BOSTON – The gloves are off in the fight to stop voters from authorizing an increase the number of Massachusetts charter schools, an issue that will appear on the Massachusetts ballot this November.
The Campaign to Save our Public Schools, an anti-charter group backed by several unions, is launching a 30-second advertisement against the charter expansion referendum, according to a report in the Boston Globe on Tuesday. The ad, which closes by urging voters to "vote no on question 2," claims that charters will drain four hundred million dollars from existing public schools.
They said it couldn't happen: Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for president. And, predictably, the media has a collective case of the vapors.
Ezra Klein (of JournoList fame) has penned a piece for Vox titled, "Donald Trump's nomination is the first time American politics has left me truly afraid." Klein then provides a laundry list of what he thinks are Trump's distinctively disqualifying character flaws. But, oddly enough, they sound a lot like our current commander in chief. A few examples:
