Governor Flounder's Special Interests

From the Des Moines Register on Saturday:

Gov. Chet Culver says special-interest groups, which have donated thousands of dollars to top Iowa lawmakers, are sinking an idea to expand the state's bottle deposit law -- contrary to the wishes of a majority of Iowans.

Right, and I guess the Sierra Club, the League Of Women Voters, and especially the Iowa DNR aren't special-interest groups.

The Culver hypocrisy is staggering considering that just last week he began to wreck the proposed penny hike in the state sales tax (designed only to help the Des Moines Public School District) by opening up his big mouth and saying that maybe school districts could use the extra dough for teacher salaries.

Which special-interest group put that politically tone deaf idea (many Democrats instantly balked at such an addition...) into Culver's big fat head? Undoubtedly it was the Iowa State Education Association - aka the teacher's union - the same bunch who endorsed Culver.

Well, look at the bright side of things. Democrat Chet Culver deep-sixing tax raising proposals that had support from the Democratic-majority in the Iowa Legislature is the best friend the idiot Republicans could have ever prayed for.

And, honestly, it's probably better to have a retarded "Kent Dorfman" type in Terrace Hill than that angry and vindictive leftist asshole Tom Vilsack. At least so far.