From jsonline: Gov. Scott Walker said this week that he jumped into
the controversy over a porn-viewing middle school teacher after hearing
from "concerned parents."
One particularly outraged parent, it turns out, was sitting in Walker's office.
Julie Lund, the governor's deputy press secretary, went on Facebook this week to voice concerns that her daughter may end up getting Andrew Harris as a teacher next year at Kromrey Middle School in the Middleton-Cross Plains school district. Harris was reinstated to his teaching post earlier this month after being fired in 2010 for viewing pornography and sexually explicit jokes on his government computer.
Walker told reporters on Wednesday that Lund's concerns and those of
other parents prompted his decision this week to send a letter to state
School Superintendent Tony Evers urging him to revoke Harris' license.
“I think it had an impact just in that I empathized with her," Walker
said regarding Lund. "I got a bunch of calls from other people."
Walker pointed to a story in the Wisconsin State Journal
in which a parent appealed to the governor for help. Today, Walker
said, local school boards would be able to take steps on their own to
deal with such a situation because of Act 10, his signature legislation
curbing the power of unions.
But the first-term Republican governor noted that Act 10 would not
have an impact here because the incident occurred before he even
introduced that bill. Walker's staff attorney suggested that the
governor send the letter.
"Julie didn’t ask me to do that;" Walker said. "She just mentioned
her frustration as a parent. As you can imagine, I’ve actually heard --
including a number of former staffers of mine who have kids in that
school district -- I’ve heard from plenty of others in the last few days
who said, ‘Damn right, that’s exactly what you should do.’”
Over the past week, Lund had not been bashful about expressing her
outrage over Harris -- and related topics -- on her Facebook page.
"I blame a system that puts what's best for teachers waaaay in front
of what's best for students," Lund wrote last week. "Tell me again why
public sector unions are so great. I dare you."
She also suggested in one post that she was "doing more than just venting."
But Lund said Tuesday that she did not lobby her boss to send the letter Tuesday afternoon to Evers.
She said she did tell Walker that her daughter might get Harris as a
teacher. She abruptly ended the interview when asked for details of that
conversation.
Reached later, Walker spokesman Tom Evenson said the
governor was responding to constituents, not a staffer, when he sent
his note to Evers. Evenson supplied two emails from individuals -- one
from September and one from earlier this month -- urging Walker to get
involved in the matter.
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/242494251.html
Had this been a Democrat, they would have sided with the teacher, or least they would have sided with the process.
With Scott Walker, he is putting pressure on the DPI to revoke the license of the porn viewing teacher.
Walker uses common sense.
Democrats try to rationalize things.
Walker for president in 2016.
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