At first it was stripping away the power of the Ohio School Board after the thuggish statehouse politicians didn’t like the results (a pro-public education sweep) of the 2022 elections for that body.
Then going after its funding.
Then physically moving it to the outskirts.
And this past week, it was simply eliminating all its (11) elected positions outright.
Just gone.
Democracy and elections, up and canceled.
So even though the entire point of the board—going back 70+ years—was to serve as an independent body, and transparent check and balance, on the executive/legislative power over education policy and oversight—that board is now a board of five governor appointees!?!
Sounds like putting friends of First Energy in charge of the PUCO, doesn’t it?
And what this change means is that the voters voice over education decisions, direct accountability to those voters, transparency, and separation and check/balance over education decisions—are all gone.
And in an era where pay-to-play has been driving horrific education decisions, disastrous outcomes and outright scandals from both the executive and legislature branches, losing all those checks is dangerous as hell—especially now!
Every voter in Ohio was just disenfranchised from elections we have been voting on for all of our lives (except for those aged 90 or older).
It’s yet another outrage of this state budget—and it’s another issue rammed through in a budget, even though it’s not a budget item at all.
It’s also another step by this gerrymandered statehouse that is WAY out of step with the voters. Polling makes clear that Ohioans greatly prefer voting for the Ohio Board of Education, rather than have the Governor makes those appointments:
It’s one of the rare things that Trump and Biden voters agree on!
In the Whiteboard above, I explain it all. Please watch and share.
This is the stuff they don’t want you to see—in Ohio or any other gerrymandered state. So be sure you see it clearly.
Fiction —> Fact: A Jan. 6 Insurrectionist Becomes a DOJ Henchmen
I know this is coming up a lot lately, but I want to emphasize it once again.
Here is what I wrote almost a year ago, in the fifth chapter of my book, “2026.” In the chapter, I described the morning meeting of the prosecutors in a DOJ hit squad (“The Department of Retribution” in the podcast, read by Richard Schiff and Morgan Fairchild), tasked with executing on the vengeance of an angry President. And here is a short excerpt, beginning with a question from the team’s leader:
“Hey Ensign—why so quiet? What d’ya have going on?”
Ricky Neiman was generally quiet. But that left a misleading impression. It was rectitude, not passivity, honed from his time in the Naval Academy and JAG corps, where you only spoke out once spoken to. But Ricky was a die-hard—one of the veterans who’d helped coordinate the tactical maneuvers that got them into the Capitol on January 6. The video of Neiman’s military insignia and hand signals made him famous, and led to a conviction. But the president granted him amnesty in January.
“Sir, I’m so glad you asked. You will love what I’ve got going on.”
“Tell us.”
“As careful as they tried to be, we’ve got ‘em dead to right.”
“Remind everyone here just who you’re talking about.”
Ricky laughed aloud.
“The Deep State, that’s who. The institutionalists. The Ivy League snots and so-called experts who used to sit in these chairs, and in conference rooms just like this all over the federal government. We’re talking DOJ lawyers, FBI agents, diplomats, climate and pandemic scare-mongers, treasury officials and education bureaucrats….”
Woody entered every job with a succession plan. Right now, this guy felt like the guy to replace him if he somehow didn’t shoot the next charging bear in time.”
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So that was one of the members of the retribution team: a recently pardoned Jan. 6 insurrectionist, now empowered to exact revenge.
Well, wouldn’t you know it, here is one of the news items that popped up this week:
I wish I could claim great credit for getting most of this right—outside of the name of the committee.
But the truth is…they spelled out exactly what they planned.
So it was all so damn predictable to anyone who was paying attention.
Wait until you read my chapter on a hurricane hitting Florida…
