AN OPEN LETTER TO FERGUS CULLEN
REGARDING THE WHALLEY AMENDMENT AND
THE STATE GOP PLATFORM
Dear Fergus,
I’ve been comparing the Whalley amendment to the 2007-2008 Republican Party Platform. They are completely out of sync. Below are some suggested changes to the Platform to bring it into sync with the Whalley amendment.
The part about “Only parents can be entrusted to control the education of their children and choose schools that best suit their children’s needs” obviously needs to go. I suggest “Only state representatives and state senators, or the bureaucrats they appoint, can be can be entrusted to control the education of other people’s children and choose schools that best suit the needs of other people’s children, provided that they do so under the watchful eyes of unelected judges.”
The part about “Local control of education policy and education funding creates the best-managed school systems” no longer has any place in the Platform either. How about replacing it with “Local control of education policy and education funding creates inadequately-managed school systems”? Or perhaps “Local control of education policy and education funding should consist of the locals doing what the really smart people in Concord tell them to do”?
The part about “Where possible, state and federal school aid should not contain mandates that prevent parents and local taxpayers from making educational decisions for their own communities” is irreconcilable with the Whalley amendment’s “standards of accountability.” It needs to be replaced with something like “Parents and local taxpayers are too dumb and greedy to decide how to spend their own money. They need to be told how to spend it by their wise and benevolent rulers in Concord.”
The Platform’s plank on the “The Legal System and the Judiciary” also needs substantial reworking. The part about “Support the appointment of judges who recognize their proper and limited interpretive role in our constitutional system” clearly is not what the New Hampshire Republican Party is about anymore. I’d replace it with “Encourage unelected judges to invent constitutional rights whenever they don’t like the results produced by the democrat process.”
A final suggestion: If you don’t think my rewrite sufficiently captures the spirit of the Whalley amendment, you could just adopt the Democrat Party Platform.
