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pstokely

(10,522 posts)
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 10:47 AM Jan 2018

Parkway School Board candidate refers to Michelle Obama as a giant rat on twitter

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/parkway-school-board-candidate-s-politically-conservative-tweets-alarm-some/article_7c60d3ba-58ab-567b-b433-6ae95e703f34.html
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A Chesterfield resident who is running for the Parkway School Board is coming under fire from some Parkway residents for her social media history.

School board candidate Jeanie Ames has tweeted about banning Islam in the U.S., called herself a “Trump girl” on Facebook and referred to former First Lady Michelle Obama as a “giant rat.”

Ames graduated from Parkway Central High School in 1989, taught at Marion Elementary in the Ritenour School District and served on the PTO for Parkway Central Middle School. She says she wants to ensure “taxpayer stewardship” if elected.

“The good of the district is the only concern on which I would base my decisions,” she wrote in an email to the Post-Dispatch.
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Parkway School Board candidate refers to Michelle Obama as a giant rat on twitter (Original Post) pstokely Jan 2018 OP
It's hilarious how much hate the Obamas get from right and left Blue_Tires Jan 2018 #1
I hate that they're gone for over a year Orrex Jan 2018 #4
So Ames? Do you prefer klan regalia or nazi brownshirt? muntrv Jan 2018 #2
She probably already has a large size robe dalton99a Jan 2018 #5
So she supports repealing the 13th Amendment and 14th and 15th. muntrv Jan 2018 #7
Quite the piece of work that one. She has no business being anywhere near OregonBlue Jan 2018 #3
I wonder how many mercuryblues Jan 2018 #6
What's so sad is often the bigotry is so ingrained, they aren't even aware of it themselves. OregonBlue Jan 2018 #9
"Pretty much sums up my BoE Run." Buns_of_Fire Jan 2018 #8

OregonBlue

(7,753 posts)
3. Quite the piece of work that one. She has no business being anywhere near
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 10:55 AM
Jan 2018

children or education since she is so obviously ignorant and bigoted.

mercuryblues

(14,519 posts)
6. I wonder how many
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 11:25 AM
Jan 2018

minority kids lives she negatively impacted because of her racism.

IE: White kid talks in class, gets a reminder not to.

Minority kid talks in class gets sent to the principal's office

OregonBlue

(7,753 posts)
9. What's so sad is often the bigotry is so ingrained, they aren't even aware of it themselves.
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 12:28 PM
Jan 2018

I had an aunt, who was a Southern Baptist preacher's wife tell me very sincerely that they couldn't possibly be prejudiced because they had lots of "those people" in their church and treated them like everyone else.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,142 posts)
8. "Pretty much sums up my BoE Run."
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 12:20 PM
Jan 2018

So she's fighting for James Woods' right to pee in the Ladies Room? Fine. Better that than anything to do with the education of children.

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