Governmentalist

The Ames Tribune caught Christie Vilsack's campaign stretching the meaning of educator for the release of her list of “Educators for Vilsack”.


Of the 18 educators listed as living in Ames, the Tribune confirmed that at least three are currently full-time employees of a school district; two are teachers and one is a secretary. Twelve people on the list are retired teachers or professors, and three were unreachable. A check of employment records shows that the three unknowns on the list do not currently work for Iowa State University, Des Moines Area Community College, or school districts in Ames, Boone, Nevada, Gilbert, Ballard or Roland-Story.

Vilsack Campaign Communications Director, Sam Roecker, couldn’t say how many included on the list were retired, but he said he didn’t think it was misleading to include retired teachers or non-teachers.

When I think Educator, I think "non-teacher".

Roecker continued to ramble on with -- “I don’t think we’re in a position to define what is and what isn’t an educator. Somebody who has been a secretary for decades is going to know what issues schools face.”

FAIL!

The Vilsack campaign, helping to highlight the CON in Congress and the scientific community is united that fact.