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Texas Voices
Read what some of CWA’s members in Texas have to say about life under George W. Bush.
Mike Hinojosa
Steward, Local 6171
“George W. Bush is blind to what the state’s needs are, and he doesn’t know the meaning of compassionate. Children’s health care here is atrocious. He brags about a $3,000 raise for teachers, but he didn’t have anything to do with it. It was the Senate. And tax relief? In what sense? He hasn’t given the relief he promised to local school districts, and my local taxes have gone up. I see crisis after crisis if he’s elected president. He doesn’t have the experience. He’s not presidential material.”
Claude Cummings
President, Local 6122
“A Bush presidency would be terrible for working people. He certainly hasn’t stood up for workers in Texas. He’s anti-labor, and he brags about it. He promised he would take care of the state workers, but then he went and privatized a lot of state jobs. It scares me to death to think of him being elected. All of us need to get out and work (for Gore-Lieberman) like we’ve never worked before.”
Susan Hald
Steward, Local 6132
“He’s big on telling everyone he’s for the schools and the teachers, but he opposed a teacher’s pay increase of 3 percent. A state senator pushed it through over Bush’s objections, way over. Yet he’s out there on the campaign trail telling everybody how he gave the teachers a raise. That’s a regular theme with George Bush. It doesn’t matter whether he vetoed something or didn’t want anything to do with it, he’s out there saying, ‘This is what I accomplished.’ But he didn’t.”
Texas State Rep. Glen Maxey
Member, Local 6186
“I remember it as if it were yesterday. The Texas House was in the last days of the session. I was feeling great. The House was about to pass my highest priority and the single most important bill of the session — the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Then, in walks George W. Bush, our governor. He makes a bee line toward me. He gets right in my face and tells me, ‘Congratulations on the Children’s Health Insurance Bill — you crammed it down our throats.’”
Mike Hinojosa
Steward, Local 6171
“George W. Bush is blind to what the state’s needs are, and he doesn’t know the meaning of compassionate. Children’s health care here is atrocious. He brags about a $3,000 raise for teachers, but he didn’t have anything to do with it. It was the Senate. And tax relief? In what sense? He hasn’t given the relief he promised to local school districts, and my local taxes have gone up. I see crisis after crisis if he’s elected president. He doesn’t have the experience. He’s not presidential material.”
Claude Cummings
President, Local 6122
“A Bush presidency would be terrible for working people. He certainly hasn’t stood up for workers in Texas. He’s anti-labor, and he brags about it. He promised he would take care of the state workers, but then he went and privatized a lot of state jobs. It scares me to death to think of him being elected. All of us need to get out and work (for Gore-Lieberman) like we’ve never worked before.”
Susan Hald
Steward, Local 6132
“He’s big on telling everyone he’s for the schools and the teachers, but he opposed a teacher’s pay increase of 3 percent. A state senator pushed it through over Bush’s objections, way over. Yet he’s out there on the campaign trail telling everybody how he gave the teachers a raise. That’s a regular theme with George Bush. It doesn’t matter whether he vetoed something or didn’t want anything to do with it, he’s out there saying, ‘This is what I accomplished.’ But he didn’t.”
Texas State Rep. Glen Maxey
Member, Local 6186
“I remember it as if it were yesterday. The Texas House was in the last days of the session. I was feeling great. The House was about to pass my highest priority and the single most important bill of the session — the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Then, in walks George W. Bush, our governor. He makes a bee line toward me. He gets right in my face and tells me, ‘Congratulations on the Children’s Health Insurance Bill — you crammed it down our throats.’”