Chester's a Cheater?!

Not good for a former teacher to be accused of Plagiarism!

According to the HOTLINE

Jim Nussle released a statement concerning education, after Culver received the teacher's union endorsement on Friday.

Here's how the AP, in its daily story about the campaign, covered Nussle. The writethru crossed the wire at about 4:14 PM CT.

In a statement issued Friday, Nussle said he'll continue to push for raising teacher pay. ''My priority is to have Iowa set the standard for world class education and that starts by raising teacher pay above the national average,'' he said. ''As governor, I will work to ensure more reliable and more predictable funding for education so we have the best and brightest teachers in the classrooms teaching our children.''

The Nussle campaign noticed that the following appeared on Culver's site about 5:40 pm on Friday.

Chet Culver has been endorsed by the Iowa State Education Association. The union, represented by more than 32,000 members, chose Chet because he will fight for educators all over the state. "My priority is to have Iowa set the standard for world class education and that starts by raising teacher pay above the national average," he said. "As governor, I will work to ensure more reliable and more predictable funding for education so we have the best and brightest teachers in the classrooms teaching our children."

Culver has only espoused raising teacher salaries to the national average, not above.

HOTLINE posted a copy of the offending Culver web site, hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com, naturally the Culver camp has changed their web site.