Elaine Solie Herman - Gunning to be Superintendent of Public Instruction

(October, 2000)

The main issue in the race has been an off-hand remark made several weeks ago by Ms. Herman, an investment adviser and former teacher, who joked that troublesome students should be shot.
"I'm going to give every teacher a gun and a holster and tell them to line up and shoot them," Ms. Herman said, according to The Associated Press.