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Web posted Friday, July
30, 2004
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Roe:
Tenenbaum ignores her job
By
Bill Roe
Special to the Carolina
Morning News
Viewpoint
You can
run but you cannot hide, Inez
Tenenbaum.
You cannot accept thousands of
dollars from leftists such as Barbra Streisand
($1,000 to Inez Tenenbaum's campaign coffers) and
still try to pass yourself off as a moderate
candidate for the Senate from South
Carolina.
Streisand said if George W. Bush
beat Al Gore in 2000, she would leave America. Yet
Streisand stayed put and instead she is pouring
money to anointed liberal candidates across the
nation.
Tenenbaum was recently praised by
the Communist Party USA. Both Tenenbaum and the
communists praised former Democratic Georgia
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in her comeback
primary win.
McKinney is nationally
recognized as a loudmouthed radical and a leading
member of the hate-America group. What is
disturbing is that Tenenbaum did not immediately
go to the media and denounce the plaudits by the
communists.
The questioning begins. Just
who is Inez Tenenbaum?
Tenenbaum made a
quick trip to the opening of the Democratic
National Convention, or what's known as the party
on the left bank of the Charles River in Boston.
Her reason for leaving Boston early was her need
to get back on the campaign trail.
Isn't
Tenenbaum the state superintendent of education?
Isn't Tenenbaum receiving paychecks from the
taxpayers of South Carolina? Are we to believe
that after being a lame-duck superintendent she
will enter the state Department of Education
office and exclaim, "I'm back"?
Polls taken
in early July show that most likely Tenenbaum will
be doing just that. The polls show Jim DeMint
opening a gap of 50 percent to her 43
percent.
Public education in South Carolina
should not be taking second place to Inez and Sam
Tenenbaum's dream of going to
Washington.
Gov. Mark Sanford should
politely request that Tenenbaum resign as
superintendent of education and appoint a
professional educator as her
successor.
South Carolina needs someone at
the helm who would put the children of South
Carolina first instead of their own political
goals.
A perfect example of an issue that
could immediately be addressed would be the
disastrous situation in Beaufort County, where a
white elephant high school is proposed to be built
in the boondocks by our own lame-duck local
superintendent of education, Herman
Gaither.
This proposal is out there when at
the same time we have high growth in the Bluffton
area and second- and third-graders have to be
bunched into portable classrooms at our recently
built elementary school.
Millions down the
drain for an empty building that will open with
less than 50 percent occupancy. Irresponsible acts
by our elected school board? You bet. Possible
lawsuits challenging the decision?
Guaranteed.
Is Tenenbaum aware of this
looming disaster? Who knows? She is running for
the United States Senate.
Bill Roe of
Bluffton is an investment banker and political
observer.
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