Category: Anger

Tempers flare as Lee County Republican Party members attempt school board takeover

Tempers flare as Lee County Republican Party members attempt school board takeover

This is the county I live in.  As I said before Florida is a divided state, but the minority Republican party try to rule it by force of intimidation, gerrymandering, and voter suppression.   The Republican party under DeathSantis is a gang of thugs.  We are very much in a dangerous time in the US and it looks like the republican media arm of rabid right misinformation / misdirection will convince the people angry at gas prices and inflation that it is Biden’s fault.  The truth is both inflation and price increases are worldwide, and a lot of the price increases is price gouging.  Oil companies admit they love rolling in the profits.   But notice that these elections are supposed to be non-partisan and focused on the needs of the students, but instead the republicans are trying to gain control to make it about election power.    Hugs 

LEE COUNTY, Fla. — Some members of the Lee County Republican Party openly admitted they’re trying to take over the Lee County School Board during the upcoming elections.

That’s despite the fact the races in Florida are non-partisan. If you’ve seen the school board meetings over the last two years you know they’ve been contentious and at times violent.

But that isn’t stopping Republicans from trying to control the school board.

Conservative Republican Political Consultant Terry Miller pointed out that there are seven members of the school board and only three are republican in a county where every partisan race is held by a Republican.

 

He admits he wants to overhaul the board.

“What I’m doing is bringing forward conservative leadership for a conservative community,” Miller said.

He didn’t deny he was helping wage a culture war campaign

“There are aspects of that in the culture war because of the things you see happening on the school board,” Miller responded.

He’s backing Conservatives like Dan Severson.

“I’m talking about gender grooming and talking about very sensitive issues that should be family based,” Severson was stressing LGBTQ issues.

Many LGBTQ students in Southwest Florida schools reported feeling under attack.

“Because they feel like victims now they have the ability to use that a leverage to get privileged treatment,” Severson responded.

Jason “Big Mamma” Jones said no one should be attacked or bullied in the school system no matter who they are.

Jones is Severson’s republican competitor known fondly as “Big Momma” on the radio.

“I’m endorsed by sheriff Carmine Marceno. I’m endorsed by the Hispanic vote and I’m endorsed by Mayor Devin Anderson of Fort Myers,” he noted.

Both of his endorsements are republicans which signifies a split in the party.

They’re trying to unseat incumbent Debbie Jordan who believes school board races should be non-partisan and the focus should always remain on the children and not politics.

“It is a non-partisan race but there are different ways of achieving things and for me it’s following the conservative mind set,” replied candidate Sam Fisher.

Fisher is another one of Miller’s candidates who is up against two other republicans.

Kathy Fanny is also running for school board and she stressed politics has no place in the school race and she wants party affiliation left out of it.

“The curriculum is not partisan and to make it so would under serve our school population,” Fanny said.

All of the openly republican candidates also said they support electing the next school superintendent.

That is an issue voters will decide in November.

White Supremacist Group’s Founder Among The 31 Arrested For Conspiracy To Riot At Idaho Pride Event

White Supremacist Group’s Founder Among The 31 Arrested For Conspiracy To Riot At Idaho Pride Event

The Washington Post reports:

Police in Idaho arrested 31 people who had face coverings, white-supremacist insignia, shields and an “operations plan” to riot near an LGBTQ Pride event on Saturday afternoon. Police said they were affiliated with Patriot Front, a white-supremacist group whose founder was among those arrested.

Authorities received a tip about a “little army” loading into a U-Haul truck at a hotel Saturday afternoon, said Lee White, the police chief in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, a city of about 50,000 near the border with Washington. Local and state law enforcement pulled over the truck about 10 minutes later, White said at a news conference.

Many of those arrested were wearing logos representing Patriot Front, which rebranded after one of its members plowed his car into a crowd of people protesting a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville in 2017, killing Heather Heyer and injuring dozens.

The Associated Press reports:

The men were standing inside the truck wearing khakis, navy blue shirts and beige hats with white balaclavas covering their faces when Coeur d’Alene police stopped the U-Haul and began arresting them on the side of the road.

“They came to riot downtown,” Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White said at a news conference. All 31 were charged with conspiracy to riot, a misdemeanor, White said. The men were going through the booking process Saturday afternoon and are scheduled to be arraigned on Monday, he said.

Police led the men, one by one, to the front of patrol cars, took off their masks and then brought them to a police van. The group’s manifesto calls for the formation of a white ethnostate in the United States, the Southern Poverty Law Center said.

Right wingers and Trump cultists are flooding social media with their usual claims that Patriot Front is a secret FBI operation to make them look bad.

Patriot Front first appeared on JMG in February 2020 when over 150 members chanted “reclaim America” as they marched through Washington DC.

We heard from them again last summer when they were chased back to their U-Haul by counter-protesters in downtown Philadelphia.

They marched again in Washington DC in December 2021 before crashing January 2022 anti-abortion rallies in Chicago and Washington DC.

 

JoeMyGodMod • an hour ago • edited

As a reminder, it was GOP Idaho state Rep. Heather Scott who first invited a local biker gang to protest the Pride event. The biker gang, in turn, contacted Patriot Front.

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Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊 JoeMyGod • an hour ago • edited

She’s everything you could expect her to be, and more.
In 2015 Scott is reported to have cut wires which were part of the fire-suppression system in her office. Scott believed at the time that the wires were in fact listening devices planted to spy on her. The wire-cutting incident was witnessed by other Idaho House members.

In August 2017, Scott defended white nationalism on her Facebook page. She reportedly said, “The way the media has set this up, the mention of white nationalist, which is no more than a Caucasian who (sic) for the Constitution and making America great again, and confusing it with term, ‘white supremacist’ which is extreme racism. Therefore, if one is ‘guilty’ of being white, one is clearly racist.”

At the start of the 2017 legislative session, Scott reportedly made a remark to fellow state representative Judy Boyle, upon learning of her appointment to the state legislature’s agriculture committee. The reported comment was that female lawmakers obtain ranking committee appointments and other leadership positions only if they “spread their legs.” The alleged comment received widespread rebuke from other state lawmakers.

In the 2019 legislative session, Scott sponsored a bill that would have required Idaho’s Child Protective Services to mirandize parents before assessing them or their children. After passing the House, the bill was held in committee in the Senate.

In 2019, it was reported that Scott was a member of the Coalition of Western States (COWS), a group founded by Washington state representative Matt Shea that has been accused of involvement in domestic terrorism.

In 2020, she dismissed the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming the virus was trying to kill the U.S. Constitution and “The lying, Trump-hating media who continues to push global and socialist agendas has told us that there is an emergency.”

In February 2021 Scott had a Zoom meeting with constituents about gun rights, the 2021 United States Capitol attack, and free speech.

In April 2021 it was reported that Scott claimed the book To Kill a Mockingbird was an example of critical race theory in schools.

In 2021, Scott sought a copy of the police report accusing fellow state republican Aaron von Ehlinger of rape and asked the victim’s legal representative how a person who files a false police report alleging sexual assault could be charged with a crime.

JoeMyGodMod • an hour ago

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weshlovrcm • 43 minutes ago

A White supremacist, far-right fascist terrorist attack was averted here. How many won’t be caught in the future?

Pennsylvania Reps Plan To Intro “Don’t Say Gay” Bill

Pennsylvania Reps Plan To Intro “Don’t Say Gay” Bill

Harrisburg’s ABC News affiliate reports:

Two Pennsylvania lawmakers plan to introduce a bill “to address discussions of gender identity and sexual orientation in Pennsylvania schools.”

State Senators Scott Martin [photo] and Ryan Aument, both Republicans representing Lancaster County, say the bill would pertain to age-inappropriate conversations in elementary schools.

According to the senators, the proposal would prohibit classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation for pre-kindergarten through fifth grade students and require public schools to develop a policy for notifying parents when there is a change to a student’s services or monitoring.

Read the full article.

Martin and Augment claim their bill would exempt LGBTQ students from the parental notice requirement if it can be “reasonably demonstrated” that doing so would put them in danger of “abuse or abandonment.” Yeah.

Martin, who dropped his bid for governor in March, authored the state Senate bill against transgender student athletes. The bill, which passed this week, has zero chance of being signed by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf.

Ragnar_Lothbrok • 13 hours ago

We like small Govt and freedom!
And We love telling people what to do.

Now DO IT or we will kill you!

Paula • 12 hours ago

You’re free to think and believe anything you want to. As long as it what we believe, too.

Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊 Paula • 12 hours ago

You’re free to raise your children any way you want, as long as it’s conservative and xian.

Armed Extremists Menace Idaho Pride Event, White Nationalist “Patriot Front” Mob Arrested By Riot Police

Armed Extremists Menace Idaho Pride Event, White Nationalist “Patriot Front” Mob Arrested By Riot Police

From a June 3rd report by the New Republic:

In the last month, two very different videos, both threatening to confront Pride celebrations with armed protest or “hunting” LGBTQ people and allies, have raised fears of how Republicans in state legislatures have enabled an environment for anti-LGBTQ violence and emboldened far-right extremists.

At the end of April, GOP Idaho state Rep. Heather Scott held an event billed as a talk on removing “inappropriate materials” from libraries and schools. She warned of an ongoing “war of perversion against our children” by the LGBTQ community, then invited two members of the Panhandle Patriots Riding Club to the stage.

Spokane’s NBC News affiliate reports:

In their video, the rhetoric used by Panhandle patriots was seemingly calling for violence, stating, “We’re having an event the very same day. That very same day, we actually intend to go head to head with these people. A line must be drawn in the sand.

“Good people need to stand up. She was talking about the repercussions⁠—we say damn the repercussions. Stand up, take it to the head. Go to the fight.”

On Facebook, the PPRC advertised the event with the quote, “If they want to have a war, let it begin here,” and encouraged people coming to carry firearms.

NOTE: Tweets below by the “Idaho Tribune” are actually from a far-right website. Give it a minute for all of the tweets to fully load.

 

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Todd20036 JoeMyGod • 4 hours ago

No argument. And the only reason they didn’t feel empowered enough to fire indiscriminately into an LBGT+ crowd is because our government isn’t red yet

Rocco JoeMyGod • 4 hours ago

Well said. Your comment should be posted all over LGBT world. We’ve seen this before. They can be stopped now, but it will take substantial effort. They are very clear with their agenda. The next two election cycles will tell us where stand as a country and LGBT people. These people are increasingly emboldened and our peeps are a high value target. This is an existential threat. Ignore it at your peril.

Randy Left Brooklyn • 5 hours ago

It is noteworthy that the gay pride people are showing their faces but the fascists are wearing full face masks.

K Elmquist Randy503 • 4 hours ago

Somehow it’s OK to wear a mask to this event buy it’s not OK for them to wear a mask in a grocery store. Go Figure.

JoeMyGodMod • 5 hours ago

The above-mentioned Rep. Heather Scott appeared on JMG last year when she compared COVID protocols to Nazism. And now she’s invited literal Nazis to menace Pride events.

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Adam Schmidt Yalma Cuder-Zicci • 4 hours ago

They want to go back to when women stayed home and served their husbands, the only thing gay on TV was Uncle Milty and he was to be laughed at not with, you could beat a fag and people would cheer you for it, and people of color (I won’t use their word) knew their place.

another_steve • 5 hours ago

And why, puppies, do you think we’re seeing this kind of stuff today?

Answer: Today’s Republican Party.

Today’s Republican Party is a domestic terrorism organization.

Question for Fla. Republican senator: You OK with Proud Boys on Miami-Dade GOP exec committee?

https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2022/06/11/question-for-fla-republican-senator-you-ok-with-proud-boys-members-on-miami-dade-gop-exec-committee/

A former Republican lawmaker is calling for a former Republican senator and Miami-Dade Commissioner to take action to remove members of the far-right group Proud Boys from the Miami-Dade GOP Executive Committee.

Seven current or former Proud Boys are members of the Miami-Dade GOP Executive Committee.

J.C. Planas, a former Republican lawmaker, tweeted Friday. “I publicly call on my friend Sen. Rene Garcia to remove all Proud Boys from the Miami-Dade County Republican Executive Committee.”

“It is to the benefit of the Republican party and to the benefit of America that these extremist elements are excised from the Republican party,” Planas said.

Garcia, the local GOP Chairman, didn’t call Local 10 News back Friday about the Proud Boys membership.

Republican Senator Marco Rubio was at a joint appearance with Republican Senator Rick Scott in Doral Friday.

We asked Rubio if he was OK with Proud Boys serving on the Miami-Dade GOP committee.

“Well, when you ask me about the Communists and Socialists that are part of the local Democratic party, then we can talk about members of the Republican party.”

It was also an opportunity to query both about what they thought of Thursday’s prime-time hearing on the Jan. 6 Insurrection.

“I didn’t watch it, it’s a joke. If somebody committed a crime on Jan. 6, the justice department should charge them and that’s what’s happening now,” Rubio said.

Scott noted the committee hired a network news executive to make it good TV.

“This is a complete charade produced by an ABC reporter for TV. It’s like reality TV,” Scott said.

It was reality television, but for real and true. Documentary footage showed Proud Boys ominously marching on the mall and Henry “Enrique” Tarrio of Miami, the former national chairman of Proud Boys secretly meeting with Oath Keepers, a far-right anti-government militia group, before the assault.

(((heleninedinburgh))) • 11 hours ago

So because some Democrats describe themselves as Socialists, it’s ok for the Miami republican party to be run by white nationalist thugs.
Great stuff.

jk105 • 11 hours ago

Kissing up to Proud Boys is Lil Marco’s only way to make news these days. His Republican star has fallen.

Librarykid alguien • 10 hours ago

They are just trigger words to appeal to the Cubans in FL.

Furious Texas Paul Reveals TERROR CELL Inside the GOP

Texas Paul exposes how the Republican Party has been overtaken and co-opted by actual domestic terrorist groups across the country, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s ties and defense of the Proud Boys.

Liberal Redneck – First January 6 Committee Hearing Takeaways

Well the first big bombshell hearing was last night and there was some worthwhile stuff to be sure, but are the right people going to see it? Will they care? (Also I had eye surgery but I’m fine and they will eventually look normal again.)

Tucker Carlson HUMILIATES himself with dumbest comment of the year

Texas Parents Reported For Child Abuse For Loving Their Transgender Son

A Texas transgender teen was admitted to a hospital after a suicide attempt, and instead of treating him with the proper care, the hospital reported his parents to the state government for child abuse. The teen, Antonio, even cited Greg Abbott’s anti-trans laws as a factor in his suicide attempt, in addition to bullying from classmates who were galvanized by Abbott’s and the Republican’s transphobic rhetoric. Cenk Uygur, Jayar Jackson, and Jessica Burbank discuss on The Young Turks.

Read more HERE: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06/t…

“On Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit on behalf of three families challenging Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent call for the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate parents who provide gender-affirming healthcare to transgender kids, and to block the state from investigating members of PFLAG.

The lawsuit cites a particularly disturbing case in which a transgender boy whose family was reported to the state’s DFPS by hospital staff after he was admitted for attempting suicide after he took a bottle of aspirin.

According to the lawsuit, 16-year-old Antonio Voe “said that the political environment, including Abbott’s Letter, and being misgendered at school, led him to take these actions.”

When hospital staff learned he had been receiving hormone therapy, they reported his family to the DFPS.”

QAnon Ginni Pushed 29 AZ Reps To Back Fake Electors

QAnon Ginni Pushed 29 AZ Reps To Back Fake Electors

The Washington Post reports: 

Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed 29 Republican state lawmakers in Arizona — 27 more than previously known — to set aside Joe Biden’s popular vote victory and “choose” presidential electors, according to emails obtained by The Washington Post.

Thomas sent the messages using FreeRoots, an online platform intended to make it easy to send pre-written emails to multiple elected officials. New documents show that Thomas used the platform to reach many lawmakers simultaneously.

On Nov. 9, she sent identical emails to 20 members of the Arizona House and seven Arizona state senators. That represents more than half of the Republican members of the state legislature at the time.

Read the full article.

 

Max-1 🔫+cult(R)=☠️ • 5 hours ago

It appears that members from all three branches of our federal government sought to chop the tree of liberty down.

Tomcat • 5 hours ago

They should take her SCOTUS judgeship away from her. And don’t tell me she does not wear the pants in that family.

Elagabalus • 5 hours ago • edited

Thought experiment: imagine if Kevin Noonan, Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s ex-spouse, had done exactly what Ginni Thomas did, to the benefit of a Democrat running for president. Every last Republican head would’ve simultaneously exploded and the pressure on Sotomayor to retire would have been so extreme that she would’ve been left with no choice but to recuse herself permanently from the bench.

Our side needs to learn how to rant, rave, and scream as much as Republicans. The squeaky wheel always gets the oil and we’re not nearly squeaky enough.