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cato-at-liberty.org - 10/27/2009
Attorney General Tries to Silence School Choice Ad
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This, finally, is too much: Eric Holder, Attorney General of the United States, walked up to former DC Councilman Kevin Chavous at an event and told him to pull an ad criticizing the administration for its opposition to the DC school voucher program . The Attorney General of the United States! ...
weeklystandard.com - 10/27/2009
Silencing Voices for School Choice
— weeklystandard.com — Attorney General Eric Holder tries to kill a TV ad supporting D.C. school vouchers. by Sheryl Henderson... Blunt 10/27/2009 12:00:00 AM (more) Silencing Voices for School Choice

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Lording It Over Us
Cafe Hayek — There is no place in a free society for such actions.  None.  Ever.

Zingales to Republicans: Go Jeffersonian
EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty — ... of the solution (even breaking up teacher's unions in some cases). I think that these two quotes illustrate how an economist becomes partisan. Basically, you take an unrealistically optimistic view of the policies and propensities of your favorite party. I mean, Mark Thoma is telling us about pro-voucher Democrats, when the reality is that the Democrats killed the DC school voucher program. There was even a story the other day about Obama's Attorney General telling a DC Councilman not to run an ad supporting vouchers. Thoma is fantasazing about a non-corporatist Democratic ...

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