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Common Core opponents triumph in Indiana
GOP Gov. Mike Pence, Lt. Gov., establishment endorsements fail to persuade voters
Conservative syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin has devoted much of the past year to exposing the federal monstrosity known as Common Core.
She recently wrote about the results of elections in Indiana. Despite endorsements from GOP Gov. Mike Pence and Lieutenant Governor Sue Ellspermann, anti–Common Core activists won a pair of significant primary election victories. The races weren’t even close. The establishment endorsed House incumbents lost in a landslide. This stunning defeat came despite the support of the Common Core–promoting and deep-pocketed U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Like Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer and Superintendent of Education John Huppenthal, who worked together to rebrand the Obama education overreach, Pence did the same in Indiana.
Nowhere do the words, “Common Core” actually find their way into Brewer’s Executive Order, which is cunningly crafted into a “Reaffirmation of Arizona’s authority to set [its] own education policy.” Be aware that what she refers to as “Arizona’s College and Career Ready Standards,” is nothing short of the renaming of the rotten to the core Common Core curriculum so despised by alarmed parents and concerned teachers.
The deceptive John Huppenthal actually welcomed and toured the state with Obama’s Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, bragging about his collusion in this media advisory.
Breitbart noted the grassroots victory of Indiana parents over the establishment with these words.
“Two Indiana state House incumbents, endorsed by the administration of Gov. Mike Pence (R), fell to candidates supported by grassroots campaigns that stood firmly against the Common Core standards.”
“Challengers Christopher Judy and Curt Nislin made their opponents’ refusal to help end Common Core in the state a central issue. Hoosiers Against Common Core, led by moms Erin Tuttle and Heather Crossin, endorsed the dark-horse challengers. With little money and scant press attention, they beat Pence’s machine by astonishingly wide margins”
These victories clearly show that the same can happen in Arizona’s upcoming August 26, primary. John Huppenthal, feeding at the public trough for over three decades, has an able challenger in Diane Douglas.
Time is short to collect signatures and qualifying $5 contributions. She needs help to win. Join her campaign. It matters.
Source: http://seeingredaz.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/common-core-opponents-triumph-in-indiana/
