08-11T00:49:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T00:49:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-11T00:49:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T00:49:58","slug":"bono-mack-votes-no-lungren-walks-on-teacher-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/11\/bono-mack-votes-no-lungren-walks-on-teacher-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Bono Mack Votes No, Lungren Walks on Teacher Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress made a quick break from their recess to vote for HR 1586, to which <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/12280\/what-does-fiorina-have-against-teachers\">Carly Fiorina previously announced her opposition<\/a>. &nbsp;The measure would provide substantial funding for teachers during this recession.<\/p>\n<p>It is one thing to voice opposition, but it&#8217;s another to do the deed and vote against retaining teachers for purely political reasons. &nbsp;And that&#8217;s what we have with Mary Bono Mack, who today <a href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2010\/roll518.xml\">voted against HR 1586<\/a>. &nbsp;Oh, and Mack was joined by the rest of the California Republican delegation. &nbsp;Well, save Dan Lungren who opted to walk out on the vote rather than casting that no vote. &nbsp;That&#8217;s real political courage for you.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll simply ask the same question of these two Congress members that Robert asked of Fiorina: How can you explain to Californians why you believe 16,500 teachers should lose their jobs and why should kids be taught in overcrowded classrooms?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress made a quick break from their recess to vote for HR 1586, to which <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/12280\/what-does-fiorina-have-against-teachers\">Carly Fiorina previously announced her opposition<\/a>. &nbsp;The measure would provide substantial funding for teachers during this recession.<\/p>\n<p>It is one thing to voice opposition, but it&#8217;s another to do the deed and vote against retaining teachers for purely political reasons. &nbsp;And that&#8217;s what we have with Mary Bono Mack, who today <a href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2010\/roll518.xml\">voted against HR 1586<\/a>. &nbsp;Oh, and Mack was joined by the rest of the California Republican delegation. &nbsp;Well, save Dan Lungren who opted to walk out on the vote rather than casting that no vote. &nbsp;That&#8217;s real political courage for you.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll simply ask the same question of these two Congress members that Robert asked of Fiorina: How can you explain to Californians why you believe 16,500 teachers should lose their jobs and why should kids be taught in overcrowded classrooms?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[670,4381],"class_list":["post-12293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-670","tag-4381"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3ch","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}