2 new blogs. Education and Coat Hangers

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I've added two new blogs to the blogrolls. I suspect I'm pretty far from agreeing with their content, but I try to be inclusive. Intelligence gathering is the hallmark of a good campaign.

South Dakota Education Beat is a blog focusing on educational issues. Coat Hangers at Dawn examines the garment industry.... (just kidding) it's named so as to conjure up the worst imagery of the abortion issue.

I'll continue to add my comments that Republican Bloggers are falling behind in number this election season. We used them to great effect in 2004. 2006 may find us regretting the lesson we taught the Democrats.

Comments

Haggs said…
Why wouldn't you agree with the educational one?
5:41 PM
PP said…
Why would I automatically agree with them?

They've only got one substantive post to date, and it was a post titled "The Republicans and their 65% Solution" which spends it's time blasting the VC of the SD GOP, someone I personally support.

I'm not saying they aren't entitled to their views, I'm just saying from what I've seen so far, I might disagree.
6:04 PM
PP said…
I realize you're blasting the idea, rather than Elli herself.

It's not as if there's a universal solution.

RIght now, we're fighting about how much goes towards urban versus rural schools.

If you put the money towards teachers, people would complain that it's not going to the students. If you funded both, people would either worry about money not going towards capital improvements or they'd complain because they thought their taxes were too high.

Of course, if the state funds too much, there are complaints about losing local control.

Heck, if anyone had an idea to solve educational funding that everyone would agree on, I'd be all for it.
9:33 PM
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