Rick Scott’s Week of Shaking Hands, Kissing Babies and Picking the Pockets of Public Education
Florida’s Department of Education has a blog. Even Commissioner Gerard Robinson posts occasionally in the curiously named Finding Common Ground. My colleagues in public education probably find my use of “curiously” to be a bit lacking. Perhaps “disingenuous” would be better. Especially if the time frame we consider begins with the run-up to the battle over SB6 during the spring of 2010. No suggestions for amendments were accepted by republican legislators for that bill. There’s little difference between SB6 and the recently passed SB736 aside from the 7 and the 3.
After Charlie Crist’s veto, Florida’s bitter and shrill republicans said they’d be back with SB6. They just assumed at the time it would be with milquetoast Bill McCollum as governor. Instead they got someone whom opponents have frequently referred to as Lord Voldemort. The depilated Scott might be the sort of ideologue the state’s