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Ed Schultz, of The Ed Show, is from these parts and was back visiting over the weekend, so the local rag profiled him. It was interesting.
Here’s bit of it:
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The shift came in the mid- to late ’90s, when his radio show was based in Fargo, N.D.
“I was taking my show on the road and going into rural America and seeing some infrastructure that was crucial to the country starting to crumble,” he said. “I found myself aligning with what the Democrats were trying to accomplish.”Schultz said the conservatives’ recent “radical and discriminatory attacks” on public education and teachers’ unions hit home. His mother, Mary Schultz, was an English teacher at Granby High School; his father, George, was an aeronautical engineer for the government. Schultz, the youngest of five children, described his life in Norfolk as “very typical and very middle-class.” Education was paramount.
“We’ve had multiple generations of success with public education,” said Schultz, a 1977 graduate of Minnesota State University Moorhead, which he attended on a football scholarship. “But all of a sudden, the conservatives have decided to target public education, and I struggle with that whole premise.”
