Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: OK. My husband and I just returned from voting for Senator Sanders 8) [View all]Mike__M
(1,052 posts)That's important stuff.
Several years ago our little town (pop. ~500) failed to pass a school maintenance levy. The school district (one elementary school) said "No, really, we need to raise the money," and put it back on the next ballot. Voters again turned it down. The school closed; the kids were without a building for a year (the nearby Indian tribe let them use part of their building); then they were absorbed into another town's district, who didn't want them because they would bring the "No" votes into that district, plus the new district had to pay to demolish the asbestos-filled schoolhouse. After that, when I went elsewhere in the state and people heard where I was from, they'd say "Oh, you're the ones who closed your school."
Conservatives suck.