came to see me because i am now the ranking democrat. and if we get the majority, will be the chairman. it takes time to work up through the seniority system. so i would think that that s particularly important to florida. dana: let me ask you about something else that s happening in florida. not all states are dealing with this issue in the courts about restoring the voting rights to felons. this weekend george will wrote a column in which he talked about this issue. i wanted to get your take on it. he said what intelligent purpose is served by reminding felons, who really do not require remind of their past, and by advertising it to their community? the rule of law requires punishment, but it is not served by punishments that never end and that perpetuate a social stigma and sense of never fully re-entering the community. i understand that both on the ballot and the courts, this issue is up for debate. where do you stand on it? well, i m all for giving over
there way to modify the seniority system and some of the 42 years old in the caucus can say it is not going to be 20 years. exactly the conversation around how we do business is happening right now in the democratic caucus. and contests can happen for democrats on the hill or on the house. i want to have everybody listen to what time ryan had to say about your party this morning. take a listen. what unites the country really is an economic message about opportunity, how do we create opportunity and how do we grow the pie so that it can help us with our debt and deficit and growing new sector of our economy. ryan is calling for this 2.0 version of your party. what does that message need to be if it is yes? you know, there are a lot of part in winning an election.
process, but overall, the money to the consultants, was a huge proportion of money that didn t do wa what was needed to be done to get the money no the classroom where the children in newark are living in extreme poverty, and witness violence on regular basis, and live in dysfunction, and so many more resources that were required at the classroom level, and that is not the focus of it. and i think that mark zuckerburg, really wanted to give a bonus po the great teachers, and that is his idea, but that is not how it played out. what happened there? no, he really didn t, and he and sheryl sandberg who vetted the agreement for him didn t understand how hard it is is to change the way that teachers are paid and rewarded. unions. and the seniority system. he wanted to get rid of the seniority protections to help the most senior teachers in place in the layoffs and the
insuring by title one funds, federal funds that go for disadvantaged students, allowing portability, allowing states to expand school choice and we heard from other candidates talking about let s get rid of the seniority system and get rid of protecting the bad teachers. i love that idea, but what about jeb and common core? i m seeing some of these questions. it just seems like the most convoluted way to teach anyone, let alone our children how to learn. it s true, right. i think governor bush has made it clear his position on common core. he thinks it should be at the state level, what he wants is higher standards but that must be run through the state and local school systems, not the federal government. he s made his position clear. again, common core has become this what we d call the evil words in the education and the republican world. and quite frankly, that s right. we need to leave it in the hands of the parents and the local school systems to make the decisions and to s
their priorities are different. that s why a sorority seniority system disadvantages women. i think in this country particularly in the media women have just as much chance to succeed as men here in where in my business. in your world. i don t see it i guess it s the same in wal-mart, if you are good, the wal-mart people it doesn t care whether you are a man or a woman unless there is some idiot in charge. i think women in america do have equal opportunity. am i wrong? there is no question that women in america have more opportunity than anywhere else in the world. there is no question. i started out as a secretary. and i had the chance to become the chief executive officer of the largest technology company in the world and now i m running for president. that s only possible in this country. it s also true that women are half the nation. so women are half the potential of this nation. and if you look at the burdens of poverty, for example, it falls most