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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (49214)	11/10/2000 3:17:11 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 94695

Harvey, also I hear that in some areas in Florida blacks were denied the right to vote. The election officials told them that there weren't any ballots left. I grew up near Kentucky. My family was from the south and they are racists so I would not be surprised if there were voting irregularities. My mother's been here all week. She believes that a communist hides behind every tree, and, if there is a problem in Florida it probably has to do with those people who immigrated to Florida from South America or Cuba. I don't know whether I should laugh or cry!! ***************************************************** Florida election laws kept the number of parties down in prior years so they rarely had to use both sides until new laws opened things up Well, they should learn how to set up a ballot on multiple pages. My absentee ballot consisted of more than one page. I don't know what it was like in the election booth, but I haven't heard many complaints. ************************************************** One less sports stadium and we could know the election results 10 minutes after the polls close. Must be why the Romans lost to the Vandals. We have the same problem here with sports stadiums. The rich get stadiums built for their team even though recently the people in Seattle turned one down BUT the State legislature over turned our vote. It's sports, sports, sports! Education has not been a priority. MSFT has to go overseas to find qualified people. Yet, the sports programs at the University of Washington is awash in money. The coach and the people affiliated with the sports department receive very high salaries. In the past, members of the sports' teams have had access to private tutors Apart from the Sports Department, professors and graduate students at the university are poorly paid. I think the Teaching Assistants are on strike now or about to do so. What makes me angry is that, in the past, I heard that the tuition that the State University collects from each student goes back to the State Legislature. The Legislature decides how much they will return to the University. And there are problems in the in the public schools. As far as class room size goes, Washington State doesn't look very good. We have the third highest student per teacher rate in the country, according to the pre-election news. Teacher salaries are so low that prospective teachers cannot afford to live here. In general, education has not been considered a priority. Members of the State Legislature have been too busy lining their own pockets with high salaries, retirement benefits and other goodies. In the recent election we have tried to resolve some of the problems, but there will not be a resolution as long as politicians continue to meddle politically with the educational process. The legislature wants educators who will agree with whatever they say so they appoint "yes" men and women as Presidents and Deans who, in turn, tell the legislature what they want to hear. And even though they build sports stadiums, we don't have mass transit system, and the traffic congestion here is as bad as it is in Los Angeles. Maybe, the people in Washington State will lose to the vandals in the State Legislature. Mephisto