GOP in Louisiana and Oklahoma requiring 10 Commandments, Bible in Public Schools

[tonman]

It’s going to be interesting when the Bibles get treated like any other class text and end up destroyed.

Because they have to use the same text for 30 years due to lack of funding.

 

[evrheel]

(Continued)

“… Given that Republicans hold a supermajority in both chambers of the state Legislature, which has allowed Landry to push forward a conservative, tough-on-crime agenda, the governor upheld the Ten Commandments law as an example of how "the majority gets to rule."

"I don't see what the whole big fuss is about," he said Monday. …”

GOP in the South have never been big fans of the Constitution

 

[nycfan]

Heads Up — A Very Special Thread Crossover Event!



“…
Despite failing students, teachers, and schools, Walters has nevertheless tapped the state coffers to pay a Washington, DC-based media firm up to $5,000 a month to project a cartoonish image of a macho Christian culture warrior by writing his op-eds and speeches and booking him for media appearances.

Local investigative journalism hasblown the lid off of his vanity project—which, as it happens, is directly connected to Project 2025. Walters had the state contract with Vought Strategies for his public relations campaign. The president of Vought Strategies (whose name bears an eerie resemblance to the evil corporation in the popular TV show The Boys) is Mary Vought, who’s also VP of Strategic Communications at the Heritage Foundation, which published the Project 2025 handbook.

That’s right. Vought is in charge of the Heritage Foundation’s communications and in charge of Walters’ image and speaking.

This is not a minor coincidence. Walters appears to have bent the rulesand gone out of his way to contract with Vought’s group. Mary Vought previously recognized her husband Russ Vought on the Vought Strategies website (that has since changed, though it’s unclear whether the relationship has changed or simply their public acknowledgement of it). Russ Vought, one of the masterminds behind Project 2025 (he wrote a big part of their playbook), is a self-described Christian nationalist who runs the Center for Renewing America, whose top issues include “Christian nationalism.” Russ also ran the Office of Management and Budget for the Trump administration.

First Liberty Institute, a Christian nationalist legal outfit based in Texas, is among Project 2025’s “advisory partners” and represents Walters in the religious public school case mentioned above. Walters has advocated mandatory “patriotic training” for teachers from Hillsdale College, another Project 2025 advisory partner. Walters appointed a team to completely rewrite Oklahoma’s social studies standards that includes David Barton of Wallbuilders, Dennis Prager of PragerU, and Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation and the man who literally wrote the foreword to the Project 2025 playbook.

This overlap in personnel between Oklahoma and Project 2025 is more striking given Project 2025’s emphasis on personnel, even quoting the axiom “personnel is policy” in the first substantive note in the 900+ page playbook. …”

 

[mpaer]

“Kids don’t learn civics or history or economics/personal finance in school!”

Maybe because every level of social studies in their school career is taught by a coach? You know we have to have something the high school linebackers coach can “teach.”

I mean how about Shop

 

[Mulberry Heel]

Heads Up — A Very Special Thread Crossover Event!



“…
Despite failing students, teachers, and schools, Walters has nevertheless tapped the state coffers to pay a Washington, DC-based media firm up to $5,000 a month to project a cartoonish image of a macho Christian culture warrior by writing his op-eds and speeches and booking him for media appearances.

Local investigative journalism hasblown the lid off of his vanity project—which, as it happens, is directly connected to Project 2025. Walters had the state contract with Vought Strategies for his public relations campaign. The president of Vought Strategies (whose name bears an eerie resemblance to the evil corporation in the popular TV show The Boys) is Mary Vought, who’s also VP of Strategic Communications at the Heritage Foundation, which published the Project 2025 handbook.

That’s right. Vought is in charge of the Heritage Foundation’s communications and in charge of Walters’ image and speaking.

This is not a minor coincidence. Walters appears to have bent the rulesand gone out of his way to contract with Vought’s group. Mary Vought previously recognized her husband Russ Vought on the Vought Strategies website (that has since changed, though it’s unclear whether the relationship has changed or simply their public acknowledgement of it). Russ Vought, one of the masterminds behind Project 2025 (he wrote a big part of their playbook), is a self-described Christian nationalist who runs the Center for Renewing America, whose top issues include “Christian nationalism.” Russ also ran the Office of Management and Budget for the Trump administration.

First Liberty Institute, a Christian nationalist legal outfit based in Texas, is among Project 2025’s “advisory partners” and represents Walters in the religious public school case mentioned above. Walters has advocated mandatory “patriotic training” for teachers from Hillsdale College, another Project 2025 advisory partner. Walters appointed a team to completely rewrite Oklahoma’s social studies standards that includes David Barton of Wallbuilders, Dennis Prager of PragerU, and Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation and the man who literally wrote the foreword to the Project 2025 playbook.

This overlap in personnel between Oklahoma and Project 2025 is more striking given Project 2025’s emphasis on personnel, even quoting the axiom “personnel is policy” in the first substantive note in the 900+ page playbook. …”

Walters is a genuine nutcase as well as a totally amoral and ruthlessly ambitious egomaniac. Having said that, there does (finally) appear to be a growing backlash to Walters even in deepest-red Oklahoma. Walters has defiantly refused to obey even his heavily Republican state legislature and refused to give money appropriated by the legislature to improve security procedures in state school districts, and the legislature has opened a formal investigation into Walters and his handling of the OK Department of Education finances. Walters held a surprise press conference last week and bizarrely demanded that his fellow Republicans in the legislature just go ahead and start impeachment hearings for him. In the best Trumper fashion he is also portraying himself as the "victim" of elitist RINOs in the legislature. I do think he's in real trouble as he appears to have alienated nearly the entire OK GOP power structure. He's a dangerous dude, but especially to public ed in OK. If Morrow is elected I'm afraid that we may see much of the same happen here in NC.

 

[Ddseddse]

Walters is a genuine nutcase as well as a totally amoral and ruthlessly ambitious egomaniac. Having said that, there does (finally) appear to be a growing backlash to Walters even in deepest-red Oklahoma. Walters has defiantly refused to obey even his heavily Republican state legislature and refused to give money appropriated by the legislature to improve security procedures in state school districts, and the legislature has opened a formal investigation into Walters and his handling of the OK Department of Education finances. Walters held a surprise press conference last week and bizarrely demanded that his fellow Republicans in the legislature just go ahead and start impeachment hearings for him. In the best Trumper fashion he is also portraying himself as the "victim" of elitist RINOs in the legislature. I do think he's in real trouble as he appears to have alienated nearly the entire OK GOP power structure. He's a dangerous dude, but especially to public ed in OK. If Morrow is elected I'm afraid that we may see much of the same happen here in NC.

You know who else begged for impeachment proceedings to be started against themselves once people stated poking around in their finances (in an effort to avoid prison time)? Spiro Agnew.

(I'm finally getting around to listening to the Bagman pod. Better late than never. I highly recommend it.)

 

[ZenMode]

Heads Up — A Very Special Thread Crossover Event!



“…
Despite failing students, teachers, and schools, Walters has nevertheless tapped the state coffers to pay a Washington, DC-based media firm up to $5,000 a month to project a cartoonish image of a macho Christian culture warrior by writing his op-eds and speeches and booking him for media appearances.

Local investigative journalism hasblown the lid off of his vanity project—which, as it happens, is directly connected to Project 2025. Walters had the state contract with Vought Strategies for his public relations campaign. The president of Vought Strategies (whose name bears an eerie resemblance to the evil corporation in the popular TV show The Boys) is Mary Vought, who’s also VP of Strategic Communications at the Heritage Foundation, which published the Project 2025 handbook.

That’s right. Vought is in charge of the Heritage Foundation’s communications and in charge of Walters’ image and speaking.

This is not a minor coincidence. Walters appears to have bent the rulesand gone out of his way to contract with Vought’s group. Mary Vought previously recognized her husband Russ Vought on the Vought Strategies website (that has since changed, though it’s unclear whether the relationship has changed or simply their public acknowledgement of it). Russ Vought, one of the masterminds behind Project 2025 (he wrote a big part of their playbook), is a self-described Christian nationalist who runs the Center for Renewing America, whose top issues include “Christian nationalism.” Russ also ran the Office of Management and Budget for the Trump administration.

First Liberty Institute, a Christian nationalist legal outfit based in Texas, is among Project 2025’s “advisory partners” and represents Walters in the religious public school case mentioned above. Walters has advocated mandatory “patriotic training” for teachers from Hillsdale College, another Project 2025 advisory partner. Walters appointed a team to completely rewrite Oklahoma’s social studies standards that includes David Barton of Wallbuilders, Dennis Prager of PragerU, and Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation and the man who literally wrote the foreword to the Project 2025 playbook.

This overlap in personnel between Oklahoma and Project 2025 is more striking given Project 2025’s emphasis on personnel, even quoting the axiom “personnel is policy” in the first substantive note in the 900+ page playbook. …”

Who needs education. The Lord will provide.

 

[nycfan]