Victims of Duplicitous Demagogues, Part 3

See prior posts on this topic: April 29 and 30.

There is a D. C. School Choice rally today in Washington from 1:00 to 2:00 P.M. at Freedom Plaza, 14th Street and Pennsylvania Ave. NW., but with the presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan both in Washington today, don't expect a lot of media coverage for this important event. For more information on the D. C. voucher program, check out this website:
http:www.DCChildrenFirst.org

You may have seen statistics reporting that approximately 44 percent of the children of congressmen attend private schools, but this, I think, is misleading, because one might assume that some similar percentage attend D. C. public schools. I don't think that is likely. I will bet that any children of congressmen who attend public schools are doing so in Northern Virginia where Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has enrolled his children.

The lady in the first video is right: this should not be about politics, but some facts are clear.
1. The D. C. Opportunity Scholarship Program was passed by the 2004 Republican Congress.
2. The program is being dismantled by the 2009 Democratic Congress.
3. Democratic Senator Dick Durbin injected the language in the Omnibus Spending Bill that will effectively kill the program.
4. The National Education Association (NEA), one of the two major teachers unions, spent $25 million on "political activities and lobbying" and $65.5 million on "contributions, gifts and grants since 1990.
5. Between 88 percent and 99 percent of the political contributions made by the NEA since 1990 have gone to Democrats.

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