[lit-ideas] Re: Lip slip
- From: Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 12:18:37 EST
In a message dated 2/5/2005 10:40:26 AM Central Standard Time,
JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx writes:
Missouri's newly elected
(youngest ever, I think) Governor has the IQ of a squirrel. It's like
watching a little kid with a loaded gun waving around -- somebody's going
to get
hurt. T
Hi,
Yes, and like his Great Leader, he is also the son of a Big Man. (his dad
was governor some time ago and is now a fairly influential US Representative
from in the Springfield area. However, none of his campaign ads showed
that--he
would be standing in a grassy field (MO is often won by the rural vote) and
kept saying he was the son of a schoolteacher. I never could figure out why
his Democratic opponent never brought that up...While it was fairly shocking
that he won [NONE of the Missouri newspapers backed him and the print media did
do what it could to point out his appalling plans for the future], it was
clear that the $$ he spent on radio/tv advertising did the trick [he got major
funding not from people in MO who wanted him to win, but from lots who wanted
to curry favor with his dear old dad...KC Star did a feature--but readership
of print media is just not there...]
What's kind of funny is that a lot of librarian types that I know voted for
him--he was the former Secretary of State and actually did fight for libraries
(in MO the State Library and any state funding for libraries comes via the
Sec of State) He also has announced a 20% decrease in the budget for what is
called MOREnet--which provides a lot of the computerized services for MO
libraries [databases, catalogs, etc.] and that is a big surprise. However, he
did announce $600,000 for the State Humanities Council and the MO Arts
Council. (which had kind of been put on hold because of the state budget
crunches
the past four years...)
Given how much alike he is to his counterpart in the White House, I can
visualize exactly what you are saying, Julie...
Marlena in Missouri
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