Sun-Herald editorial tees off on House Republicans for dishonest "pay raise" bill

You sure can't say they held something back with this one.  Last Tuesday the Sun-Herald published this editorial, which goes hard at Speaker Philip Gunn (R - Clinton) and his fellow House Republicans for their teacher "pay raise" bill.  The Republican teacher "pay raise" bill passed the House and is headed to the Senate, where it faces an uphill climb.

Want to know what getting sold out sounds like, Mississippi teachers?

Teachers of Mississippi, you've been told by every politician you meet how important education is to them, and how much they appreciate the work you do.

When given the opportunity to show their appreciation, however, some of them refuse to put our money where their mouth is.  Yesterday, a Democratic amendment to Speaker Philip Gunn's sham "teacher pay raise" bill that would have given teachers an across-the-board $5,000 pay raise was voted down.

And rather lustily, I might add.

Thanks to MPB, we have the actual audio of the vote on the $5,000 across-the-board pay raise.  I'll post it below, but before you click on it, know that the same folks proudly screaming "NO!" about your pay raise are the same ones bending over backwards to hand our tax dollars out to out-of-state corporations like party favors and using the public treasury to finance their friends' shopping malls.  So bear that in mind when you're in the voting booth next fall.

Without further ado, the audio.  Listen to how proud they are to vote down a meaningful pay raise:

Wiseman pushes for "meaningful" across-the-board teacher pay raise

From the Democratic Response to the State of the State, given by Starkville Mayor Parker Wiseman (D):

"We Democrats also recognize that we cannot achieve our education goals without taking care of our teachers. We welcome the support of House Speaker Phillip Gunn and other Republicans who have expressed an interest in raising teacher pay this year. Our teachers deserve a significant across-the-board pay raise, and we can do it without raising anyone’s taxes. A meaningful teacher pay raise would make our educators’ salaries competitive among Southeastern states and help encourage our best and brightest teachers to stay in Mississippi."

I know that the figure considered by Mayor Wiseman was a $5,000 a year across-the-board pay raise, which is what House Democrats supported last year.