I’m officially firing the starting gun on the 10th District election.
A rather unremarkable story last week about Paul Broun visiting a Spanish class at a Columbia County
Broun is quoted making some noncommittal remarks about how great the program is (I’m a little shocked he didn’t try to find out how many of the children are illegal) and took a swipe at No Child Left Behind.
Democrat opponent Bobby Saxon pounced, shooting out a press release taking Broun to task for voting against the S-CHIP (PeachCare) expansion and not providing “an effective alternative” to NCLB.
“By making misleading statements without the promise of real action to those educating our children, he is giving false hope to a Congressional district badly in need of good leadership,” Saxon said. “When I’m elected, I will be the Congressman of action, not of talk. I will put work behind my words, and strive to put funding where our children need it most. When I’m elected, I will fight the real fight for our children and our values.”
Republican Barry Fleming stayed out of it, but he is making his first announced appearance in the Athens area Tuesday night, speaking to the Oglethorpe County GOP at 7 p.m. at the library in Lexington.
10th to the 10th power
Speaking of Broun, here’s a good interview with him in the libertarian magazine Reason. The article compares him to Ron Paul, which is interesting, because I put that same question to Broun a couple of months ago, and he definitely downplayed their similarities.
Broun also recently dropped an economic stimulus package that’s way better for rich people and corporations than the Bush-backed refunds the House will vote on Tuesday. Broun is not listed as a co-sponsor on H.R. 5109, but supposedly he is.
Broun is proposing cutting the top corporate tax bracket from 35 percent to 25 percent, letting businesses deduct all of their capital expenses and making some other changes to capital gains that I don’t understand because I’m poor.
“Frankly, I don’t think that sending a check for $500 to every family is going to stimulate the economy,” he said. “We’ve got to focus on creating jobs.
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This is just a little
This is just a little footnote to an aside you made in your post trying to be funny, but as often happens the truth is funnier.
You ask why Broun didn't ask how many Spanish kids were in the Spanish class. I can answer that. None. A Spanish kid can't take Spanish, because if a Spanish kid speaks Spanish, why would he need to take Spanish; how many Spanish kids should a Spanish teacher teach if the Spanish kids already speak Spanish?
Seriously. Spanish kids have to take "Spanish for Native Speakers" or some ed-speak like that.
So probably the classes with the fewest Spanish kids, legal or otherwise, are the Spanish classes.
And to me that's funny.
IF Broun is like Paul, I
IF Broun is like Paul, I wonder if Broun was a support of the militias back in the early 1990s like Ron Paul.