Kansas BOE conservatives receive money from PAC slush fund

[atommom]

Interesting info from Red State Rabble, including a flow chart. I think recall petitions are in order here.

Kansas election law limits contributions to state school board candidates to $500 during the primary and $500 during the general election from political action committees. However, school board candidates such as Steve Abrams, Kathy Martin, John Bacon, Connie Morris, Ken Willard, and Iris Van Meter who support including creation "science" and intelligent design in the state's science curriculum have accepted contributions from a shadowy network of right-wing PACs that seem to have been set up to get around those contribution limits.

http://redstaterabble.blogspot.com/2005/03/kansas-school-board-conservatives-are.html

http://redstaterabble.blogspot.com/2005/03/anatomy-of-slush-fund_10.html

[DrCorday]

1. I wonder how many of these there are...

This is interesting. I see an awful lot about Republicans cheating on their campaign fundraising. Maybe I just notice it because I'm a Democrat, but often I think that if only one Democrat was found to have cheated on his fundraising, the right-wing echo chamber would be all over it like buzzards on a corpse.

Anyway, creationism (NOT creation science) is just plain wrong. No serious scientists argue about it, and the entire field of biology moved on about 50 years ago. I mean, for most innovative scientists, evolution is pretty much a given.

The problem for a massive sector of Christianity is that they spend so much time bitching about whether or not we came from apes (which we pretty much know is probably true) and ignore really important issues of the philosophical persuasion: what does it mean to be moral? can taking a life be justified? and what sort of intelligent design could exist in the modern way of looking at the world? was the big bang random, or did some kind of creator trigger the whole deal?

Whatever, I'm not totally displeased that creationists are being left behind, I'm really more displeased they're not being left behind enough. That's my rant for the day.

[atommom]

2. Rant away! I agree completely. The thing about these people

is that they probably justified the financial shenanigans to themselves by believing they were going to be performing "God's work." :argh:

You're right, liberals are held to a different standard these days.