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Cadfael

(1,342 posts)
Wed Mar 29, 2023, 05:02 PM Mar 2023

CUSD 200 extremist candidates

These four candidates are running on an extremist agenda:

Amanda “Amy” Erkenswick
Spencer Garrett
David Sohmer
Kimberly Hobbs


Buzz words and dog whistles include a call for lessons that are “ideologically neutral” and “free of political bias” and for creating “opt-in” policies

Article at:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/elections/ct-school-board-elections-conservative-movement-20230326-hjfirbfrwjedzf5bmd4ytk4ovy-story.html

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CUSD 200 extremist candidates (Original Post) Cadfael Mar 2023 OP
We've got some candidates with AWAKE ties running in 204 Freethinker65 Mar 2023 #1
Oh No! Cadfael Mar 2023 #3
These candidates did NOT show up Cadfael Mar 2023 #2
Got three running my area.. raising2moredems Mar 2023 #4
Can't read the article due to the firewall. live love laugh Mar 2023 #5

Freethinker65

(11,139 posts)
1. We've got some candidates with AWAKE ties running in 204
Wed Mar 29, 2023, 05:14 PM
Mar 2023

They have a chance of winning. I have never gotten so many mailings for school board.

Cadfael

(1,342 posts)
3. Oh No!
Wed Mar 29, 2023, 06:24 PM
Mar 2023

Those poisonous AWAKE people are popping up everywhere. And Vallas has been flirting with them. Shameful!

Cadfael

(1,342 posts)
2. These candidates did NOT show up
Wed Mar 29, 2023, 06:22 PM
Mar 2023

on the “Defend Our Schools” website, but even the Chicago Tribune recognizes them as “extremist”….so forewarned is forearmed

raising2moredems

(706 posts)
4. Got three running my area..
Wed Mar 29, 2023, 10:10 PM
Mar 2023

And there is a huge effort (locally) to make it loud and clear. Couldn't find much on two of the three BUT the one I did is a "traditional values" and what I term "some parents rights". Pissing and moaning about tampon machines in the boys bathroom - which she went into, mind you, to see for herself. Icing on the cake - she's a private school teacher.

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