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(10-24-2021 08:58 PM)scorpius Wrote:
(10-24-2021 05:09 PM)CardinalJim Wrote: The Democrats are going to get whipped at the polls in Virginia but win the vote count.
What happened in Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania last November is going to look like fair play against what happens in Virginia next month.
The Democrats CANNOT and WILL NOT allow the Virginia Governor’s race to be seen as a referendum on this administration’s first year.
I'm miffed. If you don't trust the election system, then you OF COURSE support compromising with the left on a set of rules to make the voting system fair for both sides RIGHT?! (I hear birds chirping)
Ask yourself, if a party doesn't even support the idea of establishing standards for the voting system that both sides can agree upon, does it actually support democracy itself? Worse yet, if the party thinks the favorable solution is to spread mistrust in elections, is that not the same thing as a direct assault on democracy?
(10-24-2021 08:28 PM)ODUCoach Wrote:
(10-24-2021 03:11 PM)scorpius Wrote: Keep in mind that if you don't like what is taught in public schools, you always have the option of private or home-schooling.
Yet, regardless of the choice Virginia parents make, the government will continue to take my money without my consent to support the government schools. Meanwhile, the privileged like Terry McAuliffe will keep their kids as far away from the government school system as possible.
Who wouldn't prefer private over public if they have the means? Regardless, that doesn't hide the fact we all must pay the cost of society, and that includes education, unless you just prefer to live in a very uneducated society, much worse that what it already is.
For the clueless numbnuts out there, I sent two of my kids to private school. The cost of their tuition was about $2000 less than the cost per child the city was funding public education for. So the "cost of society" is a lot less when you get the government out of it. Also the quality of it was light years better.
(This post was last modified: 10-25-2021 06:33 PM by UofMstateU.)
RE: "I Don't Think That Parents Should Be Telling Schools What They Should Teach&...
(10-24-2021 09:58 PM)ODUCoach Wrote:
(10-24-2021 08:58 PM)scorpius Wrote:
(10-24-2021 08:28 PM)ODUCoach Wrote:
(10-24-2021 03:11 PM)scorpius Wrote: Keep in mind that if you don't like what is taught in public schools, you always have the option of private or home-schooling.
Yet, regardless of the choice Virginia parents make, the government will continue to take my money without my consent to support the government schools. Meanwhile, the privileged like Terry McAuliffe will keep their kids as far away from the government school system as possible.
Who wouldn't prefer private over public if they have the means? Regardless, that doesn't hide the fact we all must pay the cost of society, and that includes education, unless you just prefer to live in a very uneducated society, much worse that what it already is.
Why not just fund the students by giving that money to parents and thereby giving all parents the choices currently reserved for the privileged?
Bingo. THIS is the answer. When school boards and teacher's unions keep pushing curricula unpopular and considered dangerous by parents, and refuse to listen to parents, this solution of the $$ goes with the student is a way to make a point in a big way.
When a sizeable portion of a school district's parents pull their kids out of public schools, they are going to realize that it is the parents who have the real power in education. Try running a school district with a continually shrinking funding base.
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(10-25-2021 06:15 PM)Bronco14 Wrote: VA is safe blue IMO
By any means necessary. Virginia Dems are now suing the USPS for delayed delivery of election related material. Can't have their fail safe running behind.
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(10-26-2021 08:17 AM)VA49er Wrote:
(10-25-2021 06:15 PM)Bronco14 Wrote: VA is safe blue IMO
By any means necessary. Virginia Dems are now suing the USPS for delayed delivery of election related material. Can't have their fail safe running behind.
There's a mail truck full of ballots somewhere just waiting to be "found" when it's needed.
Quote:We have been closely monitoring and documenting the wild developments that seem to occur daily as the race between Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe and his Republican opponent Glenn Youngkin hits the home stretch before Election Day (Nov. 2nd).
McAuliffe’s campaign has been in a freefall, which started a month ago during a televised September debate where a visibly agitated McAuliffe admitted that “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” As a result of his repeated blunders and Youngkin relentlessly staying on message and on the attack, the race is now in a dead heat.
McAuliffe’s primary campaign tactic has been to make the race about former President Donald Trump, believing he will be a drag on Youngkin’s campaign in a state that has drifted further left over the last several years. But the tactic has now backfired with the press, as not only has CNN called him out for his over-emphasis on Trump (he mentioned him 18 times in one interview), but now ABC News has. Watch as reporter Jon Karl provides an uncomfortable reminder to him as to who he’s actually running against:
Karl mentioning that to McAuliffe made me think on the issue a little more, and my thought on this is that McAuliffe is not simply invoking Trump every chance he gets because he thinks it’ll hurt Youngkin, but he also appears to be doing it because he can’t craft articulate arguments against anything Youngkin has had to say about how he’d govern Virginia.
Seriously. Has anyone out there ever seen McAuliffe successfully take on any Youngkin argument on running Virginia? I haven’t. All he has is “but Trump.” In effect, he’s actually trying to run against Trump here and not Youngkin which, in my view, is another sign of desperation.
The other signs of such have been obvious, with him bringing in fellow election denier Stacey Abrams in to campaign for him, resorting to bringing an oversized blow-up “Trump chicken” to packed Youngkin rallies, denying clear video evidence of him stomping off a news station’s set in a huff over education questions, and making an embarrassing admission in a fundraising email about how they “thought folks would be fired up to get out the vote, but at this point, it seems like enthusiasm is at an all-time low.”
And enthusiasm is likely to sink even lower with signs like this cropping up across the state:
Ouch.
Even if McAuliffe does end up winning the race, his opposition can at least take comfort in the fact that not only did Youngkin, his team, and Republicans across the state not make it easier for him, but he also didn’t make it easy for himself – at all.
Do you think that the cheat is in again, and the Dems are prepping for McAuliffe’s narrow win - but that becomes a mandate for CRT, Trans stuff, and parents muzzled from questioning any of it publicly??
Unfortunately, I don’t trust my government anymore………..
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(10-26-2021 03:49 PM)Crebman Wrote: Do you think that the cheat is in again, and the Dems are prepping for McAuliffe’s narrow win - but that becomes a mandate for CRT, Trans stuff, and parents muzzled from questioning any of it publicly??
Let’s take the easy/obvious issue first — if McAuliffe wins (or if he “wins”) by even one (1) vote, then *Hell* *Yes* his victory will “become a mandate” for all the things you listed and more, and yes of course dissenting people, whether parents or students or anyone else — will be told, in so many words, to sit down and STFU. But that’s true, really, for every Democrat running for any federal or state office anywhere in America. At this point, that agenda is baked into everything they say or do.
As to whether the fix is in… unclear. You never know with those people, but this time, I tend to doubt it. Remember that with Trump, they had 4 years to prepare. And 6-7 months to mobilize the absentee ballot operation, once Covid set in.
With McAuliffe, they thought they had this in the bag until mid-September. Both because of the polls, and also because Dems have shown authentic, non-cheating strength in Virginia the past 10-12 years. So I don’t think they have been gearing up, the way they did with Trump. A successful operation like that cannot be suddenly turned on like a faucet with 5 or 6 weeks to go.
Plus, no matter what they say or claim, everyone knows that Glenn Youngkin is about as threatening as a bowl of lukewarm oatmeal left out on the breakfast table all morning. It’s hard for the Dems to whip up that kind of hysteria about him. People like Douglas Wilder keep giving unhelpful interviews to the media. That serves as a powerful reminder to AA voters that there is no “danger” here, and they owe nothing to a professional sleaze-bag like McAuliffe.
So, all in all, I don't believe McAuliffe’s supporters have the time, resources or manpower to implement the same kind of operation that they used against Trump in places like AZ, GA, PA, etc. Now, the flip side of all that is, those states from last year were all slightly pro-Trump to begin with, and VA is usually about 55-45 for Team Blue. So they may not need the full court press to hang on, they way they did last year.
RE: "I Don't Think That Parents Should Be Telling Schools What They Should Teach&...
(10-25-2021 07:34 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:
(10-24-2021 09:58 PM)ODUCoach Wrote:
(10-24-2021 08:58 PM)scorpius Wrote:
(10-24-2021 08:28 PM)ODUCoach Wrote:
(10-24-2021 03:11 PM)scorpius Wrote: Keep in mind that if you don't like what is taught in public schools, you always have the option of private or home-schooling.
Yet, regardless of the choice Virginia parents make, the government will continue to take my money without my consent to support the government schools. Meanwhile, the privileged like Terry McAuliffe will keep their kids as far away from the government school system as possible.
Who wouldn't prefer private over public if they have the means? Regardless, that doesn't hide the fact we all must pay the cost of society, and that includes education, unless you just prefer to live in a very uneducated society, much worse that what it already is.
Why not just fund the students by giving that money to parents and thereby giving all parents the choices currently reserved for the privileged?
Bingo. THIS is the answer. When school boards and teacher's unions keep pushing curricula unpopular and considered dangerous by parents, and refuse to listen to parents, this solution of the $$ goes with the student is a way to make a point in a big way.
When a sizeable portion of a school district's parents pull their kids out of public schools, they are going to realize that it is the parents who have the real power in education. Try running a school district with a continually shrinking funding base.
Neighboring Fairfax County, also NoVa, has lost more than 10,000 student enrollments in the last year or so. And it is still growing very quickly.
People that can are voting with their feet and sending their kids to private schools. The segregation of our society is becoming more rapid as the left ruins everything they get involved with.
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(10-26-2021 08:17 AM)VA49er Wrote:
(10-25-2021 06:15 PM)Bronco14 Wrote: VA is safe blue IMO
By any means necessary. Virginia Dems are now suing the USPS for delayed delivery of election related material. Can't have their fail safe running behind.
lol
We can go 3 consecutive days with no mail delivery at all.
I see mail trucks out delivering on Sunday evenings. There has been a Hiring sign at our local PO for months now, they can't find anyone to work and the USPS used to be a rather coveted job, with the Fed benies and all.
Dims, as usual, barking up the wrong tree. Their fake case might be heard sometime this decade I guess.
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(10-26-2021 04:36 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:
(10-26-2021 08:17 AM)VA49er Wrote:
(10-25-2021 06:15 PM)Bronco14 Wrote: VA is safe blue IMO
By any means necessary. Virginia Dems are now suing the USPS for delayed delivery of election related material. Can't have their fail safe running behind.
lol
We can go 3 consecutive days with no mail delivery at all.
I see mail trucks out delivering on Sunday evenings. There has been a Hiring sign at our local PO for months now, they can't find anyone to work and the USPS used to be a rather coveted job, with the Fed benies and all.
Dims, as usual, barking up the wrong tree. Their fake case might be heard sometime this decade I guess.
D's are more than likely setting the stage to protest results if said results don't go their way. BTW, the USPS said they didn't know WTH the D's were talking about.
Quote:The race between Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe and Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin is in a legit dead-heat with less than one week to go until Election Day. Unfortunately for McAuliffe, the hits just keep on coming – happening at the worst possible time as his campaign continues to struggle to get back on solid footing after the catastrophic blunder he made last month when he admitted during a debate that “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
When last we left you with the former governor who wants a second non-consecutive term, former Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder – a Democrat and the only black governor in the state’s history – absolutely unloaded on McAuliffe during an interview with a local TV station, hitting him right where it hurts: black voters, who McAuliffe desperately needs to show up on Tuesday. Essentially, Wilder accused McAuliffe of using Gov. Ralph Northam’s embarrassing blackface scandal as a “springboard” to make a political comeback by appealing to black voters, who Wilder claimed in so many words were being shamelessly lied and pandered to by McAuliffe.
On top of Wilder’s blistering attack of McAuliffe yesterday was a surprising report from CBS News this week which highlighted how Youngkin was appealing to independent voters who had previously supported Democrats, another nightmare scenario for McAuliffe should other core Democrat constituencies fail to show up for him in the numbers needed for him to be victorious. Here’s what one of the independent voters who they talked to had to say:
Independent voter Kendra Lee is a prime example of why this race is so close. “I cried when Hillary Clinton lost,” Lee said. “If someone told me I’d ever be not considering voting for a Democrat I would have thought you were crazy, you were out of your mind.”
And yet, the mother of two voted for Republican Glenn Youngkin. After a year of virtual learning and now mask mandates in schools, she said she trusts him more with her kids’ education.
“I don’t think he would have as much governmental restrictions,” Lee said on Youngkin’s appeal. “I think that he would leave it more in terms of local control.”
[…]
When asked about the [vaccine and mask] mandates, Lee said, “I just feel like I know what’s best for my family better than a politician does.”
They also talked to a man who said he supported Biden but was leaning towards Youngkin, which he knew would send a message to Biden. That message?
“That there is some tepidness around the president’s agenda. There are a lot of concerns about the choices he’s made,” independent voter Robert Clarke told CBS News.
Watch:
That a national news outlet just gave the Republican in a race that is viewed as a big bellwether for 2022 favorable coverage is a pretty big deal and another nightmare for McAuliffe. Think about it. I mean, they’re supposed to be on his team, remember?
If there is indeed an eroding of support for McAuliffe among independent voters in Virginia, it would follow a national trend which has seen support for Joe Biden among independents plummet over the last several months as the failures and skewed priorities pile up in his administration.
With the race being as close as it is, and with frustrated black Democrats like Wilder chipping away at McAuliffe’s black support and independent voters who previously supported Democrats wavering – all coupled with McAuliffe continuing to stick his foot in his mouth on public education matters, the perfect storm is forming for a possible political “upset” next week that no one saw coming. Will it happen? I’m not into making predictions, but I will say I’m starting to feel good about things. Cautious optimism and all that.
That said, even if Youngkin loses, you can’t say he and his supporters didn’t put up a hell of a fight against McAuliffe. Even in races where Democrats are “supposed” to win, Republicans should never make it easy for them. Never. Make them work for it. That way, in the event they lose, they can show us who they really are in the weeks and months afterward by whining about it a la Hillary Clinton, whose bitter whineathons about 2016 never get old.
Quote:Clueless Joe Biden was in Virginia on Tuesday, mumbling and stumbling his addled little heart out for Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe against rival Republican Glenn Youngkin. Except Biden barely mentioned Youngkin’s name, choosing instead to continue his TDS fixation with Donald Trump.
As we know, Trump ran against — and largely ran his presidency against, as well — the “fake news” media, principally CNN and MSNBC — and anyone else who made up crap about the former president. Enter: Terry McAulliffe. As reported by Fox News on Wednesday, a Fox News investigation found that McAuliffe has spent nearly $100,000 advertising “fake news” websites on Facebook during his flagging campaign.
It gets worse.
Based on the investigation, Fox was able to report that McAuliffe’s “advertisements” — which have been viewed up to 3.5 million times so far, are hidden on a Facebook page (Try to control your shock and amazement) with a name similar to a local news website. The ads link to third-party websites that ostensibly publish local news, but exist solely to promote Democratic candidates.
Like most political candidates, McAuliffe has a Facebook page under his own name to promote his campaign, but the former governor also uses the aforementioned Facebook page, which blurs the lines between a political campaign and disinformation, as Fox noted.
The page, which was quietly launched by McAuliffe in June, is called “The Download VA.” While the name of the page sounds similar to that of a news organization, it has not published any posts or photos, and only 67 people had “liked” the page as of the Fox News report.
Here’s more, from Fox News (emphasis, mine):
Instead (of “liking” or participating on the page), most voters who have encountered “The Download” have done so through paid advertising. The ads do not appear on the page itself but can be obtained through a Facebook Ad Library Report, a tool used by journalists and researchers. The McAuliffe campaign has spent $471,044 on ads distributed by this page since June. With several ads running at time of publication, that number is likely to rise before election day.
The advertisements generally contain a comment and a link to a mainstream news article that covers the campaign favorably. But sprinkled among the links to legitimate media are seven separate advertisements (and dozens of variations) that promote websites widely considered to be “fake news”.
Noooo. Why I never…
In a July ad, The Download wrote about McAuliffe’s views on small businesses. The ad included a link to an article published by a third-party website called The Virginia Dogwood. The Dogwood bills itself as a local news website, noted Fox, with daily articles about local issues in Virginia, dedicated sections for key topics, and a newsletter to give Virginians “all the news you need.” The Dogwood says (lies) on a page describing its publication that it delivers “credible, fact-based reporting.”
In an October 19 article titled Partisan Sites Posing as Local News Expand Ahead of Election in the Wall Street Journal, the WSJ reported that as local news outlets suffer cuts, political donors see a way to influence election coverage — including pushing “fake news” and once again proving Donald Trump right.
The WSJ cited multibillionaire Democrat donor George Soros and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman as two examples. Even left-leaning Axios reported Tuesday that the “newsroom” is owned by influential Democrat Tara McGowan’s “Good Information Project,” which is backed by many of the same investors.
In another October “article” — propaganda piece — The Download wrote that Youngkin has a “very concerning” policy on COVID vaccination, and included a link to an article published by a third-party website called The American Independent. According to Fox:
The Independent is also designed to look like a news website. In an “About” section, the website says it is a platform for “progressive news,” and elaborates that it reports “with honesty and integrity, shining a light on those in power and the progressive politics movement,” suggesting to readers that it offers an objective assessment of the movement.
The website says it is funded by The American Bridge 21st Century Foundation, although it does not disclose how much of its funding comes from the foundation, but it is the only investor listed on its “Company” page.
McAuliffe early on was widely expected to run away from Youngkin — or so most Democrat pundits thought — but is instead locked in a tight race with Youngkin, with the race appearing “up for grabs” with just five days before go-time.
According to the Independent, reported Fox News, the foundation is on a mission to “compare and contrast progressive and conservative solutions.” Au contraire. It is actually a well-known liberal “dark money” organization, founded by sleazy David Brock, a wealthy and influential Democrat donor who is also a close ally of the Clinton family. Brock’s group spent $59.7 million to oppose Republican candidates in the 2020 election cycle, according to the campaign finance tracking organization OpenSecrets.
The Fox News report continues with other serious “fake news” allegations against McAuliffe, hardly a surprise to those of us who have long seen McAuliffe for exactly what he is: a lying sleazeball who will do or say anything he has to do or say to win — honesty and integrity be damned.
Observations — three scenarios.
If McCauliffe beats Youngkin by a substantial margin next Tuesday, Democrats running for re-election in the 2022 midterms and beyond will beat on Trump from now until the last polls close on election night. However, if Youngkin wins or McAulliffe squeaks buy by a proverbial whisker, Democrats will (make that should) learn that continuing to focus on the Devil’s spawn — Donald Trump — is no longer a winning message, particularly with independent voters.
The question is whether Democrats would heed that message. History suggests they would not.
Quote:Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe showed his true colors in his last debate with Republican Glenn Youngkin by telling the truth about his position on education. He said, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
After the firestorm of criticism that followed McAuliffe’s statement, The Washington Post attempted to throw him a lifeline. Last week it published an op-ed entitled “Parents Claim They Have the Right to Shape Their Kids’ School Curriculum. They don’t.” It affirmed that concerned parents’ only option is to buy their kids’ way out of toxic public schools.
It explained: “Courts have found that parents have great authority when it comes to deciding how to raise and educate their children. This right, however, does not mean that public schools must cater to parents’ individual ideas about education. Parents can opt out of the public system if they wish, and pay to send their children to private or religious schools.”
Thus, for the Post, if a Virginia mother does not wish to have her daughter’s public school push pedophilia, that amounts to demanding the school “cater” to her “individual ideas about education.” But rest easy, Virginia parents—like a 13th century vassal, you can purchase a dispensation from your lords if you wish to avoid the despoliation of your daughters.
McAuliffe’s educational philosophy is akin to a doit de seigneur (“the lord’s right”) over school children. In medieval times, a lord (seigneur) was the owner of his vassals’ property. The lord’s rights even extended to control over his vassals’ children, including to decide whom they would marry. If a vassal’s daughter was to be married, on the night of the marriage his lord had the right (droit) to have sexual relations with her before she slept with her husband. The vassal (or the new husband) could save her from this fate by paying a monetary tribute to the lord.
Striking a similar pose, McAuliffe claims he owns the right to dictate to his vassals, the parents of school-aged children, just how those children will be educated indoctrinated. Like 13th century vassals, under Lord McAuliffe’s plan the parents are to have no say in the matter, unless they comply with the Post’s suggestion and purchase a dispensation by paying private school tuition while still sending money to their lords in the form of taxes to fund the public schools.
McAuliffe’s attempt to usurp parents’ roles is not new in leftist circles or those of the Democrat Party (please excuse the redundancy). Just ask the author of “It Takes A Village.” And remember this?
That is Melissa Perry promoting her show on MSNBC. Like McAuliffe, she rejected the archaic idea that “kids belong to their parents” and instead urged adopting “a very collective notion” to “recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”
There is no doubt that Lord McAuliffe seeks to implement Perry’s “collective notion” that children belong to the state, not to their parents, and that he is aided and abetted by other prominent Democrats and government officials.
In an interview after the debate, McAuliffe doubled down on his view that parents’ input is irrelevant: “Listen, we have a board of ed working with the local school boards to determine the curriculum for our schools. You don’t want parents coming in in every different school jurisdiction saying, ‘This is what should be taught here’ and, ‘This is what should be taught there.’” In other words, parents, keep your mouths shut.
The Biden administration has made clear that they are allies in Democrats’ “collective” (to use Perry’s word) war against parents. For example, after coordinating with the White House, Attorney General Merrick Garland commanded the FBI to launch an investigation with U.S. attorneys and “federal, state, Tribal, territorial and local law enforcement leaders” of the “terrorist” parents who dared protest, even loudly and vehemently, against school boards that are indoctrinating children with their porn and leftist propaganda.
Barack Obama himself demagogued the issue at a McAuliffe rally last Saturday. For him, a distraught father’s outrage over his eighth-grade daughter’s alleged rape and sodomization is just “fake outrage.” Parents who protest racist teachings, pornography, and pedophilia are just actors in “phony, trumped-up culture wars.”
Don’t forget the context of McAuliffe’s proclamation during the debate. McAuliffe made his comments after Youngkin noted that when McAuliffe was governor, he had vetoed a bill that would have required schools to notify parents if their child’s assigned materials included “sexually explicit materials.” Although reasonable people could disagree about whether the bill was over-broad, that is not the argument McAuliffe made. Instead, he was perfectly candid about the role of parents if he is elected governor: “I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions.”
Just to be clear about what kind of books McAuliffe does not want to hear parents protesting, the parents at the Fairfax County School Board meeting whom Youngkin referenced were not objecting to “Canterbury Tales,” “Madame Bovary,” or Shakespeare, as some have contended. Some of the books parents were protesting included “Gender Queer,” “Lawn Boy,” and other books with graphic descriptions of violent sex, pedophilia, and such things as a fourth-grade boy performing oral sex on an adult man. They also include detailed illustrations of pedophilia, fellatio, sex toys, masturbation, and violent nudity.
The Fairfax County School Board cut off the microphone of one mother, Stacy Langdon, as she was objecting to the inclusion of such trash in her school’s library. They are so vile that as Langdon read passages and showed illustrations to the school board, the board president interrupted to complain, “There’s children here.” Exactly.
Like the school board members, McAuliffe does not think Langdon’s objections are worth being heard. Virginians will tell us on November 2 if they agree with McAuliffe and wish to grant him an educational droit de seigneur or if they want concerned parents’ voices to matter.
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I still think McAuliffe “wins” by about 8 votes or so, statewide, once all the absentees are re-counted.
But for CBS News to give Youngkin positive coverage this close to Election Day — wow. McAuliffe has sure p¡ssed off some of his own base, in order for that to happen.
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Quote:Don’t forget the context of McAuliffe’s proclamation during the debate. McAuliffe made his comments after Youngkin noted that when McAuliffe was governor, he had vetoed a bill that would have required schools to notify parents if their child’s assigned materials included “sexually explicit materials.” Although reasonable people could disagree about whether the bill was over-broad, that is not the argument McAuliffe made. Instead, he was perfectly candid about the role of parents if he is elected governor: “I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions.”
Just to be clear about what kind of books McAuliffe does not want to hear parents protesting, the parents at the Fairfax County School Board meeting whom Youngkin referenced were not objecting to “Canterbury Tales,” “Madame Bovary,” or Shakespeare, as some have contended. Some of the books parents were protesting included “Gender Queer,” “Lawn Boy,” and other books with graphic descriptions of violent sex, pedophilia, and such things as a fourth-grade boy performing oral sex on an adult man. They also include detailed illustrations of pedophilia, fellatio, sex toys, masturbation, and violent nudity.
The Fairfax County School Board cut off the microphone of one mother, Stacy Langdon, as she was objecting to the inclusion of such trash in her school’s library. They are so vile that as Langdon read passages and showed illustrations to the school board, the board president interrupted to complain, “There’s children here.” Exactly.
Parents really have no idea just how radical many school librarians really are. The umbrella group they belong to is very radical and books that they choose to bring into school libraries are following their ideology. I know one that appeared to be just a nice, pleasant older lady. In some conversations with her, I realized just how radical this person really was and I was shocked. Most people have no idea that this is just one way they work at radicalizing young, impressionable students.
Quote:A law firm with ties to Virginia’s Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe is fighting in court against Virginia students who said they have been sexually assaulted at school.
According to The Daily Wire, “In one case, the Hunton Andrews Kurth law firm, where McAuliffe served as a senior adviser from 2019 until recently, is battling a young woman who says that she was repeatedly raped on her Fairfax County middle school campus as a 12-year old and that she was slashed with a knife, burned with a lighter, anally penetrated, and gang raped.”
The report also notes how “the McAuliffe-linked law firm is seeking to have the case thrown out because it was filed under a pseudonym, even though there is no dispute that the school system knows who she is” and that although a judge rejected Hunton’s argument, “the firm would not relent, filing an appeal on behalf of its client, the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS).”
While both Hunton and the McAuliffe campaign did not respond to The Daily Wire’s request for comment on whether the firm still employs the former governor, “McAuliffe reported income apparently linked to the firm in 2021, after announcing his run for governor of Virginia on December 8, 2020.”
The report later details a separate case in which a female student alleged that after FCPS administrators were notified of an unwanted sexual incident on a band trip, a school security officer told her “there was no point in seeking criminal charges, and the school gave an award to her alleged abuser.”
In defense of FCPS, Hunton told the court that the school system had “lost documentation showing its investigation of the allegations — in part because it was not using a sexual harassment allegation database that it had promised to use pursuant to a federal settlement in the other girl’s case.”
Moreover, the defense of FCPS was also joined by the National School Boards Association (NSBA), which filed its own amicus brief over the matter. Along with the school district and Hunton, the organization is reportedly “banking on an aggressive and novel interpretation of Title IX … that would be more favorable to school administrators and less favorable to victims.” Although the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals shot down such irrational logic, Hunton has indicated its intent to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The NSBA has come under fire recently for asking the Biden administration to weaponize domestic terrorism laws to target parents opposed to anti-science mask mandates for children and the infiltration of racist curriculum in schools. One parent who was arrested at a Loudoun County school board meeting said the district covered up the rape of his daughter in a school bathroom by a boy wearing a skirt.
“Now, we ask that the federal government investigate, intercept, and prevent the current threats and acts of violence against our public school officials through existing statutes, executive authority, interagency and intergovernmental task forces, and other extraordinary measures to ensure the safety of our children and educators, to protect interstate commerce, and to preserve public school infrastructure and campuses,” the now-retracted letter reads. “As these acts of malice, violence, and threats against public school officials have increased, the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes.”
More than 20 state school board associations have withdrawn their memberships from NSBA as a result, with Missouri and Ohio among the most recent.
Quote:Terry McAuliffe thinks he’s found a response to parents concerned for the well-being of their children in the face of abusive, harmful school boards: trashing them as “right-wing” culture warriors.
Last night, McAuliffe was on with Joy Reid, a wild conspiracy theorist who often appears mentally ill, to discuss his bumbling campaign. While doing so, he dismissed the swath of Virginia parents who are pushing back, claiming the entire ordeal is just about wanting to “ban books” instead of protecting children.
Usually, when you are in a tight race, you don’t highlight your own negatives and purposely isolate a demographic you need, but McAuliffe seems to be operating from a place of unwarranted confidence following Barack Obama’s visit. You’ll recall that the former president started the “this is just a culture war” line at a recent rally. That was after it was revealed that Virginia school boards had covered up multiple sexual assaults. McAuliffe has since leaned heavily into the idea that all parental concerns are trumped-up and a product of racism.
Parents aren’t buying it.
Maybe McAuliffe has some strategy here, but I’m not seeing it. This all looks much more like desperation from a rudder-less campaign without a real message. He can only say the name “Trump” so many times, and past that, what issues is he even running on? Protecting books that promote pedophilia? Shutting down parents who are upset their schools covered up the sexual assaults of children?
Even going on with Joy Reid is a blunder. Of all the left-wing hosts he could have appeared with, he chose the most insane one, a person who spends most of her time pronouncing the end of democracy, spinning January 6th conspiracy theories, and asserting that Ron DeSantis is a murderer. That’s who he obliged to give his final pitch? That’s a bold move, I suppose.
McAuliffe also saw his dreams dashed when a report came out that Donald Trump was not going to actually visit Virginia before the election. I speculated that he wouldn’t in my initial write-up on Trump’s statement last night, and that seems to be confirmed now. That leaves McAuliffe where exactly? He no longer has the distraction he so desperately wanted. Is he going to spend the final days of the campaign going after parents for caring about their kids?
I don’t know how this race turns out, but man would it be some serious poetic justice if McAuliffe ended up losing in what is a D+10 state. I haven’t seen a worse candidate since probably Hillary Clinton.
Quote:During Donald Trump’s presidency, a panic began to set in among Democrats who understood that without a virtual lock on the “minority” vote, their chances of winning elections would become increasingly difficult to near-impossible in some cases, especially in battleground parts of the country.
The panic was in response to Trump making significant inroads with Hispanic voters during the course of his time in office, which was reflected in the 2020 election results which saw a noticeable shift in places where Hispanics who normally reliably went left instead turned to Trump and Republicans. There was evidence of this shift in the Gavin Newsom recall election effort as well, also reflected in the final results.
So with that in mind, we turn to embattled Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe, who is now in a desperate fight to shore up base voters as the battle between him and Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin is now a dead-heat, all brought on by McAuliffe doubling down on a catastrophic declaration he made during a debate last month about how “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
In the video clip below, you see McAuliffe during an apparent campaign stop for Hispanic voters quite bluntly telling them they needed to “get busy … relatively quickly” procreating in order to increase the chances of Democrats winning elections. Watch:
I cannot think of a more insulting thing to say to any group of minority voters, whether they be women, black, Hispanic, etc. I mean McAuliffe is all but literally saying here that Hispanic voters can’t think independently and owe their votes to the Democratic party without question. It’s eerily reminiscent of then-Democratic candidate for president Joe Biden last year insulting black voters by telling them “you ain’t black” if you don’t support his campaign.
It’s a terrible look, an admission of the “quiet part out loud” about the Democratic party’s low opinion of the minority communities they claim to want to protect.
Some members of the “Latinos for Youngkin” group responded accordingly:
Fernando Espinoza, also with “Latinos for Youngkin,” weighed in as well, tweeting that “We are more than a statistic, and we are voting for @GlennYoungkin because he has actively reached out to us and will create the best state in America to live, work, and raise a family.”
Between this, McAuliffe’s repeated smearing of concerned parents over the CRT issue and other educational matters, the wavering of independent voters towards Youngkin, and former Virginia Dem governor Doug Wilder (who is black) unloading on McAuliffe’s pandering towards black voters, it’s no wonder McAuliffe has been storming off interviews with reporters and has resorted to buying “fake news” ads and appearing on wacko left-wing conspiracy theorist Joy Reid’s program on MSNBC to try and convince voters he’s a “uniter.”
These are in no way the actions of a confident candidate and campaign going into the homestretch. This guy is on the ropes. And he knows it.
RE: "I Don't Think That Parents Should Be Telling Schools What They Should Teach&...
(10-26-2021 04:26 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote: If you idiots in Virginia vote for McCauliffe... I just don't know what to think anymore. You deserve him.
Both candidates leave a lot to be desired. McCauliffe is a retread but maybe the Republicans should try running someone that does not run as a Trumper. Of course there are negative D ads but Youngkin has also run ads that embrace it.
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