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    State Sen. Jim Summerville says GOP will 'Bend' Public Education 'or break it all to pieces

    Notice how Tennessee state senator Jim Summerville starts to say 'public' schools but quickly changes it to "government schools."

    A political unknown until election night 2010, Summerville says he isn't a tea partier but says his "my door will always be open to them because I couldn't have done it without them." Summerville had no support from the state Republican establishment. By profession, he is a professor of English.


    From the floor of the state Senate, tea party Republican Jim Summerville recently warned Tennessee's teachers to mind their own business where education reform is concerned. "Make no mistake,'' he said, "the final responsibility is ours — and we are warriors.'' Lest his point be missed, Sen. Summerville added, "We will... bend public education to our awe, or break it all to pieces.

    — Jim Summerville
    speech
    2011-03-09
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbxXsVRM8BI


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