Mike Beebe
Mike Beebe
Mickey Dale "Mike" Beebeis an American politician who was the 45th Governor of Arkansas from 2007 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 December 1946
CityAmagon, AR
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I think we've had enough consolidation. Let's what happens. Schools are the central focus in so many communities and they're key to a community's viability. I think we need to implement those policies that ensure that every child, regardless of what school they go to, gets at least what is constitutionally required and hopefully much, much more than that.
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There have been three major court cases in the last 25 years on this. Each one of those court cases set a different test. The court keeps changing the rules. ... I'm not being critical necessarily of that. Courts can change the rules. Times change, standards change, rules change, tests change, the approaches change.
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I think that I'm worried about running my campaign and not trying to get into a particular storm with him right now.
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I think you judge his performance or mine or anyone else's on the totality of what's going on.
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I think you can look at records and you can look at what people have done and you can make your own decisions about whether someone can walk the walk.
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I think the American people will hold everyone responsible that was in charge of that.
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Frankly, that's one thing that may have changed. We've had the luxury of being able to fine-tune some things that might have been rolled out earlier with a primary.
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We have a Supreme Court justice who said, 'You all have been doing this for 23 years, when are you going to get it right ?' I think that is disingenuous.
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What we have to do is make sure more people are in that pool of having some opportunity to have some coverage so that we lessen that pressure to increase prices to make up for those losses.
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What I found is that in all of the major leaps forward that Arkansas has had over the last 20 years ... it's always been a collaboration, a partnership between the private sector and the public sector.
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It would be better if we got out in front of it, where the court wouldn't have to do it. It would be better if we could anticipate and it would be better where we could provide those opportunities for our young people, so we're not just reacting or responding to a court case.
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If you do that, you do a number of things. You elevate the chances of those children being successful because they don't enter so far behind and stay so far behind. You also advance the progress of the kids who didn't need it because the entire class moves faster.
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I support any clarification that private property shouldn't be taken for private purposes.
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It's a never-ending battle that we will continue from year to year. Hopefully it won't be court battles. Hopefully it won't be involved in lawsuits and Supreme Court cases. Hopefully it will be missions and policies that are directed by the electorate of the people.