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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (746788)	10/15/2013 11:45:56 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By joseffy Respond to of 1583868

Lhota likes charter schools to give parents a choice. Blasio, a typical liberal Democrat, hates them. 70K mostly minority kids in NYC are going to charter schools and Democrats fear them getting decent educations. ... Lhota favors closing failing schools and relocating charter schools to traditional public school buildings at no cost. "The future of education begins with the charter school movement," Lhota said at the summit. "It is the single most progressive thing going on in public education today." ..... "The majority of children in charter schools are from that other city that Bill de Blasio likes to tell tales about, yet their voices fall on deaf ears -- his deaf ears in particular," Lhota earlier told a business group, referring to his opponent's "Tale of Two Cities" campaign platform. About 70,000 of the city's 1.1 million public school students attend 183 charter schools, which are publicly funded and privately run. The state mandate allows as many as 66 more charter schools to open in the city. .... newsday.com

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (746788)	10/15/2013 5:48:35 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583868

Something stinks: Colorado legalized marijuana this year. Now there is a bill being proposed which makes it illegal to use marijuana in a place where other people can smell it. Apparently the government even has smell meters that can judge the degree to which something smells... a year in jail and a stiff fine.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (746788)	10/15/2013 5:50:07 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583868

Something else stinks...--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AP Feds Reviewed Only One Bid For Obamacare Website Design By: Richard Pollock (Washington Examiner) Federal officials considered only one firm to design the Obamacare health insurance exchange website that has performed abysmally since its Oct. 1 debut. Rather than open the contracting process to a competitive public solicitation with multiple bidders, officials in the Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid accepted a sole bidder, CGI Federal, the U.S. subsidiary of a Canadian company with an uneven record of IT pricing and contract performance. CMS officials are tight-lipped about why CGI was chosen or how it happened. They also refuse to say if other firms competed with CGI, or if there was ever a public solicitation for building Healthcare.gov, the backbone of Obamacare’s problem-plagued web portal. Instead, it appears they used what amounts to a federal procurement system loophole to award the work to the Canadian firm. CGI was one of 16 companies that had been qualified by HHS during President George W. Bush's second term to deliver, without public competition, a variety of hardware, software and communication products and services. In awarding the Healthcare.gov contract, CMS relied on a little-known federal contracting system called ID/IQ, which is government jargon for “Indefinite Delivery and Indefinite Quantity.” CGI was a much smaller vendor when it was approved by HHS in 2007. With the approval, CGI became eligible for multiple awards without public notice and in circumvention of the normal competitive bidding procurement process. More at: washingtonexaminer.com