[NavVet]

Eary on I responded to a Kilgore fundraising request with a simple e-mail requesting his stance on school choice. I got back a Clintonesque response, that when you unpacked it, seemed to suggest that he would be for it, in failing school districts, but only until the public school met minimum standards. His staffer then went on to describe some Byzantine plan to pay public school teachers more, that made my eyes glaze over. I sent in a few bucks, but I just never got a warm and fuzzy that Kilgore would govern as a conservative.

[ottersnot]

He tried to be to cute and not conservative enough?

[IndyInVa]

I held my nose and voted for Kilgore, just to keep Kaine out, but I, too, had a big problem with his blather on schools. IMO, the problem in Northern Virginia is that the schools have TOO MUCH money. They are like lottery winners who don't know what to do with the windfall, so they spend wildly and frivolously and it ends up hurting them.

I don't know about the rest of the state, maybe more money in the rural schools would help.

[NeoCaveman]

All he had to do was run as a conservative. It is Virginia after all. Even the Democrats run as conservatives for crying out loud. Kilgore got some bad advice from somewhere.

[petitfour]

Kilgore must be trying to please the PTA folks. The PTA is against school choice.