I shot this at 10:43 a.m. If you have a pic of when the crowd was bigger, please share.
Apparently, some people weren’t paying attention to what I told them yesterday. Tsk, tsk…
But seriously, folks… I want to thank Norm, and Phillip, and everyone else who cared enough about our schools to turn out for the demonstration today… even though I doubt it will help, and it could even hurt. My view of all this is that what’s going to happen on education is going to happen regardless of demonstrations.
The good news is that lawmakers this year have made more of a good-faith effort to help public schools than I’ve seen in 20 years.
The bad news is that they didn’t get it done this year. Which worries me, because there was so much momentum for it — even Henry, of all people, got on board — and I worry whether the mo will still be there in January.
We’ll see.
But hey, it was a big crowd today. Of course, we all try to mentally compare that to THE big crowd, King Day at the Dome in 2000. And I went hunting for that image, and found it. So here you go…
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I went looking to see if anyone had any better shots of the crowd. I found this one from Ross Shealy, but it looked almost exactly like the one I shot:
Meanwhile in a capital not that far away… Lindsey Graham clumsily cried “But, Bengahzi! Whahhhh” to open the AG Barr hearing. Oh yeah, with the first full-on f*bomb I have heard on network TV. I guess Senators are immune from the FCC, however?
You mean, “in a capital not far enough away…” 🙂
What I really meant to write was “in a capitol…”
While I agree that we would all be better for it to focus more on what is going on politically in SC, this doesn’t seem to be one of those times. The show we all need to pay attention to is the one slow-rolling toward a real crisis in DC.
My wife was at the march
Lindsey is an embarrassment. I‘ve voted for him for the last time. The man is a hypocritical walking disaster.