Meet Gerald Reynolds. He's President Bush's choice to be Assistant Secretary of Education. If he's confirmed, Reynolds would become the head honcho at the Department of Education's civil rights office. That is, if the Democrats don't swallow him whole. But their objections smell a little fishy.
In last week's NCAA News, Kay Hawes wrote that Reynolds' nomination possibly represents "a softening of the government's enforcement of Title IX legislation" that prohibits sex discrimination in collegiate athletics programs. Then, yesterday, a front-page story in USA Today said that Reynolds "could soften the government's enforcement of Title IX legislation."
Hmm...what's going on here? The writers at NCAA News and USA Today must be using the same set of Democratic talking points.
That might be the case...if Gerald Reynolds had ever said anything publicly about Title IX! And he may actually support Title IX! According to James Golden of the Center for New Black Leadership (which Reynolds used to lead), Reynolds is in favor of Title IX.
So what's really going on here? It all comes back to Ted Kennedy. You see, Senator Sot is the chairman for the Senate committee that will consider Reynolds' nomination to the Department of Education. Both the NCAA News and USA Today articles quote Kennedy.
The real problem with Gerald Reynolds, as National Review points out, has nothing at all to do with Title IX legislation. It's all a smokescreen designed to piss off the feminists. They have no evidence that Reynolds actually opposes Title IX. The real problem Democrats have with Reynolds is that he's been a critic of racial preferences. He supports race-neutral affirmative action and other policies that don't use skin color as the basis for handing out government benefits.
But repeat "a softening of the government's enforcement of Title IX legislation" enough times in the news media and eventually, people will start to believe the lie.
The Democrats don't want Gerald Reynolds. They just won't tell you why. But I will.
http://www.nationalreview.com/daily/nr071901.shtml
In last week's NCAA News, Kay Hawes wrote that Reynolds' nomination possibly represents "a softening of the government's enforcement of Title IX legislation" that prohibits sex discrimination in collegiate athletics programs. Then, yesterday, a front-page story in USA Today said that Reynolds "could soften the government's enforcement of Title IX legislation."
Hmm...what's going on here? The writers at NCAA News and USA Today must be using the same set of Democratic talking points.
That might be the case...if Gerald Reynolds had ever said anything publicly about Title IX! And he may actually support Title IX! According to James Golden of the Center for New Black Leadership (which Reynolds used to lead), Reynolds is in favor of Title IX.
So what's really going on here? It all comes back to Ted Kennedy. You see, Senator Sot is the chairman for the Senate committee that will consider Reynolds' nomination to the Department of Education. Both the NCAA News and USA Today articles quote Kennedy.
The real problem with Gerald Reynolds, as National Review points out, has nothing at all to do with Title IX legislation. It's all a smokescreen designed to piss off the feminists. They have no evidence that Reynolds actually opposes Title IX. The real problem Democrats have with Reynolds is that he's been a critic of racial preferences. He supports race-neutral affirmative action and other policies that don't use skin color as the basis for handing out government benefits.
But repeat "a softening of the government's enforcement of Title IX legislation" enough times in the news media and eventually, people will start to believe the lie.
The Democrats don't want Gerald Reynolds. They just won't tell you why. But I will.
http://www.nationalreview.com/daily/nr071901.shtml
