Sep 11, 2014 ... “I always want my students to start with facts and the fact is, Thom Tillis is terrible  for education in North Carolina,” Connell says. “He cut $500 million from our  budget. His cuts go so deep, there are no longer enough textbooks to go around.  Tillis even voted to increase class sizes — so kids don't get the ...
Sep 1, 2014 ... A recent example: "When it comes to education, Thom Tillis is gambling with our  future. As speaker, he cut nearly $500 million from education," says the narrator  in a recent Senate Majority PAC ad. The same claim showed up in an Emily's List  ad earlier this summer and in a new Democratic Senatorial ...
Oct 10, 2014 ... Kay Hagan against Republican challenger Thom Tillis. ... Of that amount, more  than $25 million has been spent on attack ads — more than $6.5 million against  Hagan and nearly $19 million opposing Tillis. ... Claim: As state House speaker,  Tillis “cut $500 million” from the state's education budget.
Nov 13, 2014 ... Education became the watchword. It was in almost every single ad Democrats  ran over the summer, accusing Tillis of cutting $500 million from the state's public  education budget. In a world where Democratic incumbents were getting pilloried  for voting with Obama, North Carolina was a bright spot: ...
Sep 29, 2014 ... State House Speaker Thom Tillis applauds guests in the gallery from the House  floor during the opening session of the General Assembly in Raleigh, N.C., ... “He  kept a tax break for yachts and jets while cutting $500 million in education  spending and eliminating tax breaks that help middle-class families.”.
Thom Tillis cut almost $500 million from education.