Bold progressive congressional candidate Carol Shea is facing off with Rep. Frank Guinta (R-NH), the incumbent congressman.

Here’s a flashback about Guinta’s extremism. In 2010, Guinta doubled down on his extreme call to eliminate the Department of Education, saying that it “hasn’t done anything” for the district:

MODERATOR: You’ve actually called for the elimination of the federal Department of Education. The question is, how does that improve Manchester’s schools, which it is fair to say were struggling during your tenure [referring to Guinta’s time as mayor]?

GUINTA: Well I think education is an extremely important issue here in New Hampshire and across the country […] The fact of the matter is when the Department of Ed. was created, it hasn’t done anything substantively to help Manchester.

Watch it:

There’s at least one group that would probably disagree with Guinta — America’s college students. The Department of Education overseas all federal student lending, meaning that it is the chief clearing house for the education funding for millions of American students. Without it, education financing for student loans would have to be pushed down to states and cities, whose limited credit lines would mean they probably would not be able to offer enough loans to meet Americans’ needs. That is assuming, of course, that Guinta wants to continue government lending to students at all.

By calling for abolishing the Department of Education, Guinta is reviving an old extreme Republican idea that was bandied about for a short while in the 1990’s. At the time, polling found that just 17 percent of Americans agreed with that plan.

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