GOP candidate to oversee NC public schools called for Obama & Biden's public executions
I try to remain dispassionate about MAGA’s excesses. But this is insane. Last Tuesday, North Carolina’s Republican primary voters rejected incumbent Republican state Superintendent Catherine Truitt’s bid for a second term. In her place, they chose Michele Morrow as their candidate to head up the state’s public schools. In keeping pace with the Republican decline into MAGA madness, Morrow is a far-right nutcase — with no relevant experience for the job. Local TV station WRAL reported it thus:
On paper, Michele Morrow didn’t look like an Election Day threat.
The Republican candidate for state superintendent didn’t have a career in education, let alone experience as a public school parent in North Carolina. The homeschool mom regularly spoke out against public schools, calling them “indoctrination centers,” urging parents not to send their kids to them. And she had a losing political record, failing to win a Wake County school board seat in 2022.
Yet Morrow managed to beat incumbent Republican state Superintendent Catherine Truitt — a lifelong educator-turned-political adviser — in Tuesday's GOP primary for the chance to run the state’s public schools. Morrow will face Mo Green, a longtime school administrator, who won the Democratic primary.
CNN fleshed out Morrow’s background.
Morrow, a registered nurse and grassroots activist who homeschooled her children, ran on a platform of supporting parental rights and opposing critical race theory. (Bolding mine)
Morrow knew which buttons to push in the base’s lizard brains.
The silver lining is that Morrow’s selection will give Democratic candidate Green a better shot at the job. Especially as the defeated incumbent Truitt only won the 2020 election by 3%. Green had better win because Morrow is not only unqualified for the position, but she is also a deranged zealot and a fan of publicly executing Democratic politicians.
In one tweet, she rejected the idea that Barack Obama be imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay for his imagined crimes. She had a different idea. She wrote:
“I prefer a Pay Per View of him in front of the firing squad. I do not want to waste another dime on supporting his life. We could make some money back from televising his death.”
In another, Morrow proclaimed: “Death to ALL traitors!!” in response to a photoshopped image of Obama sitting in an electric chair.
Morrow likes the hashtag #DeathtoTraitors.” She has used it frequently to draw attention to her list of Democratic “traitors.” In response to a tweet by right-wing gadfly Tom Fitton saying “Obama did it” (sedition) she replied:
“Obama did it. Hillary did it. Schiff did it. Comey did it. Yates did it. Holder did it. Clapper did it. Gates did it. Fauci did it. Time for #WeThePeople to DO IT and #DrainTheSwamp!!!!! #NoJusticeNoCountry #DeathToTraitors #ProsecuteThemNow #TakeBackAmerica .@dbongino #KAG,”
Morrow also had a problem with President Biden recommending wearing masks before the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. (Note: she is an RN). She tweeted:
We need to follow the Constitution's advice and KILL all TRAITORS!!!
Oh dear! The Constitution does not offer advice. It lays down the law. More to the point, it does not specify a punishment for “traitors.” It said that was Congress’s job. Note: To date, the US has only executed three people for treason — none since 1862. But a girl can dream.
Sadly, Morrow is not the biggest shit running for statewide office in NC this year. Mark Robinson, the state’s current Lt. Gov, owns that title. He is the Republican candidate for Governor. This bigoted bastard is a Black man with little use for civil rights — or anything else besides guns.
Here are a selection of his opinions (courtesy NPR)
Robinson has expressed skepticism about the Holocaust on Facebook. And while he'd be North Carolina's first-ever Black governor, he's been critical of the civil rights movement, saying integration caused Black people to abandon Black-owned businesses.
"The Civil Rights Movement destroyed hundreds of very well run Black schools," he said during a 2018 podcast interview. "They destroyed Black businesses across the nation."
In 2021, Robinson criticized teachers for discussing LGBTQ issues in school. "There's no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality, any of that filth. And yes, I called it filth."
In 2022, he told a church audience that Christians should be led by men rather than women. "We are called to be the Christians that God has called us to be," he said. "And we are called – here I'm getting ready to get in trouble – called to be led by men."
Have these people no decency?