Corkins, Morris road trip was road kill

New Kansas Education Commissioner Bob Corkins and State Board of Education member Connie Morris visited 12 western Kansas cities this week. It didn’t go well.
“The Bob Corkins-Connie Morris road show turned into roadkill in Hays on Tuesday night,” reported The Hays Daily News. One protest sign at the meeting read, “What’s the matter with Kansas? Morris + Corkins.”
Their reception wasn’t much better elsewhere. “It was not a warm and fuzzy meeting at all,” said Marvin Selby, superintendent of the Goodland school district. And Don Hineman, who attended the meeting in Dodge City, wrote in a letter to the editor in Friday’s Eagle that the purpose of the trip seemed to be to promote charter schools, to promote Corkins and to promote Morris.
Three strikes and they’re out?
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

5 Comments

  1. TRACY
    Posted November 18, 2005 at 2:18 pm | Permalink

    I see that now the Kansas Dept. of Education has appointed a new spokesperson. Maybe Bob and Connie should just let him take the heat.

  2. Ray Thomas
    Posted November 18, 2005 at 4:22 pm | Permalink

    Tracy..

    Logical, smart, and very sensible suggestion–which is exactly why the Morris/Corkin team won’t go near it. They are none of the above.

  3. kelly
    Posted November 19, 2005 at 5:32 am | Permalink

    What I want to know the answer to is whether taxpayer funds were used for this tour that just so happened to cover Connie Morris’ district, and smacked of a political campaign. This is the same question raised by Mr. Hineman, yet I haven’t seen The Eagle or any other investigator bothering to ask that question. Why?

  4. Otto
    Posted November 20, 2005 at 12:34 am | Permalink

    How long do we have to put up with this board and their idiot commissioner? Bob Corkins is an embarrassment to all but the most “wing-nut” Republicans.

  5. mrcontroversy
    Posted November 23, 2005 at 2:57 am | Permalink

    What motel did they stay at? That should tell you something.