Tincy Miller...On Camera & Unscripted

My opposition...the Republican candidate Tincy Miller in
one of her campaign handouts.

For those who want to know Tincy Miller is, I was able to find this video clip of her.  This footage was taken during the Republican primary season earlier this year.   Why does this race matter?  This video clip can explain it all.  She spends far more time on justify her personal ideology rather than expressing fresh ideas on what she wants to do if elected.  To sum it up, she talks about what she will NOT do.

Here were some interesting points you should notice in this clip.

5:57- Asked about the importance of teaching the origins of American democracy from the Magna Carta to property rights, and the U.S. Constitution. 

Merely said these are examples of American expeptionalism.   

Didn't mention that much of U.S. law was and is based from the British Constitutional Monarchy system because America was a British colonial possession. Magna Carta is best known for being the British Parliament's stand that no King could raise taxes without permission from it back in 1215- 500 years before the U.S. existed!   This tape points out how Mrs. Miller is just plain ignorant of our country's historical origins. 

 

11:00- Asked about the possibility of losing Federal education funding (Title I) if the State Board of Education refused to adopt the Department of Education's Common Core standards

Literally says, "Let's just get rid of President Obama, get a Republican president to get rid of the Department of Education." Addressed no specifics whatsoever to make up for loss of Title I funding. Kept saying that this was a states' rights issue and an intrusion with the Federal government. 

 

Noticed she said that since the mid-1980's Texas was the cutting edge leader in public education and other states "were picking our brain."  She forgets to mention that a Republican President from here (George W. Bush) just a few years back wrote and passed a law with a Republican Congress called No Child Left Behind to address education issues nationwide!

 

 

 

Joining Forces to Register Voters

Picture taken with my I-Phone.  Working with the Hancock and Ternan
campaigns to get out the vote and register voters. Taken earlier this week.

 

I have been walking all week long door to door with  Rich Hancock and Jack Ternan and their campaigns especially on Saturdays.  They are running for seats in the State House of Representatives and the Texas Senate respectively.

Jack Ternan is running for the District 8 Texas Senate seat.  He agrees with me that Republicans are essentially fighting yesterday's political battles rather than engaging in honest debate in finding solutions to today's problems.  The link to his website is here.

Rich Hancock is committed to giving all voters a real voice in a Republican dominated house that's run by puppets of special interest groups. He is running for the District 102 seat in the State House of Representatives.  The Republicans now have unfortunately a supermajority holding 100 out of 150 seats in the State House that can override any veto or parliamentary procedure.  His campaign site is worth looking at.  

We all need your voice and more importantly your vote this November! 

In The Beginning...and Today's Challenge

I arrived in Texas with $50.00 dollars as a student attending North Texas State and fortunately had a teaching fellowship and went to the financial aid office so I could eat in the dorm. This is how I survived. When I started teaching I borrowed money to buy a car so I could get to my school to teach with DISD. My father died when I was a sophomore in college and I was pretty much on my own.  

Today, I am facing a well-organized, well-financed status-quo Republican candidate who is running for the same political office she lost two years ago, but held for over 25 years!  Her name is Geraldine "Tincy" Miller.  She defeated four candidates including a runoff  this past July 31st on the strength of a $193,000 war chest financed by business leaders such as Roger Staubach with no direct ties to the Dallas area public school community. Yes, that Roger Staubach- the former Dallas Cowboy quarterback of the 1970s turned real estate tycoon who sold his company to Jones Lang LaSalle. You can see his name along with other top Republican legislators in this endorsement list. 

Why is Roger Staubach of all people backing Mrs. Miller?  I don't know.  He may be an old personal friend, but that is speculation on my part.  I do know she admitted her main income came from selling real estate in this runoff interview.   

A better question is- Why is Mrs. Miller is running for this seat a second time around?  She actually touts her experience here on her biography page, discussing her 26 years already serving on the State Board of Education.  Four of those years, she admits she was the chairman on the board, from 2003-2007 and another two as vice-chair in the late 1990s. I am now running a low-budget, door-to-door campaign to battle these powerful political interests.  I am facing a candidate who is openly admitting to the public she wants to return to the status quo. She is NOT hiding the fact she is supported by political interests based in Austin not here in Dallas.