A perfect example of how the GOP achieves it’s goals and the goals of its private sector supporters by the subversion of democracy and cutting out the voters, who already said what they want when they voted.
Matthew Tully of the Indianapolis Star calls on Republicans to stop their war against state Superintendent Glenda Ritz. Ritz was elected in 2012, handiy beating incumbent Tony Bennett despite his 10-1 spending advantage. Since her election, the Republican Governor Mike Pence and Legislature and state board have done everything possible to undercut Ritz. Pence even created a rival education agency to bypass Ritz and the state education department.
Now the Governor and Legislature want to abolish her office, nullify the election, and turn the position into a gubernatorial appointment.
Matthew Tully says this is ill-advised. He favors an appointed office but thinks it would be wrong to do it in the current climate. She was elected fair and square. She got more votes than Governor Pence.
“Such a move would infuriate educators and others across the state and worsen what has been a toxic period in state education policy. It…
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Lloyd Lofthouse 
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