propagandizing us with our money

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GAO investigators said records uncovered during the probe show that Williams, a prominent black conservative, actively promoted the No Child Left Behind law, often without revealing that he was under contract to the Education Department to do so.

U.S. Education Department spokeswoman Susan Aspey on Friday offered no defense of the $240,000 Williams contract.

Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., one of two lawmakers who requested the probe, described Friday's report as "another sign of the culture of corruption that pervades the White House and Republican leadership."
"Rather than spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on producing Republican propaganda, the administration should return those funds and live up to the promises they made to America's students and teachers."

"Appropriated funds are not available to evaluate the Republican Party's (or any other political party's) commitment to education," said Anthony Gamboa, GAO's general counsel, "and the department should take appropriate steps to ensure that no such use of its appropriations occurs in the future.

Another internal probe, issued four weeks ago, found that education advocacy organizations had received grants totaling nearly $4.7 million to promote Bush administration education priorities in newspaper columns and brochures without disclosing that they received taxpayer funds, as required by law.
It just keeps getting better and better.