Aiming at the Suburbs and Hitting Higher Ed

Peter Wood:

Spreading the Wealth, however, bears directly on the economic prospects of higher education. Kurtz's provocative thesis is that under bland-sounding labels such as "regionalism" and "Building One America," Obama has laid the regulatory groundwork for curtailing the political autonomy and the economic vitality of the nation's suburbs. He traces Obama's animus against the suburbs back to his days as a community organizer and traces the community organizers Obama worked with in the 1980s and 1990s forward to their participation in White House meetings during Obama's presidency. A principal figure in this is Mike Kruglik, a longtime community organizer who was one of Obama's first bosses in Chicago in the 1980s, and who remains one of Obama's close confidants and White House guests.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 10, 2012 1:24 AM
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