Here’s one of the coolest things we’ve seen lately. OK, it’s cool for political geeks, but hey … It’s a movie – or, rather, a “movie” — made by James Protzman of the BlueNC website, using a text-to-movie site. In the video, a semi-robotic sounding guy who says his name is Thom Tillis, Speaker of the N.C. House of Representatives, “explains” the three main goals of the recently ended, GOP-dominated session of the state General Assembly. Watch it for your own amusement, but our favorite Tillis “explanation” is about Republican goals as they relate to their big cuts in education spending: “As we look to the future, school performance will eventually get so shitty that you all will finally go along with my plan to privatize education completely.” It’s simple, really, isn’t it? Here’s the video:
This article appears in Jun 21-27, 2011.
Thom Tillis gave half his staff fat raises while cutting funding for almost everything else in the state. Tell Speaker Tillis what you think at http://www.telltillis.com!