The proud boys are part of the gang of thugs that are the republicans enforcers that intimidate the regular people who don’t want the hateful policies of the right. This is like in the old days we thought long gone where the political parties gloried in their support from the KKK and other violent groups. We were headed away from those times but we got snapped back to them hard because the racist haters couldn’t stand the idea of a black man being in the White House as president. Dogs that love gravy a minority of hateful racist bigots have taken us all hostage and we have to fight back hard. Hugs
As Del. Dan Cox worked the crowd at his primary victory party this summer, a young man wearing a black polo shirt with a Proud Boys insignia offered a handshake and small gift to the newly minted GOP nominee for governor. “Here, this is a present from Maryland Proud Boys to you,” the young man said in video footage publicly posted on a Dan Cox Vimeo account, naming the local chapter of a far-right extremist group with a history of violence.
The footage, posted two months ago, was online Friday morning nestled among other Cox campaign materials, attack ads against Democratic nominee Wes Moore and promotions of Cox’s biography. The clip was removed after The Washington Post contacted the Cox campaign, which responded with a statement denying an association with the young man. “In the noise of the victory celebration, it was hard to hear what was being said,” Cox said in the statement.
Republican Gov. Larry Hogan has ratcheted up the rhetoric about GOP gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox, describing him earlier this week as mentally unstable. https://t.co/J7nC9X5Ox7
Wes Moore, a first-time candidate, emerged from a nine-way race as the winner of the Maryland Democratic primary for governor. He will face off against Dan Cox, a Trump allied election denier.https://t.co/bpSXCNVRU1
Again one science denier thinking he knew more than the medical community and everyone else. Yes I am upset that the other town officials are claiming that they were accepting the reports because they did not understand they were wrong. There are failures all around here, but this is something that most people don’t understand … This is a population of under 4,200 people. I have mentioned that back in the 1960s when they were charged with abusing me, my adoptive parents moved serval times and ended up in a tiny town with more cows than people. In Vermont. The charges went away. Lucky for me a very understanding gay principal of the of my new school quickly recognized my abuse and worked hard to help me. However if you read the article until he got called out, he did fulfill all his job requirements. Just none of his supervisors knew or understood the report number he was giving them and they signed off on. That is their fault not his. The state people did repeatedly over these years call him and tell him of the deficiencies that violated state requirements. He would then bump the Floride up and then lower it again. But the point is that this is one person who thinks they know more than anyone else anywhere and I should get to decide what treatments others get. Sound familiar? He thinks he has the right and knowledge to decide for all the people on that water system and their children than any medical person or medical peer reviewed accepted study. This is the situation we are fighting today with trans kids and vaccines that simply won’t accept the verified medical science. Hugs
A town employee who quietly lowered the fluoride in a Vermont community’s drinking water for years has resigned — and is asserting that the levels had actually been low for much longer than believed.
Richmond water superintendent Kendall Chamberlin disclosed in his five-page resignation letter, submitted Monday, that fluoride levels have not been in the state-recommended range for over a decade — instead of nearly four years, as the state had recently disclosed.
Chamberlin said in his letter — in language that at times echoes unfounded reports that have circulated online in recent years — that he doesn’t think the current fluoridation policy is legally required or scientifically sound, and, in his opinion, poses “unacceptable risks to public health.”
“I cannot in good conscience be a party to this,” he wrote.
Chamberlin wrote that he has never received a negative job review, has each day accurately measured the fluoride levels in the water, and has provided monthly written reports that were approved and signed by the town manager and submitted to two state agencies.
He contends that fluoridation is voluntary and that the amounts are not mandated.
While fluoridating municipal water is voluntary, Vermont towns that do “shall control the level of fluoride” within the state’s specified ranges, according to the state’s water supply rule.
The Vermont Health Department said it does not regulate municipal water systems. It communicated frequently with Chamberlin about the target fluoridation, and “Richmond’s monthly operating reports would show signs of improvement, but levels would drop back off again,” according to Robin Miller, the health department’s director of oral health.
“We worked on good faith that all parties were working toward the same goal,” she said by email.
Months after the discovery that the fluoride added to the water was half the amount recommended by state and federal agencies, the town of Richmond said two weeks ago it would raise levels to be within range.
Town Manager Josh Arneson said Thursday that he will review fluoride levels monthly and that the town’s Water and Sewer Commission will also look at the report.
The original news that the fluoride had been reduced for nearly four years — a much shorter time than Chamberlin revealed in his resignation letter — shocked some residents and area doctors, who raised concerns about misinformation, dental health and government transparency, and said it was not a decision for Chamberlin to make alone.
The addition of fluoride to public drinking water systems has been routine in communities across the United States since the 1940s and 1950s. Many U.S. municipalities and other countries don’t fluoridate water for a variety of reasons, including opposition, feasibility and the ability to get fluoride other ways.
Critics assert that the health effects of fluoride aren’t fully known and that adding it to municipal water can amount to an unwanted medication; some communities in recent years have ended the practice.
The American Dental Association notes on its website that fluoride — along with life-giving substances such as salt, iron and oxygen — can indeed be toxic in large doses.
But in the recommended amounts, fluoride in water decreases cavities or tooth decay by about 25%, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which reported in 2018 that 73% of the U.S. population was served by water systems with adequate fluoride to protect teeth.
I tried to get to the Washington Post article but they wanted a subscription. We have far too many things we need to pay for and I couldn’t in anyway find a way to pay for this. Here is the Joe My God post on it. Hugs
OT (my blog I can do this) Ron got a few minutes to talk to Odies’s vet. He went to talk to them on the way to do the grocery shopping and talked to a desk person and they took the information as the doctor was in a something. Totally understandable they were without power for the same time we were, so appointments were backed up and everything else. The vet called Ron back and explained that the disability could be explained by Odie’s diabetes. Because it started before the evacuation, diminished and got better on our trip, and got horribly worse when we got back in the home and started feeding him all the food he wanted. She said that his diabetes could be causing that. So we bought new insulin since his is very sensitive to temperature. Ron got home with the new insulin for him and the instructions and immediately assigned me the job. I gave a little push back as Ron really has much more medical training than I do, and he gave shots at work. His answer was “He loves you; he trusts you, he always acts like I am hurting him and with you he just lays there accepting it, so I don’t want to do it”. I said OK but if I am not available you will need to do it. As a patient that gets very painful injections into my spine and rock-hard muscles, I understand how much it matters if you trust the person doing it. OK back to the regularly scheduled channel. Hugs
Some of the classified documents recovered by the FBI from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and private club included highly sensitive intelligence regarding Iran and China, according to people familiar with the matter. If shared with others, the people said, such information could expose intelligence-gathering methods that the United States wants to keep hidden from the world.
At least one of the documents seized by the FBI describes Iran’s missile program, according to these people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe an ongoing investigation. Other documents described highly sensitive intelligence work aimed at China, they said.
Unauthorized disclosures of specific information in the documents would pose multiple risks, experts say. People aiding U.S. intelligence efforts could be endangered, and collection methods could be compromised.
It really was the worst possible scenario: some of the classified documents recovered by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago included highly sensitive intelligence regarding Iran and China.
One thing people need to understand is I am pro-science, pro-professional training, pro-advances in society. I support things that make life better for people that are data / science driven. I like facts and data. I do not like and actively argue against lies, misinformation, and bigoty / hate. On trans issues the science is in and clearly proven. Yes some details around the edges may need to be worked on for society which gives the anti-trans haters the room to attack, but the medical science has proven that the issue of gender of a person is not connected to biological sex determination at birth. Sex is not limited to a binary of if it dangles it is male and if not it is female. Both biological sex and gender are a spectrum regardless of how loud the deniers who want to go back to easier simpler times will scream. Those are accepted medical facts. Just like decades of climate change denial was false and lost time in fixing a the issue, so is denying the gender / trans issue. At one time being gay was thought a mental illness, but the medical community researched it and realized it was a normal inborn condition. Society adjusted even though some people still fight against our acceptance to this day. The same will be with trans gender people. But now the right / hating bigots have learned how to use social media and right wing media to mass spread misinformation and scary stuff to the public. That is where we are and what I fight. It is like the Covid deniers / vaccine hate myths / Qanon believers / and bigfoot believers they all don’t accept reality and medical science. Instead they believe lies, myths, misinformation and will fight to the death in their belief. They are wrong! One fact no anti-trans person can argue against is that the major medical organizations support affirmative trans gender care and treatment as best practices and there is decades of use of puberty blockers that show they are safe and reversable. These are facts. The haters scream that puberty blockers are unsafe and cause all the evils in life, but the truth is they have been used in some forms since the 1970s and fully accepted by the medical establishment in 1993. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved puberty blockers in 1993. Nearly 30 years ago and that is after the studies were conducted.
I will have a civil discussion with anyone on the subject of trans gender issues. I will not tolerate slurs or repeated misrepresentations, myths, and lies. Once a subject / issue has been addressed it is not to be repeatedly brought up days later. It has been addressed and done. I won’t allow disinformation and will call out fringe unscientific claims of studies or unfounded fake medical claims. I am about truth and science, the real verifiable data with peer reviewed studies, which so far have all confirmed that gender and biological sex is a spectrum, and that trans gender best practice treatment is the affirmative transition treatment given today. Hugs
Juno Dawson, Joanne Harris and Hannah Graf MBE at the PinkNews Awards 2022. (PinkNews Awards 2022)
Trans icons Hannah Graf MBE and Juno Dawson have slammed well-known public figures and for stoking “uninformed and divisive” views against the trans community.
The pair spoke at the PinkNews Awards 2022, supported by joint headline sponsors Lloyds Banking Group and United Airlines, where they presented the Ally of the Year award to Chocolat author Joanne Harris.
In her speech Graf, a former officer of the British Army, detailed how “vital allies are” and shared how she had felt “isolation and fear” while growing up.
“On a positive note younger trans people, particularly today, we have more role models, more support networks, more understanding of who they are than ever before.
“That support is from parents, friends, organisations like Mermaids, they now have somewhere to turn to and feel that little bit less alone.”
Juno Dawson, Joanne Harris and Hannah Graf. (PinkNews Awards 2022)
But despite the increased support available, Graf highlighted that “trans young folk remain under attack”.
“They are bullied at school by their peers, sometimes even their teachers,” she said.
She added that trans children’s families are often attacked for supporting them and the media “continues to debate their very existence”.
“This becomes truly dangerous when it then gets involved with public figures with huge social media followings, most of whom have never talked to a trans child or their terrified parents.”
She said these figures spout “uninformed and divisive” views, and added: “The mainstream media would have us believe these are innocent concerns vocalised for the good of society, but freedom of speech should not be freedom from consequence.
“For example, the sustained and utterly inexplicable Twitter campaign from a certain author – she who who must not be named – against trans youth charity Mermaids of which I’m a proud patron.”
Graf said the impact of the author’s Twitter campaign has been “truly devastating” and led to the abuse of the charity’s volunteers.
She recalled terrible names the team have been called and said “multiple death threats have been made specially at individuals”, with people’s and addresses and phone numbers also being shared online.
“This is to a charity that has been largely run by mothers, fathers, volunteers, all of who are now afraid for their own safety and the safety of their children.
“I’m sorry, but If your words incite these behaviors then you are accountable,” Graf added.
Hannah Graf MBE (l) and Juno Dawson at the PinkNews Awards 2022. (PinkNews Awards 2022)
Bestselling author Dawson noted the mainstream media “like to create a myth that there is some great ideological divide between cisgender women and trans women”.
She explained that the first people she came out to were all cisgender women and highlighted how if they speak up for their trans brothers and sisters they are “shut down and locked out”.
The duo then presented the Ally of the Year award which went to Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat, who said it was “so wonderful” to finally have a “supportive, wonderful, fabulous community that I understand and that understands me”.
PinkNews’ Ally of the Year Joanne Harris. (PinNews Awards 2022)
She said she didn’t feel she deserved the award as she “only tweeted” and said a few things, so she dedicated the award to her trans son, who came out in June.
Harris was subjected to vicious online abuse this year due to her support for trans people, with one academic claiming people with trans children should be forced to “declare” their family relationships.
“I’m still coming to terms with what that means, but I’m so impressed by this young generation of people who are so incredibly articulate about their gender, their sexuality and their mental health.
“These magical children who don’t need a special hat to tell them who they are, but who have actually worked it out for themselves.”
‘I was a target’
In an interview at the PinkNews Awards 2022, Harris said she started talking about trans issues five years ago but didn’t realise there would be so much “push back”
When her son came out as trans Harris realised “not only was he a target, but so was I”.
“So I thought, damn it, I’m just going to come out and say things as they are. I think it’s important that people understand that this ridiculous media-driven culture war narrative, where the trans people are the enemy, is just so dangerous and so divisive and it absolutely needs to be combatted.”
Harris added there are so many powerful and influential people sharing the anti-trans narrative that it is time “that somebody else stood up and spoke the truth”.
No child or staff of a school should feel unsafe or be without food, comfort, or needed medical care. It is hard enough to learn and some kids have a lot of issue that make it harder for them. Anything that can make it easier for them to process the information learning to thing / reason is something we as adults / a society need to do. Teachers need to feel safe. Teaching is a skill, not everyone can do it or do it well. I use to teach people unfamiliar with operating windows some basics and how to set some settings. I got good at doing this even over the phone. But it takes being able to see in your mind what should be and also what the other person is seeing and talking in a way that limits confusion. I have had great teachers in my life that I still remember what they taught and how they kept me interested and I have had teachers I couldn’t learn from and sleepwalked through the classes. Teachers need to focus on their students and the lessons. The idea that teacher have an easy job and don’t work much is so wrong an entire post could be made to debunk it. Teachers shouldn’t be providing the needs students have for supplies, yet a lot do now. When I was a kid our communities were proud to show how well the local schools were funded and had everything they needed. That is not happening today. Public schools have been starved for so long they are nearly skeletons of their former selves. Education is the way we improve life and progress for all. Our youth / children are the future of our country and they will one day be the leaders of the country, if our 80 and 90 year old will ever step aside. If we don’t want to backslide into a less educated / less progressive time we need to fund public education and treat the idea of schools with the seriousness / importance it needs / should have. These don’t say gay and the removal of supportive acceptance posters / clubs Hugs
More than 80 per cent of LGBTQ+ students reported feeling unsafe at school last year (Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)
More than 80 per cent of LGBTQ+ students across the United States reported feeling unsafe at school in the last year, a new survey has found.
An annual report from the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN), found that 81.8 per cent of LGBTQ+ students surveyed felt unsafe at school because of “at least one of their actual or perceived personal characteristics”, with nearly a fifth of these students (16.2 per cent) reporting that these feelings led them to change schools.
The study, published on Tuesday (18 October), also found 32 per cent of LGBTQ+ students across the US had missed at least one full day of school over concerns for their safety.
Disturbingly, LGBTQ+ students reported experiencing increased high levels of verbal and physical harassment from their peers in the past year, with more than 75 per cent reporting in-person verbal harassment at school due to their sexual orientation or gender identity, and a horrific 12 per cent saying they were physically assaulted in the last year.
GLSEN said the findings indicate “specific school-based supports” including “an LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum and supportive student clubs” are sorely needed in the country.
The organization’s chief of staff Aaron Ridings said findings come at a time when students have reported “a decline in school resources” to tackle LGBTQ+ discrimination, as well as “the COVID-19 pandemic [creating] a period of mass disruption and trauma”.
Supportive resources for LGBTQ+ students have decreased. Harassment has increased. And the majority of LGBTQ+ students don’t feel safe in school. Our latest National School Climate Study shows that now more than ever, students need us.
Teachers in Florida have spoken out about the damaging implications of the bill, with educators fearing “legal action” if they defy the bill to teach children about LGBTQ+ families.
Cory Bernaert, a Florida elementary school teacher, told PinkNews at the time of the bill’s passing that it was hurtful both “personally and professionally”.
“I do feel that teachers are going to be mindful because it is now law, and the last thing that an educator wants to worry about is any sort of legal action taken against them,” he said.
“The fear is there… I don’t blame them. It feels as if we have been bullied.”
Ensure ‘safe and affirming schools’
GLSEN wrote that despite this, an LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum, supportive educators, and LGBTQ+ clubs is a way forward to ensure queer youth feel safe in a school environment.
“Instituting these measures can move us toward a future in which all students have the opportunity to learn and succeed in school, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression,” GLSEN wrote.
“Especially given the decline in LGBTQ+ supports in schools that we found in this year’s report, it is imperative that all who are committed to ensuring safe and affirming schools for all students intensify their efforts in policy, advocacy, and classroom practices.”
Fox lies and misinforms the right base so badly they are not even part of reality the rest of us live in. In the old days people that were this confused and believed in untrue stuff would be shunned and ignored. People would rightly say they have a mental illness or be terminally stupid. But they now are a large part of a major political party and the most reliable voting base of the same political party. They are loud and can be very violent, they are convinced they are not only correct but because they are told it by the only media they consume that they are the majority, and they have the right to force others to do as they demand. All of that is wrong, but it is what they are told and as they won’t check with other media facts don’t matter to them. When a Fox employee asks a question they are not looking for an answer to it but they are framing it so they can build a story / sound bite off it to attack the left / democrats or to further the culture wars they so love to engage in. In this case it backfired, their viewers might have learned right wing media has been lying to them on the oil situation. Hugs
Fox News asked her a question but didn’t show her answer because it “didn’t make any sense.” But someone dug up the video of her answer.
White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre holds a press briefing on Friday, July 30, 2021, in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House.Photo: Official White House Photo by Erin Scott
Fox News said that out Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre gave a nonsensical answer to a Fox reporter, so they weren’t going to even show what she had to say. But what she said made sense… and contradicted Fox’s narrative about gas prices going into the midterm elections.
At yesterday’s White House press briefing, Fox News’s Peter Doocy asked Jean-Pierre about oil companies, which are making record profits as gas prices are high.
“What makes you think that they are going to listen to an administration that is ultimately trying to put them out of business?” Doocy asked.
“How is the administration trying to put them out of business?” Jean-Pierre replied.
“Well, they produce fossil fuels, and this president says he wants to end fossil fuel,” Doocy responded.
At the briefing, that’s when Jean-Pierre gave her full answer. But on Fox News, that’s exactly where they cut off the clip.
“We wanted to show you the rest of her answer but she didn’t make any sense,” Fox host Jesse Watters said.
While Fox News may not have faith that its audience could comprehend her answer, LGBTQ Nation trusts its readers a bit more.
First, Jean-Pierre pointed out that U.S. oil production is “up and on track to reach a record high next year.”
“We’ve seen that from their- from when we see their profit margins,” she continued, adding that they’re at a “record high.”
“And so, in fact, the United States has produced more oil in President Biden’s first year than under Trump’s administration’s first year,” she continued. “But at the same time, oil companies are raking in record profits while more than 9,000 approved drilling permits remain untapped by the oil industry.”
“There is no shortage of opportunity or incentive for all companies to ramp up production. This is something that they can actually do.”
On Twitter, Media Matters’ Kat Abu put the video clips together.
Jesse Watters: “We wanted to show you the rest of her answer but she didn’t make any sense.”
Here’s the rest of Karine Jean-Pierre’s response that Fox News doesn’t want its viewers to see: pic.twitter.com/MVXZJf0r2J
Her statement contradicts Fox’s coverage of gas prices, which has tried to pin the blame for rising gas prices on the Biden administration and “Biden and Pelosi’s far-left socialist agenda,” as one article on Fox’s site put it earlier this month. Fox has regularly said that Biden enraged oil industry executives with his opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, which they also blame for high gas prices. Other commentators on Fox have said – similar to what Doocy implied at the press briefing – that the left actually wants to increase gas prices to force people to use greener energy.
On Twitter, people criticized Fox News for its attack on Jean-Pierre.
If it actually made no sense, they’d be playing it on a loop.
Interferes with the narrative. Can’t have people watching Fox finding out oil and gas companies aren’t producing as much as they possibly can while raking in historical profits.
Cruz knows what the maga base will do next. They will hound this teacher and this school with threats and intimidation until the teacher so afraid for their life they leave voluntarily forever hounded by right wing thugs, or the school in fear has to fire the teacher. LGBTQ+ are being made into villains, sexual predators and made social pariahs by the right including elected officials with the job of protecting all people in the US. Plus what Cruz is mocking is the tolerance, acceptance, and positive way the pregnant teacher is framed by the school. Which is a good thing. The society is changing and should be more accepting of diversity and differences. Medically trans people exist, they are here, they have lives they should live freely and openly, they are not evil or sinful. If you at home want to teach your kids that trans people are sinful or evil fine, but the schools must & should teach non-discrimination against people that are not committing any crime and have legal rights regardless if you think they are evil or sinful. The religious trans haters have a right to their opinion, but not to take actions against people simply because they don’t like them. Hugs
The Republican senator has been roundly criticized for potentially exposing a private citizen to anti-LGBTQ harassment and violence.
Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz Photo: Shutterstock
Texas Sen.Ted Cruz (R) is one of several right-wing figures who invaded the privacy of a pregnant preschool teacher by exposing his name on social media.
Earlier this week, Cruz quote-tweeted a tweet from conservative activist Phil Kerpen that included screenshots of an email from a Washington, D.C., preschool outlining how parents should discuss a trans teacher’s pregnancy with students. Kerpen, who has over 100,000 followers on the platform, included screenshots that mentioned both the name of the school and the teacher.
The email reportedly framed the teacher’s pregnancy in positive terms and advised parents of “kids who may have associations with pregnancy and a certain gender, (‘only girls/moms can have babies’)” to echo the teacher’s own language around his pregnancy: “‘some boys have bodies that can have babies, and I have the kind of body that can have a baby, isn’t that cool?!’” The school also reportedly offered other resources to help facilitate discussions of transgender people, gender identity, and pregnancy with preschool-age children.
Cruz retweeted Kerpen’s post exposing the teacher’s name to his 5.3 million followers with the caption “Not satire.”
Kerpen’s tweet has been deleted, but right-wing media outlets like the Washington Examiner, the Citizen Free Press, and Sinclair Broadcast Group’s The National Desk seized on the story, further exposing the teacher’s name.
Cruz’s tweet, which does not include the name of the teacher or the school, remains up. The senator has been roundly criticized for exposing a private citizen to potential anti-LGBTQ harassment and violence.
Sir, you are a sitting US Senator. You need to behave with the decorum that title demands rather than putting individual citizens in danger for some base points in an imaginary culture war. This is beneath the office you hold. Shame on you. These are real people with families.
Why shouldn't a trans man be a teacher? Why shouldn't a teacher be allowed to get pregnant and bear a child? Why shouldn't students be told what's going on with their teacher so they don't worry?
All y'all "pro-life" folks are really mad about this happy, healthy, pregnancy.
— Russell Zimmerman (abortion is a human right) (@RussellZee) October 19, 2022
this is a private citizen. you're a sitting US senator. what is your problem here
A federal judge in California has ruled that Trump attorney John Eastman must disclose emails to the January 6th Committee. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET.
“A federal judge in California has declared that emails from one of former president Donald Trump’s campaign attorneys should be disclosed to the House January 6 select committee because they pertain to a conspiracy to defraud the United States by submitting false claims as part of his effort to have courts overturn 2020 election results.
In an 18-page opinion and order published on Wednesday, US District Judge David Carter said emails from ex-Chapman University law professor John Eastman must be turned over because they show Mr Trump “knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tout those numbers, both in court and to the public”.
Mr Eastman has for months been fighting to prevent the select committee from obtaining emails related to his involvement in Mr Trump’s push to reverse the results of the 2020 election and keep himself in the White House against the wishes of US voters.
The law professor had argued that the messages are protected by attorney-client privilege.” *
Republican candidate Randy Gene Kaufman has been arrested for publically masturbating in his truck next to a preschool in Arizona. Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET.
“Randy Gene Kaufman, a Trump-loving Republican candidate for the Maricopa County Community College District Governing Board, was arrested for public sexual indecency after he was caught allegedly watching porn and masturbating in his car near a preschool on Oct. 4.
According to an affidavit, a Maricopa County police officer noticed a Ford F-150 parked across three spaces with a shade screen across the front windshield. The officer wrote that he approached the car and “immediately became alarmed as I saw [Kaufman] had his pants down mid-thigh and was exposed showing his fully erect nude penis,” Kaufman was reportedly so engrossed in his activities that he did not notice the officer at his passenger side door until he moved around the car to the drivers side window.
The officer wrote that the car was parked “with a full view of the Wirtzels Preschool and Child Care Center,” about 190 feet away, and that he saw “several preschool age children having outdoor activities in the playground,” as well as vehicles passing within 10 feet of the car.
Kaufman was asked to step out of the vehicle and was questioned by the officer. Kaufman claimed he had been in the area buying rebar and that he didn’t normally do this. “I’m just really stressed out. I have a lot of things going on,” he told the officer, admitting to having been watching intteracial porn in his car. When questioned as to if he knew he was so close to a preschool he responded, “I didn’t notice it until you came up and I got out of my truck.”
“I really fucked up; this is bad. You have no idea, Kauffman told the officer, “I’m running for the Governing Board for the colleges. I didn’t even know this was one of your sites but now I see the signs all over in the parking lot.””
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