Miami-Dade School Board members decry Michelle Obama campaign stop at local school

[monmouth]

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/state-regional/miami-dade-school-board-members-decry-michelle-oba/nPqMp/



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But the spot for the political event – Barbara Goleman Senior High in Miami Lakes – has some Republican members of the School Board seeing red.

Miami-Dade School Board member Renier Diaz de la Portilla has called for the event to be cancelled and board member Carlos Curbelo has asked the board attorney to reconsider his opinion that the event meets legal muster. While School Board seats are nonpartisan, Diaz de la Portilla is running for state House as a Republican and Curbelo has worked as a Republican strategist.

“Allowing the first lady of the United States to use one of our schools explicitly to benefit the president’s reelection campaign is inappropriate and sends the wrong message to our students, employees, and to taxpayers – even if the president’s campaign is willing to pay for all costs resulting from the event,” Curbelo wrote in the letter to School Board attorney Walter Harvey.

Curbelo told The Miami Herald on Monday: “There’s a difference between official visits to schools by elected leaders and events that are for the sole purpose of advancing the interests of a political campaign.”

More at the link:

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Suck it up, assbag.

[monmouth]

2. Sounds like they may be "Friends of Rubio" but don't know that for sure...n/t

[Splinter Cell]

9. I can't think of a better way to respond then that.

[madaboutharry]

3. Didn't McCain introduce Palin as VP at a state university gymnasium?

State colleges are supported by taxpayers. These people can shove it.

[amuse bouche]

6. I don't know if it matters

but this is a High School

[gregoire]

4. Jesse Jackson and Pat Robertson both...

spoke at my high school when they were running for President. Their actions were immoral and broke the public trust. It was wrong then, and it is wrong now. If this sort of theft of public property for political use continues then expect to see this abuse expanded to also include corporations. Before long, you'll have companies like GE taking over high school gyms for their own.

[DFW]

5. Michelle Obama isn't running for president

She's probably plugging for healthier diets, as usual. Of course, Republicans see healthier diets as dangerous communist plots.

[struggle4progress]

7. Florida Republicans To Michelle Obama: Stay Out Of Our School

Posted: 07/10/2012 12:19 pm Updated: 07/10/2012 3:12 pm

... The complaint came as Republican Mitt Romney was set to hold a campaign event at a public high school in Colorado where President Obama held a town hall meeting three years ago.

Miami-Dade school board attorney Walter Harvey said the district's policy allows all groups, including political ones, to lease facilities. He said the Obama campaign was paying $2,351 to rent the school for the event ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/10/florida-republicans-to-mi_n_1662173.html

[siligut]

8. They should be so ashamed of themselves

How do they hold their heads up?

[WI_DEM]

10. So if Ann Romney were coming would these a-holes be up in arms? doubt it.