GOP endorsed school board candidates

[Anonymous]

It doesn’t make you anti-trans to think trans issues need not be the main focus of the SB 24/7.

After listening to Omeish last night objecting to honoring victims of Hamas terrorism, though, I can understand why you’d want to look for ways to demonize GOP-endorsed candidates (even when their emphasis has consistently been on the need to make academics the top priority again).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t make you anti-trans to think trans issues need not be the main focus of the SB 24/7.

After listening to Omeish last night objecting to honoring victims of Hamas terrorism, though, I can understand why you’d want to look for ways to demonize GOP-endorsed candidates (even when their emphasis has consistently been on the need to make academics the top priority again).

Trans issues aren’t the focus 24/7 so no worries there.

We don’t need another white nationalist anti-trans school board member like Schultz.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t make you anti-trans to think trans issues need not be the main focus of the SB 24/7.

After listening to Omeish last night objecting to honoring victims of Hamas terrorism, though, I can understand why you’d want to look for ways to demonize GOP-endorsed candidates (even when their emphasis has consistently been on the need to make academics the top priority again).

Trans issues aren’t the focus 24/7 so no worries there.

We don’t need another white nationalist anti-trans school board member like Schultz.

You’re right. The current SB members are too lazy to ever put in that much time. More like 6/5 than 24/7.

And we’d have been so much better off the past four years if we’d had someone like Schultz around to keep these folks in check.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t make you anti-trans to think trans issues need not be the main focus of the SB 24/7.

After listening to Omeish last night objecting to honoring victims of Hamas terrorism, though, I can understand why you’d want to look for ways to demonize GOP-endorsed candidates (even when their emphasis has consistently been on the need to make academics the top priority again).

Trans issues aren’t the focus 24/7 so no worries there.

We don’t need another white nationalist anti-trans school board member like Schultz.

You’re right. The current SB members are too lazy to ever put in that much time. More like 6/5 than 24/7.

And we’d have been so much better off the past four years if we’d had someone like Schultz around to keep these folks in check.

Schultz didn’t accomplish anything and certainly didn’t check anything. She whined on WMAL and Fox News while skipping more meetings than any other member. Thank god the voters tossed her out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t make you anti-trans to think trans issues need not be the main focus of the SB 24/7.

After listening to Omeish last night objecting to honoring victims of Hamas terrorism, though, I can understand why you’d want to look for ways to demonize GOP-endorsed candidates (even when their emphasis has consistently been on the need to make academics the top priority again).

Trans issues aren’t the focus 24/7 so no worries there.

We don’t need another white nationalist anti-trans school board member like Schultz.

You’re right. The current SB members are too lazy to ever put in that much time. More like 6/5 than 24/7.

And we’d have been so much better off the past four years if we’d had someone like Schultz around to keep these folks in check.

Schultz didn’t accomplish anything and certainly didn’t check anything. She whined on WMAL and Fox News while skipping more meetings than any other member. Thank god the voters tossed her out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/the-outspoken-conservative-riling-the-fairfax-county-school-board/2015/07/06/096e3fe8-20e0-11e5-aeb9-a411a84c9d55_story.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t make you anti-trans to think trans issues need not be the main focus of the SB 24/7.

After listening to Omeish last night objecting to honoring victims of Hamas terrorism, though, I can understand why you’d want to look for ways to demonize GOP-endorsed candidates (even when their emphasis has consistently been on the need to make academics the top priority again).

Trans issues aren’t the focus 24/7 so no worries there.

We don’t need another white nationalist anti-trans school board member like Schultz.

You’re right. The current SB members are too lazy to ever put in that much time. More like 6/5 than 24/7.

And we’d have been so much better off the past four years if we’d had someone like Schultz around to keep these folks in check.

Schultz didn’t accomplish anything and certainly didn’t check anything. She whined on WMAL and Fox News while skipping more meetings than any other member. Thank god the voters tossed her out.

My only experience with Schultz was at community meetings/events and observing a school board meeting pre pandemic.

At the meeting we attended, she was the only member at that meeting who addressed budgets, policies, open meeting requirements and academics. Several times she pointed out in the meeting that what the school board wanted to do violated district policies, then cited the specific policies.

That was my only experience as a FCPS parent and the school board, as well as seeing Schultz in action in her professional setting. I am sure she had her flaws, as they all do. But strictly in terms of a school board member advocating for parents, students and following district policy/budgets, she was the best one of the bunch. The Springfield district could (and did) do much worse in their choices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t make you anti-trans to think trans issues need not be the main focus of the SB 24/7.

After listening to Omeish last night objecting to honoring victims of Hamas terrorism, though, I can understand why you’d want to look for ways to demonize GOP-endorsed candidates (even when their emphasis has consistently been on the need to make academics the top priority again).

Trans issues aren’t the focus 24/7 so no worries there.

We don’t need another white nationalist anti-trans school board member like Schultz.

How about someone like this instead?
https://www.foxnews.com/media/virginia-board-member-brags-about-using-taxpayers-3b-muslim-power-pushing-palestine-agenda-schools

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So the OP of this thread is essentially admitting the premise of the thread was entirely farcical, created by a left wing activist to bait and fight with moderates and centrist dems who are looking for a balance in the ideological make up of the school board, and who might be considering alternatives to the D sample ballot.

Most of this thread has been dominated by far left blue Virginia types, who have no arguments or positions to defend, only slurs and insults.

I am not sure that this thread is going the way the left wing activists intended. Moderates tend to not like being insulted by politicsl activists nor are they big fans of insults as a substitute for debate of ideas.

+1000.

The funny thing is everyone knows the Democrats will almost surely retain a majority on the SB. But people like OP are so insistent on having total control and squelching any competing perspectives that they immediately call people “stupid” and pepper them with other insults when anyone suggests some contrary views might actually lead to better outcomes. They are big fans of diversity, except when it might be diversity of opinion.

Diversity of thought is fine when it’s not an irrational disruptor trying to tear everything down. Please refer to Republicans in Congress. We don’t need chaos on the school board.

Or another Elizabeth Schultz.

+1. People seem to forget that school board members don’t just vote on stuff, they are also supposed to respond to community concerns. Things people like Elizabeth Schultz did terrible job at!

Elizabeth Schultz was actually one of the best representstives for responding to community concerns. She was very responsive and regularly advocated for people in her district. People didn't like her non- fcps related trumpy type positions. But strictly on school related issues, she was fantastic.

One example is the Daventry rezoning. She worked with the Daventry families to help eliminate the handful of West Springfield Elementary zoned streets that were a split feeder to Lewis (zoned for Irving for middle school). Most of the women who worked with Elizabeth Schultz on that rezoning project were very much not from her political party and likely voted for Laura Jane in the subsequent election, but she put constituents before party politics and helped them advance the rezoning of their streets.

Elizabeth Schultz was a good school board member who got booted over anti trump sentiment and alsl McDaniels pulling just enough republican votes to tip the vote to Cohen. In any other year pre trump, Schultz would have been reelected easily. She was a good school board member, in the right place but at the wrong time.

She was absolutely horrible.

Most voters do NOT want another pro-White nationalist and anti-LBGQT school board member.

https://bluevirginia.us/2022/01/what-is-glenn-youngkins-pick-for-a-top-level-education-post-hard-right-winger-elizabeth-schultz-hiding-by-deleting-her-thinkschultz-twitter-account

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/fairfax-county-school-board-member-criticized-tweet-link-article-claiming-transgender-men-struggle-mental-illness/1979476/?amp=1

No. "Most voters" want an end to the LWNJ looniness that has monopolized this SB. Schultz was not any of the things you claim. Idiot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Blue Virginia is a trash site run by a slimy sycophant who sucks up to every Democrat whose name isn’t Chap Petersen. Zero credibility.

As for the NBC article, thanks for making clear the only issue that matters to some local Ds are trans issues. Some of us care more about academics than providing biological males with access to girls bathrooms.

Of course that’s not the “only issue that matters”.

The point was we don’t need another white nationalist anti-trans school board member.

You're the troll who spams this thread with garbage in the middle of the night. No one is taking your nonsense seriously, but your desperation to smear people you disagree with is noted.
DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t make you anti-trans to think trans issues need not be the main focus of the SB 24/7.

After listening to Omeish last night objecting to honoring victims of Hamas terrorism, though, I can understand why you’d want to look for ways to demonize GOP-endorsed candidates (even when their emphasis has consistently been on the need to make academics the top priority again).

+100
The troll who is laser-focused on trans issues is only cementing my intent to vote this absurd school board out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t make you anti-trans to think trans issues need not be the main focus of the SB 24/7.

After listening to Omeish last night objecting to honoring victims of Hamas terrorism, though, I can understand why you’d want to look for ways to demonize GOP-endorsed candidates (even when their emphasis has consistently been on the need to make academics the top priority again).

Trans issues aren’t the focus 24/7 so no worries there.

We don’t need another white nationalist anti-trans school board member like Schultz.

You’re right. The current SB members are too lazy to ever put in that much time. More like 6/5 than 24/7.

And we’d have been so much better off the past four years if we’d had someone like Schultz around to keep these folks in check.

Completely agree. What we have now are 12 LWNJs. No thank you.
DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t make you anti-trans to think trans issues need not be the main focus of the SB 24/7.

After listening to Omeish last night objecting to honoring victims of Hamas terrorism, though, I can understand why you’d want to look for ways to demonize GOP-endorsed candidates (even when their emphasis has consistently been on the need to make academics the top priority again).

Trans issues aren’t the focus 24/7 so no worries there.

We don’t need another white nationalist anti-trans school board member like Schultz.

You’re right. The current SB members are too lazy to ever put in that much time. More like 6/5 than 24/7.

And we’d have been so much better off the past four years if we’d had someone like Schultz around to keep these folks in check.

Schultz didn’t accomplish anything and certainly didn’t check anything. She whined on WMAL and Fox News while skipping more meetings than any other member. Thank god the voters tossed her out.

My only experience with Schultz was at community meetings/events and observing a school board meeting pre pandemic.

At the meeting we attended, she was the only member at that meeting who addressed budgets, policies, open meeting requirements and academics. Several times she pointed out in the meeting that what the school board wanted to do violated district policies, then cited the specific policies.

That was my only experience as a FCPS parent and the school board, as well as seeing Schultz in action in her professional setting. I am sure she had her flaws, as they all do. But strictly in terms of a school board member advocating for parents, students and following district policy/budgets, she was the best one of the bunch. The Springfield district could (and did) do much worse in their choices.

THIS ^^

[Anonymous]

I just spent an hour researching all of the candidates for SB, making sure I don't mistakenly cast a vote for anyone endorsed by VA Dems.

[Anonymous]

I would easily take Saundra Davis, Cassandra AuCoin, Paul Gosar and/or Ahmed Hussein for the at-large seats over FCDC-endorsed Ryan McElveen and Kyle McDaniel. Ilryong Moon was a good at-large member and I welcome his return.

I also went to the Dranesville debate this past week and was more impressed by Paul Bartkowski than Robyn Lady. He was not a “fascist” and for someone to come on here and suggest otherwise is really pathetic. Lady (a retired former guidance counselor at Chantilly HS) was fine, but Bartkowski would bring a parent’s perspective to the board that is all too often lacking. And one could also tell that Lady feels obligated, based on her party affiliation, to be an apologist for the current board, whereas Bartkowski would be ready to hit the ground running and take a fresh look at things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would easily take Saundra Davis, Cassandra AuCoin, Paul Gosar and/or Ahmed Hussein for the at-large seats over FCDC-endorsed Ryan McElveen and Kyle McDaniel. Ilryong Moon was a good at-large member and I welcome his return.

I also went to the Dranesville debate this past week and was more impressed by Paul Bartkowski than Robyn Lady. He was not a “fascist” and for someone to come on here and suggest otherwise is really pathetic. Lady (a retired former guidance counselor at Chantilly HS) was fine, but Bartkowski would bring a parent’s perspective to the board that is all too often lacking. And one could also tell that Lady feels obligated, based on her party affiliation, to be an apologist for the current board, whereas Bartkowski would be ready to hit the ground running and take a fresh look at things. [/quote
Agree completely.