Posted on 01/18/2022 4:52:38 PM PST by Mount Athos
Two dozen Republican senators are calling on Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to explain his role in soliciting a letter from the National School Boards Association that compared school parents to domestic terrorists.
An email released this week showed that an association official told a colleague that Cardona asked the group to write the Sept. 29 letter that urged President Joe Biden to use the FBI to investigate threats made against school board members. The letter was the catalyst for Attorney General Merrick Garland's decision to form a federal task force to track school board threats across the country.
Republicans and parent groups have bristled at the federal task force, saying that it will have a chilling effect on parents protesting at local school board meetings. Parents across the country have pushed back against school districts' coronavirus policies as well as the teaching of left-wing curricula, such as those that include critical race theory.
A group of senators, led by Tim Scott (R., S.C.), on Thursday asked Cardona what role he played in crafting the letter.
"While we knew early on that White House staff were complicit in the creation of this letter, it is only recently that information has surfaced implicating you and your office in this shameful episode," the senators wrote.
They also asked Cardona if he received instruction from the White House regarding the letter.
The Washington Free Beacon reported that association officials said in internal emails they were in contact with the White House and Department of Education regarding the letter. The latest emails show for the first time that Cardona was involved in the discussions.
The Department of Education denied this week that Cardona solicited the letter from the association but did not describe his interactions with the group.
"While the Secretary did not solicit a letter from [the National School Boards Association], to understand the views and concerns of stakeholders, the Department routinely engages with students, teachers, parents, district leaders, and education associations," a spokesman told the Free Beacon.
Cardona has close ties to the National School Boards Association, the largest school board advocacy group in the country. He appointed the group's president, Viola Garcia, on Oct. 1 to serve on the Department of Education's National Assessment Governing Board. Garcia cosigned the association's letter to Biden.
People should be very alarmed at the government/media partnership to smear, demonize, and prosecute people for political disagreements and thought crimes.
We are alarmed. Just doing nothing. Exactly how we lost every freedom and ceded any right to be determined not by Nature or Natures God, but by experts and those who have some God Given right to oppress. Because we are just too smart to believe in an angry sky god. Well yeah I am also.
But my creator.. He determines my rights.
Miguel Cardona is the existential threat to the Constitution terrorist.
Third world ethnics with third world solutions.
Write letters, have fake hearings play the game and nothing happens. How about standing up for what right and getting rid of the guy. If you can’t remove him, destroy him in the court of public opinion. I know, never happen, takes balls and convection with our joke leaders lack.
Isn’t it obvious?
It’s to lay groundwork to persecute and murder citizens the government deems a “threat” to their authority.
Oh, yes, the typical Republican “demands.” And if they regain control of Congress? Nothing.
Racism has jumped the shark. Long live the charge of domestic terrorism!
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<><>Secy of Education Miguel Cardona needs to explain his role in soliciting a letter from the NSBA that compared school parents to domestic terrorists.
<><>An email showed that an NSBA official indicated Cardona asked NSBA to write the Sept. 29 letter
<><>Joe Biden was urged to use the FBI to investigate parents at school board meetings.
<><>AG Merrick Garland formed a federal task force to track parents expressing concerns to school boards.
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I’ve been alarmed since 2008. One gets very tired of it.
I will stand my ground. It’s all I have left.
Thanks Liz
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