Thanks to Chris Flood for sharing in last week's edition the politics and backstory of why the much-editorialized and discussed voluntary school assessment bill sponsored by Sen. Russ Huxtable stalled in Sussex County.
As shared by Flood, the bill, whose ultimate success was dependent on passage by Sussex County Council, was never once a topic of discussion with county officials by Huxtable from the time he assumed office in November 2022 to the bill's passage in June 2023. Huxtable, who brags to all within earshot of being a progressive, ran the bill without any collaboration or coordination from those whose partnership was a prerequisite for the legislation to work, and then blamed the county for its failure. Shame on you, Sen. Huxtable!
In your campaign for office, you were sold to the people of the Sixth Senate District as a bridge builder and problem solver in the mold of your bipartisan predecessor, Ernie Lopez. You have shown repeatedly that putting politics over the people is your main goal, as this latest example where you used teachers and school kids as political fodder lays bare.
Flood, whose article reads not so much as a local reporter's writing but as a frustrated dad and taxpayer, cut through the phony hand-wringing to expose yet another of Huxtable's political tricks. Disingenuous was the word Flood used to describe Huxtable's failure of leadership, and while there are many words that could go even further, the dysfunction and divide that sicken us all at the federal level are exemplified yet again locally by Russ Huxtable, who puts himself over the people.
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