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Conscripting Students as Political Hacks! - Email of the Day

  

We've seen and heard it all before, "it's for the children..." A staple of lazy and unethical political operatives is to organize a bunch of kids to "write" letters to the editor wringing their hands over some crisis du jour or in supp

ort of somepet cause.

 

Well, you heard the words lazy and unethical political operative; that can mean only one thing...Jens Sutmoller and the CPS Email of the Day!  

 

Today's installment asks Superintendent Mary Ronan along with various CPS board members, principals and employees, as well as a few local political activists, to encourage students to "write letters to the editors to support our position."

 

We try to add some levity to the email of the day (some say too much levity); but ultimately this is a very serious issue. The question remains the same. What will get these people to stop abusing public resources and conscripting children into political indentured servitude? 

 

There is a state law outlawing this behavior; We have dragged them into court (kicking and screaming) - three times! They have signed a contract admitting to and agreeing to end this behavior - which they have stomped all over year after year! And now, they are once again before a judge stammering and yammering as it becomes clearer and clearer to everyone, that perhaps no cost is too high, no public shaming too great, nothing, no nothing will get these people to restrain themselves; not state law, not a judicial order, nothing!

 

Taxpayers, parents and students are expected to simply take it. To fund the political activities of CPS and the teachers' union and provide "volunteers" to wave their signs, and write their letters to the editor.

 

 Read the email here.
Wenstrup Tax Freedom Day Message

 

We were delighted to receive this email from Congressman Wenstrup today:

 

It's finally here.  Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosit and the IRS are finally going to let you keep a little bit of your hard-earned money. It's "Tax Freedom Day" - the day your income begins to exceed your total burden for the year. That's the good news.

 

The bad news is that it's April. You've been working for the government since January. 

 

As with anything as massive as the federal budget there's good and bad in the Republicans' plan, but at least it aims to balance the budget, and maybe even roll back the amount of time you'll have to work for the IRS.

 

Read the full email here. 

We really are glad to take credit, but....

 

One lie that has been spun so often from City Hall that it has become part of Streetcar lore is that the two ballot issues on the Streetcar advanced by the NAACP Cincinnati Chapter and COAST somehow inhibited -- legally or practically -- forward progress on the Streetcar.

 

Continue reading here.
Today is 60 days after streetcar track bids were opened...and still no progress


Yes, yes, this week marked the momentous time in the six-year saga of the Cincinnati Streetcar that the "Savior," the great John Deatrick, was hired to fix everything that ails the project, but....

 

Other than that, COAST had calendared to note that today marks the 60th day after the Cincinnati Streetcar track bids were opened and the City realized -- or at least it was revealed to the public for the first time -- that the City's cost estimates for the project were as much as 50% too low. 

  

Read the rest here.