Cato/Koch attorney Ilya Shapiro loses his school board race in Falls Church

[Anonymous]

Koch money and fake CRT campaigns can only take you so far in life.

Winning school board candidates were Lori K. Silverman (3,700 votes), Kathleen E. C. Tysse (3,666 votes), Tate O. Gould (3,425 votes), and David S. Ortiz (3,391 votes). The other candidates were Ilya Shapiro (2,046 votes), Jerrod F. Anderson (2,271 votes) and Courtney C. Mooney (1,575 votes). There were 138 write-in votes.

Goodbye, Mr. Shapiro.

https://patch.com/virginia/fallschurch/falls-church-election-2021-results-city-council-school-board

[Anonymous]

The other thread is at 181 pages right now - it fills up more pages before we can reply. Let's break this one out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The other thread is at 181 pages right now - it fills up more pages before we can reply. Let's break this one out.

Or, let’s not. Why would we have a whole thread about one low-level candidate? Because you have a personal beef with him?

I know him. Nice guy. Not a robot unleashed by the Koch brothers.

[Anonymous]

Thanks. The eyes of the country were definitely fixed squarely on this race. “So goes the Little City, so goes the nation” (not).

[Anonymous]

Shapiro is paid by Koch in his day job.
He’s probably just immersed in the rightwing lie universe — in fact he helps generate it.

But Falls Church wins when someone like this loses. Glad to see the side of truth and working people — Democrats — won this one.

[Anonymous]

Bragging about his Fed Soc role.

He knows that we all know the Fed Soc is propped up with Koch-network funds, right?

So great this guy lost.
Can you imagine someone this plugged in to radical libertarianism running your school? The first thing he’d do is try to sell it to Charles Koch.

[Anonymous]

Ha. Nice thread. I saw Shapiro saying “in his work he had supported Supreme Court cases that protect LGB people.” He bragged about Obergefell.

Yeah,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-agree-with-a-lot-of-justice-kennedys-decisions-but-he-has-harmed-the-rule-of-law/2018/06/27/646f8a0c-59fd-11e7-a9f6-7c3296387341_story.html

Here he is CRITICIZING the Obergefell decision.

Take his celebrated opinion in Obergefell in 2015. What should have been an easy case about the propriety of certain marriage-licensing schemes under an equal protection clause that says the government can’t treat people differently for no good reason, instead became yet another opportunity to wax poetic about the meaning of life. The rule of Obergefell seems to be that you take a scoop of due process and a cup of equal protection, wrap them in some dignity, and then enjoy the waves of adulation.
That’s not law. For one thing, there’s no fundamental right to the state recognition of marriage, which is a kind of government benefit. To put it in the context of injustices perpetrated against gay people, marriage isn’t like the right to have sex with a consenting partner (which Kennedy upheld in 2003’s Lawrence v. Texas). After all, a logical extension of Kennedy’s understanding of the fundamental right to marriage is that states are prohibited from getting out of the marriage business altogether. That can’t be right.
Moreover, a constant theme in Kennedy’s gay rights jurisprudence — he’ll be known as the “gay justice” until someone who is openly gay is seated on the court — is the ignoble motivation behind the laws at issue.

Why is every Republican such a liar?!

[Anonymous]

Here’s where Shapiro brags about his Cato work, Koch-funded, for Obergefell.

What a liar.