Morris Carols

By tfk on September 26, 2006.

On August 1, voters rejected Connie Morris's bid to return for another 4 years on the Kansas Board of Education. Apparently her abuse of state funds on a partisan newsletter, wasteful spending on a needless trip to Florida, and blowing out money on out of state "experts" on IDC didn't sit well in western Kansas. Not taking the hint, she requested and received approval to travel on our dime to Washington, DC and to Minnesota this winter.

The Topeka Crapital-Journal's Ric Anderson offers some new Christmas carols in honor of Connie Morris's taxpayer funded vacation:

The Little Drummer Boy

Go, they told me, pa rum pum pum pum
The voters said, “Get lost,’’ pa rum pum pum pum
But I’ve still got some time pa rum pum pum pum
To travel on their dime pa rum pum pum pum
So to Washington pa rum pum pum pum
Here I come.

Enjoy.

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