By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org

FLINT, Mich. – Perhaps taxpayers are finally getting tired of wasteful government spending and aren’t going to take it anymore.

That was the hopeful message we took from the big public response to an article published by the Flint Journal Thursday regarding our report about Flint Community Schools spending nearly $250,000 at restaurants and expensive hotels in the 2010-11 school year.

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Sixty-four people had responded to the story on the MLive.com website by 5 p.m. Friday. Most of them seemed outraged over the loose spending of tax money in a school district that has closed buildings, furloughed employees and asked teachers to take a 7 percent pay cut to help cut the deficit.

“Three words, folks. Business as usual,” one responder wrote.

“Meanwhile my daughter’s kindergarten teacher has to collect donations from parents to buy crayons and pencils for the classroom. Tsk, tsk, tsk,” another wrote.

One responder posed two questions after reading the article.

The first – “Why does the district have a full-time PR hack? There is nothing he can say that makes this an acceptable use of taxpayer dollars”  –  was obviously in reference to the published comments of Bob Campbell, the district official who defended the spending.

The second – “What more evidence do we need that (the) Flint school district needs a top-to-bottom management housecleaning?” – is probably one that should be discussed in households throughout the Flint school district.

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David Davenport, a member of the Flint school board, even chimed in.

“Well, people, now you see why I have been fussing so hard,” he wrote. “The board (minus my vote) has allowed the administration to spend up to $20,000 (per single transaction) without board approval … The community keeps on electing incumbents, like the district is not even failing … Please vote these incumbents out so that this district can get back to being the best choice.”