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Ill. Republicans Sell Out Chicago Schoolkids, Side with Unions

By ADF Alliance Alert

William McGurn writes at the Wall Street Journal full access via Google: "Mr. Eddy is what they call a downstater, an assemblyman who serves an east-central Illinois district hugging the Indiana border. His day job turns out to be in government as well, as a public schools superintendent. Last week Mr. Eddy became the face of the Republican failure to get a voucher bill through the Illinois assembly. The bill had passed the Senate. Yet despite being pushed by a remarkable coalition involving fellow Republicans, a free-market state think tank, and a prominent African-American leader, only 25 Republicans in the House voted yes. That was 12 votes short. Mr. Eddy was one of 23 Republicans who killed it by voting no . . . "

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 11, 2010 (boomark / email).