Via Hot Air, Sarah Palin isn’t too happy about a decision by an assistant school superintendent to keep a girls basketball team from going to Arizona to participate in its first conference championship in 26 years:
Reveling in its first conference championship in 26 years, the Highland Park High School girls varsity basketball team has been selling cookies for months to raise funds for a tournament in Arizona. But those hoop dreams were dashed when players learned they couldn’t go because of that state’s new crackdown on illegal immigrants.
Safety concerns partly fueled the decision, but the trip also “would not be aligned with our beliefs and values,” said District 113 Assistant Superintendent Suzan Hebson. That explanation, though, smacks of political protest to parents upset by the decision.
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“Why are we mixing politics and a basketball tournament?” said Michael Evans, whose daughter Lauren is a junior on the team. “It’s outrageous that they’re doing this under the guise of safety.”
I guess we can thank our President for exacerbating this situation by misrepresenting the Arizona law. He’s such a great president.
The girls speak out: