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Educrats Stop Making Children Shill for Kerry

Oh dear, was it something we said? After a public outcry, Democrat-run Milwaukee's Democrat-run failed government school monopoly has stopped letting a pro-Democrat group exploit children during school hours to shill for John Kerry.

Superintendent William Andrekopoulos late Wednesday decided that, gee, maybe he ought to follow the school district's policy against being used as a political advocate.

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Larry Marx, co-executive director of the pro-Kerry group that exploited the pupils, Wisconsin Citizen Action, raged, "The students are bearing the brunt of a decision based on political pressure that is being brought on the district."

Chris Lato, communications director for the Wisconsin Republican Party, pointed out that the program amounted to "exploiting schoolchildren on the taxpayers' dime to conduct what is clearly a Democratic, partisan get-out-the-vote effort."

More Democrat Sleaze in Milwaukee

Meanwhile, the Democrat-run Milwaukee Election Commission today rejected Republicans' efforts to delete about 5,600 non-existent names and addresses from the city's voting list, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported.

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