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Rhiannon12866

(202,970 posts)
Fri Oct 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Oct 2021

FL County School Board Member Faces Harassment Because Of Covid Policy - Deadline - MSNBC



Jennifer Jenkins, a school board member in Florida’s Brevard County, discusses her experience of being harassed and stalked due to her school board’s mask policy and responds to Senator Josh Hawley’s apparent disregard for the rise of aggression at school board meetings across the country. Aired on 10/14/2021.



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FL County School Board Member Faces Harassment Because Of Covid Policy - Deadline - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Oct 2021 OP
I saw this earlier on the TV. Equomba Oct 2021 #1
This scares me, too - it's now not only acceptable to restrict people from voting, but to intimidate Rhiannon12866 Oct 2021 #2
 

Equomba

(197 posts)
1. I saw this earlier on the TV.
Fri Oct 15, 2021, 12:47 AM
Oct 2021

Totally disgusting... actually BEYOND totally disgusting. And my prediction is we are going to see a lot more of this, culminating in these idiots intimidating voters come next November.

Jenkins stated “I reject that, when they are using their First Amendment rights on public property, they're also going behind my home and brandishing their weapons to my neighbors, that they're making false (Department of Children and Family) claims against me to my daughter, that I have to take a DCF investigator to her playdate to go underneath her clothing and check for burn marks.”

This is a good retort against Josh Hawley...
Ron Filipkowski, a lifelong Republican from Florida who left the party in disgust last year, immediately called out Hawley: "No, Josh. You lying, demagogic, reprehensible fraud. The FBI isn't investigating [Smith.] The FBI is trying to protect people like Jennifer Jenkins. This is her tonight. If you have a tiny trace of soul left in your addled brain, you will watch this. Which means you won't."





Rhiannon12866

(202,970 posts)
2. This scares me, too - it's now not only acceptable to restrict people from voting, but to intimidate
Fri Oct 15, 2021, 01:37 AM
Oct 2021

Poll workers and voting officials and I have no doubt that this will extend to voters. The results of the violent insurrection in January seem to have given those who inexplicably still support TFG permission to emulate them locally. I actually saw a "Trump" banner, left over from last year's election, on a house when I took a back road yesterday. They are incorrigible and they need to be held to account.

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