I received this from the @MarkSchauer campaign a little while ago and it is very interesting. Why? Rick actually says he cut education funding, yes, he actually says he cut education funding. Nothing like using someones own words to fight them with. The fury over Mr. Schauers claim that Mr. Snyder cut $1 billion from K-12 schools in the 2011-12 fiscal year, Mr. Snyders first budget, has been well-documented. Yet for all the deserved scrutiny Mr. Schauer has received on the issue, little attention has been paid to how Mr. Snyder reversed course in how he describes what happened to K-12 funding in that fiscal year. For about a year, Mr. Snyder and Republicans have insisted that every K-12 school aid budget the governor has signed increased funding, pointing to the added funds to pre-fund the teacher retirement system. And that is true when factoring in funding for the teacher retirement system, but that is very different than what Mr. Snyder used to say, when he once acknowledged he had cut K-12 in the 2011-12 fiscal year and did not lump in teacher retirement funding. ... Republicans have called Mr. Schauer a liar, and the news media has hit him hard for twisting the numbers, especially the Detroit Free Press, which dubbed the $1 billion cut claim a big and persistent lie - which the newspaper later amended to big and persistent untruth - though it is the lie line that Mr. Snyders ads continue to hammer. Mr. Snyder has insisted, first in his State of the State speech this past January and again many times since then, that his administration has increased state funding for K-12 schools each and every year he has been in office. The Free Press, in another line Mr. Snyders ads have emphasized, said Mr. Snyder can truthfully make that claim. But there is one big problem with Mr. Snyders 2014 insistence he never cut state funding for K-12 schools: He - and other leading Republicans - previously acknowledged they did in fact cut funding for K-12 schools. It is not that the numbers are any different, but how they characterize those numbers has changed. Gongwer News Service found a February 9, 2012, video of Mr. Snyder discussing his proposed budget for the 2012-13 fiscal year, the second budget proposal of his administration, on his official YouTube page. In this clip, Mr. Snyder addresses his K-12 funding recommendation for the upcoming fiscal year. Im pleased to say were increasing funding for K through 12 education this year, he said then. Last year was a tough year. We had to make some cuts, but they were far lower than the cuts we had to make for most areas in our budget. ... An interview Mr. Snyder did with an Upper Peninsula television station in February 2012 also saw Mr. Snyder say, We had a billion and a half dollar deficit, so we cut K through 12 much less than we did most other areas of our budget, actually we prioritized it that way and in many respects we said here are some ideas to make up that cut. Rick Snyder cut education funding. Period, said Cathy Bacile Cunningham, Press Secretary for Schauers campaign. This video proves that one candidate has been lying about education funding, and his name is Rick Snyder. The truth is, Snyders education cuts raised class sizes, led to teacher layoffs, and hurt school quality. The people of Michigan deserve a governor who will tell the truth and make education our top budget priority, and thats exactly what Mark Schauer will do.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:21:37 +0000
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