FL teachers seek to hold Gov. Crist to his promise to raise their salaries to "over $100,000"

[Doondoo]

Good news, teachers!

Charlie Crist wants to give you a raise -- a whopper of one, in fact.

Listen to his exact words:

"Over $100,000. And I know that it sounds a bit extreme to some people, but I think it's important to set the bar high."

Even better, we're not talking sometime way down the road. Crist said he wants these six-figure salaries in place by 2010.

Crist knew his goal sounded audacious. He said: "I can tell you when I was a kid we had a president who once said by the end of the decade we're going to put a man on the moon and I'm sure people kind of scoffed at that."

Did you miss this announcement? Well, that might be because Crist didn't make it last week. He made it in 2001. That was back when he was education commissioner -- and when he probably didn't expect he'd be governor on the year of his deadline and in a position to make good on his lofty goal.

One person who expects him to do just that, though, is Rebecca Klouse.

Rebecca is a first-grade teacher at Lovell Elementary in Apopka. And she is the one who clipped out the article that ran in the Orlando Sentinel six years ago, buried on page D5 of the Local & State section with the headline "State education chief: Pay teachers $100,000 by 2010."

She kept it all these years and mailed it to the newspaper last week, saying: "I am the type that, if someone says something, I want them to remember it."


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[ripmolly]

1. He doesn't mean it

Nobody has ever been able to do that. He's just lying to everyone.

[Dirty Hippie]

2. I met Charlie Crist when he was Commissioner of Education

at a restaurant. When I introduced myself I told him I was a teacher. He replied that I should be making 100,000 a year.

So I KNOW he said it!

I don't think he has mentioned it since he became Governor.

[Freddie Stubbs]

4. He also didn't mention it during his campaign for Governor

Why wasn't this brought up BEFORE he was elected?

[bluevoter4life]

3. Anotehr Republican speaks, another Republican lies

He's just paying lip service. He has had 6 years to start making this work by 2010 and he has done nothing. He has 3 years left to make it work. I'm not holding my breath.