and i'm going to ask the board to look at the nonelects listed on page 51 of the agenda.ease notice that there are 38 individuals who are listed here to get nonre-election. i want to point out that seven of those 38 are special education teachers. many of these teachers have not received the training that they should have had before they were hired. that's why they are pro zeros. some of them have had the training and are completing their credentials. keep in mind they are facing huge challenges when they walk into a special education class without support, so what sort of support should chef -- they have got season first of all, they did not have any bits of support. why? the district has done away with pizza this year. beginning teachers support and this is a serious gap in the support we should be giving. we're dismayed to see the dismantling of this kind of support and none of our beginning teachers are given pizza support. and the other point i want to make in the one minute that i have -- because i want you to hear from these educators, is that three of these educat

there, and then the other aspect of it is when people first come in, they're often reliant on the nonelected staff members to do things. so this is kind of a continuing legislative bureaucracy. so could you address those points? >> yeah. first of all, i had 12 years in the house, 12 years senate which means some individuals might end up with 24, but that'd be a tiny minority of the time. in terms of staff, if you're lazy, you can be run by staff. i wasn't run by staff, but i had a mask louse staff. marvelous staff. i think i had the brightest staff on, in the senate at the time. but i came in as kind of a phenomenon. i was the conservative event of the year, so all kinds of people i gathered who have gone on and they've apparently done all kinds of things in the years since. if you know what you want to accomplish, seems to me you get your own staff. but it doesn't mean there aren't elements of truth in what you say, but that's going to be the truth no matter what you have. but i do feel the greatest burden is that you have people that can persuade themselves it's more important for the cons