Why does Geoff Michel want to wreck public education?

Well, it probably isn't so much that he wants to wreck public education as he has other priorities that are more important to him. Priorities like being a tractable apparatchik for Governor Pawlenty, Senate Minority Leader Dick Day, and Republican Party and Taxpayers League bigwigs William Cooper and Brian Peterson.

Senator G signed up for the Taxpayers League's No New Taxes Ever, I Really Mean It, Cross My Heart and Hope to Die pledge early on in his short but uninspiring legislative career. When he did that, our Senator signed up for a voluntary political lobotomy, insuring that he would be beholden to a bunch of Social Darwinist hunter gatherers rather than his constituents. Try to put public education back on its feet after wringing $185,000,000 out of the budget last biennium? Naw, here's a 2% increase on impoverishment; gotta keep my pledge you know.

And remember Bill Cooper, probably the biggest Minnesota Republican sugar daddy of the them all, together with Senator G smiling in a press conference over the $35 million dollars that Cooper was going to pay for the naming rights for a new Gophers stadium. This is the same Bill Cooper who is establishing a string of wing nut charter schools that will, incidentally, reduce the public coffers for truly public education even further. Connect the spots, I mean dots.