Lately I have wondered if he's just a GOP-e placeholder like Thad Cochran, because the man doesn't even speak like he used to. Don't get me wrong, he's always been a squish for the government school cabal regardless of the NEA's rhetoric, but the Branstad of today doesn't seem like the Branstad of old.
That being said, this is unacceptable from start to finish, and my "Humboldt spies" tell me that the current Humboldt Community Schools poobahs are doing the "we didn't know" dance. Of course not.
Mr. niteowl77
You are correct.
Branstad is not a young man. He’s tired.
He came out of semi-retirement only when McCain’s poor Iowa ground game in 2008 left a bunch of Huckabee amateurs in effective control of the state party. Then Branstad made a mistake in thinking Romney would set up an Iowa machine, but instead the party was left to Paul-backers. He is not the Branstad of old, but he’s trying to avoid having another vacuum in 2016, thus his early support for neighboring Gov. Walker.