We had a hell of a fight down here about a county renting several unused “temporary classrooms” [mobile homes/trailers] to a religious pre-school/daycare that was wiped out by a tornado. On one side you had a county commissioner who ran for-profit pre-schools.
I didn’t get involved because they were being rented, not given. They were surplus, not needed. The county’s costs were minimal. The cost of trying to find daycare for the families who used the pre-school would not have been minimal, as most had subsidized daycare assistance and few for-profit daycare centers would accept them. It’s not like there are a host of people wanting to start low cost daycare centers, churches are about the only people left in the sector.
This is just a series of bad choices by politicians.
]]>Louis Sullivan isn’t just a Chicago architect and his work is appreciated around the world. The money could have been found without involving the state or politics. [There are a few architects in my family, so Frank Lloyd Wright, IM Pei, Louis Sullivan, and Le Corbusier are familiar names to me.]
]]>I had a feeling from comments on Zorn’s site, Michael, that Sherman might not be the most diplomatic individual on the planet, but if I was Jewish or Catholic I would be upset that a Baptist church was being given state aid while I was being pressed for greater support of my own house of worship.
This whole affair is suspect, and I can’t believe a governor of any state would do something this stupid for an individual church. The normal course would be to press cronies to raise the money through lobbyists.
Recall provisions are very handy things to have in the state constitutions.
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