Around the country, Right Wing reactionaries are unfortunately
infiltrating school boards to stop so
called threats by the gay agenda and critical race theory.
Stories we've been covering endlessly for over a year now.
Now, these people are crazy but it turns out, you can fight back,
you just have to be engaged.
And it turns out that a group of students in Florida, specifically,
set a great example of how you can fight back and
actually get rid of some of these bigots within these school boards.
Okay, now how did the students pull this off?
Well, the teens launched a campaign called Recall Flagler County School board.
Specifically, they wanted to recall Janet McDonald and Jill wool Bright, why?
Well, little problematic here, okay,
two of Janet McDonald's retweeted messages stated, quote,
it's easier to come out as gay than come out as a trump supporter, end quote.
Unbelievable, and this pandemic was a planned politically motivated event to
overthrow the government.
And she also opposed recent student walkouts over the state,
notorious don't say gay law, calling them, quote, very disappointing and
referring to those who protested as immature adolescents.
Seems like she's the immature one here.
People are practicing their First Amendment rights.
They are peacefully assembling and voicing their political opinions.
That is not immature.
That's actually pretty badass, especially for teenagers.
Jill Wool Bright is also problematic, Wool Bright made headlines last year
after calling the police on a school librarian for offering books, my God,
a librarian offering books with LGBTQ+ themes and has characterized
opposition to her position on the school board as the work of Satanists.
Okay, alright, because you do want people who believe in mythical
creatures serving on a school board.
Now, the recall group reached out to tens of thousands of voters through campaigns
on various social media platforms, and guess what?
Here's a post, here's an example of something they posted over on Instagram,
Sign Waving Joined Recall.
It gives you all the information you need.
The activists also worked with the Florida Democratic Party to knock on nearly
5,000 doors.
We were up against thousands of dollars from conservative super PACs.
Student activist Cameron Driggers said,
noting that the political action committees also sent out local mailers
accusing the Democratic candidates of being unsavory.
The activists also made some pretty fiery attack ads against the school
board members, and guess what?
In the end they won.
They got those two weirdos recalled from the school board and it shows you that if
you fight hard enough, if you organize, if you put your mind to it.
You can actually fight back against the moneyed interest that are trying to rig
every institution to their favor in this country.
>> No, it's great that they did it.
And if you're in a similar position, maybe you're in high school and
you're watching this, there's not terrible chance that there's probably someone at
least similarly crazy on your school board.
Because that's one of the battlefields that this ideological war is being
fought on now.
Back when I was in high school, I didn't know who was on the school board,
I didn't need to know who was on the school board.
At least not for things having to do with Satan or planned pandemics or
anything like that.
It was boring school stuff, but it's not anymore.
Now, the craziest people in the country set their sights on Congress and one of
the steps along the way is to serve on school boards and there's organizations,
national conservative organizations that are ready to help them to pour money
into races where their opponent probably planned to spend 300 bucks or something.
And so you kind of need to be vigilant.
You need to be on the watch for this because as, as you're probably point out,
this is, this is a conservative area.
It's not like now they're good.
The democrats are gonna control it.
Those republicans are gonna try to run again.
So you're gonna have to keep on your guard.
Yeah, that's absolutely true.
And I think what we've learned from the gains that were accomplished in rights for
members of the LGBT Q community, I mean, not all of them, but certainly for
gay marriage and stuff like that when it comes to reproductive rights,
those gains can be rolled back.
And so yeah, you always have to have your guard up and
you can't take those rights for granted because there's always some
nefarious group of people who want to take those rights away.