(Harsh, but accurate, headline. — promoted by Colorado Pols)
Just as Colorado’s GOP State Chair Steve House is telling his fellow Republicans to talk more about education, GOP Senate candidate Peggy Littleton is saying that one of her top priorities if elected would be to abolish the Department of Education.
Asked by KCOL morning host Jimmy Lakey what she’d do if she were the “queen for a day” in the U.S. Senate, Littleton said:
Littleton: I would love to see the Department of Education go away. I don’t want those bureaucrats in Washington to deermine what our kids are going to learn and be able to do and have taken education away from the parents, which is where it originally belongs.” Listen to Littleton on KCOL’s Jimmy Lakey Show 1.26.16
Littleton is following in the footsteps of a list of (mostly) failed Republicans who’ve called for the elimination of the Department of Education. (Usually they don’t talk about the the Department’s job training, grant making, and research functions.)
Rick Perry remembered it during his Ooops Mooment, when he forgot one of the three federal departments he’d shutter.
During his failed U.S. Senate run, Ken Buck called for its closure. So did loser U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton. Failed Scott McInnis suggested axing it in 2010.
Does Littleton want to be part of that group? Maybe she wants to lose?
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None of these diddly squat jack s….t politicians have a clue to much of anything that goes on in the Department of Education. Barbara O'Brien tried, in the 2010 article that is referenced in 4th paragraph. But she also came up short.
DOE is home to the Rehabilitation Services Administration, among other agencies. RSA provides the 80% match to each state's 20% for state vocational rehabilitation programs. These are the programs that try to get individuals with verified medical disabilities re-trained, placed into jobs, additional education, etc.
My questions to any politician that wants to eliminate the DOE is "what do you have against disabled citizens?" "Do you consider the disabled to be second class citizens?" "Maybe you're looking to repeal the Americans with Disabilities Act?"
As an aside, the ADA was signed into law by a Republican president; George H.W. Bush. C.H.B.
You poor, lost soul. Your support of the Dept. of Ed. is going to get you kicked out of Republican Party meetings if you're not careful. You sound a lot like too many of us here – except that we've left the party to decay on its own.