GOP candidate for NC schools chief has spread falsehoods, 'groomer' rhetoric

At a street festival in downtown Wake Forest earlier this month Michele Morrow walked through the crowd wearing a blue T-shirt that read, “Make education great again” across the back.

As she spoke to voters, Morrow drew on her experience homeschooling her five children to say why she should be North Carolina’s superintendent of public instruction.

“The majority of homeschoolers would put their kids gladly back into public school if they were sure that they were going to be safe, they weren't going to be bullied,” Morrow told a voter. She said parents don’t want “this worldview that is not their family's worldview, pushed on their children.”

That message might resonate with some parents but the election for North Carolina’s top schools official could be a referendum on Morrow’s track record for unfounded accusations and falsehoods.

She has promoted Q-Anon conspiracy theories, says some teachers are “groomers” and has said the “plus” in LGBTQ+ stands for “pedophilia.” On the campaign trail she often calls public schools “indoctrination centers.” Four years ago, she said former President Barack Obama should face a firing squad - which she has later said was a joke.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/21/nx-s1-5154035/north-carolina-schools-candidate-michele-morrow-obama

They always say it's a "joke"....but then why do they say it at all?