Did I hear Eddie Glaude correctly?
Seems like he was messaging Kamala NOT to pick Gov. Josh Shapiro for Veep.
MSNBC on Stephenie Rhule Show.
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in 2016. We have to deal with Trump because of “friends” like Prof. Eddie “know it all”. 
but, the mellowmoon is over.
Know. He made a big deal about Not voting for Hillary in the GE
And guess Why M$m has him on.
I hate the GD media 
Prof. Glaude’s 2 cents.
Mahalo Cha for the video reminder. 
He and his ilk Disgust me beyond Repair.
Maybe someone should listen to people who actually LIVE in PA.
shism over the Israel/Palestine war and other protest actions that pre-date October 7th. It makes little sense, IMHO to inject that drama unnecessarily into the mix.
The One Vice Presidential Pick Who Could Ruin Democratic Unity
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is a leading candidate to be Kamala Harris’s running mate. Selecting him would fracture the party.
https://newrepublic.com/article/184151/one-vice-president-ruin-democratic-unity-josh-shapiro
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Unfortunately, Shapiro also stands out among the current field of potential running mates as being egregiously bad on Palestine. It’s not just that he, like many Democrats, is an outspoken supporter of Israel—though he certainly is, having championed Israel’s war against Hamas consistently and without any apparent concern for Palestinian civilians. Shapiro has, moreover, done far more than most Democrats to attack pro-Palestine antiwar demonstrators, in ways that call into question his basic commitment to First Amendment rights. In his previous role as Pennsylvania attorney general, Shapiro championed the state’s constitutionally dubious anti-BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) law against Ben & Jerry’s after the ice cream maker refused to license its product for sale in Israeli settlements. “BDS is rooted in antisemitism,” Shapiro wrote in a statement in 2021, as he condemned a company named for its two Jewish American founders. “The stated goal of this amorphous movement is the removal of Jewish citizens from the region and I strongly oppose their efforts.”
As governor, Shapiro’s particular animus against pro-Palestine activism has only grown more apparent and troubling. Last December, he played an active role in the GOP-orchestrated sacking of University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill. During a visit to Goldie, the popular Philadelphia restaurant co-owned by the Israeli-born celebrity chef Michael Solomonov, Shapiro condemned Magill’s testimony on alleged antisemitism on the Ivy League campus before Representative Elise Stefanik, the MAGA right’s grand inquisitor. “That was an unacceptable statement from the president of Penn,” Shapiro said, referring to Magill’s unwillingness to accept Stefanik’s slippery framing on what constitutes antisemitism. “Frankly, I thought her comments were absolutely shameful. It should not be hard to condemn genocide.” Magill resigned four days after her testimony and three days after Shapiro’s statement, legitimizing the GOP’s wider assault on academic freedom, which would be repeated successfully against Harvard President Claudine Gay weeks later.
In April, Shapiro’s office baselessly claimed that a peaceful pro-Palestine encampment on the Penn campus threatened student safety. “If the universities in accordance with their policies can’t guarantee the safety and security and well-being of the students, then I think it is incumbent upon a local mayor or local governor or local town councilor, whoever is the local leadership there, to step in and enforce the law,” Shapiro told Politico at the time. In May, he urged Penn to shut down the encampment completely. “The University of Pennsylvania has an obligation to their safety,” he said, once again alluding to nonexistent threats to the physical well-being of Jewish students. “It is past time for the university to act, to address this, to disband the encampment, and to restore order and safety on campus.” The university complied; one day and 33 arrests later, Shapiro’s office said Penn “made the right decision.”
That same week, The New York Times profiled Shapiro as one to watch in his party with the headline “A Rising Democrat Leans Into the Campus Fight Over Antisemitism.” In that piece, Shapiro made clear the low regard in which he holds pro-Palestine campus activists. “If you had a group of white supremacists camped out and yelling racial slurs every day, that would be met with a different response than antisemites camped out, yelling antisemitic tropes,” he told the Times. (This echoed a statement made in an earlier interview in which he compared campus protesters to the Ku Klux Klan.) Then, in an executive order, Shapiro updated his administration’s code of conduct to forbid state employees from engaging in “scandalous or disgraceful” behavior, a vaguely worded instruction that civil libertarians immediately interpreted as threatening pro-Palestine speech.
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some of the stuff I read 
I’ve got some calls to make.
Despite Jay-Z and Josh Shapiro’s support, Pa. didn’t approve school vouchers this year. Here’s why.
Instead, legislative leaders reached a budget deal that includes expanding existing tax credit programs to help families send their children to private schools.
Published July 22, 2024
https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/school-voucher-pa-budget-josh-shapiro-20240722.html
https://archive.ph/TEVaZ
Pennsylvania lawmakers and advocates were prepared for a tough budget fight over school vouchers this year. But it fizzled out. Despite support for vouchers from Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro, GOP leaders, and even Jay-Z, a proposed $100 million voucher program was not a major sticking point in budget negotiations. Instead, legislative leaders reached a budget deal that includes expanding existing tax credit programs to help families send their children to private schools. But the contentious debate over a voucher program to send students in low-performing schools to private school could return next year. Here’s a look at some of the reasons why vouchers didn’t get approved, and what could come next.
Shapiro and Democrats wanted to avoid a messy interparty spat during an election year
We got a preview into Shapiro’s unlikeliness to take up the voucher issue last year following the state Democratic Party’s winter meeting, where national DNC leaders requested they set the issue aside during a critical election year. Unlike Shapiro, who has sought to make school choice an area where he can reach across the aisle, many Democrats oppose vouchers. Teachers unions, which contribute to Democratic campaigns, lobby strongly against vouchers and argue that they take money away from struggling public schools. But the issue can be more complicated for officials in Philadelphia, where some lawmakers support school choice, in part because staggering achievement gaps exist between public school students in the city vs. surrounding counties. In addition, unity within the Democratic Party is more important than ever, as the party views Pennsylvania as a must-win battleground state in the presidential election.
Shapiro still called for a voucher program to be part of the state’s new budget as part of his budget address in February. And House Democrats and Shapiro had been willing to compromise and create a new tax credit program, which was rejected by the Senate GOP leaders during budget talks. Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman (R., Indiana) said the tax credit pitch would have made it too hard for private schools to participate. And Shapiro was unwilling to use his political capital or “bully pulpit” to get the issue into a final budget deal, Pittman said. “Unlike last year, we saw no evidence that the governor was full-throatedly behind actually making it happen,” Pittman added. And the political calculation was clear to Pittman, too: “It would be very difficult to have an intense campaign occur in 2024 and have the leader of the Democratic Party sign a voucher bill and explain that to the base of the Democratic Party,” he added. Shapiro’s office declined to comment.
Progressive groups and labor mobilized in advance of budget season
Progressive groups and labor unions were caught by surprise last year, when a school voucher program appeared in a final budget deal between Shapiro and the Senate GOP. They didn’t let that happen again. Those groups coordinated their anti-voucher efforts. Once rumors circulated that vouchers were a likely possibility in the final budget deal, Rachel Weisberg, a political strategist for the Working Families Party, said she mobilized them to come together with one voice to block it. “Imagine it’s Election Day in a month, and right now, you’re losing,” Weisberg recalled someone telling her in May, before budget talks began in earnest. “What do you have to do to win?” The Working Families Party, the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, and more than a dozen other groups worked on email campaigns and lobbied at the state Capitol. Another union, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 32BJ, knocked on doors around Philadelphia. With support from Councilmember Kendra Brooks, the group got Philadelphia City Council to approve a resolution denouncing vouchers. “We can’t divert any of our hard-earned public tax dollars to private programs,” House Speaker Joanna McClinton (D., Philadelphia) said on the Capitol steps at a June anti-voucher rally.
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vetting process if what you are saying had a kernel of truth. 
