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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (158611)	7/7/2001 1:59:51 PM
From: FastC6	Respond to of 769670

Hey loser check this out: What Teachers Really Think Their union is out of step. Friday, July 6, 2001 12:01 a.m. EDT Education Secretary Rod Paige had a wake-up call for the National Education Association during its convention in Los Angeles this week. He told the nation's largest teachers union that competition in education is inevitable. "It's tempting to pretend public schools are exempt from the law of supply and demand," he said. "They are not. This pretension will destroy our system." Secretary Paige pointed out that while education spending is at a record high, it has had little effect: "For 35 years, we've tried to address our failing schools the same way. We've just given them more money, without focusing on results." The union's delegates gave Mr. Paige respectful attention and then proceeded to consider the usual host of left-leaning proposals on the agenda. Among the actions made was the creation of a task force to determine if the NEA should formally support gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender curricula in public schools. Teachers we spoke with were in wonder at the disconnect between the urgent call for action issued by Secretary Paige and the NEA's interest in social policy in schools. Evidence keeps piling up that the national union isn't really representative of its 2.6 million members. For instance, only 59% of them voted for the union-backed Al Gore. This and other data come from a confidential survey of its own members that the NEA commissioned last November. Last week, the survey was leaked to the Education Intelligence Agency, a watchdog group. The poll makes fascinating reading. Though national and state teachers unions give more than 95% of their PAC contributions to Democrats, the NEA's membership is quite diverse politically. Only 48% of members are Democrats, 24% are Republicans and 28% are independents. That explains why an NEA endorsement of a candidate like Mr. Gore isn't greeted with universal approval. While 57% of members said they were more likely to vote for a candidate recommended by the national union, 27% said such an endorsement would make them less likely to vote that way. When asked if the NEA's materials on the 2000 elections presented candidates in a fair and balanced way, only 25% of GOP members and 36% of independents thought so. Indeed, only 62% of NEA Democrats thought the union's materials were fair and balanced. The gap between the NEA's leadership and its members also showed up in a list of 10 issues members were shown and asked if it was important that the NEA "speak out" on them. Members said that by far the least important of the 10 issues for the union to address was "private school vouchers," an issue the union has vociferously fought for years. Only 19% said it was "very important" to address vouchers and another 19% thought it was "somewhat important." But 22% said it was "not very important" and a surprising 39% said it was "not at all important." No doubt a majority of public school teachers oppose vouchers, but they certainly don't seem to think they are worth the jihad against them that their union bosses have mounted.

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (158611)	7/7/2001 2:02:46 PM
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Unite behind your shameless leader: Both Clintons misused Arkansas state police Bill had cops keep score on Jane Does; Hillary had them chauffeur her to resort -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Paul Sperry © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON -- Bill Clinton's misuse of Arkansas state police assigned to his security detail when he was governor didn't stop at procuring mistresses, WorldNetDaily has learned. He also allegedly had them keep track of his extramarital scoring. After troopers picked him up from trysts with various Arkansas women, Clinton allegedly would rate their performance in bed, giving points for certain sex acts. He had troopers keep a record, say informed sources. Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, allegedly enlisted the troopers to chauffeur her to secret meetings with the late Vincent Foster, her law partner at the time, at a resort hotel about 50 miles north of Little Rock, Ark., sources say. Records of the trips, along with the sexual rating system, are contained in several boxes recently returned to the state police by former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's office, say sources familiar with the records. The documents were subpoenaed in 1995 as part of the Whitewater investigation. "The documents relate not only to Clinton state troopers dropping him off and picking him up from his late-night sexual rendezvous with women, but also to the ratings system," said a source familiar with the contents of the boxes. "They'd sit down and go over it [the rating system], and make little notes and put them in a box," he said. The boxes, which contain hundreds of other documents, were found stashed in the attic of a home used by Chelsea Clinton's nanny. The home is on the grounds of the governor's mansion in Little Rock. Other notes stored in the boxes allegedly record secret meetings between Hillary Clinton and Foster. "State troopers delivered Hillary to meet with Vince Foster," said the source, who requested his name be withheld. "The meetings were clandestine and took place when Bill Clinton was out of the state, which was often." At least one note allegedly documents a meeting between the two at the Red Apple Inn golf and tennis resort in Heber Springs, Ark., a remote town about an hour's drive north of Little Rock. Attempts to reach former President Clinton and Sen. Clinton for comment were unsuccessful. Starr in February 1995 subpoenaed all trooper documents generated by Clinton's security detail. Col. John Bailey, who was the director of the Arkansas state police at the time, ordered officers, who were not part of Clinton's detail, to search for the documents. They found the boxes in the attic and turned them over to Starr's investigators. Starr returned 11 boxes on May 10, prompting the editor of the Arkansas Times and a former FBI agent to file Freedom of Information requests to see the documents. But the state police refused to make the records (save a small, 90-page portion) public, arguing they are the governor's working papers and therefore exempt from FOIA requests. And they've turned the boxes over to John R. Tisdale, Bill Clinton's lawyer in Little Rock. Tisdale is a partner at Wright Lindsey & Jennings, the former law firm of Bruce R. Lindsey, who was Clinton's closest White House aide and top damage-control specialist. Lindsey, whose father helped found the firm, is now a paid consultant to the Clinton presidential library in Little Rock and is handling FOIA requests for any White House documents, including e-mails, transferred to the library. The boxes of documents stored by the former troopers are "embarrassing to both Clinton and the state police," a source said. "They'll be destroyed, now that they have them back, if they haven't been already." . .