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Randi Weingarten [Union Goon] admits to sharing fake list of 'banned' books: 'My bad'
Fox News ^ | Hanna Panreck |

Posted on 08/23/2022 7:39:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin

American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten admitted to sharing a false tweet claiming that certain books were banned in Florida on Sunday.

The list, posted by an account called "Freesus Patriot," claimed that Florida has banned books such as, "To Kill a Mockingbird," and "A Wrinkle in Time." The account also tweeted that they would not reveal the source of the list.

Weingarten was re-elected to lead the AFT in July, making it her eighth term as AFT president.

Weingarten replied to another tweet pointing out that the list was "made up" and said that she should have "double checked."

Gov. Ron DeSantis', R-Fla., press secretary Bryan Griffin, responded to a different tweet posted by "A Worried Citizen," which said, "Florida bans the Pulitzer Prize winning novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.'"

"The State of Florida has not banned To Kill a Mockingbird. In fact, Florida RECOMMENDS the book in 8th grade," he wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: aft; covidstooges; crt; leftist; maskbullies; randiweingarten; weingarten

1 posted on 08/23/2022 7:39:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

That woman needs to step down until she learns how to behave herself.


2 posted on 08/23/2022 7:44:49 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem

She’s HARDLY a WOMAN...I think shes a LESBIAN.


3 posted on 08/23/2022 7:49:10 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the sgod of Convenience.)
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To: BenLurkin

My bad is what a 12 year old says.


4 posted on 08/23/2022 7:52:23 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

Not only do liberals like her believe that it’s true because they say it is and that they’ll never get caught, they believe you hve no right to check them on things like this.


5 posted on 08/23/2022 8:00:56 AM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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How fitting it is that the AFT commissarette is an out-loud-dumb product of K-12 public edumakashun.


6 posted on 08/23/2022 8:04:01 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: BenLurkin

> Weingarten was re-elected to lead the AFT in July, making it her eighth term as AFT president. <

I was an involuntary member of the AFT for decades. Ordinary AFT members are not allowed to vote for state or national leaders. So I never once got the chance to vote for or against Weingarten.

All of the top AFT leaders are chosen by delegates at a convention. These delegates are chosen at the local level. The local bosses run a hand-picked slate of toadies. In all my years in the union I only knew of maybe two people who were able to break the slate. Lots of funny business going on there.

It is sadly ironic. The AFT constantly preaches democracy. But it itself is a VERY undemocratic organization.


7 posted on 08/23/2022 8:05:57 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: BenLurkin

Randi, you are a base fraud! Who’da thunk it?


8 posted on 08/23/2022 8:13:52 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: Ann Archy

Sharon Kleinbaum, her “partner”, must be so ashamed of her.


9 posted on 08/23/2022 8:18:29 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: BenLurkin

Fahrenheit 451. For me, a list of banned books is a reading list, but for the fact that I have read most of them.


10 posted on 08/23/2022 8:20:26 AM PDT by Spok (Ask a liberal to explain the rule of law as applied to DJT, then Hunter Biden.)
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To: BenLurkin

11 posted on 08/23/2022 8:38:42 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Leaning Right
I was an involuntary member of the AFT for decades. Ordinary AFT members are not allowed to vote for state or national leaders. So I never once got the chance to vote for or against Weingarten.

All of the top AFT leaders are chosen by delegates at a convention. These delegates are chosen at the local level. The local bosses run a hand-picked slate of toadies. In all my years in the union I only knew of maybe two people who were able to break the slate. Lots of funny business going on there.

It is sadly ironic. The AFT constantly preaches democracy. But it itself is a VERY undemocratic organization.

In other words, it is run much like the Soviet Politiburo.

Thank you so much for posting this.

I suspected it, but did not know the specifics. It is much the same in many Unions.

12 posted on 08/23/2022 8:53:49 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: BenLurkin

Their opening gambit is slander. Always. Nothing they say can be taken at face value. Ever. It’s always a ploy. They are ployers.


13 posted on 08/23/2022 9:26:16 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: alstewartfan; Ann Archy
On October 11, 2007, Weingarten publicly announced she is a lesbian. Weingarten introduced Liz Margolies, 54, a psychotherapist and health care activist, as her partner while accepting the Empire State Pride Agenda's 2007 Community Service Award from Christine Quinn.[4][143] By December 2012, she was in a relationship with Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah.[144] They married March 25, 2018.[145][146]

The synagogue is located in Manhattan, New York City. It was founded in 1973,[2] and is the world's largest LGBT synagogue.[3] CBST serves Jews of all sexual orientations and gender identities, their families, and their friends.[4] Members commute from as far away as the Bronx and New Jersey.[5] It is not affiliated with any denomination or branch of Judaism.

In December 2014, Weingarten wrote in Jezebel that she had almost been raped just after her junior year in college.[147]

14 posted on 08/23/2022 10:51:30 AM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: alstewartfan

“Sharon Kleinbaum, her “partner”, must be so ashamed of her.”


Sharon Kleinbaum (born 1959) is an American rabbi who serves as spiritual leader of New York City’s Congregation Beit Simchat Torah. She has been an active campaigner for human rights and civil marriage for gay couples.

On July 30, 2021, President Biden announced plans to appoint Kleinbaum to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom;[1] presidential appointments to the commission do not require congressional approval.


15 posted on 08/23/2022 11:01:05 AM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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