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It was painful to hear the woman in anguish on the 83rd floor of the World Trade Center, crying, "I'm going to die, aren't I? I'm going to die." Melissa Doi was 32, beautiful, with laughing eyes and black hair. She was lying on the floor of her office at IQ Financial, overwhelmed by smoke and heat, calling for help. And then there was Kevin Cosgrove on the 105th floor, moments before it collapsed, gasping for breath, saying, "We're young men, we're not ready to die." And then he screamed, "Oh my God" as the building started to collapse. It's in their voices, what they went through. The lobbyists' public library is redundant For as long as I can remember, people have been saying that lobbyists serve a purpose of providing information to legislators. It was in government or civics class textbooks when I was growing up. And legislators, lobbyists, reporters, and scholars cite it repeatedly. It's the teachers unions, stupid! In state after state, all across the county, we hear the same, tired refrain from apologists for the government-run education bureaucracy: "Mo' money, mo' money, mo' money!" Let the voices of 9/11 be heard It was painful to hear the woman in anguish on the 83rd floor of the World Trade Center, crying, "I'm going to die, aren't I? I'm going to die." Melissa Doi was 32, beautiful, with laughing eyes and black hair. She was lying on the floor of her office at IQ Financial, overwhelmed by smoke and heat, calling for help. And then there was Kevin Cosgrove on the 105th floor, moments before it collapsed, gasping for breath, saying, "We're young men, we're not ready to die." And then he screamed, "Oh my God" as the building started to collapse. It's in their voices, what they went through. The lobbyists' public library is redundant For as long as I can remember, people have been saying that lobbyists serve a purpose of providing information to legislators. It was in government or civics class textbooks when I was growing up. And legislators, lobbyists, reporters, and scholars cite it repeatedly. |
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