Marie Johns - Different, Real, Better? Yawn....

Marie Johns, one of the Democrats running for DC Mayor, has the campaign slogan "Different. Real. Better." The question is, how the heck is she any different? So far, the best I can tell, the only thing that makes her any different is that she doesn't have any elected experience (and certainly given our disastrous government, not being a part of the problem is a positive). However, beyond that, there doesn't seem to be much difference between her and the rest of the tax and spend Democrats running for Mayor.

The Post has an extensive piece on Johns and her "underdog" campaign. This extensive piece offers little in the way of giving us any clue how Johns would be any different or better than any of the other Democrats running for Mayor. In fact, the article gives us few clues as to what Johns believes about anything. We do, however, get some insight into her thoughts on our pathetic education system. Here is her ground breaking approach to education:

Johns's platform is focused heavily on fixing the city's troubled school system, which she says is to blame for a host of social problems. She wants to extend preschool to 3-year-olds, take over the day-to-day operations of the school system so Superintendent Clifford B. Janey can focus on education, and expand technical and vocational programs by opening a new campus of the University of the District of Columbia in Southeast Washington.

Am I supposed to be impressed? Yawn. If we want to fix our troubled school system we need a DRAMATIC overhaul. We need to dramatically expand our voucher program and our charter school program. We need to immediately reign in the power of the teachers unions and cut the educational bureaucracy. That would be different, real, better.