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Entice somebody to stay in teaching as a career is the fact that it is going to come with good benefits. are those benefits going to go away? >> no. a couple of things. one, we have cut since i have been here cut the budget 26% but increased k-12 spending by 9%. we gave teachers a pretty significant pay raise bringing them up to the southern average. nicholas crist off wrote a controversial article saying if you have a great teacher able to teach your child getting them to above grade level it is good to pay them $100,000. >> do you believe that? >> absolutely. we need to be willing to say we ...

>> we've got an open primary. everybody runs regardless of party. i've got nine opponents, democrat, we don't have any republican opponents. independent, others. if you get 50%, plus one, you win election in the provide marry. four years ago for the first time in our state's history as a nonincumbent, i won election in the primary. we didn't need a runoff. our goal is to win again tomorrow. we're running on a record of fiscal conservativism. for the last four years, we've cut government spending 26%, cut government spending $9 billion, got fewer state employees than we've had in over 20 years,...