More Fools Gold: G.I. makes a fool of itself. Again.

by David Safier

Fox News Phoenix ran a story, What Would Happen if Prop 100 Fails?

The Goldwater Institute's Matthew Ladner is there saying, if Prop 100 fails, no big deal. There's plenty there to cut.

Ladner points out that out of 104,000 employees in Arizona's school districts, only a little over half of them are teachers.

Note what's missing? Any mention of administrators or bureaucrats. And, as faithful readers know, Matthew Ladner still maintains that Bus Drivers are Bureaucrats.

Then the piece does something that made me smile. It has a clip of G.I. CEO Darcy Olsen on Arizona Illustrated when she said, "So you basically have one bureaucrat or official or administrator per teacher — and that's the wrong ratio."

Following Olsen's quote is a simple take down by Joe Thomas from the AEA about who the non-teachers are:

"They're talking about bus drivers, and they're talking about cafeteria workers and security guards and librarians."

And here's the capper. Marc Martinez, the News Weekend Anchor, ends the news piece by saying:

The Goldwater Institute has admitted using the term non-teachers instead of administrators is the correct wording. 

"The correct wording," says Ladner. Not that "Bus drivers are bureaucrats" is wrong, mind you. Ladner has just decided not to use it any more.

It's time to admit it, Matthew. You were flat out, completely and absolutely wrong when you said Arizona school districts have "an almost 1-to-1 teacher to bureaucrat ratio." You can't even choke out the words anymore. Man up to it publicly. It's time.