RE: School Board Election

["Dale Courtney" <dmcourtn@moscow.com>]

Mac wrote: 
> Tim Kinkeade, who was instrumental in starting CQE, and is on 
> the CQE steering committee, is  running for the school board 
> zone 1 position.  The position was unopposed until last 
> Tuesday, which was the deadline for write-in candidates to 
> apply to the school district.  With the registration of Mark 
> Beauchamp on Tuesday, there is now a two-way race.
> 
> Until now, Mark hasn't said anything about how he feels about 
> the school district.  The only things I know about him are 
> that he is graduating from the New St. Andrew's College here 
> in Moscow, and that his bid for candidacy was signed by the 
> following people:
> 
> Doug Wilson

Mac,

In case you didn't see it, Wilson wrote a Letter to the Editor that was
in today's Moscow-Pullman Daily News.

Since it's a Letter to the Editor, it is in the public domain; so I'm
willing to forward it.

Dale
_________________________________________

When can the opposition speak? 
I was very pleased to find out about a conspiracy I am apparently in,
related to the destruction of our local schools (Opinion, May 13). 

Chuck Pezeshki engaged in some really creative name calling - New St.
Andrews as far-right madrassah and yours truly as an ayatollah - and I
just want to say what a pleasure it is to be alive in these politically
correct times, with a new twist every other day or so. 

We live in a community where the newspaper wouldn't run a letter calling
a Muslim cleric Muslim names in an insulting manner, but it is perfectly
fine to call a Christian minister Muslim names in an insulting manner.
Next he'll be taunting the College of Cardinals at the Southern Baptist
Convention. 

He also asked what dog conservative Christians have in this fight,
presumably since our kids generally are educated privately. The fact
that half our property taxes go to support these schools is apparently
an insufficient investment to get us approved access to the debate. I,
for one, am very sorry about our churlish breech of your local
democratic customs. What percentage of our property taxes have to go to
these failing schools before we are allowed to say something about it? 

Seriously, if this last year of debate has revealed anything about the
supporters of the government school system it is that they are grim,
shrill, severe, tight-lipped, authoritarian, anal-fundamentalist,
arrogant, lazy, bossy and, building up to their crown jewel, humorless.
Stop cinching your shoes so tight. Have a beer. I recommend the oatmeal
stout at the Red Door. 

As far as the conspiracy to take down the government schools, I confess
myself an amateur, a mere hobbyist. I prefer to leave such things to the
unionized professionals. The destruction of the government schools is
much higher on the Moscow Education Association's list of priorities
than it is on mine. 

Douglas Wilson 

Moscow