We don't need no public education
Taking on a bond issue in a major metropolitan area is new for Dorr, who has worked to defeat at least 32 school bond initiatives that, until this point, have all been in rural Midwestern communities. But like the smaller Minnesota towns that Dorr has visited in the past (which CP reported on in July), Orono isn't safe from Dorr's tactics, which his critics charge include spinning facts, fueling the rumor mill, and pitting community members against one another. In Orono, for example, there's a rumor that the school district is paying a million-dollar life-insurance policy for its former superintendent.
A home-school proponent who claims that paying taxes for public education is unconstitutional, Dorr is often hired by organizations like Citizens Acting for Responsible Education (CARE), a group that champions education reform and home schooling and whose many members support teaching religion in schools as a part of American history. In Orono, an outspoken member of the CARE committee is Mike Wigley, the chairman of the Taxpayers League of Minnesota. Dorr maintains that his desire to return education to the pre-Civil-War era is irrelevant to his political consulting business, though as he told CP this summer, his plan to dismantle public education is only beginning: "My solution for Christians: Stop fueling tax consumption wherever we lawfully can and abandon their 'schools.' Let them devour themselves without us. We have a future to build."
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