But since the media ignores her she can't get the momentum to make Kennedy face her in a debate. Things like teacher testing, overcrowding, and standardized testing. She told me that as a US Senator she would not be able to control or affect policy at a state level, because the standardized testing and teacher testing is done by the state and not the federal government. Ms. Howell does have major plans for changing the role that the federal government plays in education. For every dollar that goes into a school, only 7 cents comes from the government, but it still somehow has major regulatory control over what a school does.
Education is in a downward spiral and big government with it's regulations is to blame.
She would do her best to take the federal rules out of schools and let more local systems take the responsibility for running them. And there are a lot of union members that are also gun owners, and Kennedy is a big opponent to second amendment rights. These are just some of the issues that Ms. Howell said would attract votes from the worker's constituency. The Democrats are talking about what they plan to give to the American people, as are the Republicans. She said that only the Libertarians are talking about actually shrinking the size of our government.