The West Virginia teacher strike reaches seven days without classes

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3. The pay raise bill was quickly passed by the House of Delegates on Tuesday.

The Senate President, Mitch Carmichael, announced that the 22 Republican senators would not vote for the bill, so he adjourned the Senate that afternoon.

Since then, he has piddle-farted around, moving bills back and forth from the floor of the Senate to various committees, but refusing to bring the House's five percent raise bill to a vote. Teachers are livid!

(From my sister the teacher -- Wednesday or Thursday, some state senator was haranguing about the teachers, calling them Nazis. He said that looking at the teachers was like looking at Germany, just before World War One. Dozens of teachers in the gallery shouted "Two! It's World War Two!" I love teachers!)