What could a white Republican lawyer have against Detroit?
The season of political dirty tricks has begun. Notice the newspaper ad Wednesday asking "$14 Million For What?" It rats out Rep. Kathy Angerer for voting to send $14 million dollars in extra funding to Detroit Public Schools. "The result -- a teacher strike that cost taxpayers $8.8 million a day." The ad urges readers to call Rep. Angerer and "tell her to stop wasting our tax dollars."
In the fine print, it says it's paid for by "Working for Michigan's Future."
I'm not necessarily a big fan of Angerer, but I suppose the underlying message here is that the Detroit system -- or any other in the state -- should be left to just collapse, and everyone will be better off. That's not only ignorant, it also smacks of racism. Anyone who's familiar with the challenges the Detroit school district has been facing in recent years would at least argue that teachers should be paid well just so they can be retained in the system. If critics of Detroit teachers spent one day in a Detroit Public School classroom, they'd probably nominate them all for sainthood. If they haven't, they should shut up.
But that doesn't stop people like Alan Wilk, a Lansing attorney for Dykema Gossett, the fat cat law firm, from heading up Working for Michigan's Future, which apparently is going to be taking potshots at candidates in key Michigan races until the November election. Wilk, of course, belongs to the Michigan Republican Lawyers Association, which sounds like the kind of group that exists only to do good works for mankind. But he's also worked on the staff of past Republican legislators, so it's understandable he'd be more than willing to carry the toilet water for the GOP.
It's a pretty rank ad. He's probably so proud of it, he and Matt Milosch -- Angerer's November GOP opponent -- are toasting each other over it.
If they are, though, Wilk better be the designated driver. It's a matter of public record that Milosch can't hold his liquor.
But I'm sure that won't become a campaign issue.
In the fine print, it says it's paid for by "Working for Michigan's Future."
I'm not necessarily a big fan of Angerer, but I suppose the underlying message here is that the Detroit system -- or any other in the state -- should be left to just collapse, and everyone will be better off. That's not only ignorant, it also smacks of racism. Anyone who's familiar with the challenges the Detroit school district has been facing in recent years would at least argue that teachers should be paid well just so they can be retained in the system. If critics of Detroit teachers spent one day in a Detroit Public School classroom, they'd probably nominate them all for sainthood. If they haven't, they should shut up.
But that doesn't stop people like Alan Wilk, a Lansing attorney for Dykema Gossett, the fat cat law firm, from heading up Working for Michigan's Future, which apparently is going to be taking potshots at candidates in key Michigan races until the November election. Wilk, of course, belongs to the Michigan Republican Lawyers Association, which sounds like the kind of group that exists only to do good works for mankind. But he's also worked on the staff of past Republican legislators, so it's understandable he'd be more than willing to carry the toilet water for the GOP.
It's a pretty rank ad. He's probably so proud of it, he and Matt Milosch -- Angerer's November GOP opponent -- are toasting each other over it.
If they are, though, Wilk better be the designated driver. It's a matter of public record that Milosch can't hold his liquor.
But I'm sure that won't become a campaign issue.
posted by The Observer at 9/13/2006 08:20:00 AM
2 Comments:
It seems that the author of this site seems to have a lot in common with the Monroe Evening News. Could it be that you are one in the same? Your opinions certainly are the same, which is to say that you are obviously uninformed as well as biased towards one candidate versus the other. Your credibility is suspect as you write under an assumed name, so I will sign this comment as.....
I will sign this comment as 14 September, 2006.
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