Burnt Orange Report

Adios MoFo

By Katie Naranjo

Rick Perry's sign-off last week from an interview with KTRK elevated him to the ranks of today's most mature high school freshmen. During an interview with KTRK reporters over his new education plan Gov. Perry let the media know how he felt about their prodding questions over his proposed education finance plan.

As a college sophomore, I thought I'd grown past the point in my life where I would run into people trying to act cool using a phrase like "adios mofo." Like a lot of Texans, I was certainly hoping for a little more out of the man in charge of fixing the education system here in our state. If Perry would really like to reach out to Texas children, he might want to fund education first and then worry about how to relate to kids. Just a suggestion, but if he wants to get college kids on his side, he might want to work on grants and financial aid, tax-free textbooks, and tuition re-regulation instead of practicing his frat house banter. And if it's the high school or younger crowd that he was trying to reach out to, maybe his time would be better spent giving teachers a pay raise or providing computers in classrooms.

Thanks to Perry's interesting use of the English language I am sure students all over the state of Texas will look at their governor in admiration as they hope for school funding and his term to end.