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: Instapundit.comANOTHER ARNE DUNCAN EMBARRASSMENT: Education secretary urged his employees to go to Sharpton?s rall?
By Glenn Reynolds
ANOTHER ARNE DUNCAN EMBARRASSMENT: Education secretary urged his employees to go to Sharpton’s rally. “Russ Whitehurst, director of the liberal-leaning Brookings Institution’s Brown Center of Education Policy, said nothing like this happened when he was a Department of Education program director from 2001 to 2008: ‘Only political appointees would have been made aware of such an event and encouraged to attend.’” And yet Sharpton still couldn’t pull a crowd.
Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 30, 2010 (boomark / email).
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