Tammy Covil, who is the True Conservative running in NC-20, dropped the following press release yesterday regarding the Charlotte City Council passing a transgender bathroom ordinance:
TAMMY COVIL STANDS WITH THE GOVERNOR, LT. GOVERNOR AND SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE TO PROTECT WOMEN AND CHILDREN FROM CHARLOTTE ORDINANCE
Wilmington, NC – In response to Charlotte City Council’s adoption of an ordinance that would allow men to use a women’s restroom on the basis of gender identification, Tammy Covil announced her support for proposed legislation that would block the city’s new policy.
“Last year, I warned of the slippery slope laws like these create and stood against policies that seek to divide us into politically correct groups, rather than unite us based on our commonalities. It appears that my warnings have come to fruition as Charlotte has now passed an ordinance that is not only impossible to regulate, it has the potential to place women and young children in harms way. As a wife, mother, and family advocate, I stand with Governor McCrory, Lieutenant Governor Forest and Speaker Moore in taking legislative action to reverse this misguided policy. North Carolina must do what is necessary to protect children from a municipality that has ignored the will of its people.”
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Tammy Covil is a candidate for North Carolina House of Representatives, District 20. She and her husband, Tommy, have been married for 24 years. They are the proud parents of four children. She was elected to the New Hanover County Board of Education in 2012. In addition, she was appointed by the North Carolina House in 2014 to serve on the Academic Standards Review Commission, also known as the Common Core Committee. She co-chaired the commission, which was tasked with reviewing and making recommendations for changes to the state’s academic standards.
Holly Grange is Covil’s opponent. She has produced no such statement that I can find.
By the way, Covil’s opponent seems to be acting like she’s new to political races, given the whining she did about Covil going on offense — which was a rather brilliant move.
Hi, silly Holly — next time buy the domain name and don’t get caught up in an international scandal involving Sydney Blumenthal?
Are you confused about the NC redistricting maps? When is the Congressional Primary? Who represents me now?
This is what I keep hearing, hence this post. Sadly, I don’t think it will help much and might change yet again.
Here’s the latest from the NCGA on the rules applying to the Congressional primary as passed yesterday.
Key points of H2:
“the 2016 U.S. House of Representatives primary election shall be 11 held on Tuesday, June 7, 2016.”
“No Run for Two Separate Offices at the Same Time – A candidate 22 who is certified as the winner of a primary election on March 15 and certified as the winner of a 23 primary election on June 7 shall withdraw the notice of candidacy for one of those races no later 24 than one week after the certification of both primary election results…”
“No Second Primary. – Notwithstanding G.S. 163-111, the results of all 2016 primary elections shall be determined by a plurality, and no second primaries shall be held during the 2016 election cycle”
So to summarize, the Congressional races will have their Primary June 7th and there will be no run off. Also, if someone wins and is running in a second race, they have to withdraw from the second race.
Now, this is only if the maps remain unchanged because the plaintiffs and NCGA Democrats are now saying the maps don’t include race enough.
The plaintiffs now argue that the newly drawn maps, passed into law last week by the General Assembly, are “no more appropriate than the version struck down” by the court.
They proposed a schedule for the court to review the new maps, which included court hearings on March 11 and a final decision by the court no later than March 18. They also suggested judges draw their own map if they don’t like the new boundaries.
The legislature has proposed that candidate filing under the new maps begin March 16.
Osteen on Tuesday gave defendants until March 7 to file a response to plaintiffs’ objections. Plaintiffs have until March 9 to reply.
The judge said in his order that any requests for more time would be “viewed with disfavor.” (News and Record 2/23/16)
Here is the latest passed version from the NCGA on the redistricting. It’s a long list of the changes to the Congressional districts.
I’ve compiled a bit of a timeline below to help people understand how we got to where we are today. It includes both the Voter ID and the Redistricting issues. I consider them linked, given the plaintiffs are some of the same groups (NC NAACP, League of Women voters).
If I’ve left something out or gotten something wrong – which I am sure I did since there is a ton of filings, rulings etc., feel free to email me.
McGuire Woods Consulting has an overview of what this process of redistricting entails and includes a redistricting history section. This overview includes a link to the new map.
Moritz College of Law has an extensive list of documents, filings and status updates for the Voter ID suit over HB 589.
Voter ID / Redistricting Timeline:
2013: Voter ID legislation comes forward (HB 589) public support is 72% in favor.
August 2013: Governor McCrory signs off on HB 589.
September 2013: At the request of former Senator Kay Hagan, Eric Holder’s DOJ files suit against NC voter ID law, claiming that the state’s statute violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) . Holder’s suit also said it would seek to have the state subject to federal pre-clearance before making “future voting-related changes.”
August 2o14: Judge Schroeder denies a preliminary injunction request by the NC NAACP ad others.
August 2014: DOJ loses it’s case against the NC Voter ID law.
October 2014: Judge Schroeder reverses course after the 4th circuit rules he ‘abused his discretion’ by denying the earlier request for a preliminary injunction. This injuction is granted on two of the provisions; prohibition of same-day voter registration and prohibition out-of-precinct voting.
December 2014: NC Supreme court upholds redistricting maps.
June 2015: NC General Assembly basically kills their own voter ID bill just weeks before the Federal Trial in Greensboro is to start. (Senate approve 44-2, House 104-3)
The new language makes use of the “reasonable impediment declaration” on why a voter has no ID. Voters could claim up to 8 different reasons: lack of transportation, disability/illness, lost/stolen photo ID, or a lack of a birth certificate and/or other documents used to obtain a photo ID. In other words, you could say just about anything.
January 15, 2016: Judge Schroeder ruled that Voter ID requirement stands for March 15th Primary. Schroeder ruled that the plaintiffs failed to prove that the photo ID requirement would place an undue burdens on minorities.
February 4, 2015: Judge Schroeder finds the two objections to the Magistrate order on November 20, 2014 are overruled. (League of Women Voters et al)
April 2015: US Supreme Court orders NC to take another look at the Redistricting maps.
December 2015: NC Supreme Court upholds Redistricting maps for a second time.
February 2, 2016: Emergency Stay filed with Supreme Court.
February 5, 2016: Federal District court rules Congressional Districts 1 and 12 are unconstitutional. Two weeks are given for redrawing the districts with a proposed end date of February 19th.
February 22, 2016: Remedial Redistricting plan schedule ordered.
February 2016: Supreme Court will not intervene. Lower court ruling stands and the maps must be redrawn.
I recently wrote an article for Civitas dealing with the U.S. Department of Education threatening legal action against states who don’t comply with ESSA’s (Every Student Succeeds Act) 95% testing rule.
Excerpt:
Testing compliance under ESSA is essentially the same as it was under NCLB. States are required to have at least 95 percent of students participate in standardized tests for the purpose of “accountability.” The U.S. Department of Education has tied federal Title I funding to the administration of these tests and the 95 percent compliance threshold.
In December 2015, the U.S. Department of Education sent letters to more than a dozen state school chiefs whose states had fallen below the 95 percent threshold in the prior year. The letters included threats of loss of funding should the state not comply going forward.
North Carolina was included in this list alongside Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, Wisconsin, Delaware, Idaho, New York, Colorado, California, Connecticut, Maine and Illinois.
So that’s the main thrust. This topic was just recently covered by WRAL who included an amazing piece of information about how some districts are enforcing this 95% rule:
RALEIGH, N.C. — When students in Randolph County Schools don’t show up to take state tests, school leaders pounce.
Teachers and assistant principals send letters home and call parents. If that doesn’t work, school resource officers go to the students’ houses, knock on their doors and drive them to school, if necessary. That kind of response is why Randolph County had some of the highest test participation rates in the state last year.
Did you catch that? Randolph county schools are using school resource officers to enforce testing compliance.
This is an outrageous abuse of resources, not to mention this is the blatant intimidation of students and their families.
If North Carolina wants to see an opt out movement strike, by all means, continue to send the equivalent of jackbooted thugs to haul kids to school on testing days.
And where is Supt. Atkinson on this? I asked but received no response.
I’ve been pointing out over the last few years how Social Justice is trumping actual academics in our nation’s public schools and how Common Core has become a vehicle to increase the level of it.
I’ve highlighted it in my own state of North Carolina, but over in Missouri there is a school district Asst. Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction actually promoting it on Twitter.
It’s worth noting that from what I’ve gathered, Mr. Painter is in the Kirkwood area. The Superintendent there is the second highest paid in the state. Your tax dollars are thereby funding this promotion of Social Justice.
What are we talking about here when we say Social Justice? We’re talking about promoting self-identifying transgender people to be allowed to use whatever bathroom they want because their perceived comfort apparent surpasses that of all other people.
We’re talking about the ginned up Black Lives Matter protests led by professional and taxpayer funded agitators. It’s about seeing racism around every corner of one’s waking moment despite a black president being elected — twice.
We’re talking about the vicious attacks on anything male by feminists in the name of ‘gender equality’. We’re talking about ‘white privilege’ and ‘rape culture’.
We’re talking about gay marriage, abortion, restorative justice, climate change, being anti-Second amendment, the totally made up ‘Islamophobia’, and any topic ending in “Equity”. The list goes on and on.
Social Justice is liberalism personified with a bad case of ADHD.
Questionable Resources on Questionable Topics
Not only is Supt. Painter promoting ‘resources’ for teaching Social Justice in K-12 classrooms, the resources he’s pointing to are dubious at best.
One of them is Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Teaching Tolerance”, which I have written about extensively over the last year.
Another one is the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The article Supt. Painter refers to apologizes if the ADL’s pro-Israel position offends anyone out there:
Update: Since publishing this post, a few readers have pointed out that some of ADL’s other website content (separate from this curriculum) takes a strong stance on issues relating to Israel and may offend some users.
Gee, the Social Justice Warriors reading about resources on Social Justice only want certain kinds of resources available. If it offends them, it’s not really “social justice”? This is where one should point and laugh at the blatant hypocrisy.
The ADL, however, is hypocritical itself as it is also one of the participants in Twitter’s new “Trust & Safety Council, which is a who’s who collection of Social Justice Warriors who will apparently monitor speech on Twitter. It is being speculated that this Trust and Safety Council recently banned Social Justice Warrior fighting blogger Stacy McCain.
How long until such a Trust and Safety Council is put in place in our schools to monitor their speech? How far are Social Justice promoters like Mr. Painter willing to go to make sure your child is made to care?
The the article Painter’s tweet references also mentions the National Center for the Social Studies. Let me save parents some time — this center is less about “studies”and more about “social”. If you want proof, visit Missouri Education Watchdog’s article on this center. Also, here’s my own where I include links to the related “Council On The Social Studies” and their 2013 meeting , which featured a teacher as presenter who was also a supporter of Occupy Wall Street.
What is the Purpose of Education? What is the Purpose of Social Justice?
One has to ask, what is the purpose of education? What are the priorities we bear in mind for our children when we think of education?
The basics like reading, writing, history, science and math are likely what first comes to mind. Making sure a child has a strong foundation in these areas from which to build on it is unquestionably essential.
Education is supposed to allow any given child the basic ability of self-reliance, of thinking for one’s self and to find their own path. Instead we see the influx of a path dictated to them through a non-stop stream of subjective and slanted Social Justice themes.
These basics, as stagnant and declining national test scores are showing, are clearly not priorities — or if they are, there is not enough time spent working towards mastery.
Why is that? One can easily blame the last five years of Common core for some of the short-comings, yet I’d hazard a guess that these basic subjects are being ‘enhanced’ with social justice themes, which in turn crowds out actual instruction time spent on mastery of the actual skill or topic at hand.
In my opinion, these topics are being infused into regular curriculum without the consent of the public for the purpose of getting to the kids before their parents do. It’s about government replacing the role of parent and the tool is the schools. Clearly this strategy has been working if one has been paying attention to the latest crop of Special Snowflakes throwing ‘safe space’ temper tantrums on college campuses.
Much of what Social Justice purports to be about is, in actuality, the driving of political agenda items.
Social Justice isn’t actually about Justice. It’s about controlling people through conditioning and intimidation. Social Justice depends on Political Correctness to be its enforcer.
I’ll leave you with this video down below that features British comedic icon, John Cleese.
If there is one take away from it that I hope people pick up on and that is when Cleese says, “If people can’t control their own emotions then they have to start trying to control other people’s behavior.”
This, to me, is one of the main poles hold up the tent of Social Justice.
Last Fall, I wrote about the questions raised by how common place fighting in Wake county schools was becoming.
These fights were being recorded often times with cell phones and uploaded to a Twitter account called #30SecondFights as well as other social media platforms. It came out that Raleigh police had responded to over 200 calls about fights from Wake County Schools.
Well now we have the same type of thing happening in Mecklenburg.
Another fight at West Mecklenburg High School Thursday concerns parents, students, and a school board member. A video WBTV obtained shows a fight between several girls. Sources said it took place during lunch time, and it is very violent. Charlotte-Mecklenburg School (CMS) District sent a statement when asked about the altercation.
“We can confirm an incident at West Meck that the principal is looking into,” the statement read. “As we said yesterday, any student involved in an incident will be disciplined according to the student code of conduct.”
WBTV was told more than 6 arrests could come as a result of the fight.
Remember, both Wake county and Mecklenburg county school boards have been tossing around the idea of ‘Restorative Justice’.
Both districts have also moving away from more trained Student Resource Officers due to pressure from groups pushing the “school to prison pipeline” narrative.
That narrative is that minority students, mainly blacks, are disciplined disproportionately than their peers because of race. The majority of these recorded fights frankly debunk that narrative outright. The video included in the WBTV report is a prime example.
The groups promoting the “school to prison pipeline” narrative have a fairly clear recruiting connection for the Black Lives Matters movement.
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