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WOW! There are too many accusations in this one to put in the title!
Posted June 16, 2016
There is SO much BALONEY in this one you could make bologna sandwiches for my whole pretend 4th Grade class, but that is another post. Here’s a piece that keeps showing up on my opponent’s supports Facebook posts, but we haven’t seen it in the mail yet.
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| My Opponents Flyer full of Baloney |
The Truth:
I have never sponsored legislation that pushes additional funding to charter schools.
SB244 had nothing to do with charter schools. It directs new funding to lowfunded school districts and actually is a net negative for charter school funding. I’ll post more on how this bill works in a later post.
SB38, the “charter funding bill,” was drafted and approved by the Charter School Funding Task Force BEFORE Aaron Osmond stepped down and I was elected to the legislature. My only role in it was to help negotiate the bill to be more favorable to school districts.
- This one is a technicality, but APS donated $3,000 total but nothing more. APS is actually a competitor of mine but they trust and respect me and know that I understand the issues that are of concern to them. It is quite customary to donate to legislators that you believe understand the issues you face. Charter Solutions is not a management company and charges no “management fees.” The company has no decision making power at any school.
- The $2 million that schools have paid Charter Solutions went to purchase software and to pay personnel who work at schools. We provide business and administrative services that saved those schools more than $3 million in administrative costs that they would have paid if they had to provide the same services on their own. (BTW, Jordan District paid more than $30 million to third-party companies in 2015.)
- My salary is just over $83,000. Because I own part of the company, I also earned just under $43,000 in profit in 2015 (about 2.7 percent of revenue) making my total earnings about $126,000. When you add in benefits (taxes, health insurance, and retirement), my total compensation is about $144,000. That’s a comfortable living, but certainly not excessive or profiteering. That’s less than the business administrator at most school districts–even very small ones. In fact, that’s less than the earnings of 19 employees of Jordan School District. A total of 63 JSD employees earn over $130,000.
- SB91 had nothing to do with Charter Management Companies or charter schools. And it would have done nothing to increase any transparency as it was originally drafted. Instead, it would have given power to the State Government to force itself into the private finances of any company, that provided any service, to any school, for any amount, even with no allegation or hint of wrongdoing. That would have included Nicholas Food Service, that provides food for lunch programs, Sahara construction, PlayTime playground equipment, or the company that provides internet service and hosts their email. SB91 was amended so that local schools and school districts have the ability to ensure that tax dollars are not spent illegally while protecting private businesses from having their entire business, both private and public clients, opened up to an overreaching government bureaucracy. I voted for the amended bill on the Senate floor.
My opponent says my supporters stole his campaign signs. Truth or Baloney?
Posted June 7, 2016
I try very hard to always be positive but sometimes it is sad to see the attacks from my opponent and I need to call it what it is; Baloney! His latest is going on TV and accusing my supporters of stealing his signs with absolutely no proof, just innuendo and attack. I understand he even falsely claimed it must be the charter school I run down the street doing the stealing…only I don’t run the Charter School down the street. Just another baseless accusation.
1. Sadly Sign Wars often bring about the worst in people and campaigns, but I have made clear from the start that I don’t want my campaign run that way. I have too much trust in you, the people in District 10. It is never okay to steal signs or deface them or place them in such a way to obscure our opponent’s signs. Sadly, I added the last one because we have had dozens of reports and pictures texted to us of our opponent’s campaign doing just that. See pictures here.
2. Every campaign has signs “stolen.” Our campaign has had a bunch of signs taken also. It is an expensive and sad fact but a fact nonetheless. Some, I’m sure, are taken down because they were put in place they weren’t supposed to be. Some are taken by teenagers just wanting to be mischievous or because it is “something to do.”
3. Most importantly, this is SO disrespectful to the voters. There are many pressing issues in Senate District 10 and in our State. Let’s talk about the issues that affect the people we represent. They are struggling to make ends meet, get the best education for their children, grow their businesses and cope with a federal government that grows more intrusive in their lives every day. Let’s talk about what is important to them! Here is a link to the bills I ran in my first session.
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The Republican Party endorsed Lincoln because his opponent has “challenged” them. Truth
or Baloney?
Posted on May 27, 2016
The Republican Party has endorsed me. Why? One very simple clearly stated reason (and it isn’t because his opponent will challenge them):
I received just over 60% of the votes of the 310 delegates chosen in March at the Republican Caucuses. My opponent got less than 40%. The rules of the Convention say, and have said for many years, that any candidate getting 60% of the vote of the delegates is the official Party nominee. No big conspiracy here, just someone that didn’t like the results.
These delegates are people that spent hours and hours researching the issues and the candidates; some are the same delegates that elected my opponent in the first place when he ran for the House. Many are the same delegates that gave me 60% over him in the December special election.
These are also the same delegates that my opponent was defending when he stood with the State Party (those apparently now evil Republican Bosses) to sue the Legislature and Governor to protect the caucus convention system. Rich was a product of the very system he now attacks, he ran on opposing SB54 even though he collected signatures to get on the ballot. He supported a lawsuit claiming the law was unconstitutional until it became useful for his political desires to jettison his supposedly strongly held beliefs in the Caucus and Convention.
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My opponent says I’m a one issue candidate. Truth or Baloney?
Posted on May 27, 2016
My opponent, along with some in the press, have accused me of being a one issue candidate with an agenda. Here is a list of some of the bills I ran and the general topic. Again, please check out my facts by going to www.le.utah.gov and typing my name in the light blue space at the top of the page and then hitting the orange button labeled “Bills.”
SB153 – SelfReliance
training for people on government assistance, helping them overcome poverty
HB200 – Reduced redundant testing of our students
HB201 – Removed SAGE testing as a method of evaluating our school teachers
SB235 – Would Eliminate Taxation without Representation in Special Districts
SB218 – Repealed outdated and unnecessary laws
SB244 – Will equalize funding between public schools, No Matter Where You Live
SB95 – Saving Taxpayer Dollars by removing bonding authority for unused UDOT funds as project is complete
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My opponent says I’m an ineffective Senator. Truth of Baloney?
Posted on May 27, 2016
You decide.
Fillmore 8 bills passed
Cunningham 1 bill passed
Check my facts at www.le.utah.gov and type our names in the light blue space and hit the orange button that says “Bills.” Sponsors are to the right of the bill number, Floor Sponsors are just to the right of that and then the final status of the bill is a couple columns to the right of that. Look for the bills that say “Governor Signed.” Those bills passed and are now law.
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