------ Forwarded Message > From: "dasg...@aol.com" <dasg...@aol.com> > Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:18:15 EDT > To: Robert Millegan <ramille...@aol.com> > Cc: <ema...@aol.com>, <j...@aol.com>, <jim6...@cwnet.com> > Subject: If at First You Don't Secede ... "Dumb and Dumber" Becomes STATE > POLICY in Texas >
> > <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_--YjWiyF8eE/SlJPJqgbPYI/AAAAAAAAE3k/XJLktE-n3fY/s16 > 00-h/rick+perry+govenror.jpg> > Texas gubernatorial dim bulb Rick Perry > > http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2009/07/will-texas-joke-gov-rick-perry-nam > e.html > > > > <http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_--YjWiyF8eE/SlJO5vA8Q_I/AAAAAAAAE3c/VPACOz8IQ14/s16 > 00-h/260xStory.jpg> "She wrote in her book that sending our children to public > schools is 'throwing them into the enemy¹s flames even as the children of > Israel threw their children to Moloch.' ² > -- TFN Insider <http://tfnblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/dunbar-to-head-sboe/> > , quoting rumored Texas SBOE chair nominee Cynthia Dunbar (right) > > > by Ken > Texas Gov. Rick Perry faces the formidable roadblock of a fellow Republican, > popular U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, threatening his reelection -- and > bringing to her primary challenge the unfair advantage of a measurable IQ. > > But otherwise, things are going just great for our Rick. > > We're so accustomed to thinking of these people as figures of fun, objects of > derision, that we may lose sight of the harm they have the power to do -- for > example, the power to mess with the minds of our children. > > At the moment my Texas colleague Vince Leibowitz (of the blog Capitol Annex > <http://capitolannex.com/> ) is sounding the alarm about the possible > appointment of a certifiable wingut loon, an avowed hater of both public > schools and one Barack Obama, to chair Texas's State Board of Education. > > Vince directs us > <http://capitolannex.com/2009/07/06/perry-likely-to-appoint-wingnut-obama-hate > r-to-chair-state-board-of-education/> to a post on the Texas Freedom > Networks' TFN Insider blog > <http://tfnblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/dunbar-to-head-sboe/> (see the > on-site version for links): >> Could someone who despises public education soon be heading up the board >> tasked with managing the Texas public school system? Well, the buzz >> suggesting that Cynthia Dunbar, R-Richmond, may be the next chair of the >> Texas State Board of Education is growing louder, writes Gary Scharrer for >> the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News. >> >> Look, we were under no illusions when the Texas Senate wisely rejected the >> confirmation of Don McLeroy as board chair in May. We knew Gov. Rick Perry >> would likely choose another member of the board¹s far-right faction as chair >> (even though there are other far more responsible conservative Republicans >> on the board). After all, the far-right faction represents his electoral >> base, which he will need in his re-election battle next year. >> >> But surely even the governor realizes that choosing an extremist like Dunbar >> would be almost inconceivably reckless and irresponsible. Dunbar has clearly >> expressed her loathing for public education in her book One Nation Under God >> <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979322723?ie=UTF8&tag=dowwittyr-20&linkCod >> e=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0979322723> , calling public >> schools a ³tool of perversion,² ³unconstitutional² and ³tryannical.² She has >> also personally rejected the public school system, home-schooling her >> children. In fact, she wrote in her book that sending our children to public >> schools is ³throwing them into the enemy¹s flames even as the children of >> Israel threw their children to Moloch.² >> >> Just before the November election, Dunbar also authored a vicious Internet >> rant in which she called Barack Obama a terrorist sympathizer who wants to >> seize total power by declaring martial law. In another Internet screed, she >> charged that Obama is promoting Marxism by calling for ³shared sacrifice and >> social responsibility.² (Not surprisingly, both essays have been removed >> from the Web sites that published them.) >> >> By appointing Dunbar, Gov. Perry would be sending a clear message that he >> shares Dunbar¹s extremism and her contempt for education. He would be >> putting his political fortunes ahead of the education of nearly 5 million >> Texas schoolchildren. In short, such an appointment would be a shocking >> betrayal of all those children and their families. > > Vince adds: >> Needless to say, if Perry does this, it is part of his ongoing campaign to >> govern Texas solely for the amusement of one million Republican Primary >> voters who will likely decide between Perry and U.S. Senator Kay Bailey >> Hutchison next March. >> >> Perry¹s got to shore up his rightwing base, and a Cynthia Dunbar appointment >> would no doubt earn him a lot of points in that camp. > > > Looking for love this summer? Find it now on AOL Personals > <http://personals.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntuslove00000003> . > > > ------ End of Forwarded Message
