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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Michelle Rhee’s 5-City California Infomercial- Coming to an auditorium near you! | thematically fickle.

Michelle Rhee’s 5-City California Infomercial- Coming to an auditorium near you! | thematically fickle.:

Michelle Rhee’s 5-City California Infomercial- Coming to an auditorium near you!

Last night, I drove over to the Shiley Auditorium on the beautiful campus of USD to hear Michelle Rhee talk about education reform, or as it should more aptly be called when it comes to Rhee, “reform.” San Diego was the first of five stops she is making in California as part of what she called a listening tour, or as it should more aptly be called when it comes to Rhee, a “listening tour.” But I’ll get to that in a minute.

I had planned to tweet the event, despite the signs that said “no texting,” but then I couldn’t get a signal on my phone. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks there was a jammer involved. After all, this was a university campus and I have a smart phone. But my friend, Grant who sat with me, laughed at the notion. He claims to be cynical, but