If you’re impressed with the volume and breadth of the WSSD school board coverage, and ever thought to yourself “I need a chief propagandist for my issue,” well then I’m the person you should hire for all your comms and advocacy needs!
Mallory McMorrow: No one in Michigan is going to be convinced to vote b/c they got a postcard from a stranger in California. You need to donate, knock doors, make phone calls - and talk to your friends and neighbors about the election.
YESSSS
Anyone else hearing moms for liberty chapters are dissolving/leaders are stepping down throughout PA?
-Lehigh county dissolving
-Cumberland county leader stepping down
Others??
I’m in a few national Facebook mom groups and let me tell you, *everyone* regardless of where they are on the political spectrum is jealous of the Minnesota families because of universal free lunch and breakfast, paid family leave & sick days, and access to free pre-k.
American moms have all seen “this lady” in our communities, at school board meetings, in the grocery store, at restaurants, and on social media…and she’s not “us.”
Things actual Pennsylvanians don’t do:
✅ fill out legal forms that declare they live in Connecticut
✅ say the word “Pennsylvania” this many times in one sentence
👀👀 Gov. Josh Shapiro calls Rep. Scott Perry "absolutely, fundamentally full of shit" for contesting Biden's 2020 win in the state while not contesting Perry's own election win
Just a reminder that the majority of PA cyber schools have abhorrent PSSA test results - entries in red are 20 percentage points below statewide averages. YOUR property tax dollars fund these schools!
Who’s gonna tell PA republicans that most of the Republican state senators and a good chunk of R House members voted for a budget that included free menstrual products in schools?
The next time you hear about the “loud outspoken opponents” to literally *anything* at a school board meeting, please remember that it is possible these folks aren’t from the district. Here’s a Pennridge group actively recruiting folks from outside the district to *clap*
Central Bucks SD bullshit has already been discussed twice on this call lol. I keep telling you all the far right folks on school boards are going to tank the Republican party for years!
#AnswerTheCall2024
"Cyber charter schools cost about $8,000 per student to operate. Yet CCA took $21,6662.88 per student from local schools in 2021-22. How CCA thinks that paying more than twice the actual cost is a “bargain” for taxpayers puzzles me."
Pennsylvania GOP Senate hopeful David McCormick says he could defeat a bear in combat: "I've watched those bears. First of all, they're lazy. They don't look like they're in shape."
Danielle Gross spent years building an email list to help keep parents and community informed about the West Shore School Board.
Read how that paid off when the school district held a closed-door meeting with an anti-LGBTQ law firm below:
It’s 6:25 on a Thursday and that means I’m here in Lewisberry’s hottest club, West Shore School Board meeting.
This place has EVERYTHING. Security guards, devil cookies, an orange and yellow dress code, and hundreds of disgruntled citizens.
I have a rising 6th grader and there are visible tampons IN HIS VIEW EVERY TIME HE PEES in our one full bathroom.
FELLOW MAMAS, HELP, SHOULD I MAKE HIM WEAR A BLINDFOLD WHEN HE PEES? MAYBE HIS AIM WILL GET *BETTER?!* IT CAN’T GET ANY WORSE!
Just a reminder that no-excuse mail-in voting was enacted in PA due to the fact that absentee voting rules did not allow for first responders, medical workers and shift workers to legally vote.
BREAKING: PA Senator Mike Regan (R-York) announces he will not seek re-election after 2 terms in House and 2 terms in Senate. Tells me he Wants to spend more time with family and watch son Chase play college football at James Madison.
@abc27News
🚨🚨🚨 Last night, CV former School Board President commented that 5 board directors allegedly met in private at a CV board member's home on April 21st to discuss cancelling the district's assembly with Maulik Pancholy.
Smells like a Sunshine Act violation to me!
I did NOT have “your 3rd grader finds out about the flat earth theory from a classmate whose parents told her it’s a fact, plus that planets and stars aren’t real” on my 2024 bingo card, but here we are.
I’m working with a slate of school board candidates in York & Cumberland counties and they are *regularly* hearing from Republicans who are horrified by their party.
As a mom, this is my biggest nightmare. I can’t imagine the strength it takes to keep going after your child is murdered.
Meredith, thank you for sharing your story.
Read the real story about this Kim Ward tweet bragging about scrolling on her phone during last week’s
#pabudget
address
Total disdain from the highest ranking Republican in Harrisburg towards those seeking justice for their loved ones killed with guns
Central Bucks taxpayers are likely on the hook for *$1.75 million* in legal fees.
If your incoming school board has talked about pursuing discriminatory policies like the former CB school board did - PLEASE make sure that your community knows this!
Right before we taped TWIP on Friday, I saw a post on social media from a mom in Springfield, Ohio who’s terrified - not by immigrants to her community, but by right-wing hatemongers. The Trump-Vance campaign owes the entire community an apology.
To my West Shore followers:
Tomorrow, the control of our school board is at stake. PLEASE VOTE for the pro-public school board candidates on the ballot, who are a mix of Republicans and Democrats, although all appear on the Dem side of the ballot:
I worked at Red Lobster for *7 years* - from 16 - 23 - and I never included it on any resumes after I graduated college. It's also not something I talk about a whole lot, unless Cheddar Bay Biscuits come into the conversation.
NEW: Kamala Harris’s missing “summer job” at McDonald’s job. Her resume and job application a year after graduating college —
@FreeBeacon
obtained through FOIA — don’t mention it. Neither do either of her books, or either of the biographies on her.
@SaysSimonson
@ChuckRossDC
and
Calling all you woke liberals: Move to Central PA, drink the best beer and cider in the country, eat amazing food from local farms, hike the AT whenever, and help us win elections
You’ll be shocked but all the folks who oppose content in west shore are at least loosely affiliated with M4L chair Allison Shipp, whose high schooler isn’t allowed to watch movies that are “culturally PG-13.”
Tuesday at a Pa. Senate hearing, Warwick S.D. board member Emily Zimmerman said a student brought a concerning book to her attention.
Turns out, that student is the son of Moms for Liberty’s county chair — and the whole scenario looks like "a setup."
Pumped to be online to
#AnswertheCall2024
to elect Kamala Harris!
P!nk, Connie Britton, Glennon Doyle are just a few of the women on the call tonight. Trying to match a $50K donation in 5 minutes!
I hate to tell ya, but folks are pushing the same kind of vitriol in our communities. I regularly see these types of calls from folks in central PA as well as citing Matthew 18:6 anytime someone they don’t agree with is brought up.
“At least, last year, the budget was a little more moderate. This year it is straight-on, full-fledged, spend, spend, spend. A much more liberal budget, even to the point where they are putting sanitary napkins in schools,” Ms. Ward said.
Growing up in the housing projects, public safety isn’t a political game. So I joined Harrisburg PD as the first Dir. of Community Relations – for BETTER policing. MAGA Rep. Scott Perry protected Jan 6th insurrectionists, but calls us anti-police? I won’t let him divide us.
#PA10
Meanwhile, Commonwealth Foundation is handing out this bingo card for tomorrow. "This'll be helpful," they said as it was shoved in my hands. (A+ for effort.)
Getting $16 together for my child’s public school field trip today which reminded me all to tell you that a cyber charter with over $100M in taxpayer-funded PROFITS and a reserve fund that would be *illegal* if they were a traditional public school…
Emails obtained by The York Dispatch document secret meetings and behind-the-scenes coordination between school board members who've pushed book bans and anti-LGBTQ+ policies and the political action committee that helped elect them.
At dinner tonight a friend asked me if i tried a new restaurant. “No, because they’re white christian nationalists” was my answer. They were confused. Oops.
Hmm, they don’t seem to care that property tax dollars are taken from every taxpayer in the state to give cyber charters money that is not spent to educate children.
And they’re among the bottom quarter of every public school in the state by every testing measure we have.
The subtext of calling statewide transit funding, which includes SEPTA, of which PA’s largest city is only a part of who relies on it, is only for “Philadelphia” is pretty gross.
All Pennsylvanians benefit from strong transit systems helping them and their neighbors. Do better.
I’m at the celebration for the Citizens for Carlisle Schools slate - & they brought out the biggest turnout for school board elections *ever,* increasing turnout in some precincts by *double digits.* their work is HUGE in telling the story of Cumberland County’s election results.
Just a reminder that if you added the votes that Doug’s chief of staff Dan Cox received in his MD gubernatorial race in 2022 together with Doug’s vote total in PA in 2022, that two-state total is *still* less than the number of votes
@JoshShapiroPA
received in PA.
Let’s not forget that the Senate GOP also shut down a program a few years back that provided our state’s lowest income residents with a *paltry* stipend that allowed them to purchase things like toilet paper and menstrual products.
“At least, last year, the budget was a little more moderate. This year it is straight-on, full-fledged, spend, spend, spend. A much more liberal budget, even to the point where they are putting sanitary napkins in schools,” Ms. Ward said.
Actually Erica, I did not give myself the title of “prominent liberal commentator,” a bunch of the guys in the PA GOP house comms office gave me that title in their podcast. (👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻, but not all of them still work there.)
Thank you for proving my point
@jjabbott
on how
@Dani_PA
misused her “role” as a commentator on
@abc27News
This Week PA to promote an inaccuracy.
Now you have taken the lie and altered the clip of the show to perpuate your BS.
Did you have permission to use or alter the clip?
Nine community members filed a lawsuit alleging the West Shore School Board majority violated the Sunshine Act in firing its former attorney. via
@YorkDispatch
If you watched "This Week in PA" over the weekend, you may have noticed
@Owens_abc27
push back when I talked about Dave McCormick's extreme opinions on abortion.
York County delays Wi-Fi project after a closed-door meeting with conspiracy theorists who've presented long-debunked theories about 5G Wi-Fi causing adverse health effects.
Read more:
@BritCrampsie
I still need to remind my
@PADems
friends that regardless of which judge wins on Tuesday, the Dems will still control the Supreme Court. Math does not lie.