Kim Simac, Tea Party Candidate For Jim Holperin Recall, Compares Public Schools To Nazi Regime

[onehandle]

Source: Huffington Post

Wisconsin tea party organizer and children's book author Kim Simac has admitted to comparing American public schools to the Nazi regime.

Simac, also Republican candidate for the Aug. 9 recall election of Democratic state Sen. Jim Holperin, wrote a controversial post on tea party social network Patriot Action Network last October. The post recently disappeared from the site going into the general election, Talking Points Memo reports.

From Simac's blog post: I am done raising my kids but if I was a young parent today I would take my kids out of the public school system today. At what point will we stop talking about the comparisons to what is occurring today and what actually happened by the regime of the Nazi's in the past? Although the original piece is now a broken link, TPM located a cached version.

In response to questions about her post, and its subsequent disappearance from Patriot Action Newtork, Simac told Wisconsin Public Radio's Glen Moberg Thursday that officials must be careful of what is being taught in schools.


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/01/kim-simac-tea-party-candi_n_914897.html

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These Are The Crazies Calling The Shots In America!

[msongs]

1. just because they got almost everything they wanted in the current debt deal doesn't make them crazy

it makes them "bipartisan"

[adhd_what_huh]

3. thay got their asses handed to them in the Debt Deal...

wait for the smoke to clear and read the details. Just give it a couple of days.

[adhd_what_huh]

2. Lets have a contest and make up a name for her Childrens Book

1. Me and My Bag of Hammers

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Fun with Dick Goebbels and Jane Godwin (nt)

[HockeyMom]

4. I spent 12 years in catholic school

The day I graduated I swore if I ever had children, I would never send them to catholic school. Both my kids went to public schools. A major reason was that I didn't want them to endure all the enforced PRAYING that I had to endure. It meant NOTHING to me, or to the majority of kids there. I saw how the Nuns were treated as second class citizens. That bothered me also. By the time I was 15 I got sick of TRYING to have a rational argument with a priest. They couldn't answer me. Shut up and have FAITH. That is not argument.

So, why should I send my kids to public school and have them PRAY, of course to JESUS, and have Bible classes, bla, bla, bla?

These people don't get it. All parents are christians? All parents want the Bible taught in public schools? Even if you are not an atheist, there are a whole lot of religious people who don't believe in christianity, or want their kids taught that.

[onehandle]

7. I guess it depends on the particular Catholic School.

We never prayed during class. In elementary school, we said a short prayer during announcements first thing in the morning and sometimes another at lunch over the meal. In high school it was the same, except we never prayed at lunch.

The only time we prayed otherwise was while we learned the sacraments. And that was outside of classes, which were pretty secular for the most part.

I attended public school in seventh grade then went back to Catholic school for high school. I left Catholic school sometime in ninth grade for good. Public school was Much easier, curriculum-wise.

Public school teachers were easier to communicate with, I must say.

[discursiveformation]

5. Jim Holperin lives in a "red" district in Northern WI. I can

only hope that this information gets out and people are motivated (Progressives) to get to the polls. We so desperately need him to retain his seat.

[oldhippydude]

6. you folks on the ground in Wisconsin..

the only news I'm seeing is here... the fire, the fake ballots, all that stuff is not making the main stream media.. please know that we are there in spirit... and keep us informed.. thanks!!

[madrchsod]

15. welcome!

i take it you are from wisconsin?

[provis99]

8. yet more Republican freudian projectionism.

It's always the Nazi right wingers who go around accusing everyone else of being Nazis.

[SoapBox]

9. Frack'n dirt bag...

stupid "b" word.

Sorry ladies.

[HelenWheels]

10. She's also against Medicare

Says it is a "corrupt and losing venture."

[onehandle]

13. Well, Medicare did pay for multiple surgeries to keep my mom alive.

Clearly that was a waste of taxpayer money.

Simac would pulled Grandma's plug.

[tcaudilllg]

11. What an idiot.

[Disorientedx3]

14. Early Democracy

Actually, public education is viewed as a foundation of democracy in fledgling democracies around the globe. has been that way since the mid 19th century. she must not have had a free quality public education herself, or she'd know that.