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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (729)	9/19/2000 11:24:41 PM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

<And we need school uniform policies in many troubled schools that face the problem of gang violence...> Ron, that has already been done here with some success. <Statewide standards are not the same as NATIONAL STANDARDS> Now you want to switch like a good conservative and give total jurisdiction to the Federal Government in regard to matters of Education. The Educational Bureaucrats from the Dept. of Education in DC who have not set foot in a classroom for over a decade are the authorities and maestros of Education? ROFL. I know some of those guys. They are even more abstract and dangerous than the NEA and UFT. My point is that standards have already gotten tougher and performance has lagged. The problem is not tougher standards, but getting enough quality teachers to perform the task. That is the problem.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (729)	9/20/2000 7:15:34 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 10042

Woosh, talk about strange bed-fellows Never thought I'd see the day Nader backs up what the NRA has been saying!!: Nader Group Represents Government Watchdog Group Against Justice Dept By Jim Burns CNS Senior Staff Writer September 19, 2000 (CNSNews.com) - There is another challenge to the credibility of the Clinton Justice Department and its claim that prosecutions of gun-related crimes are on the increase. The latest challenge comes from Public Citizen, a Ralph Nader founded public interest group charging in a federal lawsuit that Janet Reno's Justice Department is violating the Freedom of Information Act. Public Citizen is suing on behalf of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, based at Syracuse University. TRAC is a nonprofit research group that monitors federal enforcement agencies. The group contends the Justice Department is illegally withholding data about gun related crimes. "The lawsuit involves the fact that the Justice Department is now refusing to release complete data for any subsequent time period even though they have been releasing annually for the last decade to us," Susan Long, co-director of TRAC said. Long also said, "the Clinton administration has selectively released information, claiming their record for gun enforcement is way up, but there's no way to verify." In filing the lawsuit, Public Citizen senior staff attorney Michael Tankersley said in a statement, "historically, it's stuff (TRAC statistics) that has allowed journalists to put together stories that aren't always flattering to the Justice Department." The Justice Department, basing its data on reports from its Bureau of Justice Statistics and Firearm Background Checks, said the prosecution of gun-related crimes increased in both 1998 and 1999. The department also said approximately 536,000 of the more than 22.2 million individual applications to purchase or pawn firearms have been rejected since the Brady Act was enacted in February, 1994. cnsnews.com\Politics\archive\200009\POL20000919i.html