A Tracker For The Cracker

By Kleinheider Posted on June 25, 2008 at 7:08 pm

U.S. Senate Candidate Mike Padgett, while visiting Lebanon, had a nice conversation with his tracker:

We also met a delightful young lady as we left the courthouse. We thought she might be a reporter covering our visit, but she told us she was a summer intern from the Republican Party who’d been sent out to Lebanon to hear what we had to say.

She and I talked a little about education, and she told me that her family had left Tennessee and moved to New Jersey in hopes of finding better public schools.

You know, it hurts to hear that. We can do better by our public school families in Tennessee – and for the life of me, I don’t understand why the former education secretary and university president who represents us in the U.S. Senate has not taken steps during his six years in Washington to make schools better.

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