There Is No Funding Crisis!

My state senator is Bob Morton, and I thought this tidbit from his recent mailing was fairly interesting:

We also should have stepped up to the state’s obligation to fully fund student transportation. I supported an amendment to the budget that would have provided school districts with $55 million in immediate relief, but it was rejected by the majority. Student transportation is deemed part of the state’s court-ordered duty to fully fund basic education. Help now awaits the results of a “study” that is not due until December 2008.

One wonders why the Dems didn’t let that piece of funding through, given everything else that did. One also wonders why Senator Morton put the word “study” in quotes like that; the cynicism is easy to detect, but why?

One also wonders if the good Senator has stopped hating democracy as a means to raise more funds for schools.