Well, Wasilla's #1 Hockey Mom apparently took a hockey stick to Alaska's Special Education budget and slashed it by 62%. More below...
Night Runner did a fine diary on this issue yesterday and has links. Special Needs was used last night as the political epicenter to define Palin as woman-mother-candidate. In a literal sense, special needs was used as her opening statement.
As I read Night Runner's diary yesterday, the fact that Palin would slash Alaska's special needs expenditures by 62% SHOCKED me. Then, for Palin to use it as her introductory cornerstone felt both cynical and cruel. Lets give the appropriate light and intensity to Palin's Alaska budgetary parenting.