Look Who's Supporting Bryant and Hewes

Look who's supporting Phil Bryant for Governor and Billy Hewes for Lieutenant Governor: Trent Lott.

See Clarion-Ledger story here: http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20110216/NEWS/102160334/Lott-supporting-Bryant-Hewes

Former U.S. Senator Trent Lott, who I write about in my book. Trent Lott, who resigned when it looked like he might be indicted for who knows what. Trent Lott, who resigned just one year into what turned out to be his final term, giving Governor Haley Barbour the opportunity to put whoever he wanted in that office to replace Lott. Trent Lott, who, as senate majority leader, refused to allow boxes and boxes of evidence to be admitted into the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton. And according to this article, Trent Lott has done a fundraising event for Phil Bryant, which means that Bryant cannot disavow his acceptance of Lott's endorsement. I believe that this is yet another reason why we can do better than Phil Bryant, to turn a favorite phrase of Haley Barbour's.

The Legislative Black Caucus and Education

The Legislative Black Caucus in Mississippi met yesterday to discuss their "concerns" over education. I am concerned about education, but not in the ways that they claim to be.

At least two members of the caucus claimed that throwing more money at our already failing education system would correct many of the ills in our state, and one stated that throwing money at the problem would mean that "we wouldn't have dropours exploding, we wouldn't be spending $400 million incarcerating people, we wouldn't have the highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation for the last eight out of ten years." They want to increase funding for education when we already spend 60 percent of our state budget on education.

I think that a better plan would be to privatize education, close down the state department of education, issue school vouchers to give parents a real choice in educating their own children, and stop robbing our children who attend public schools of the opportunity which is provided by having required Bible classes.