MSNBC "The Ed Show" - Transcript
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REP. JARED POLIS (D), COLORADO: Well, it"s bizarre, Ed. And it shows how bizarre many of these newfangled Tea Party Republicans are.
I mean, they have utterly displanted the "regular Republicans," who, by the way, were bad enough, with this new breed of Republicans that thinks a school district should investigate the personal lives of all their teachers, find out who their single women teachers are sleeping with? I mean, what is this about?
This isn"t America that you and I believe in. This is contrary to our values as Americans.
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SCHULTZ: Well, we have to, I think, take the leap here, saying that if they had a filibuster-proof Senate, that Jim DeMint would bring this kind of stuff forward. Elections have consequences. I mean, this is how they think. This is the idea that he is purporting.
But what kind of threat would it be to gay teachers possibly being hired in a public school system? Your thoughts?
POLIS: I would say this would be a huge threat to public education. I mean, to go through the ranks of teachers and to scare teachers who are single women, who are gay, who are lesbian, with this kind of investigation and firing, I mean, this would devastate public education. I mean, it would destroy many of our public schools.
I mean, even the teachers that aren"t gay, who are married, to see their
colleagues brought up on these charges in a witch hunt, I mean, if you want
and maybe his real agenda is to destroy public education. I mean, if you look at where the agenda goes, gutting schools, vouchers, I mean, they are looking at destroying public education, and this is part of it.
SCHULTZ: Do you believe that? You are on the education committee. Do you believe that the Republicans are trying to privatize education in this country across the board?
POLIS: Many of them are, not all. And Jim DeMint absolutely is. And the scary things is, is that his candidates are the ones that are winning these Republican primaries all over the country and why it"s super important for Democrats to win, and why we all need to vote this November.
SCHULTZ: Congressman, good to have you with us tonight. I appreciate your time on THE ED SHOW.
POLIS: Always a pleasure.
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