Re: what an educational leader eh?

On 6/22/14, Carl Jarvis <carjar82@gmail.com> wrote:
> Huppenthal is entitled to his opinions. And voters are either going
> to support him or reject him based, in part on his positions.
> Remember, Huppenthal is a product of the same constant brain washing
> that has come to be known as the mass media. While we are all
> impacted by it to one degree or another, some of us slop it up like
> pigs at a trough.
> While there are many Working Class people living in Arizona, a large
> portion of the citizens are made up of older folks who moved there to
> be with their own kind. Over the ten years that Cathy and I spent
> traveling each March to visit my sister in Sun City, I noticed that
> many of the elders who believed that they would be living on peaches
> and rich cream, wound up eking out an existence on bread and thin
> water. Often I wanted to jump up and offer my chair to an elderly man
> or woman tottering past me in a restaurant, only to discover that they
> were my wait person. But even though they were working for wage
> minimum...or for less, under the table...they were solidly against
> social programs, higher wage minimum, free medical, decent increases
> in their social security, and Democrats.
> Any time an elderly waits person made the mistake of expressing such
> Fox News Views to me, I slipped their tip back in my pocket.
>
> Carl Jarvis
>
>
>
> On 6/19/14, joe harcz Comcast <joeharcz@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Superintendent admits harsh anonymous blog posts By Cathryn Creno The
>> Arizona Republic He likened welfare recipients to "lazy pigs . He blamed
>> the
>> Great
>>
>> Depression on Franklin D. Roosevelt and said FDR's economic policies gave
>> rise to Hitler. He said Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was
>> responsible
>>
>> for feeding 16 million African-Americans into abortion mills. He is state
>> schools Superintendent John Huppenthal, and he admitted Wednesday that he
>> made
>>
>> those comments, along with hundreds of more mundane musings, in anonymous
>> posts on political blogs. The comments, under various pseudonyms
>> including
>> Falcon9
>>
>> and Thucydides, have been appearing since 2011. Writers for the
>> Democratic
>> Blog for Arizona have been suggesting for several months that all signs
>> pointed
>>
>> to Huppenthal as the author. Huppenthal remained silent on the accusation
>> until Wednesday, when he spoke exclusively to the Arizona Republic. "I
>> love
>> talking
>>
>> about public policy, and I have a passion for engaging in debate,"
>> Huppenthal said on Wednesday. "I probably have 300,000 words out on the
>> Internet, and
>>
>> 100 of them are getting me in trouble. When all of your missteps are
>> there
>> all together for people to see, it's not a pretty picture. In an earlier
>> statement
>>
>> released to The Republic, Huppenthal apologized, saying, "I sincerely
>> regret
>> if my comments have offended anyone. While the inflammatory comments may
>> pose
>>
>> an image issue for Huppenthal, who is seeking re-election,
>> government-accountability experts say they also pose an ethical problem
>> because elected officials
>>
>> should state their opinions publicly. "There is a conflict of interest if
>> an
>> elected official is trying to skew the conversation in a way that
>> supports
>>
>> their views," said Fred Solop, Northern Arizona University's
>> political-science department chairman. "It's a violation of the public
>> trust, and (Huppenthal)
>>
>> needs to be held accountable. Jaime Molera of the Molera-Alvarez
>> consulting
>> firm and Robbie Sherwood of Progress Now Arizona say few candidates and
>> officials
>>
>> go online anonymously. However, Huppenthal said the Internet has made
>> anonymous comments prevalent. Todd Gitlin, an ethics specialist and
>> chairman
>> of the
>>
>> Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, said the issue is a
>> simple one. "Public officials should not post anonymously," he said.
>> "They're elected
>>
>> to be accountable. They can't be held accountable if they hide behind
>> pseudonyms. However, one political consultant said anonymous
>> communications
>> aren't
>>
>> new - or problematic. "American history is littered with people writing
>> anonymous pamphlets," said Doug Cole of Highground Public Affairs
>> Consultants.
>>
>> Blog comments In his statement, Huppenthal said he participated in the
>> blogs
>> anonymously "because I felt that any other (approach) would limit a free
>> and
>>
>> open exchange. The websites include posts on issues including education,
>> the
>> economy, health care and immigration. Huppenthal said he sleeps very
>> little
>>
>> and spends the wee hours reading scientific and academic research, then
>> sharing his thoughts online from his own computer. He said Wednesday that
>> his online
>>
>> handles came from the name of a rocket and an ancient historian. Under
>> the
>> monikers, Huppenthal joined discussions and shared views on issues
>> including
>>
>> abortion, the economy, education and child protection. Some examples: ¦
>> "There is no aspect of (Child Protective Services) nationwide which
>> protects
>> children.
>>
>> No correlation between spending on CPS and child safety," Thucydides
>> posted
>> in January on Blog for Arizona. "The only factors which provide safety
>> for
>>
>> children are employment of parents and good schools on the positive side
>> and
>> welfare enrollment on the negative side. ¦ "It was Darwin, not Hitler,
>> who
>>
>> named the Germans the master race," Thucydides posted in September 2013
>> on
>> the blog Seeing Red AZ. "It was Darwin who expressed approval of
>> eliminating
>>
>> both Jews and Africans. Hitler worked to eliminate the Jews. Margaret
>> Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood was given the job of eliminating
>> African-Americans.
>>
>> Hitler fed 6 million Jews into the ovens. Sanger has fed 16 million
>> African-Americans into the abortion mills. ¦ "We now know that (Franklin
>> D.
>> Roosevelt)
>>
>> was almost completely responsible for the great depression," Falcon9
>> posted
>> in 2013 on Blog for Arizona. "Only in liberal mythology did FDR 'save'
>> the
>>
>> nation. ... Worse yet, Roosevelt's disastrous economic policies drug down
>> the whole world and directly led to the rise of a no-name hack named
>> Adolph
>> Hitler
>>
>> who was going nowhere until Germany's economy went into the tank. ¦
>> "Obama
>> is rewarding the lazy pigs with food stamps (44 million people),
>> air-conditioning,
>>
>> free health care, flat-screen TV's (typical of "poor" families).
>> (Editor's
>> note: Parentheses included in posting.) Huppenthal said his posts are
>> meant
>>
>> to correct "a lot of really bad ideas" on political blogs, not to insult.
>> He
>> said his reference to "lazy pigs" refers to a phrase in a nursery fable.
>> In
>>
>> "the Little Red Hen ... in which a fat lazy pig refuses to help the
>> little
>> red hen sow her seeds," he said. "I have never been insensitive to issues
>> around
>>
>> poverty and have fought for public policy that provides opportunities for
>> jobs for all our citizens who want to work and support for those who are
>> vulnerable.
>>
>> Huppenthal said his comparison of Sanger to the Nazis has been taken out
>> of
>> context. Sanger "was at the heart of a eugenics movement, clearly
>> reflected
>>
>> in her writings. In hindsight, I do regret my choice of certain
>> inflammatory
>> words, but I will never apologize for being a pro-life policy maker, or
>> someone
>>
>> who believes in improving conditions for all people," he said in the
>> statement. Political fallout Huppenthal said he does not think the
>> controversy will
>>
>> hurt his re-election chances. "In eight of my 12 elections, I have had to
>> walk through fire," he said. "I don't get into this to get along. He has
>> served
>>
>> as Arizona's top education leader since 2011. Conservatives have
>> criticized
>> him for his support of the Arizona College and Career Ready Standards,
>> based
>>
>> on the Common Core. Liberals have criticized his support of charter
>> schools
>> and private-school vouchers.
>>
>>
>>
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