October 27, 2004
WELL, SWEATSHOPPING DOES BEAT OUTSOURCING THESE DAYS:
Voter drive using kids draws fire: Coalition says effort is non-partisan; Republicans cry foul (MEG KISSINGER, Oct. 26, 2004, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
Hundreds of public schoolchildren, some as young as 11, are taking time out of regular classes to canvass neighborhoods in Milwaukee, Madison and Racine in a get-out-the-vote effort organized by Wisconsin Citizen Action Fund - a group whose umbrella organization has endorsed John Kerry for president.The coalition says the effort is non-partisan, but because the group is targeting minority neighborhoods and those with historically low voter turnout - overwhelmingly Democratic areas - Republican operatives are crying foul amid the highly charged political atmosphere in the state.
What's really sad is that Citizen Action is basically a Naderite front--how can they not be working for him? Posted by Orrin Judd at October 27, 2004 11:06 PM
I guess after getting all those manditory PIRG contributions from college students' activity fee funds for the past 30 years, the Naderites are expanding their youth explotation horizons to the grade school set.
Posted by: John at October 28, 2004 1:42 AM
Sure, take them out of school in the name of civics and public service.
As long as 'we' find some justification to keep them from learning to read and learning to educate themselves, we can maintain an underclass of unquestioning, minimum wage-earning laborers.
Mediocrity...the great equalizer.
Posted by: Def Egge at October 28, 2004 11:14 AM