Governor AWOL on Vouchers
This has me pretty aggravated. The Governor, who campaigned on vouchers, and signed them into law, is choosing to keep a low profile during the current debate.
He claims that it’s enough for him to state his support for vouchers when asked about it, and to personally vote for it in November. But as a voucher proponent, I say that’s not nearly enough. Since he campaigned on this issue, what he’s doing now, in abandoning vouchers in the 11th hour, amounts to breaking his campaign promise in my eyes.
It’s not as if he’s too busy to campaign for it. All he’s been doing recently is pushing his ridiculous “Lights Out” program and attending meetings on climate change, neither of which will have any effect on his constituents.
If he doesn’t want to come out and fight for the voucher program over the next month, then I see no reason why I should support him next November.
Craig
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Sep 28th 2007 • 23:09
by Tom Grover
Two words, Craig: political expediency. Governor Huntsman doesn\’t need your vote anymore. He\’s an incumbent Republican in Utah.
Sep 29th 2007 • 09:09
by Peter Brunson
I agree with Tom. Huntsman is no longer in touch with those who elected him. Our governor has fallen prey to the “hype” coming from the activist groups surrounding our elected officials.
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Oct 3rd 2007 • 21:10
by KVNU’s For The People » Misty Fowler responds to Craig re: Huntsman
[...] Craig criticized the Governor a few days ago for not actively advocating Utah’s Voucher Program. Misty Fowler has posted this response on her blog: Ok, the last paragraph I can understand. Don’t vote for someone who doesn’t do things the way you want them to. That’s kinda why we vote, right? But he starts off complaining that Huntsman’s not doing enough on the voucher issue, and then implies that Huntsman is turning all liberal or something, and he’s spending so much time on climate change that he’s neglecting his duty to support vouchers. Ok, idiotic, yes. But what really got me is that Craig actually believes that “Lights Out” and climate change will have NO EFFECT on Huntsman’s constituents. Is that because the only people that count in this state are the ultra-right wing conservatives who think that climate change is a hoax? None of the rest of us (or logic) matters. I’m just so dumb-founded by this utterly ridiculous notion of some sort of supremacy granting these people special knowledge of things that contradict reality. [...]