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Vote: | As we move deeper into the 21st Century, the need for a quality public school system will become more of an economic issue and more of a civil rights issue. Because, as our economy relies more on brains and less on brawn, the only way everyone can secure all the blessings of liberty is to receive a quality education. |
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Vote: | I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project. |
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Vote: | I think I had pretty clearly telegraphed that I was going to be proclaiming (approval of all ballot measures) before I went to Mexico. Anybody could have read those tea leaves. |
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Vote: | I'm angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn't have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in. |
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Vote: | If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years. |
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Vote: | It doesn't make any sense to me to start on the interior of the forest if you haven't first protected around the areas where the communities are. |
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Vote: | Our school facilities must be repaired, and our teachers need to be trained and treated as artisans of a noble profession. |
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Vote: | Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood. |
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Vote: | Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market. |
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Vote: | The great thing about this town hall format is that it allows us to hear what's on the minds of Americans. Tonight, it was clear - voters have quite a few questions about the direction in which the current administration is headed. |
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Vote: | The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations. |
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Vote: | Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years. |
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Vote: | Today's children need more years of education than we are offering. And they need more daily hours of instruction than we are providing. They are ready to learn long before kindergarten, and on the other end of the spectrum, all of them must have access to advanced education for years after they graduate from high school. |
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Vote: | We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because of a lack of federal funding on the ground to actually begin the projects. |
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Vote: | We have protected K-12 education. We have protected vital services. |
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Vote: | We must prepare young people for a brain-centered economy whose one constant is rapid change. The predominant classroom model a single teacher lecturing to 20, 30, or even more students reflects the production-line model of the Industrial Age, not the technological demands of our Information Age. |
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Janet Napolitano (born November 29, 1957) is the current governor of the U.S. state of Arizona, elected in 2002. Born in New York City of Italian heritage and raised in Pittsburgh and Albuquerque, she graduated from Santa Clara University in California and then University of Virginia law school (J.D.). Napolitano is a member of the Democratic Party.
Her early professional career was as a Phoenix-area prosecuting attorney.
Political career In 1993, Napolitano was appointed by President Bill Clinton as United States Attorney for the District of Arizona. She ran for and won the position of state Attorney General in 1998. Her tenure focused on consumer protection issues and improving general law enforcement. Later on, Napolitano was diagnosed with breast cancer, and underwent a mastectomy.
She won the gubernatorial election of 2002 with 46% of the vote, succeeding Republican Jane Dee Hull and defeating her Republican opponent, former congressman Matt Salmon who received 45% of the vote. Her strongest electoral support came from low-income, women, and Latino voters. Napolitano was the first US woman governor to succeed another.
Some experts and pundits initially considered Napolitano to be a possible running mate for presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Speculation ended after his eventual selection of Sen. John Edwards instead. She appeared at Kerry campaign events and spoke out against passage of Proposition 200, an initiative to limit state benefits to illegal immigrants that would go on to be approved by voters.
On major issues, Napolitano supports legal abortion and the death penalty for serious crimes. In early 2005 she proposed that a possible future vote on a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage be held that year instead of in 2006, citing her questioning the validity of such a measure given that it was already banned under state law. This move instigated controversy with conservative legal groups planning to campaign for the measure.
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