Tax bills came out and after a dozen years of property taxes going way up, property taxes in our state actually went down. I am proud to say today, in my state, property taxes are lower today than four years ago when we started. [applause] Governor Walker and we knew that would make a difference. Sure enough, when people saw they didnt have to see the tv ads attacking us, they didnt have to believe all the protesters, when they can see for themselves that the reforms were working, the tides started to change. I june 2012, we won that election. In june of that year with a higher percentage of more actual votes cast than we had in november 2010 two years earlier. That shows that results matter right . [applause] and the reason i tell you that is not just for background. The reason i tell you that is because i look at America Today i have a lot of the same mores that we first had when we first thought about running for governor. Many years ago, 2009 we sat down and talked about, thought a
The federal governments job to determine what your mission may be. And certain if youre a private forprofit, were not here to dictate your organizations mission. But a forprofit institution has no special right to federal funding. And if youre going to receive billions of dollars in federal subsidies, we think its reasonable as we endeavor to reauthorize the Higher Education act that we tie some reasonable Public Policy strings to those dollars. And all we are saying is that we want institutions of Higher Learning, and especially their leadership, to wake up every morning and think not first about profits, not think first about how theyre going to market to find more customers, but think about access and affordability. And what were saying is that different institutions may have Different Missions. A Community College has a different mission from a Training Institute and a fouryear institution has a different mission than a graduate institution. And thats all fine. And thats why weve e
Folks who have an oepiate disorder, they will often tell you and you will see they started with early tobacco, early alcohol and early marijuana use. But mr. Botticelli, thats a logical fallacy, thats true but that begs the question that millions of americans, 4 50 million, have used marijuana and didnt go on to other drugs. We have to desegregate the addictive personality from the recreational occasional user. I mean nothing norm tif by this. I said in my opening statement, im a child of the 60s and leery of legalizing any drugs. Ive seen the damage. But i want us to be basing fact on the matter is the war of drugs doesnt look like it work very well in Public Opinion and demand. Whereas other campaigns that are voluntary. Actually have worked. So maybe we could learn something from that as opposed to incarcerating, especially minority populations in this country and that doesnt seem to work either and doesnt seem to reduce demand. Representative connolly, i think just focusing on mari
Born. Why some are questioning the babys plan to sail around the world i am a Yankee Doodle dandy. Looking back at a legend of the silver screen, the life, the legacy and the many loves of actor Mickey Rooney. I am stiff knee sy. Officials announce they have a strong lead in the several for missing malaysian flight 370. An australian ship as picked up a pulse signal not far from where a chinese ship heard signals the day before. Officials believe it could be coming from the planes blacks box but it could take it days to confirm that. It will disappeared nearly a month ago. Officials are hopeful this will lead them to the missing jet. We are john buyerica. We know the batteries on these black boxes could go out any day now. This is why searchers have launched the most intensive hunt yet with more than a dozenships from multiple countries. These picks have narrowed the search. The southernmost area is where the kind easy picked up two pings on saturday. A day later and 350 miles north of
That the secretary of defense has ordered the pentagon to let women serve besides men on the. Ront lines of battle that experiment is under the defense secretarys order. We will come back to that story throughout this first 45 minutes of the washington journal. Our phone lines are open to you. Also open is our twitter and facebook page. You can follow the conversation on facebook at facebook. Com face facebook outcome cspan. We want to talk about this morning. Like i said, we have a special line for active and retired military. I especially want to hear your thoughts on that. Some active and retired military members were interviewed last wate in in knoxville tennessee. Interviewed was u. S. Air force veteran ashley oughts. She was a utilitys apprentice doing Water Purification there. That is one of the veterans interviewed for that story on start with john in hot springs, North Carolina. John, good morning. Thanks, he made a lot of good points in your previous intro and came to fiscal