{"id":11402,"date":"2012-10-09T19:22:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T23:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=11402"},"modified":"2012-10-15T19:24:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T23:24:04","slug":"payne-kid-ryan-union-joe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/payne-kid-ryan-union-joe","title":{"rendered":"Payne: Kid Ryan, Union Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden has come to Detroit twice this campaign &#8211; both times\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.detroitnews.com\/politics\/2012\/07\/30\/payne-biden-puts-unions-first-students-second\/\">to pay homage to<\/a>\u00a0the public school establishment. By contrast, when Paul Ryan came to town Monday night, he swing by the private, non-union Cornerstone Schools &#8211; an innovator in school choice for inner city Detroit children.<\/p>\n<p>The Mainstream Media likes to paint the Romney-Ryan ticket as out-of-touch with regular folks &#8211; but the evidence on the ground contradicts the narrative.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to advancing Detroit&#8217;s schoolchildren, Ryan embraces innovation and reform &#8211; while Biden walks right by it to embrace party special interests.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that Cornerstone graduates 95 percent of its kids, while Detroit public schools squeeze out just 62 percent. Never mind that innovative charter and private schools give inner city, often minority, parents the same school choice that wealthier suburbanites enjoy. Never mind that a high school diploma and college placement is a gateway out of poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Kid Rock introduced Ryan at an Oakland County campaign rally hours after Ryan&#8217;s Cornerstone visit. &#8220;Born Free&#8221; is Kid Rock&#8217;s anthem &#8211; and &#8220;Free to Choose&#8221; is Kid Ryan&#8217;s education theme. Democrats? They march to the union drummer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden has come to Detroit twice this campaign &#8211; both times\u00a0to pay homage to\u00a0the public school establishment. By contrast, when Paul Ryan came to town Monday night, he swing by the private, non-union Cornerstone Schools &#8211; an innovator in school choice for inner city Detroit children. The Mainstream Media likes to paint the Romney-Ryan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[150,1645],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11403,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions\/11403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}