I got mail today from those famous "insiders" John Wiley Price and Royce West, who apparently now live in, send kids to, and pay taxes to the Lancaster School District. Because, as you know, only OUTSIDERS oppose borrowing $215 million for school boondoggles. Since Price and West support Lancaster ISD they obviously can't be outsiders.

The two smiling insiders have presented a moving quotation from a historic forefather:

"Education does not benefit a man or woman for slavery."

How sad that the quote was mispunctuated. The flyer reads "Education, ..."

And how much sadder that our forefather's name was misspelled.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Senator West. Not "FreDDrick Douglas _ "


As long as we're quoting Frederick Douglass: "Knowledge renders a man unfit to be a slave." Knowledge, not rumor, not slander, not ommissions or even reputation.

Why don't the bond supporters who paid for a full page ad in the local paper and who bought the Price political support bother to provide voters with information about the SIZE of the bond? All the recent ads have omitted any mention of the $215 million price tag. They omit mention of the thirty year payback period. They omit even obfuscation about the pennies of tax rate impact that they have previously claimed as a tax "decrease". Knowledge is not what they want the voters to have. Fear of outsiders and a competition with homeschoolers, fine. But winning on the merits with a fully informed public? Not happening in this election.

But if you WANT to have our high schoolers trained to be bartenders, waitresses, and other hotel workers in the Moulin Rouge / Enterprise City project -- well I know a guy whose dreaming of helping you with that...