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There are a lot of lessons to be drawn from the Barbara Erwin debacle. Erwin was the short-lived Kentucky School Commissioner who never even served her first day because she was run out of town for padding her resume. Among these lessons are:
- It's a good idea for a school board to hire a search firm that actually does background checks of candidates
- It's a good idea for a governor to appoint a school board that acts swiftly when it's clear it needs to cut its losses
- It's a good idea for the governor to exercise his will over his own appointees...
It [the Erwin episode] leads one to believe the speculation that Gov. Fletcher was focused on appointing a board that would quietly share a right-wing fundamentalist school agenda, not one that could function properly.
Huh?
To say that this observation comes from outer space would be an insult to extra-terrestrials everywhere. How could you possibly derive this observation from what has happened? In fact, how could you conclude this from anything the board has done? ...
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I'm guessing I like C-J a bit more than Martin does - but he's right here.
C-J is probably justified to be suspicious, but there is enough evidence to reject C-J's suspicion in this case. Among the Commish finalists last time around, the right-wing nut job of the bunch would have been Richard La Pointe, who served George Allen in Virginia.
Erwin gets a clean bill of health on that score.
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