Far RW group Moms for Liberty poised to clash w/ teachers unions over school board races nationwide

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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/moms-for-liberty-poised-to-clash-with-teachers-unions-over-school-board-races-nationwide



PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Moms for Liberty, a “parental rights” group that has sought to take over school boards in multiple states, is looking to expand those efforts across the country and to other education posts in 2024 and beyond. The effort is setting up a clash with teachers unions and others on the left who view the group as a toxic presence in public schools.

The group’s co-founder, Tiffany Justice, said during its annual summit over the weekend in Philadelphia that Moms for Liberty will use its political action committee next year to engage in school board races nationwide. It also will “start endorsing at the state board level and elected superintendents.” Her comments confirm that Moms for Liberty, which has spent its first two years inflaming school board meetings with aggressive complaints about instruction on systemic racism and gender identity in the classroom, is developing a larger strategy to overhaul education infrastructure across the country.

As the group has amassed widespread conservative support and donor funding, its focus on education ensures that even as voters turn their attention to the 2024 presidential race, school board elections will remain some of the most contentious political fights next year. Moms for Liberty started with three Florida moms fighting COVID-19 restrictions in 2021. It has quickly ascended as a national player in Republican politics, helped along the way by the board’s political training and close relationships with high-profile GOP groups and lawmakers.

The group’s support for school choice and the “fundamental rights of parents” to direct their children’s education has drawn allies such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a leading GOP presidential contender, and the conservative Heritage Foundation. The group has been labeled an “extremist” organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center for allegedly harassing community members, advancing anti-LGBTQ+ misinformation and fighting to scrub diverse and inclusive material from lesson plans. Justice said in an interview that she and her co-founder, Tina Descovich, were two moms who “had faith in American parents to take back the public education system in America” and that they “fully intend on reclaiming and reforming” that system.

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[NowISeetheLight]

1. Parents

OK.. parents can direct their kids access to certain books and classes. Not ban them for everyone.

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2. Moms for Liberty

Are owned by billionaires as are six members of the Supreme Court.

They are an extremist group. They know not of liberty and Justice for all. They are racists with hearts full of hate and heads full of rocks. They are domestic enemies of the constitution.

Russians have said for almost 80 years, we will destroy you without firing a shot.

[CatWoman]

5. another reincarnation of the Tea Party

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3. Fascists always go for the soft underbelly

They gain footholds by going after local elected offices that Democrats either ignore, or pretend are not important.

We simply have to be better at turnout in those local races, not only because they are vitally important, but also because fascists victories in those races emboldens fascists.

The entire "woke" shit can be traced to Virginia in the first election after the January 6 treason-fest.

Despite being able to still smell the teargas, smoke and blood of Jan 6 waifting across the Potomac, Virginians went to the polls and elected 3 straight-up fascists to the 3 highest statewide offices, mostly due to CRT and School culture wars.

The Retrumplican Party saw that Virginia election a a template to use nationwide.

Throw in hate-radios ability to advertise and drive turnout it the local level, and you get T-Bagger 2.0

We better fucking wake up.

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4. Mom's for Liberty. How long

have they been around? I've recently just heard of them

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7. Moms for Liberty was co-founded in Florida on January 1, 2021, by former school board members Tina

Descovich and Tiffany Justice, and by then-current school board member Bridget Ziegler, the wife of Florida Republican Party Chairman Christian Ziegler.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moms_for_Liberty

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6. The SPLC declared "Klanned Karenhood" a HATE group...

... and rightfully SO.