October 27, 2004

that ain't right

I've got a real problem with this story. What in the hell is a public school system doing using kids as campaigners? Is this a lesson in Civics that I don't understand, or is it a form of child slavery?

Either way, it turns my gut.

Young people in the program organized by the Wisconsin Citizen Action Fund take time from regular classes to go door to door in minority neighborhoods and areas with historically low voter turnout, urging people to cast ballots.

The students, ranging in age from 11 to 18, also use phone banks to call homes and urge people to vote.

If the kids volunteered to do such things on THEIR OWN TIME, I wouldn't have a problem with this "project." But when the school system TAKES TIME FROM REGULAR CLASSES to perform this crap-dance, I'm calling bullshit. I sent my kids to public school so that they would learn to read and write, not become Democrat operatives. If I were a Wisconsin parent, I would be livid.

Larry Marx, co-executive director of Wisconsin Citizen Action, denied there is any partisanship to the effort, despite the fact the advocacy group supports Democratic Sen. John Kerry.

Nope. No partisanship here. Using taxpayer dollars and little kids to further a Democrat agenda is NEVER partisan. Let the Republicans pull a stunt like that and every leftist in the land would be screaming about the Bush "Hitler Youth Brigades."

Got-dam! Anybody THAT hungry for power shouldn't be given it.