Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction is losing the support of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce after the Democrat Party operatives outed him to the Arizona Republic as the source of comments on their BlogforArizona website.
Michael David Bryan, a writer for BlogforArizona, told the AZDI, “We do not track all comments. Huppenthal came to our attention because of his prolific posting and combative nature. When using the internet in these times, anyone relying on anonymity to do personally embarrassing things is being foolish.”
For years Huppenthal has carried the Common Core water for the Chamber, but one wrong move cost him their allegiance and an opportunity to be among the community leaders honored at a luncheon, scheduled for next Friday, according to the Arizona Republic.
“We are canceling the award as a direct result of what the Arizona Republic has reported,” Glenn Hamer, the chamber’s president and chief executive officer told an Arizona Republic reporter.
The Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry created a special award to recognize Huppenthal’s support for Common Core, otherwise known as the Arizona College and Career Ready Standards.
Chambers of commerce, across the country, have been pushing Common Core hard and Huppenthal’s utterly offensive comments do not serve the cause.
According to testimony before the Wisconsin Assembly, Kirsten Lombard and Jody Lueck brought into sharp focus the reasons for the business community’s investment in Common Core, as reported in the Wisconsin Daily Independent.
According to the Wisconsin Daily Independent, the testimony, which seemed to make the legislators most uncomfortable was offered by Appleton businesswoman and CPA, Jody Lueck, who related her experience with the promoters of Common Core. Lueck described a meeting of the Appleton Chamber of Commerce in which a Common Core promotional presentation was made this year.
Lueck explained that Common Core is the chambers’ effort to “match up the American educational system with the European educational system of work-ready.” Lueck advised the legislators that when proponents refer to career and college ready, they did not mean college “the way we think about it. They’re discussing technical colleges.” Lueck said that while she valued technical colleges, she became concerned when the group was told the goal of education was shifting to meet the needs of commerce.
Lueck described a system in which kindergartners will be given information about careers, and by the 8th grade, children will be funneled into 16 career tracks. Lueck testified, “There’s no parental involvement at all. The child will be tested, and the educators will offer them three tracks from which a child can choose based upon the needs of business in Wisconsin.” Students will then be placed in a track that best suits the student’s skill and will feed the industry in need.
Lueck told the legislators that schools will essentially take over the role of HR departments. Teachers will determine which student is qualified to interview for which apprenticeship. “This is not far-off,” she warned the legislators. “They didn’t know people were sitting in that audience who would not necessarily agree with what they were doing,” said Lueck.
Huppenthal also posted on the popular conservative site; Seeingredaz, where he wrote as Thucydides in September 2013, “It was Darwin, not Hitler, who named the Germans the master race. It was Darwin who expressed approval of eliminating both Jews and Africans. Hitler worked to eliminate the Jews. Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood was given the job of eliminating African-Americans. Hitler fed 6 million Jews into the ovens. Sanger has fed 16 million African-Americans into the abortion mills.”
Not only is the Chamber shunning Huppenthal. On June 19, 2014, Seeingredaz posted an endorsement of his opponent in the Republican Primary, Diane Douglas. They wrote, “Check through these previous posts and it becomes apparent Huppenthal leaves a lot to be desired. Common Core is serious business. America‘s children are the pawns in the alarming game of federal overreach. As happens too frequently, those we trusted are attempting to hoodwink us with catchy jargon and glib name changes. Now as a worried candidate facing angry parents, Huppenthal has reconstructed the name, though keeping the rotten core of Common Core and spends hours defending his indefensible actions on blogs —- often on the taxpayer’s dime.”
Members of both the Left and the Right object to Common Core. This year, Huppenthal characterized them as “barbarians at the gate.” Those “barbarians” have encountered Huppenthal’s deceptive practices and retribution. Now, that the public has learned about Huppenthal’s deceptive practices, it will likely not be long before his tactics against critics are exposed.
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