[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: She's Not Helping

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
She's Not Helping
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1210471286.shtml


   [1]Powerline, as further recounted on the NARN today, has taken issue
   with Rep. Mindy Greiling's attack piece on Minneapolis Star Tribune
   columnist Katherine Kersten's two columns on the state's first Islamic
   charter school, the Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy in Inver Grove Heights.
   I call it an attack piece because it has no other purpose. As
   Powerline's Scott Johnson recounts, Greiling takes no issue with any
   of the many facts Kersten reported, nor the testimony of the
   substitute teacher. On the basis of an anecdotal "I had a nice time"
   visit to the school, Greiling calls for the paper to fire Kersten.
   This is bad enough, well over the lines of civility and professional
   conduct. It's actually worse than that. Greiling is, by extention,
   accusing the substitute teacher of lying as well, again
   unsubstantiated.
   I'll go still further and point out that she has hurt her DFL party as
   well. She is carrying the P. S. Minnesota proposal to add $1.7 billion
   to K-12 spending in the 2009 session, another 'Minnesota Miracle'. She
   will need a big tax increase to do that, which in turn requires
   support beyond her far left base. Needlessly going out of your way to
   pick a pointless fight with the press without cause, nicking a
   civilian in the process, doesn't help.
   Education Minnesota might want to consider a leadership change for its
   K-12 bills next year.

References

   1. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/05/020475.php