We're pleased we were able to prevent a full-blown, costly, distracting initiative campaign this fall.

Our polling around [the initiative] indicated that it would be highly unlikely to succeed. We're relieved. This initiative would have been distracting to the real issue of students and schools facing inadequate funding levels in our state.

I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.

It seems like a bald-faced lie. The whole point of the initiative is to prevent the part of the budget that automatically gets spent on education from getting spent on education?. To argue this will create more money for schools is almost straightforwardly false.

This might give teachers some things they might like. But fortunately, our members look beyond their own self-interest and see the damage this would inflict.

We haven't really heard anything that would help us predict how this ultimately will be resolved.