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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Good riddance, Gen. Tata

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Good riddance, Gen. Tata:


Good riddance, Gen. Tata

Sara Palin and Gen. Tata hawking their books. 
If there was ever a guy you would never want to run your public schools, it was Brigadier General Anthony J. Tata. But after a brief stint at Eli Broad's training camp for school superintendents, Michelle Rhee brought him in as her second in command in D.C.

Then Tata became fast friends with Sarah Palin, and wrote a glowing review of her book, "Going Rogue," on theBig Hollywood site operated by the late wing-nut journo-goofball Andrew Breitbart. Tata wrote that Palin "is far