ACLU trying to scam $1 million from local school district
Posted on April 6, 2006
Hat tip: Jack Lewis Via Evolution News
The taxpayers in Dover Pennsylvania may have been fleeced by the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AUSCS) for a shocking $1 million dollar bill.
Joe Manzari and Seth Cooper’s article today in The American Enterprise Institute Online brings this dirty little secret into the public light.
A few months ago when the ACLU announced that they “generously” would only demand $1 million in attorneys fees for the Kitzmiller case, the casual observer probably thought nothing of it.
However, once the facts are examined, as Manzari and Cooper nicely lay out, the attorneys fees collected by the ACLU are not merely the cost of losing a lawsuit, but rather look much more like a fat taxpayer funded gift to the ACLU & AUSCS.
Manzari & Cooper explain in detail how the newly elected Dover Area School Board, which campaigned on removing the ID policy actually chose to keep the policy during their first meeting. Why? Because the Board members understood that removing the policy could have ended the legal controversy. Without the school board deciding to keep the policy, the same policy that board publicly opposed, the ACLU & AUSCS may not have been able to claim attorneys fees.
Danny Carlton breaks it down.
To put this in perspective, the proposed budget for Dover schools for the 2006-2007 schools year is only $8.7 million. The proposed budget for Special Education is only $1.7 million. So in essence, these ACLU thugs are trying to scam this school district out of more than half the money they have earmarked for educating their Special Education children. Why isn’t there more outrage over this? It’s one thing for the religious zealots who want to force the religion of Evolution to be the state religion and shove it down the throats of all government schools kids using taxes taken from people who oppose that religion, but to scam a school district to the point of further reducing the educational opportunities they can provide their students?!?
Liberals are fond of tossing aside the Constitution while screaming, “IT’S FOR THE CHILDREN!!” yet here they have no problem with robbing the children of education, so their legal thugs can get more money. Obviously they care nothing at all about children, only power and money.
The story here isn’t even about the evolution debate, its about how the ACLU collects millions from taxpayers even if it takes deciet to do it.
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Manzari and Cooper are lying. They claim that board member Bryan Rehm, “in a clear conflict of interest… participated in the new Dover Board’s consideration of the resolution to rescind the evolution policy”.
This at a meeting at which Rehm WAS NOT EVEN PRESENT.
http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2006/04/the_new_antievo.html
Do you do any fact checking AT ALL before you post this [edited], Jay?
They killed Special Education! Those Bas*****!…Oddly enough I watched an episode of South Park a few weeks back that was all about this kind of “Litigation Strategy”…its really sad what the ACLU is getting away with…and as you say…why aren’t more people up in arms regarding these tactics…..
You’re conveniently leaving out the DARN GOOD reason why the newly elected school board wouldn’t want to change the policy and “end the legal controversy.” Actually letting a judge rule on the matter was a much better way of ending the controversy for them — they wanted to establish the ID policy as unconstitutional and set a legal precedent.
I’ve seen you decry the practice of awarding attorney’s fees in civil rights cases many times on this blog. If you were being discriminated against, in a way that violated the Constitution, would you want to pay your own attorney’s fees even when you’d proven your case in court? I doubt it.
What I have advocated was to stop the paying of attorney’s fees in Establishment Clause cases, not when someone’s civil liberties have actually been violated.