VA Governor's Race: The Republican Invented Squirrel

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s a teacher shortage. I highly doubt FCPS would turn down hiring a qualified teacher-black, white, purple, or blue. The lack of black teachers isn’t racist - perhaps there just aren’t as many black applicants. Promising one set of people free college-using taxpayer money-is racist.

I disagree. Our local principal was under 35 white woman and she got to select teachers. She always always chose white young women and even told us she preferred teachers who knew it was their calling versus people who decided later to make it a second career. She left positions unfilled if she couldn’t find a young white women. Only exceptions were the lunch ladies were Asian and the tech guy was a guy. No black staff at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McAuliffe’s closing statement today calling for a more diverse group of public school teachers is the icing on his victory cake.

He makes the point that 80% of public school teachers are white but 50% of students are not. He is offering a full ride to college for any POC who will commit to teaching for five years in a Virginia public school.

This is a brilliant idea, and I hope it is the first executive order he will sign once in the governor’s seat. He will have widespread support from the teacher’s groups, school boards, and parents who want their children taught by a more diverse group of teachers fully committed — for five years— to public education.

Thank you Governor McAuliffe.

I have an idea! Hire and promote teachers based on excellent teaching skills regardless of identity politics. Good grief. No wonder Youngkin is polling so well.

+1

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:22:08 poster - as someone empowered to recommending charging decisions (albeit in the military justice system), and who has a sister serving as an ADA in another jurisdiction, I do not believe for one second that the Commonwealth attorney did not know the context of her decision to pursue jail time for Mr. Smith.

But what do you believe that context to be?

She knew his daughter was the alleged victim in the sexual assault case - that is the context. Jail time for a father advocating for his victim daughter at a school board meeting is a ludicrous basis to advocate for imprisonment and conviction. If Biberaj did not know this context, it is Ostrich Syndrome (to name another animal).

Well I am not sure that advocating for your daughter includes resisting the police and threatening to kick their teeth in. Smith was found guilty by a judge. Do you consider him part of the hit job?

But you also don't really believe that the girl was assaulted, and it was very disappointing to read your perspective on that. Calling rape a "he said she said." I know you would not feel that way if it was your daughter. You left the whole part about the boy being charged for a second assault. Was that 'he said she said" as well?

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:But you also don't really believe that the girl was assaulted, and it was very disappointing to read your perspective on that. Calling rape a "he said she said." I know you would not feel that way if it was your daughter. You left the whole part about the boy being charged for a second assault. Was that 'he said she said" as well?

Please don't put words in my mouth. The police found enough evidence of an assault to win a conviction so I believe there was an assault. Factually, both parties had their own version of what happened. There was no third-party witness. This is the very definition of "he-said, she-said". I did not leave out the second assault. That is mentioned in my original post. At this time, the second assault has not been adjudicated and, as such, the suspect is presumed innocent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McAuliffe’s closing statement today calling for a more diverse group of public school teachers is the icing on his victory cake.

He makes the point that 80% of public school teachers are white but 50% of students are not. He is offering a full ride to college for any POC who will commit to teaching for five years in a Virginia public school.

This is a brilliant idea, and I hope it is the first executive order he will sign once in the governor’s seat. He will have widespread support from the teacher’s groups, school boards, and parents who want their children taught by a more diverse group of teachers fully committed — for five years— to public education.

Thank you Governor McAuliffe.

I have an idea! Hire and promote teachers based on excellent teaching skills regardless of identity politics. Good grief. No wonder Youngkin is polling so well.

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Is what McAuliffe promised to pay for college for POC only? That's not what he said, he said:

"If you go teach in Virginia for five years in a high-demand area — that could be geographic, it could be course work — we will pay room, board, tuition, any college, any university, or any HBCU here in Virginia."

There's nothing there about limiting it based on race, just paying tuition for anyone who wants to go to college in Virginia and then work in a high demand area.

It seems like the narrative taking hold in this thread isn't based on what was actually said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the GOP has such problems with school boards in nova, why not elect candidates more in line with their values? Oh wait. The can’t.

The fcps school board has 4 year terms. I believe the lcps is similar, but I don't know their specifics.

The current school board was elected in 2019, prior to the pandemic. They were elected on an overwhelming anti trump vote, not on school or local issues.

They were nominated through a flawed local democrat nomination process that pushed out all of the centrist, moderate and experienced democrats. Many of the people who were nominated at the party level were the most extreme people running. Many of them have no experience in school issues. Several of them were simply activits who have no interest in education and are using the school board as a stepping stone for political office. Two of them are childless. One of them is on the school board to advocate for dogs over children. In spite of this, they got in on the anti trump vote by voters who were uniformed, not paying attention, and voting the dem sample ballot.

Their term ends in 2023. We are stuck with this unqualified, activist, radical group that do not represent most democrat parents and who got in because uninformed voters who were not paying attention just assumed their fairfax dem party put forth the best candidates. If they had paid attention to who their party nominated, we would have a much stronger and more competent left but moderate school board without these issues.

During the pandemic, parents everywhere got a front row seat to the hard left swing of the schools and school boards.

They started paying attention.

This school board would never have made it past the dem nomination process if parents had been paying attention.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no Republican squirrel.

This conflict is entirely a product of the left wing movement to change the way history is taught and to push doctrine - like through so-called anti-racist instruction - into public school curriculums. Of course this will rightfully generate pushback. Right or wrong, this is entirely driven by force on the left.

If this was just about teaching slavery, Jim Crow, and the effects of slavery and discrimination on communities to this day, we'd not be in this situation.

Exactly. It's the next part that's so disgusting. "Now that you agree that you're an oppressor because you're white, what are you willing to give up as retribution?"

[Anonymous]

Now that Jeff has willingly revealed himself as far left, perhaps it's time for this site to be renamed DCWM (DC Woke Moms and Dads).

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Now that Jeff has willingly revealed himself as far left, perhaps it's time for this site to be renamed DCWM (DC Woke Moms and Dads).

Oh no, my secret is revealed. After 15 years of practically shouting about my political leanings, it took this guy to figure things out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now that Jeff has willingly revealed himself as far left, perhaps it's time for this site to be renamed DCWM (DC Woke Moms and Dads).

DP. Jeff is a leftie - he also signs his posts and doesn't post anonymously.

It's not always great for a moderator to be active on a forum, especially one with strong views about anything. But the way this forum is structured, without usernames, means that those issues of favoritism from moderators, doesn't exist.

Post or don't post but don't think that Jeff is seeking to create a left or a woke forum. He isn't and it isn't.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now that Jeff has willingly revealed himself as far left, perhaps it's time for this site to be renamed DCWM (DC Woke Moms and Dads).

Oh no, my secret is revealed. After 15 years of practically shouting about my political leanings, it took this guy to figure things out.

I hope you got a bit of a chuckle about Capt, Obvious’s post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no Republican squirrel.

This conflict is entirely a product of the left wing movement to change the way history is taught and to push doctrine - like through so-called anti-racist instruction - into public school curriculums. Of course this will rightfully generate pushback. Right or wrong, this is entirely driven by force on the left.

If this was just about teaching slavery, Jim Crow, and the effects of slavery and discrimination on communities to this day, we'd not be in this situation.

Exactly. It's the next part that's so disgusting. "Now that you agree that you're an oppressor because you're white, what are you willing to give up as retribution?"

Nobody is coming for your material things, ma’am/sir. I think most people just want to begin examining our past more critically so we can push our way out of a systemically racist system

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jeff, your post, I believe, misidentifies the true issue in Loudoun, as have so many across the political spectrums. The Commonwealth attorney chose to prosecute Mr. Smith, knowing that his daughter was assaulted in a bathroom at school, and he was at a school board meeting to highlight his daughter's assault and the school system's shortcomings in addressing and investigating the crime. Using prosecutorial discretion as a political hit job should make every American uneasy. That is not a squirrel.

As I wrote in my post, at the time of the June 22 meeting at which Smith was arrested, the Loudoun County Sheriff's department had not completed its investigation of the May 28 assault. That investigation would not be completed until July 8. LCPS has a policy not to investigate crimes until the Sheriff has completed its investigation. As such, Smith's complaint should have been directed to the Sheriff rather than the school board.

By his own lawyer's admission, during the board meeting Smith argued loudly, clenched his fist, leaned toward the woman with whom he was arguing, and swore at her. When police attempted to remove him from the meeting, he resisted. That resulted in officers dragging him outside the room where he continued struggling and threatened to kick the officers' teeth out. He was charged that evening with two misdemeanors. At that time the prosecutor likely had not yet have been presented with any information about his daughter's assault that was still under police investigation. While there is some evidence that the prosecutor might have viewed Smith's case as an example of the string of violent incidents occurring at school board meetings, there is no evidence to suggest he was being punished for attempting to bring attention to his daughter's assault. I don't agree with you that the prosecution was a "political hit job".

Re: the bolded - the woman was screaming at him that he was lying about his daughter being raped. I think I would have reacted exactly the same way.

+1. I love all the holier than thou people acting like if someone had hurt their child they wouldn't act unseemly in any way lol. Give me a break. Of course violence is never the answer but acting like he's a terrorists because he flipped out trying to get answers and be heard about his DAUGHTER BEING RAPED and then hearing someone say he was lying, is just insane and absolutely dishonest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now that Jeff has willingly revealed himself as far left, perhaps it's time for this site to be renamed DCWM (DC Woke Moms and Dads).

Will that keep the RWNJ trolls away?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no Republican squirrel.

This conflict is entirely a product of the left wing movement to change the way history is taught and to push doctrine - like through so-called anti-racist instruction - into public school curriculums. Of course this will rightfully generate pushback. Right or wrong, this is entirely driven by force on the left.

If this was just about teaching slavery, Jim Crow, and the effects of slavery and discrimination on communities to this day, we'd not be in this situation.

Yes, this absolutely is a Republican-invented squirrel. The sky is blue, but Republicans are insisting that the sky is red, that Democrats made it that way, and that they alone will change it back to blue. Saying that this is entirely driven by the left - to put it bluntly - completely bonkers.