Building blocks

Development | On school choice and community-building, conservative Christians can work alongside New Urbanist groups | Marvin Olasky

Dan Cunningham

DENVER—John Norquist sat in a Starbucks—where else would the president of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) be?—and showed this summer once again why he makes political enemies left and right.

The innovative former Democratic mayor of Milwaukee is not a favorite of Democratic Party radicals, who dislike his fiscal conservatism. He criticizes the "moderate" Democratic Leadership Council, calling it "a bribed bunch of special interest people—the tobacco industry, the teachers union." Norquist also criticizes "country club Republicans." He strongly supports school choice and, in his sardonic way, praises Christian schools: "If they teach creationism, there's a pretty good chance that those kids will be able to spell creation."

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