Posted on 02/24/2011 6:40:30 PM PST by Nachum
BOISE — Rancor didn’t dominate last week’s legislative debate of education reform, but it certainly ate up a large chunk.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna on Tuesday morning discovered his truck vandalized, its tires slashed and his last name spray-painted and crossed out on its passenger side.
That came after Luna had to tell an unruly man claiming to be a teacher to leave his mother’s house a few days earlier. And later Tuesday, an off-duty police officer escorted a disruptive person away from a coffeehouse where Luna was making a television appearance.
In their entirety, the events meant that instead of talking about issues like student achievement and education standards, debate shifted for a brief spell to questions unrelated to Luna’s proposal — like whether union activism is to blame and whether it’s appropriate for Luna to classify some of the actions as “union thuggery.”
Much was said.
Luna urged the public not to cross the line of civility to involve his family members and damage his property. Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter criticized the harassment of Luna, stressing it’s not the Idaho way to commit such offenses when debating public policy.
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Unionista parasites.
America needs a good old fashioned doggie butt drag across the carpet to scrape them off.
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