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If you’ve seen the ads, it’s not Mississippi.

Mississippi will spend more on public schools than we do.

It’s not South Carolina. (Really? Not even with Nikki Haley in the Gov’s Office?)

Nope.

Together NC coalition leaders just sent a letter of apology to South Carolina for their mockery back when our state was never gonna be like their state.

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So our all-but-adopted state budget, when the Senate Republicans are finished overriding Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto, will drop us to 49th out of 50 states in taxpayer support for K-12 schools. Which I’ve read over and over in progressive cyber-circles, and begs the question —

Who’s last?

The answer is …

… the answer is Utah.

It’s in The Book of Mormon.

(Or ask Jon Huntsman, the “moderate” Republican running for president.)