Uber Suspends Diversity Chief for Hosting Seminar on White Women

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Uber Suspends Diversity Chief for Hosting Seminar on White Women

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Ride-share giant Uber suspended its chief officer for diversity, equity and inclusion, Bo Young Lee, after she hosted an event for employees that dove “into the spectrum of the American white woman’s experience.”

The inaugural “Don’t Call Me Karen” meeting took place in April, followed by a second session in May.

Many Uber employees called the discussions “triggering,” despite Lee’s intent to encourage “open and honest conversation about race.”

The term “Karen” is used against white women who publicly engage in racist microaggressions or acts of self-entitlement, such as addressing poor service from a minority employee by asking to speak with the manager.

However, “racism” is such an ill-defined term that women can earn the “Karen” title for doing pretty much anything.

According to the Post Millennial, several employees, including some from a group called “Black at Uber,” called the session “tone-deaf, offensive and triggering.”

Higher ups at Uber swiftly apologized to the staff and announced that they put Lee on leave while they “determine next steps.”

“We have heard that many of you are in pain and upset by yesterday’s Moving Forward session,” said the email from chief people officer Nikki Krishnamurthy and chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi. “While it was meant to be a dialogue, it’s obvious that those who attended did not feel heard.”

Employees made several comments about the meeting on Slack, saying they didn’t “even understand the premise of the meeting.”

“I think when people are called Karens it’s implied that this is someone that has little empathy to others or is bothered by minorities others that don’t look like them,” said one employee. “Like why can’t bad behavior not be called out?”

Uber employees praised the decision to put Lee on leave. Several of them claimed that Krishnamurthy and Khosrowshahi earned “a pay raise and/or time off for all this unpaid emotional labor.”

Before her forced leave, Lee managed to respond to the criticism and defended herself, saying “sometimes being pushed out of your own strategic ignorance is the right thing to do.”

Lee started as chief diversity officer for Uber in 2018.

Biden Gives Ukraine F-16s to Attack Russia, Drawing Closer to WW3

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Biden Gives Ukraine F-16s to Attack Russia, Drawing Closer to WW3

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Biden administration has agreed to provide F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine and has greenlit the embattled nation to attack Russia with them, in a move that inches the world closer to nuclear war.

News about Biden’s agreement on F-16s was first reported by the Washington Post last week, citing anonymous Pentagon sources.

“As the training takes place over the coming months, our coalition of countries participating in this effort will decide when to actually provide jets, how many we will provide, and who will provide them,” an unnamed official told the Post, adding, “This training will take place outside Ukraine at sites in Europe and will require months to complete.”

Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan confirmed Sunday that the jets could be used to attack Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014.

“We have not placed limitations on Ukraine being able to strike on its territory within its internationally recognized borders. What we have said is that we will not enable Ukraine with U.S. systems, Western systems, to attack Russia. And we believe Crimea is Ukraine,” Sullivan told CNN’s Jake Tapper.

In response to the recent developments, Russia warned that a US-backed Ukrainian strike on Crimea would be as serious as an attack on its mainland.

Russia’s ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, reportedly said the “unconditional approval of strikes on Crimea” and the provision of F-16 fighter jets for Ukraine “once again make it clear that the US has never been interested in peace.”

As noted by antiwar.com’s David DeCamp, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has previously acknowledged that Ukrainian attacks on Crimea are a “red line” for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Even Barack Obama acknowledged the folly of fighting Russia over the Crimea, which has historically been Russian territory and is a vital national security interest for Putin. Crimea is the Russian Navy’s only warm-water port. Losing access to it would marginalize Russia from a global power to a minor regional player.

“This is not another cold war that we’re entering into. The United States and NATO do not seek any conflict with Russia,” Obama said after the Crimean annexation. “Now is not the time for bluster … There are no easy answers, no military solution.”

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

More Evidence that Fox News is Going Woke: Report

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More Evidence that Fox News is Going Woke: Report

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) With the massive reverberations of Tucker Carlson’s separation from Fox News still being felt, a report has emerged that casts further doubt on the network’s current conservative bona fides.

Policies set forth in a purported FNC company handbook appear consistent with the gender ideology that has gained such currency throughout much of corporate America.

An unidentified former Carlson producer told the Daily Signal that “They want you to think it’s this place that supports traditionally conservative values. But in reality, they’re pushing this nonsense behind the scenes.”

Another unnamed ex-employee claimed that “Fox News devotes hours of programming to attacking ‘woke companies,’ but ironically Fox is as woke as the rest of them.”

The Signal outlet obtained a copy of the FNC handbook, which contains a January 2021 date.

“Fox News employees are allowed to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity, rather than their biological sex, and permitted to dress in alignment with their preferred gender,” the Signal reported. “They must also be addressed by their preferred name and pronouns in the workplace.”

In addition, “Fox also offers to help employees come up with a ‘Workplace Transition Plan’ to ease their gender transition at work.”

The Daily Signal implied that Fox News has to go along with employment laws in New York City, or elsewhere, as a condition of doing business in those locations controlled by Democrats.

In a statement to various media outlets, a spokesperson for the channel explained that “Fox News Media is compliant with all Human Rights laws mandated by the cities and states in which we operate, including New York and California.

The Daily Signal revelations prompted the Columbia Bugle to quip that Fox “is going full Bud Light,” in reference to the Dylan Mulvaney promo that has led to plummeting sales for the beer brand.

Further on the subject of Mulvaney controversy, the Daily Signal article asserted that “high-level Fox executives” allegedly ordered producers on the post-Carlson placeholder known as Fox News Tonight “not to bash Mulvaney.”

On her podcast, Megyn Kelly noted the following about the handbook protocol:

“Some of that is due to New York City law, which is as far left on this stuff as you can get, but there is nothing in New York City law that says you can’t bash Dylan Mulvaney when he’s making a mockery of womanhood.”

She added, “So if that actually happened, that’s a Fox directive, and it does sort of evince why people are having trouble with the ‘new’ Fox News Channel.”

In a Twitter thread, the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, of What is a Woman? fame, claimed he was banned from Fox New.

He too, advocated for Fox News “to get the full bud light treatment.”

Various conservative influencers expressed similar sentiments on social media.

In what might be an overstatement, Walsh told the Daily Signal that “There’s no daylight at all between Fox News and MSNBC when it comes to gender,” and that Fox has “embraced radical leftism in its most extreme form.”

Since the departure of Tucker Carlson, America’s most influential political pundit, Fox News Channel has hemorrhaged viewers and lost much goodwill with its audience generally, as well as an enormous amount of market value.

According to Carlson’s biographer, journalist Chadwick Moore, a frequent guest on the top-rated show, the host was planning to deliver a monologue about J6 provocateur Ray Epps on the evening of the same day that Tucker Carlson Tonight was abruptly cancelled.

With Carlson gone, there are reports that skittish advertisers have returned to Tucker’s former time slot at 8 p.m. Eastern time, however.

China Infiltrating America from Within via Open Border

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China Infiltrating America from Within via Open Border

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Border Patrol officers reported a massive increase in Chinese migrants illegally crossing America’s southern border in April, reporting 3,182 encounters in the space of a month.

According to the Daily Caller, immigration officers encountered a total of 9,711 Chinese migrants between October 2022 and April 2023—an estimated 393% spike compared to with the 2022 fiscal year.

Migrants hailing from the Asian nation often pay exorbitant fees in order to reach the U.S. and carry thousands of dollars in American currency with them.

Cartels charge Chinese immigrants between $15,000 and $30,000 per person, as opposed to $4,000 for immigrants from Latin-American countries.

Though many of the migrants have made legitimate claims to asylum, some experts asserted that there may be some bad actors among the surge of illegals.

“When I first saw that the surge in Chinese migrants, that’s the thought that came to my mind that these are either Ministry of State Security agents or Chinese military, who are coming to this country to commit acts of sabotage against the US,” said Gordon Chang, Gatestone Institute fellow and author of The Coming Collapse of China.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection warned agency officials of the surge in March via a memo.

“Chinese national apprehensions will continue to rise across the SWB [Southwest border], primarily in Yuma and the Rio Grande Sector, as more Chinese nationals successfully reach the United States to request asylum and information about routes becomes more accessible,” the document stated.

The Biden administration has done very little to stymie the flood of migrants coming from both the southern and northern borders, despite the constant warnings and requests for assistance coming from the border patrol.

Meanwhile, it has routinely kowtowed to Chinese ruler Xi Jinping, even in the face of increasingly hostile and confrontational acts against U.S. interests and sovereignty.

President Joe Biden recently emphatically restated his commitment to a trade relationship with China at the G7 summit this week.

“We’re not looking to decouple from China,” Biden said. “We’re looking to de-risk and diversify our relationship with China.”

Biden went on to list several ways in which the U.S. has been exploited economically by the trans-Pacific superpower, but he failed to offer any direct solutions for how to address them in an amicable way that China would consent to.

“That means taking steps to diversify our supply chains, and we’re not—so we’re not dependent on any one country for necessary product,” he said. “It means resisting economic coercion together and countering harmful practices that hurt our workers. It means protecting a narrow set of advanced technologies critical for our national security.”

The Biden administration has allowed Chinese influence across the border in several other ways over the last few years. Among them:

  • permitting Chinese data-mining and espionage via TikTok
  • allowing the Chinese spy balloon to float over the continental U.S. before shooting it down
  • providing Mexican cartels with chemicals and equipment to manufacture fentanyl on a massive scale
  • restricting U.S. energy production and mining for rare-earth metals while pushing for electric vehicles that would rely on China-made batteries
  • granting positions of power to people and organizations with links to the Chinese Communist Party

U-Haul w/ Nazi Flag Crashes into White House Barrier, Fueling PsyOp Claims

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U-Haul w/ Nazi Flag Crashes into White House Barrier, Fueling PsyOp Claims

(Headline USA) Police have arrested a Missouri man they believe intentionally crashed a U-Haul truck into a security barrier at a park across from the White House, in what appeared to many to be yet another example of a false-flag operation by unhinged left-wing extremists.

The box truck’s driver smashed into the barrier near the north side of Lafayette Square on Monday at around 10 p.m., Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement.

No one was injured in the crash.

The driver was identified as 19-year-old Sai Varshith Kandula, of Chesterfield, a St. Louis suburb. Among other things, Kandula appeared to be in possession of a Nazi flag.

A witness, Chris Zaboji, said Kandula smashed into the barrier at least twice.

Zaboji, a 25-year-old pilot who lives in Washington, was finishing a run close by Lafayette Square when he heard the loud crash of the U-Haul truck hitting the barrier. He said he took out his phone and captured the moment the truck struck the barrier again before he heard sirens approaching.

“When the van backed up and rammed it again, I decided I wanted to get out of there,” he said.

Officers from the Secret Service and the Metropolitan Police Department searched the truck after the crash.

Video posted by WUSA-TV shows a police officer at the scene picking up and inventorying several pieces of evidence from the truck, including the Nazi flag.

Based on a preliminary investigation, investigators believe the driver “may have intentionally struck the security barriers at Lafayette Square,” Guglielmi said. Authorities offered no additional details about the possible motive.

His ethnic name suggested, however, that this was just the latest example of a so-called white-supremacist attack being carried out by a brown-skinned indivudual.

Several people took to Twitter to convey their incredulity, Twitchy reported.

Others even linked it to the Jussie Smollett race hoax, in which he claimed two Africa-born assailants with whom he had previously been friends assaulted him on the streets of Chicago while declaring it to be “MAGA Country.”

The incident it comes as top officials with the Biden administration, including Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick Garland, have stretched to the breaking point a bogus narrative claiming that the nation’s No. 1 threat is “white supremacy” even with many notable acts of white supremacist terrorism have been committed by non-whites.

Most recently, Mauricio Garcia, a man of Latino origin with possible connections to drug cartels, was posthumously accused of white supremacy after a mass-shooting spree that left eight Texas mall-goers dead, including three children.

Several major media outlets known for working with intelligence officials to conduct psy-ops and spread disinformation quickly reported afterward on the discovery of an account from Garcia on a little-known Russian blog site, in which he appeared to display tattoos with Nazi symbols.

Last year, the FBI was revealed to have been pressuring field agents to falsely re-label their cases as “domestic extremism” in order to fit with the agency’s broader narrative as it desperately tries to target law-abiding U.S. citizens who express opposition to the Biden administration.

Following Monday’s incident, the U.S. Park Police said Kandula was arrested on multiple charges, including threatening to kill, kidnap or inflict harm on a president, vice president or member of their family; assault with a dangerous weapon; reckless driving; destruction of federal property; and trespassing.

No attorney was listed for Kandula in court records, multiple telephone numbers listed under his surname in public records were out of service, and efforts by the Associated Press to reach relatives who could speak on his behalf on Tuesday were not immediately successful.

Lafayette Square, which offers perhaps the best view of the White House available to the public, has long been one of the nation’s most prominent venues for demonstrations. The park was closed for nearly a year after federal authorities fenced off the area at the height of nationwide protests over policing following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, but it reopened in May 2021.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Texas Keeps Mass Shooter’s Background Check Secret

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Texas Keeps Mass Shooter’s Background Check Secret

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Texas Department of Public Safety has declined to make Allen mass shooter Mauricio Garcia’s background check public, claiming that the document is confidential.

Headline USA broke a story earlier this month that the Texas background check failed to flag Garcia’s mental health problems. Garcia’s former employer, Ruiz Protective Service, told this publication that the company was “not aware of any mental health issues related to Mr. Garcia, nor did the State of Texas report any issues when conducting a background check prior to issuing him a security license.”

Headline USA then filed a public records request to obtain a copy of Garcia’s background check. That’s when the state’s Department of Public Safety said the document is confidential.

“The background check for a private security license is a check of a person’s criminal history. Criminal history record information (CHRI) is confidential under section 411.083(a) of the Texas Government Code,” Brian Riemenschneider, the department’s assistant general counsel, said in a letter May 18.

Garcia was reportedly kicked out of the U.S. Army in 2008 “due to mental health concerns.” He would have needed a background check from Texas before becoming a licensed guard.

It’s not clear whether Garcia’s mental health issues would have barred him from becoming a licensed guard.

“Without evidence of ‘a serious psychiatric disorder,’ I’m not sure the circumstances of his separation from the Army would have been relevant under Texas licensing criteria,” said Reason Magazine senior editor Jacob Sullum, commenting on Headline USA’s scoop.

However, Texas law indicates that the Public Safety Commission could have denied Garcia’s license due to his reported mental health problems.

“In addition to dishonorable discharges, the Texas licensing statute does refer to someone ‘discharged from the United States armed services under other conditions determined by the [Public Safety Commission] to be prohibitive,’” Sullum noted.

In any event, Garcia did receive a license, allowing him to undergo “firearms proficiency” training. His license expired in April 2020.

The Allen mass shooting killed eight individuals and left seven others critically injured. Garcia was killed by an officer at a parking lot of a Texas mall.

Rather than focus on Garcia’s mental health, most media outlets have focused on his purported ideology. According to the Washington Post, investigators at the scene found a sign on the man’s chest that said “RWDS,” an acronym for Right Wing Death Squad.

Meanwhile, authorities in Tennessee are also keeping records about transgender mass shooter Audrey Hale secret. In that case, the state is declining to release the trans triggerman’s manifesto, which reportedly reveals in chilling details what Hale had planned.

Judicial Watch has filed a lawsuit to make that record public.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

UPDATE: ‘Draft Tucker PAC’ Pulls Ads after Carlson Disavows Movement

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UPDATE: ‘Draft Tucker PAC’ Pulls Ads after Carlson Disavows Movement

(Headline USA) The impromptu movement to draft Tucker Carlson as a Republican presidential contender fizzled after Carlson on Saturday disavowed it as “fruitless” via his attorney, Harmeet Dhillon.

The PAC released a statement saying it had pulled its ads from Newsmax after Dhillon requested that it cease all activity on Carlson’s behalf.

Charlie Kolean, the PAC’s executive director, expressed his disappointment, while maintaining that Carlson’s presence in what promises to be a crowded GOP field would only benefit the discussion as Republicans face unprecedented challenges in opposing institutionalized leftist extremism.

“We hoped that a Tucker candidacy would open the Overton Window to the Right.”
Kolean said.

“We wish Tucker the best & profoundly hope he will not be silenced in this
crucial presidential cycle,” Kolean added. “We consider Tucker Carlson to be the heir of Fearless Rush Limbaugh who never backed down from defending his people.”

Original story below:

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) A political action committee that was formed in the wake of Tucker Carlson’s ouster from Fox News launched with an ad encouraging him to run for president, and it’s slated to debut on one of the network’s chief conservative competitors.

“Tucker Carlson has demonstrated time and again his firm commitment to conservative principles,” Charlie Kolean, executive director of the Draft Tucker PAC, said in an email obtained by Headline USA. “His sharp insight, robust dedication to the truth, and courageous stands on critical issues set him apart in a field of potential contenders.”

The ad, which is reportedly set to run for a week on Newsmax, leans into Carlson’s massive popularity and support with a conservative base, along with his reputation for holding the DC Swamp and deep state accountable.

“Republicans need a new leader, and Tucker Carlson is ready to lead. No one in America is more articulate and pins down leftists in both parties better than Tucker,” proclaims the ad, which compares Carlson to the late conservative giant Rush Limbaugh.

“Tucker Carlson is witty, sharp, and mocks woke nonsense,” the ad says. “Tucker will whip Biden in a debate.”

Carlson has made no public comment on a presidential run, but his skyrocketing popularity since his split with Fox would likely make most of the already-announced GOP contenders salivate with envy. Carlson’s video release on Twitter last month hinting at his future plans drew staggering numbers, and his announcement about plans for a new show on the social media titan was well received.

That positive public reception springs from what Kolean called “Carlson’s authentic conservatism,” which combined with “his unprecedented reach among Republican voters make him a uniquely compelling candidate.”

Chris Ekstrom, a former Texas congressional candidate and GOP donor who chairs and financially backs the Draft Tucker PAC, told The Hill that a presidential run is a “realistic opportunity” that could pull the GOP primary further to the Right.

“I’m very concerned that they’re going to not move the debate as far right as it ought to be,” Ekstrom said of the current crop of contenders.

“If Tucker Carlson entered the race in a reasonable amount of time and just continued in the same territory that he was covering at Fox, I think that’d be a rude awakening for both President Trump and Governor DeSantis.”

Kari Lake Signals Appeal after Ariz. Judge Tosses Election Integrity Lawsuit

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Kari Lake Signals Appeal after Ariz. Judge Tosses Election Integrity Lawsuit

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Arizona Republican Kari Lake sounded a defiant tone after a judge dismissed late Monday night her election integrity lawsuit that over a three-day trial had revealed dubious voter-signature verification as one of myriad problems that plagued a flawed 2022 midterm gubernatorial election handed to Democrat Katie Hobbs.

In rejecting Lake’s remaining legal claim, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter A. Thompson ruled that Lake failed to prove that signatures on mail-in ballots were not verified as required by law. The ruling also reaffirmed the reported election of Hobbs.

Legal analysts and pundits predicted that Lake is likely to appeal the ruling, and she sent a strong signal Monday night in that direction, promising a major announcement for Tuesday.

“If you had something precious taken from you. How hard would you fight to save it?” Kari Lake War Room tweeted. “Goodnight, Arizona. Big News Coming Tomorrow.”

Lake lost last November’s chaotic midterm tilt by less than 17,000 voted. Over the course of the three-day trial for the election integrity lawsuit, Lake’s legal team presented key evidence and witness testimony that showed election workers had compared signatures over 270,000 times in less than three seconds, and of those 70,000 were less than two seconds.

Signature-verification specialist Erich Speckin, who analyzed the Maricopa County voter data, testified that, “I don’t believe it can be done.”

Judge Thompson reacted with indifference, writing in his ruling that “Accepting that argument would require the court to re-write not only the (Election Procedures Manual) but Arizona law to insert a minimum time for signature verification and specify the variables to be considered in the process.”

Defense attorneys representing county and state officials did little to contradict the evidence and testimony produced by Lake’s team, said UncoverDC editor Tracy Beanz.

The defense “never brought their own expert up to counter the points that you could not verify a signature in one second. They never brought a counter-expert forward to do that,” Beanz said in an interview with Charlie Kirk.

“They never said that the data was incorrect. They basically resorted to character attacks, like the Left often does.”

That assessment was echoed by Arizona Sun Times reporter and self-proclaimed “recovering election lawyer” Rachel Alexander, who covered the three-day trial from start to finish and predicted the judge’s ruling would face problems on appeal.

“It was far worse than I thought,” she tweeted of the ruling. “I don’t see how the Arizona Supreme Court doesn’t smack him down again.”

Thompson’s “short 6-page decision” was “utterly dismissive of much of what took place at the trial and ignoring the vast majority of it, IMHO relying on all the wrong law and cherrypicking the relevant statutes.”

WaPo Reporter Roasted for Rehashing ‘Virgin’ Smear on Tim Scott

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WaPo Reporter Roasted for Rehashing ‘Virgin’ Smear on Tim Scott

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) An announcement from Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., that he was officially launching a 2024 presidential campaign entered virgin tabloid trash territory on Monday.

After Scott announced his decision to enter the race, a reporter from the far-leftist Washington Post was compelled to dig up an old hit job on Scott from a 2012 interview. That was when Ben Terris, in a profile piece of Scott for National Journal, had asked the senator if he was still a virgin. Terris took to Twitter to regurgitate the smear while pimping his new book.

“One more thing. It was such an awkward question to ask that I wrote myself a script: You used to preach about the virtue of no sex until marriage… is that a virtue that you still adhere to today?” Terris wrote. “Ultimately he implied he did not. ‘I just wish we all had more patience.’”

The backlash was fierce from critics and constituents who ripped Terris for his self-aggrandizement and rehashing tabloid trash instead of focusing on what Scott, the only black Republican senator and one of only three black senators overall, brought to the presidential race.

“Every day I think that I can’t hate the media in this country any more than I do now, then @bterris tweets this garbage question and I realize that the media can sink even lower,” fumed one commentator.

“I’m willing to bet you’re not concerned the least little bit about the sex lives of those on Epstein’s list,” blasted another.

“Nobody cares if Tim Scott is a virgin or not. It’s irrelevant. But asking a question like that, says a lot about you: You have nothing of value to report on,” another poster wrote, adding that, “And if it was of value, then you’ve made Tim Scott look like a good and virtuous man with discipline & morality.”

“Liberal reporters don’t ask trolling sex-life questions to Bill Clinton or Kamala Harris, so why Tim Scott?” noted NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham.

“Liberal reporters routinely seem to have more discretion with the sex lives of Democrats, perhaps because reporters don’t see them as sexually repressed religious people. Questions about virginity are meant to embarrass weirdos.”

Not that it mattered to Democrats, who were gleeful to see Scott’s sex life, or lack thereof, on public display.

“Tim Scott finding out there’s no such thing as a private life when you run for President,” sneered former Democrat strategist Greg Pinelo.

Dem. Gov. Declares ‘State of Emergency’ over Expanded School Choice, Parental Rights

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Dem. Gov. Declares ‘State of Emergency’ over Expanded School Choice, Parental Rights

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) In what was ripped as a stunning display of hypocrisy, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat who sent his kids to a $28,000-a-year private school, declared that a GOP plan to give parents access to expanded school-choice options constituted a “state of emergency.”

Cooper said he was committed to sidetracking proposed GOP state legislation that would increase teacher pay, broaden access to school choice and bolster parental rights. The gaslighting governor conceded that his proclamation of a so-called state of emergency had no official import, but nevertheless decided to use the inflammatory and divisive rhetoric because “the general public doesn’t realize the disaster that is brewing.”

The disaster is of Cooper’s own making, countered Republicans, and in response GOP lawmakers crafted a plan that hikes teacher pay by up to 10.2% over two years, expands options to allow education vouchers for families of any income level and keeps school children safe from being indoctrinated by an aggressive LGBT grooming agenda pushed by state Democrats.

“It’s clear that the Republican legislature is aiming to choke the life out of public education,” speechified Cooper, who was roundly blasted for sending his own kids to a pricey private school.

“Nice schools for me but not for thee,” cracked one commentator, while another claimed, “No surprise that Cooper behaves like an elitist hypocrite.”

“The true emergency here is that the governor is advocating for systems rather than students themselves,” said state Rep. Tricia Cotham, whose recent flip to the GOP gave Republicans a veto-proof legislative majority. “Education is not one-size-fits-all and NC families should have the freedom to determine what kind of education is best for them.”

Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who is running to knock off Cooper, ripped the governor for playing cheap politics at the expense of students and teachers.

“Once again, we see leaders in government telling you that they know what’s best for your child. Our Governor has gone so far as to use the words ‘state of emergency’ as a political prop,” Robinson wrote. “However, words like this weren’t said when Democrats had control of the legislature and teachers were receiving pay cuts and being furloughed.”

By contrast, Robinson credited GOP lawmakers for “allowing families to chart their own educational destinies because they know what their children need better than a bureaucrat.”

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