McAwful will win.

[89th]

Told ya he’d win, I can predict the future you know.

[Jolly]

@89th said in McAwful will win.:

Told ya he’d win, I can predict the future you know.

I think he'll win, too, but he must be getting a little worried...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/this-ad-reveals-how-worried-terry-mcauliffe-is-about-the-virginia-governor-s-race/ar-AAPHPNS?ocid=msedgntp

[89th]

@jolly Oh it's closer than it might otherwise be. Heck, he might even lose if the passion of the turnout is on the GOP side, but still... What's so wrong with that statement that parents shouldn't be telling schools what to teach? Obviously it's not as cut and dry like that, but if the last 18 months have taught me anything, it's that there are a TON of idiots out there, on both sides. Almost like the pandemic has put a flashlight on the floor and we see the idiots scattering into the public arena.

Yes, at the end of the day the parents should have some control over what is being taught (or rather, who is in control of making those decisions), but the idea that the loudest (and most annoying) parents might have any say in what an objective curriculum should consist of, is scary.

[LuFins Dad]

@89th You are completely missing the impetus of the question that was asked and the reason he gave his response.

The first part of the quote “I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions,”

A few days before, the big news was about a parent confronting the Fairfax County School Board over explicit and disturbing books being found in the schools libraries https://wjla.com/amp/news/local/fairfax-county-public-schools-pulls-lgbtq-books-graphic-sex-libraries-virginia-lawn-boy-gender-queer

Due to parents uproar over the next several days the books were finally removed, but there was a huge fight over it.

[89th]

@lufins-dad Helpful to know, thanks. I was going off of the sentence/sound-bite that is being used in ads as referenced in that article.

[George K]

McAuliffe walks out on interview. Here's ABC's comment:

Here's the interview. Go to 10:35.

Link to video

[LuFins Dad]

@89th said in McAwful will win.:

@lufins-dad Helpful to know, thanks. I was going off of the sentence/sound-bite that is being used in ads as referenced in that article.

Even if that hadn’t been the impetus, it was still a very stupid thing to say when members of school boards are threatening to dox parents and get them fired for holding contrarian views.

[89th]

[George K]

@89th said in McAwful will win.:

That was weird, almost like he thought he had a 10 minute limit.

Supposedly, he had somewhere to be that couldn't wait 10 minutes.

[George K]

Well, that didn't age well...

Hey, Mr. Carville, why so much hate?

In the Monday fundraising email, Carville wrote, “Folks, I gotta tell you the truth: I hate guys like Glenn Youngkin.”

“First, he amassed tons of wealth by stepping on the little guy at a ruthless private equity firm,” the email continued. “Then he used that wealth to buy the Republican nomination in this race for governor.

Where McAuliffe got his campaign money is, of course, not a subject of discussion.

Now, he’s indulging Donald Trump’s dangerous lies about the 2020 election to win over support from right-wing extremists.”

Snort:

[George K]

Wait, Trump lies! That's disqualifying!

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/news/meet-press-october-31-2021-n1282808

But Chuck, we have a great school system in Virginia. Dorothy and I have raised our five children. Of course parents are involved in it. The question should be could an extreme Republican bill that would allow parents to take books off of shelves, should that be left in the hands of parents or should it be left to the school boards and others who do this every single day and focus on it?

So, (former) Governor McAuliffe, despite your statement, where did you send your kids?

Here

The McAuliffes, it turns out, sent their children to the private Potomac School in McLean, Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C., and the candidate's wife Dorothy McAuliffe served as chair of the board of trustees for the school while their children were students.
An annual report published by the Potomac School in 2008 and obtained by Townhall includes a letter from trustee board chair Dorothy McAuliffe and later lists the family as having students in second grade, seventh grade, and tenth grade.
Current tuition at the Potomac School runs from $39,150 for kindergarten through third grade to $45,650 for ninth through twelfth grade. While there's nothing wrong with a family pursuing the best possible education for their children, it does become problematic when a member of that family runs on a record of vetoing school choice bills and a platform of denying parents the right to influence the education given to their children. That's exactly what Terry and Dorothy McAuliffe have done.

$39K for kindergarten.

It's good to be the king.

[LuFins Dad]

Oh, He’s screwed the pooch. It’s possible they can pull this off, but his flub has opened the door for Republicans across the US.

[jon-nyc]

I’d love to see him lose and have the general view be that force-feeding CRT-inspired garbage down kids’ throats was what sunk him. Him defending it anyway.

[jon-nyc]

He’s kind of a scumball anyway. He was Clinton’s bag man.

[jon-nyc]

Having said that, I don’t know the first thing about his opponent

[Improviso]

Democrats arriving for Early Voting

[Jolly]

WThat would be funny, if it wasn't true.

[Improviso]

[Improviso]

The fat lady is tuning up...

[Jolly]

Gawd, I hope so.

But never underestimate the power of the stacks of mail-in ballots.