They could take lessons from Barbara Erwin, whose prior fraudulent acts could all be forgiven if she hadn't said this:
"I believe the Commonwealth truly will be the first state that reaches proficiency for all of its children," Erwin said.
She probably says that to all the states she screws out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Erwin is best remembered as the Education Commissioner candidate who, after being offered the job as Kentucky's top school official dismissed several factual misstatements on her resume as mere typographical errors.
What kind of person has the balls to say such a thing and do we really want her setting policy for our children? This is the kind of thing for which the blogosphere claims to have been created.
Conservative political bloggers should speak up against this on principle. Liberals should too. Bipartisan grassroots agreement can be a very powerful thing.
Kentucky should get rid of Barbara Erwin.
