93 WIBC. It is the Kendall and Casey show and Rob Casey's here. And you know, Casey was so predictable

that the Republicans would once again let the taxpayers of the state of Indiana down when it comes

to public education. Of course, I'm talking about that partisan school board bill that simply

would have made school board elections like every other election in the state of Indiana. It

died a miserable death yesterday. And well, that's education. And when we talk education,

we go to the drivehubler.com hotline to talk with a good friend, Tony Kenneth, host of the

Tony Kenneth show you can hear it Saturdays. One to three on WIBC. Tony, this was totally

predictable that the Republicans would cave to the angry red shirted teachers. I just didn't think

it would be so fast. What say you? I mean, this is pretty much expected of the Indiana

Senate at this point. I have seen fewer Indiana senators who actually know what's going on in

their districts than probably any other state legislature in the country. It's really quite sad.

The Indiana House at least sometimes seems to have its acts together, at least in passing

HB608 limiting sexual content and then education settings. However, the Indiana Senate

gets a few calls from some people who have no idea what they're talking about when they decide

this means that that settles the matter on the bill. They have no idea what's in the bill. They

simply vote whatever party leadership says and this was one of those cases. Okay, so the bill

was by JD Prescott who is a house rep. He got it out of committee. He made a whole bunch of weird

changes to it. They'd like, oh, you'd have been able to do it via referendum and the schoolwork

had decided or you could decide his attack spare and then he didn't even call it to the floor for a

vote. Why would you not call a bill for a vote that you put all that effort into get out of

committee? Well, two reasons. Number one, because there's not enough votes in the house and there's

definitely not enough votes in the Senate, which was what some of the concerns were in private. But

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