Good points.

Chafee sounds like he has realized that the way to get elected in RI today is to pander to the public employee unions.

Chafee also sounds like Treasurer recent Caprio's bizarre, NEA-appeasing claim on on of the local Sunday talk shows that RI students' public schools compare favorably with those of other students around the country.

One of the especially scary things about Chafee's offer to mediate is his background: coming from a family with great (married) wealth, he'll feel a naiive and erroneous duty to spread (others') money around and not appear selfish. Like John McCain, I doubt Chafee knows how many homes he and his wife own. Don't put such people in charge of resolving tough problems involving taxpayers money and public employee unions. Already Chafee looks like he would be a disaster as a governor.

Absolutely pandering/grandstanding to the unions here.

The real key here is that this action is beyond the reach of the GA so our states most costly labor union can't count on the hacks to bail them out. This is not a contract issue its a greed issue.

If they strike, we decertify the union and fire all the teachers hiring none back.

If short term labor unrest leads to long term education success (that kinda rhymes) then I'm all for it.

At some point teachers must be held accountable for our children's edgumacation.

Chafee is pulling a grandstanding act for the sole purpose of drumming up votes.His display of dopiness on 10 Newsconference awhile back was very scary.I can't imagine this Forrest Gump replica trying to run the state.He wasn't so great in Warwick.He lives in another world.
The contest between him and the Fop for US Senator was like sailing between Scylla and Charybdis for RI voters.
If he's elected,RI deserves whatever comes.Can we really be that stupid?
One example:He thought the Governor's Executive Order. was "unfair" to illegal aliens-it "picked on them"-duh-they're breaking the f**kin' law numbnuts!!
That's the kind of crap spewed out on Kmareka and RIF.
Speaking of Kmareka-it's gotten a little bizarre-Nancy Green rails nonstop at what she perceives to be angry men,Christians,people who get their hands on guns,blah,blah,blah.
However,she kinda overlooked the Obamabot woman who gunned down a roomful of colleagues.
Strangely,all the people she shot whose photos I saw were "people of color"in leftistspeak.She sorta neglected to notice the whole incident.Hmmm?
If the woman had been a Tea Partier,can you imagine the venom Green would have thrown?As it is,I don't think the shooter was a racist-just a maniac who didn't take adversity very well.The point being that sometimes(most times,actually)murder is just that.The motives are almost always financial or personal.

edgumacation. ?

Yes, Phil. It's a charming colloquialism. You've never heard it before?

Don,

I'm surprised -- I would have thought you too young to know references from "Popeye the Sailor Man"!