From Mirs: Record Looking Thin On Common Core Voice Vote There may be a reason Republican senators avoided a roll call vote on the Common Core resolution Thursday. MIRS today contacted all 26 Republican senators either directly or through their offices to ask whether theyd been a vocal Aye or No on the Thursday voice vote for HCR 11, a resolution allowing the Department of Education to spend money on implementing the Common Core state standards. Sixteen senators were reached, and only 10 would say definitively how they would have voted. A voice vote was taken on the resolution Thursday, meaning nobody went on the record as voting for or against HCR 11 (See MDE Moving Forward With Common Core After Senate Action, 10/24/13). Yes votes would have come from Sen. ArlanMEEKHOF (R-West Olive), Sen. JohnPAPPAGEORGE (R-Troy), Senate Majority Leader Randy RICHARDVILLE (R-Monroe), Sen. Tonya SCHUITMAKER (R-Lawton) and Sen. Howard WALKER (R-Traverse City). No votes would have come from Sen. JackBRANDENBURG (R-Harrison Twp.), Sen. Patrick COLBECK (R-Canton), Sen. Joe HUNE(R-Hamburg), Sen. Rick JONES (R-Grand Ledge), Sen. John MOOLENAAR (R-Midland) and Sen. Phil PAVLOV (R-St. Clair). Bob McCANN, spokesperson for the Senate Democratic caucus, said today that the Democrats were a solid yes on that. Many senators said they would have liked more time to decide how they were going to vote, and were still undecided when the voice vote took place. I wasnt decided, yet, said Sen. TomCASPERSON (R-Escanaba). Still others wouldnt say which way theyd voted. McCann said that whatever their reasons were, it was clear the Republicans didnt want to be recorded on this vote. Karen BRAUN, a homeschooling parent and author of the Stop Common Core in Michigan blog, wasnt happy about not being able to tell where the senators fell on this issue. The fact that they dont want to tell us how they voted to me is an act of cowardice, said Braun. She said that this was all about standards for kids, and wed never let them take a test by yelling for their letter grade. For the test, lets have our kids not put their name on the test, how about that? said Braun. Shes looking at it from the anti-passage perspective, but pro-Common Core folks are just happy something happened, regardless of who was or wasnt on record for it. At the end of the day, McCann said, our goal . . . wasnt to put anyone on record for a vote, it was simply to get this done.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 18:06:19 +0000
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