Just the facts, please, elected officials

House Education Committee Chairwoman Kathe Decker, R-Clay Center, has acknowledged that she should have checked out the rumors of over-the-top school spending she offered in a column for local newspapers (turns out the Dodge City superintendent didn’t buy a $20,000 desk, for example). Then, as the state school board discussed sex education this week, member John Bacon talked of a bed having been used in one class (he had no details, and the professor who chaired that curriculum panel had heard of no such teaching tool).
Nobody is perfect, but as these elected officials make the case for new laws and policies, it would inspire more trust if they would deal in fact rather than gossip.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

3 Comments

  1. Roo
    Posted June 18, 2005 at 11:08 am | Permalink

    Can we hand the megaphone back to Connie Morris? She may have other juicy gossips to add to her latest collection!

  2. Kelly
    Posted June 18, 2005 at 6:51 pm | Permalink

    Neocons just make up things whenever it suits them. Just like Phill Kline repeating the decades old – and disproven – fantasy about a successful plaintiff cutting off a hand while using a lawnmower to trim a bush. Never happened, but it doesn’t ruffle their feathers to parade lies as fact. Enough Republican hypocrisy, please!

  3. David
    Posted June 19, 2005 at 3:30 pm | Permalink

    If they delt with facts they wouldn’t be republicans. I find more and more that republicans twist the most straight forward facts to try to win their point, even if it is undefendable. Winning the war on terrorism is a great example.