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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(112,631 posts) Mon Aug 19, 2024, 02:43 PM Aug 19

She 'sarcastically' said Obama should be killed. Now she wants to control kids' education.

She has never worked in a public school and has referred to them as “indoctrination centers.” She attended the riot at the U.S. Capitol and called for former President Donald Trump to use military force to stay in power. She has been known to use hashtags affiliated with the conspiracy theory QAnon.

Yet after defeating the incumbent in a Super Tuesday primary, Michele Morrow is the Republican nominee for North Carolina superintendent. Morrow will be running against Democrat Maurice (Mo) Green.

If elected, she would be responsible for a $12 billion budget, 115 school districts and 1.36 million public school students. Concern around her campaign has grown since she became the party's nominee.

“We believe that Morrow is uniquely unqualified for this position to serve public school students and educators across the state,” Tamika Walker Kelly, the president of the North Carolina Association of Educators, told me.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/she-sarcastically-said-obama-killed-091041846.html

Another of the GOP's best and brightest.

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She 'sarcastically' said Obama should be killed. Now she wants to control kids' education. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 19 OP

We need to improve education in the South, not make it worse. Irish_Dem Aug 19 #1

You'd think there'd be some education requirement Diamond_Dog Aug 19 #2

Here are more details about this neo-Confederate if anyone is interested C0RI0LANUS Aug 19 #3

Irish_Dem

(55,557 posts)

1. We need to improve education in the South, not make it worse.

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Mon Aug 19, 2024, 02:44 PM

Aug 19

Diamond_Dog

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2. You'd think there'd be some education requirement

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Mon Aug 19, 2024, 02:56 PM

Aug 19

for people running for state superintendent of schools. As it is now, any Q-Anon Bible thumping nutter who never set foot in a public school can run for office.

C0RI0LANUS

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3. Here are more details about this neo-Confederate if anyone is interested

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Mon Aug 19, 2024, 03:50 PM

Aug 19

GOP Nominee to Run North Carolina Schools Advocated pro-Trump Military Coup in 6 January 2021 Video and Deaths of Presidents Obama and Biden

Michele Morrow, the Republican nominee to run the K-12 public education system in North Carolina, filmed a video while attending the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol urging then-President Donald Trump to put “the Constitution to the side” and use the US military to stay in power. This same person who has been nominated to run North Carolina’s $11 billion budget for K-12 public schools and set education priorities and the curriculum, also called for violence against Democrats, including executing Presidents Obama and Biden.

Morrow was at the US Capitol as the 6 January 2021 attack occurred, according to public videos reviewed by CNN that show her in a restricted area on the northwest side of the Capitol. CNN has seen no evidence that Morrow entered the Capitol building that day or that she engaged in violence, and she was not charged with any crimes.

In the March 2024 Republican primary, Morrow defeated the incumbent North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction. That same month, CNN’s KFile reported Morrow had previously called for the public execution of Barack Obama and the death of Joe Biden and other prominent Democrats in comments on a since-deleted X account. The candidate has purged past extremist posts since running for office.

Remarkable that North Carolina is an election away from giving a handsome annual salary of potentially $172,318 to a neo-Confederate to manage its $11bn K-12 public school system. If the normal people of the Tar Heel State allow this Trump supporter to win the election, they will have to hold their noses for four years as their hard-earned tax dollars provide Michele Morrow with a robust salary as she oversees the curriculum being taught to 1,459,852 public school (and possibly 77,791 charter school) students.

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https://coriolanus.page/

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