The Southwest Missouri Pachyderms issued an invitation for Huff to come to a meeting tonight at Harmony Heights Baptist Church.
He declined the invitation. That is not the kind of stop that is on C. J. Huff's career pathway.
The Joplin R-8 superintendent was not the only one to say thanks, but no thanks to the Pachyderms. The Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce did not want to explain its support for Common Core, though certainly it has numerous members who could have spared a few minutes.
The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) wouldn't send anyone. Even if it had, based on previous hearings, whoever was sent would have acted like everyone was beneath him and then refuse to answer questions.
All of those important, powerful people love Common Core, but not one of them has the guts to tell us why.
Of course, if any of them talked to C. J. Huff, he probably warned them about the Southwest Missouri Pachyderms. After all, this is southwest Missouri and these people are rock-ribbed Republicans and most definitely conservative, and we all know what C. J. Huff thinks of conservatives.
As he said earlier this year on KZRG, "I was born conservative and I lean right. Certainly, I have a pitchfork and torch in my closet like so many other conservatives."
What I saw tonight at Harmony Heights- no pitchforks, no torches, no C. J.
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2 comments:
Randy, I'm with you--Huff needs to be gone, yesterday. But first of all, your headline is misleading. He wasn't a no-show. That would be if he had accepted the invitation and then just didn't show up. He declined the invitation to begin with, so he wasn't expected to show up and he didn't.
Secondly, the SW MO Pachyderm Club consists of people who are completely nuts. I mean, 100% off their rockers. These are the folks for whom the Republican Party was just too liberal. These are the nuts who dress up in colonial clothing to protest at the post office. They're evangelical, anti-science Tea Party-types and they believe that birth control pills should be illegal. Steve Hunter (Rita's husband) used to be in this group, and so is that crazy idiot John Putnam, and they probably still are; I think they were the founders (about 15 years ago, I think). The politically savvy move is to shun them all, and anyone with even a little brainpower would not have anything at all to do with them. So I can't really fault Huff for not wanting to talk with or meet with them.
To 8:37:
Huff and anyone else that could defend their position should have gone to the meeting. If they really believe in common core they should be there to defend it.
As an evangelical, I would like you to know that I do believe in science, birth control, local control instead of federal control and not generalizing everyone into one category.
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