Pot calls kettle black

This line made me bark a laugh while sitting in the library:

“Talking about buying an election,” said Michael Sanera, of the Raleigh-based John Locke Foundation. “It’s corporate welfare. They want taxpayers to pay for the technical education of their future employees.”

Oh, that's rich, coming from a mouthpiece of the biggest election-buyer in the state. But aside from that glaring irony, Sanera is actually trying to stifle the 1st Amendment rights of a large block of citizens:

The John Locke Foundation has warned school systems in other counties — including Orange and Durham — about officially advocating for upcoming sales tax referendums.

“It’s clearly illegal for a school board, a municipality, a county government to do the kinds of things A-B Tech is doing,” he said. “The reason it’s not clearly illegal for them is that the law is silent on community colleges.”

Right, but it's okay for a multi-millionaire to spend hundreds of thousands on individual campaigns, anti-tax initiatives, etc. That kind of behavior is "free speech", while struggling teachers working together to bring about positive change for their students is "illegal". Sheesh.