Northville & Novi Citizens for Democracy

12/11/2022

This is the co-chair of the Michigan GOP and another reminder that the extreme right cares only about their own. No one else. And for the Matt Wilk crowd, the response to this tweet as a reminder that NOT ONE OF YOU are conservatives. You are the farthest thing from comservative. Conservatives preserve our institutions.

12/09/2022

Ha! And this is why the extreme right wing candidates and their platforms continue to lose. This post-election wrap up seeks to learn what they did wrong and why they faced such huge losses on Nov. 8, but of course, they fail to include voices on the panel who voted against them. Instead of learning that voters are fed up with the lies, fear campaigns and attempts to criminalize teachers, American history and LGBTQ students, and become more inclusive and supportive of public education, they're meeting to learn how to be more effective with delivering their Christian fundamentalist, white supremacist, anti-public schools messaging that no one wants in our community.

They don't want what voters want.
They don't want a diverse, multi-cultural, inclusive and accepting school system or society.
They don't want public education.

They're planning to double down and find different ways to deliver their hate instead

They refuse to accept that parents don't want the lies they're selling. Instead of changing their platform, they'd rather change their methods of delivering their fear mongering.

Parents are smarter. We know their real intentions.

Extreme Republicans continue to show that they aren't interested in the will of the people and keep making the same mistakes over and over. We saw this all over the country on November 8th.

They'll never learn and that's why they'll never win.

Share this idea, Matt: parents in your community support public schools, our teachers and we embrace inclusion and multiculturalism. If you don't, we don't want your puppet candidates.

12/07/2022

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12/07/2022

Voters rejected candidates who built their campaigns on national Republican talking points about critical race theory and educators’ “indoctrination” of students and made their thoughts known at the ballot box that there is no place for school board candidates who attacked public schools as incubators of “woke” ideology. Groups like Moms for Liberty and Get Kids Back to School candidates LOST far more races than they won..

Michigan parents didn't buy the notion that they have no rights and other propoganda that right wing groups were trying to push and further resented the notion that teachers and teachers unions are dangerous.

From the governor’s race to local school boards, the ‘parental rights’ movement has dominated debates on education policy this election year. But movement-backed candidates had limited success Tuesday in local school board elections.

11/25/2022

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11/24/2022

Happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful for our public school teachers who are GROOMING our children to appreciate diversity, embrace multiculturalism, to have empathy towards others, to understand racism and discrimination, and grooming our children to be successful, inclusive and well-prepared adults to become the leaders of the future.

11/20/2022

Conservative school board candidates who attacked public schools as incubators of “woke” ideology made inroads in local Michigan elections on Tuesday, but still lost far more races than they won.

Of 121 candidates statewide recommended by two major Michigan parental rights groups, 48 won office, according to analysis of unofficial election results by Chalkbeat and Bridge Michigan. (Results from five contests weren’t available as of Thursday.)

Many of the races were unusually combative, stoking fears that hyper-partisan discourse over LGBTQ inclusion, patriotic education, and parental rights would interrupt the essential — if staid and generally apolitical — workings of local boards. Some candidates built their campaigns on national Republican talking points about critical race theory and educators’ “indoctrination” of students.

The Get Kids Back to School PAC, a new political group, endorsed 57 candidates. Many voiced opposition to alleged “indoctrination” or promised to resist COVID vaccine mandates. About 70% of GKBTS of the candidates lost, the analysis showed.
(Note to GKBTS: its been almost two years since Covid mandates were in place )

Though results were mixed, Matt Wilk, director of the Get Kids Back to School PAC, released a statement Wednesday saying its “army of volunteers has changed the narrative around public education.”

(Yes, the narrative is now we know who are the REAL indoctrinated people are and whose thoughts and views are rooted in racism and perversion, and not rooted in reality. The narrative is now focused on making sure these lies and scare tactics will never win in our communities)

Moms For Liberty — a national conservative group with 12 local chapters in Michigan that aims to help parents “defend their parental rights” — was more successful. Still, fewer than half of the 73 candidates recommended by the national group or its local affiliates won their races. (Some candidates were endorsed by both groups.)

Simply put, Michigan is fed up with the lies, the fear campaign, the racism and intolerance and sent a message on November 8th that Michigan supports our teachers and public schools.

https://detroit.chalkbeat.org/2022/11/10mdb/23452239/michigan-local-school-board-election-midterm-elections-2022-election-results-culture-war

Fewer than half of 121 candidates recommended by two major Michigan parental rights groups won in local school board elections

11/17/2022

Are you tired of right-wing attacks on public education?
Red Wine and Blue has created a new resource to help you fight back against far-right extremism in your kids' schools.
It contains tons of helpful information like:

*How to organize a group within your community
*Getting the message out on social media
*The best ways to speak out at school board meetings
*How to run for school board (Yes, you!)

https://secure.everyaction.com/E1T1y4AtjE-l9hxUQezNUA2

11/17/2022

"Within two hours, the school board had voted to fire the district’s first Black superintendent, terminate the district’s lawyer, ban critical race theory and set up a committee to decide whether certain books and materials should be banned from schools."

We are happy to be part of the effort to warn Michigan voters and parents about the fear campaigns by fringe groups like "MOMS FOR LIBERTY" to undermine our public schools at the expense of our children.

Red Wine and Blue

The Berkeley County, South Carolina, school board made several big moves in its first meeting after the election. The board’s former chair said it was a “political witch hunt.”

11/16/2022

"Education not Indoctrination"- another red flag phrase to remember in 2024.

11/14/2022

Michigan GOP is doubling down on the extreme agenda that caused them to lose Michigan last week, with white supremacist and school board PAC director Shane Trejo as Executive Director of a new PAC that plans to be more "aggressive" in 2024 . What's next? Dave Staudt as Treasurer? They must love losing . Michigan isn't buying this nonsense now and won't in two more years either.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/michigan/2022/11/14/state-lawmaker-starts-grand-new-party-pac-says-gop-too-passive/69647049007/

11/14/2022