The Wiz
You've heard of whistling past the graveyard?
Well, at the Parents for Choice in Education celebration/wake, voucher supporter Lincoln Fillmore belted out a song at the morgue.
Fillmore entertained the crowd at The Skybox restaurant and bar by offering a ditty (with his tongue "planted firmly in cheek") called "I Haven't Got A Heart," sung to the tune of "If I Only Had A Brain." It excoriated teachers unions and The Salt Lake Tribune, the unholy alliance that led to the defeat of the referendum.
"I say they have big loopholes / because I have no scruples / and I'll send it down the drain," Fillmore sang in one verse.
He went on to sing how The Tribune is "in my pocket" and that the paper, and columnist Paul Rolly would print verbatim whatever they were fed. Fillmore wouldn’t give us the lyrics, or we would have printed them verbatim.
"Parents rights they'll never miss 'em / We must protect the system / Because I haven't got a heart," Fillmore sang, then the big finish. "Kids they pay no union dues / And that's why they'll be the losers / Because I don't have a heart."
It was clever stuff that would've packed a wallop, had he not been, at one point, standing in front of a giant television screen with election returns showing vouchers failing.
Where's the clicker when you need it?
-- Robert Gehrke
Well, at the Parents for Choice in Education celebration/wake, voucher supporter Lincoln Fillmore belted out a song at the morgue.
Fillmore entertained the crowd at The Skybox restaurant and bar by offering a ditty (with his tongue "planted firmly in cheek") called "I Haven't Got A Heart," sung to the tune of "If I Only Had A Brain." It excoriated teachers unions and The Salt Lake Tribune, the unholy alliance that led to the defeat of the referendum.
"I say they have big loopholes / because I have no scruples / and I'll send it down the drain," Fillmore sang in one verse.
He went on to sing how The Tribune is "in my pocket" and that the paper, and columnist Paul Rolly would print verbatim whatever they were fed. Fillmore wouldn’t give us the lyrics, or we would have printed them verbatim.
"Parents rights they'll never miss 'em / We must protect the system / Because I haven't got a heart," Fillmore sang, then the big finish. "Kids they pay no union dues / And that's why they'll be the losers / Because I don't have a heart."
It was clever stuff that would've packed a wallop, had he not been, at one point, standing in front of a giant television screen with election returns showing vouchers failing.
Where's the clicker when you need it?
-- Robert Gehrke
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