DeSantis "winning" again by appointing a QAnon and pro-Insurrection nutcase to the Florida Board of Education.
DeSantis Appoints Unqualified, QAnon-Flag-Waving Radical To Florida Board Of Education
https://www.wonkette.com/desantis-a...-waving-radical-to-florida-board-of-education
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis continued his assault on public education last week when he announced his appointment of local kook Esther Byrd to the state Board of Education. Esther Byrd is the wife of GOP state Rep. Cord Byrd, an attorney who specializes in gun laws. She’s president of the
Republican Women's Club of Duval Federated and ran a failed campaign for a Neptune Beach City Council seat in 2020.
Esther Byrd has publicly defended the Proud Boys and supported the QAnon conspiracy. The Byrds were even photographed on a boat flying the QAnon flag. What was once dismissed as the GOP “fringe” in 2020 has been steadily normalized.
She’s also posted inflammatory statements on Facebook about the January 6 insurrection.
“ANTIFA and BLM can burn and loot buildings and violently attack police and citizens,” Byrd wrote last year. “But when Trump supporters peacefully protest, suddenly ‘Law and Order’ is all they can talk about! I can’t even listen to these idiots bellyaching about solving our differences without violence.”
She continued, “In the coming civil wars (We the People vs the Radical Left and We the People cleaning up the Republican Party), team rosters are being filled ... Every elected official in DC will pick one. There are only 2 teams… With Us [or] Against Us.”
This clearly charming person is probably more qualified to serve as the
state’s surgeon general than DeSantis’s current pick, but she’s not the best choice for the Board of Education. It seems like all the
rightwing bellyaching about “radical leftists” on school boards was a smokescreen so Republicans could pack the boards with partisan hacks.
The Florida GOP thinks the QAnon lady’s just great.
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