Elaine Sollie Herman Makes Bob Kelleher Look Like a Legitimate Candidate

by Don Pogreba on October 24, 2008 · 94 comments

in '08 Election, Education

At least Bob has had the good sense to stay quiet during the campaign. Elaine Sollie Herman keeps opening her mouth, and flailing away with her spelling-impaired hands on that goofy ol’Interweb. Jay Stevens at Left in the West demonstrates her latest campaign strategy, appealing to bigots and the illiterate. Elaine needs help in her campaign and posted this plea:

I am in MT running for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. I am asking for HELP from young concervative Bloggers. My web site is: electelainesollieherman.com "I live in the "Peoples Republic of Helena."My opposition is a young Indian.

You know what, Elaine? Maybe in your rush to notice your opponent’s ancestry, you overlooked a few other things:

  • her experience as classroom teacher and coach
  • her M.A. in Education from Harvard
  • her law degree from the University of Montana
  • her work at OPI dealing with the impact of No Child Left Behind
  • her work at OPI as the Director of Indian Education
  • her endorsements from the Great Falls Tribune, Billings Gazette and shortly, the rest of the papers in the state

Elaine, you’re not going to lose this race because Denise Juneau is Indian. You’re not going to lose because “concervative” bloggers have not supported you. You’re not going to lose because of media bias. You’re going to lose because Montanans know a qualified candidate when they see one, and will respond accordingly. Denise Juneau is the most qualified candidate who has run for the office in nearly a decade, and will make an excellent leader of our schools.

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Don is an English/Debate teacher and debate handbook author who lives in Helena, MT, and who can't imagine living anywhere other than this glorious state. Much of his writing happens late at night and he is unlikely to respond to your comments during the day.

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Wanda October 25, 2008 at 12:41 pm

For your information, the website that you have alluded to was not set up by Elaine Herman. In fact, nobody knows who set up this website. Please verify your information before sharing your bigotry comments with the world.

Denise Juneau herself has said that she is an Indian. Would you rather that she be called a middle-aged Native American? Would that be politically correct enough for you?

Pogie October 25, 2008 at 4:41 pm

Nice. I am a bigot and politically correct. We’ve scored two points in Conservative Buzzword Bingo.

Care to compare the qualifications of the two women running for this job?

I wouldn’t, if I were you.

Jay Stevens October 27, 2008 at 6:40 am

Wait, Wanda, Elaine denies posting the meet up?

Jason October 28, 2008 at 1:50 pm

Apparently Elaine is now claiming she knows nothing of this “meetup” technology. She (or the person cleverly disguising herself as the grammatically challenged Herman) says this now, “You are in Helena and you are a conservative? I don’t know how this works or what I am doing. I will send this on to a friend who is better at the web. I don’t even know how I got on this meet up ‘thing’?” http://www.meetup.com/members/8254670/

Allen November 1, 2008 at 10:06 pm

Herman is not qualified, we know that . Herman said in 2000 we should line them up and shoot them, we know that. Herman this year said Libertarian Donald Eisnmenger (www.deforsuper.com) wasn’t qualified because he wasn’t a teacher. Herman hadn’t read the state’s SOS website about qualifications. Being a teacher isn’t a qualification. We need people who are not connected to the unions and OPI. Taxpayers don’t want more new buildings, they want choice in education. The sky is not falling. I think from an objective standpoint we need someone like Eisenmenger, who has the management experience to run this organization. Many home school parents could run OPI better then Herman and probably better then Juneau, who doesn’t support choice for better education.

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