Republicans see nothing wrong with asking the John Birch Society their opinion of Common Core. Fred Koch and sons are big Birch'ers.

State Sen. Paul Farrow also dumped on Rep. Christine Sinicki after she realized the Common Core Select Committee hearings were simply designed to be sideshows, used to justify the inevitable delay of the Common Core roll out. Tea Party Republicans don't realize the rest of us aren't teabilly dumb.

Rep. Sinicki got the message loud and clear after Republicans had the balls to invited the John Birch Society in to get their opinion on Common Core.

How is it possible to compare the John Birch Society to union representation? Playing dumb may really anger Wisconsin voters.

But Rep. Sinicki also left the committee because the states largest district, Milwaukee, was not picked as a host city. Why? Revenge. You don't piss off the ruling authority. This response is dripping with savage payback:

That makes perfect sense, if you're a complete asshole. Classy stuff Sen. Farrow.

John Birch Society's American Opinion Foundation pays Common Core Opponents from out-of-state to speak, block local pro-Common Core Education Officials.

State Rep. Christine Sinicki, resigned  from the Assembly Select Committee on Common Core, headed up by partisans  Representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt, Senator Paul Farrow. She wrote:

This letter is sent to you to tender my resignation … While I respect my fellow
Democrats’ stamina in remaining on the Committee, I believe it is time for me to end an

association with what is sadly a deeply biased hearing process, not an objective policy review.

It has become painfully clear that this committee and its activities are occurring at the behest of interested parties outside of this Legislature, and even this state. I believe that this SCCCS is primarily a roadshow ... The general criticisms of the Common Core Standards here in Wisconsin echo the extreme statements coming out of the RNC, which is a campaign organization.

This extremism about common standards, not to mention public education in general, seems to emanate from the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party. And in turn, they have attracted another extreme and very rich ally in the national John Birch Society (JBS), which is conveniently headquartered here in Wisconsin. Each of the SCCCS’s informational hearings have featured speakers suggested to the SCCCS chairs by the JBS, and whose travel expenses from distant parts of the country have been paid for by the American Opinion Foundation (AOF), a proud arm of the Birch Society.

On Wisconsin Eye video of the Eau Claire SCCCS hearing, these invited speakers from other states say, bizarrely, that they don’t know who it was that called and invited them but that, upon arrival, they were handed expense checks issued by AOF (which they then show the committee members).

John Birch Society's Fred Koch made Millions helping Stalin build Power Plants!!!

The other day on WPR's Joy Cardin show, Claire Conner, author of Wrapped In the Flag: A Personal History of the Radical Right, filled us in on the John Birch Society and its current incarnation, the tea party.

Before there was the TEA Party, there was the John Birch Society. Joy Cardin's guest this hour can speak personally to the inner workings of the Society. Her parents were founding members. Learn about the similarities she sees between the John Birch Society of the 1950s and the TEA Party of today. 

Here's a shortened 7 minute clip from the hour long program that gets to the heart of the tea party movement and the ugly origin of the Koch family money. What's that about George Soros guys?