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March 03, 2006
Culture Carnival of Corruption
I've decided to drop the Democrats "Culture of Corruption" banner for the more appropriate Carnival of Corruption--since it's becoming more of a circus with the Democrats:
The latest ethics flap in Washington exploded last week on the pages of the Capitol Hill publication The Hill. It involves veteran Michigan Democrat and would-be chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers. Two former staffers allege a pattern of corruption by Conyers, self-proclaimed “Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus,” including forcing them to work on several state and local political campaigns while on his congressional payroll and allowing a senior staff counsel to conduct her private law practice out of his office.
Also among the charges is that Conyers required his staff to care for his two young boys, including providing tutoring services to Conyers’ elder son while he attended a posh private school in Bloomfield Hills. The school “Little John” Conyers attends is the Cranbrook School. According to its Web site, tuition at Cranbrook runs a cool $17,880 for grades 1-5, $19,280 for middle school, and $21,730 for high school. Parents who send their kids to board at Cranbrook must cough up more than $30,000.
Yet Conyers is a longstanding opponent of any form of school choice for low-income children. At a “Stand Up for Public Schools” rally a few years back, Conyers decried educational choice as a “scheme” which “will only harm our public schools” and pointed instead to the sort of “real” school reforms drawn from the educational unions’ playbook – teacher training, reduced class size, and school construction. “It is vital,” he said then, “for parents, educators, and community leaders to join together to strengthen Detroit’s public schools.”
Unless, of course, you can afford to send your child to The Cranbrook School.
Ah, yes. These people are going to clean up Washington!
Posted by Aaron at March 3, 2006 11:20 AM
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