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a kennedy

(29,710 posts)
Mon Jun 10, 2013, 08:19 AM Jun 2013

Wha WI Gov. Scott Walker, GOP do when they need positive voucher school study??

They pay major donors to do the research.....

It’s becoming more and more difficult to avoid writing about Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker these days. What a shame, so many of us would like to escape all Walker-related thoughts, but alas…

No sooner had I written WI Gov. Walker, GOP gov’s “tempered” (you can stop laughing now) as they seek 2nd terms; Dems slam GOP at convention than I ran across another article about Gov. Scotty from The Marshfield News Herald.

This one is about campaign finance reports showing that Walker and GOP legislators are using research that supports expanding the state’s school voucher program. So? What’s wrong with that, you ask? Well, I respond, that research was paid for by the same special interest groups that support many GOP candidates who are pushing for those very vouchers.

I sense very little surprise from you about this. This is completely understandable. It is also completely expected.

This Republican-I-approve-this-message study is being slammed by other researchers who say it’s all kinds of flawed, that voucher schools are no better than public schools:

http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2013/06/08/what-wi-gov-scott-walker-gop-do-when-they-need-positive-voucher-school-study-pay-major-donors-to-do-the-research/

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Wha WI Gov. Scott Walker, GOP do when they need positive voucher school study?? (Original Post) a kennedy Jun 2013 OP
and we let them get away with it dembotoz Jun 2013 #1
The media is not lazy. They're complicit. Scuba Jun 2013 #2
Plus one! nt Enthusiast Jun 2013 #4
Standard operating procedure mokawanis Jun 2013 #3

dembotoz

(16,842 posts)
1. and we let them get away with it
Mon Jun 10, 2013, 08:42 AM
Jun 2013

media is lazy and at times eager to be walkers lap dog

we need to provide greater public ridicule when these fake studies appear

mokawanis

(4,452 posts)
3. Standard operating procedure
Mon Jun 10, 2013, 11:04 PM
Jun 2013

for Walker and the WI repugs. The gov. is loyal to his wealthy masters and does and says whatever they tell him to. He's such a money-grubbing turd.

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