In House Republicans question Dayton's early-education proposals, Pioneer Press reporter David Montgomery reports:
Dayton has proposed creating a public preschool program for thousands of 4-year-olds as well as providing school breakfasts, eliminating the waiting list for Head Start preschool, and a range of other programs.
But a rural social conservative legislator, our old friend Glenn Gruenhage, wants Dayton to play matchmaker instead:
Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen, R-Glencoe, said Dayton's solutions missed the mark entirely.
"If children were raised in a traditional two-parent family, 90 percent of child poverty would be eliminated," Gruenhagen said. He also slammed Minnesota's reading curriculum for contributing to low literacy.
"That money should be redirected toward support of the traditional family and emphasizing reading curriculums that ... work," Gruenhagen said.
The video for the committee hearing is available here., just after the 48 minute mark. All joking aside, Gruenhagen is referencing a specific study.
Here's the moment and the responses to it, cut from the hearing:
For Gruenhagen, these remarks are fairly tame. In 2013, we posted Gruenhagen gone wild: "welfare" tells men to "impregnate as many women as they want" and Seeing dead people in the Public Safety committee: Gruenhagen berates Alfred Kinsey.
Photo: Glenn Gruenhagen, R- Glencoe.
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