APEX Featuring Ian C Jordan

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  • She Just wanted the job, Rebecca Kleefisch doesn’t care about Wisconsin
    Aug 9 2022

    He hasn’t been here for Covid. He hasn’t been here for Kenosha” — where riots broke out in August 2020 following the shooting of an unarmed Black man by a white police officer — she said. “The people of the state want someone who has thought about these things in depth, has spoken with people in depth, has worked on these things in depth and is ready to go into the fight.”

    Some Kleefisch supporters said those attack lines resonated.

    “He’s a carpetbagger,” said Rick Eaton, a retired truck driver from Franklin. “It feels like he hasn’t really been involved in the future of Wisconsin. Hasn’t done much for the state.”

    But politics watchers and strategists in the state said Kleefisch’s ties to Walker aren’t certain to push her over the finish line.
    5 min
  • Parents Will Push Back A Teacher will Be _______ They are going too Far
    It’s October 1st and it is autumn in Wisconsin. The weather is getting cooler and leaves are starting to change color. In Wauwatosa Schools, the radical left-wing indoctrination of Tosa students seems to become more out in the open with each changing season. I have written about the changes over the years and how the Wauwatosa School System has become a cesspool of radical extremism and indoctrination and grooming.

    With the change in season, Tosa Schools are now busy beginning the implementation process of the ultra-Left-wing sexual grooming and indoctrination curriculum disguised as a softer named ‘Human Growth and Development Curriculum (HGDC).’

    HGDC was deceptively forced on the families of Wauwatosa by the Ultra Radical, left-wing School Board. The board ringleader and President, ‘Dr.’ Eric Jesup-Anger, PhD., led his merry band of ultra-leftist radicals to approve the grooming of Tosa kids after MANIPULATING DATA of a ‘survey’ to make the results suit their agenda.

    As of the writing of this article, we still cannot get an answer of exactly how many names were removed from the results to get the Board’s desired results. I wonder why. The simple answer is, PURE ARROGANCE.

    After all, they basically ignored the attempt by the lone ‘NO’ on the board, Michael Meier, when he attempted to get the radicals on the board to rescind the curriculum based on the data manipulation. It was moved at a meeting but received no 2nd, thus preventing any discussion.

    Like I said, arrogance, they doubled-down.

    But, let’s be real, the board is not alone in their arrogance by pushing this extremist curriculum. There was a rumor of a letter sent to the board by several teachers who were in support of the program and called anyone who opposed the program a ‘BIGOT.’

    Thanks to the hard work of a Wauwatosa taxpayer, they filed an information request for the letter and now I have a copy for all to see.

    In the letter dated August, 22, 2022 and addressed to the ‘Wauwatosa School Board and Wauwatosa Community’, they wanted to affirm ‘unwavering support of all LGBTQIA+ students, staff, parents and caregivers, and community members in light of queerphobic and transphobic statements and disinformation that have been shared publicly and online.’

    That’s right, any statement that questions the ethics, methods, or their ‘wisdom’ is immediately ‘queerphobic and transphobic.’ Further on they stated, ‘Bigoted commentary, expressed both online and at school board meetings, has created an environment where students, families, and staff feel unsafe in our school communities.’

    It was 53 Teachers who signed on in support of demonizing parents and Wauwatosa taxpayers who dared to want a say in their kids education, or who dared to be against calling young kindergarten girls ‘people with a vulva.’ This is to say nothing about the fact Tosa will now be teaching about anal sex, vibrators, masturbation, sex changes, etc, AT GRADE SCHOOL LEVEL.

    Just think about this for a moment. The administrators say you can opt out, bit it’s not that simple.

    If these teachers are reacting in such a vile way to parents merely voicing their opinion, how will they treat other teachers who did not sign the letter or refuse to teach this garbage? What’s worse, how are they going to treat your kids if you dare to ‘opt out’ of the program? What will they say in class about those kids who are not there? How will the kids still in the program treat those kids who opted out?

    These teachers are dangerous and should be fired and lose their credentials. After all, what’s worse, supporting this garbage in Wauwatosa schools or voicing against it? At the very least, if any of these extremists are teaching your child, maybe it’s time to change teachers. Better yet, consider leaving Tosa Schools.

    Clearly, they must have recently gotten fresh copies of Saul Alinsky’s, ‘Rules for Radicals’, because this type of demonizing dissenters would make Alinsky proud.

    Monday, August 22, 2022
    Wauwatosa School Board and Wauwatosa Community,

    We, the undersigned, are committed employees of the Wauwatosa School District. We write the following letter to voice our support for the proposed Human Growth and Development Curriculum. Critically, we write to affirm our unwavering support of all LGBTQIA+ students, staff, parents and caregivers, and community members in light of queerphobic and transphobic statements and disinformation that have been shared publicly and online.

    The HGD curriculum addresses multiple necessary updates to ensure that our students are prepared, informed, and empowered to make healthy decisions and to seek the resources they need for their health and wellbeing. We believe that all students have the right to access information and receive an education about their health and sexuality in a safe environment. By addressing human growth and development through a student-focused, intersectional, and trauma-informed lens, students will have the knowledge to make healthy and safe decisions about their bodies and relationships.

    Bigoted commentary, expressed both online and at school board meetings, has created an environment where students, families, and staff feel unsafe in our school communities. If anything, these widespread misconceptions and unrestrained hate speech highlight just how essential this HGD curriculum is. We must do our part to build environments of compassion and understanding, and to make sure our students are equipped with empathy and accurate information. We must do our part to prevent adverse health outcomes for all students, including queer, trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming youth. In fact, our District Equity Plan and Mission Statement provide us the mandate to do just that: be a place where all are valued and welcomed and to eradicate inequities.

    As educators we ask that the district ensures adequate support and training for teachers in delivering this curriculum. This should include:

    professional development on gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality
    employing a trauma-informed lens
    the ability to co-teach lessons to promote fidelity and safety
    additional support and resources to ensure UDL and accessibility for all learners
    sufficient time for educators to review the new curriculum
    It is our responsibility to affirm, value, and empower our students. We ask that the board refuse to let discrimination, queerphobia, transphobia, and disinformation overpower the voices of our students who have stood in front of you and asked for your support through adoption of this curriculum. Do not allow students and families who deserve to have their existence acknowledged, respected, and reflected in the curriculum to be censored or erased. Do not deny our students their right to a comprehensive, responsive, and inclusive education about their physical and mental health, their bodies, and their relationships. We implore you to approve the curriculum and take a firm stand against hate.

    Respectfully,

    Jasmina Ruano, Underwood STEM Teacher
    Bridget Finnegan Forbes, Teacher of English for Multilingual Learners
    Alexis Johnston, Teacher of English for Multilingual Learners
    Hannah Fuhrman, Eisenhower Teacher
    Carolyn Kaems, Underwood Third Grade Teacher
    Anna Klusmeyer, Eisenhower Teacher
    Melissa Myers, Elementary Academic Specialist
    Courtney Ramczyk, Speech Language Pathologist
    Nicole Dower, Eisenhower First Grade Teacher
    Jon Etter, East High English Teacher and Gender and Sexuality Alliance Advisor
    Bridget Rindfleisch, Underwood STEM teacher
    Chris Benes, West High Social Studies Teacher and Gender and Sexuality Alliance Advisor

    Anna Troy, East High Spanish Teacher
    Mack Jurney, Underwood Elementary SPED Team
    Katie Petitt, Senior Kindergarten, McKinley Elementary
    Phillip Olsen, East High School Science Teacher
    Courtney Blair, Eisenhower Teacher
    Tracey Beilfuss, Senior Kindergarten, Roosevelt Elementary
    Kendra Kovar, Whitman Science Teacher and Gender and Sexuality Alliance Advisor

    Colleen Jaskulski, East High School Theatre Teacher
    Mary Merg, East High School Counselor
    Lauren Roznowski Hayden, Longfellow Orchestra Teacher
    Mike Hayden, East High School Orchestra Teacher
    Alli Weiss, Eisenhower Teacher
    Nesli Brown, Underwood School Psychologist
    Ashton Kusch, Underwood Elementary Teacher
    Joel Marinan, Underwood Elementary Teacher
    Heidi Hegwood, West High Social Studies Teacher
    Chelsea Drenning, East High School English Teacher
    Katy Pond, Underwood STEM Teacher
    Kelly Caufield, Underwood Art Teacher
    Kari Stankowski, Elementary Social Emotional Specialist
    Sarah Wieck, Underwood STEM Teacher
    Jon Balcerak, East High School English Teacher
    Kristen Rymer, Jefferson Elementary Teacher
    Chad Ohlendorf, Eisenhower teacher
    Katelyn Lasse, District Nurse
    Lynda Peterson, Underwood Librarian
    Courtney League, ELA Instructional Coach
    Abbey Jones, Eisenhower Special Education Aide
    Stacy Van Caster, Special Education Coordinator
    Toni D’Acquisto, Underwood STEM teacher

    Jenny Leigh, Elementary Art Teacher McKinley and Lincoln Elementary

    Jessica Schmidt, Teacher of English for Multilingual Learners
    Jean Biebel, East High School English Teacher
    Tracy Smith, McKinley/Jefferson Elementary Libraries

    Tia Mohacsi, Longfellow STEM Teacher and Sixth Grade Dean

    Kari Wall, Roosevelt Elementary Teacher
    Zoey Michlig, McKinley Elementary Teacher
    Amy Jarmuz-Kluth, Underwood STEM Teacher

    Sarah Murray, East High Spanish Teacher
    Jessica Buss, School Psychologist
    Lynn Meehan, Speech Language Pathologist, McKinley

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  • Mandela Barnes Quote “Progressives who move to the center are "compromising all integrity."
    Bice: On Twitter, free-wheeling Mandela Barnes called Trump a 'Russian spy' and rejected George Washington as a top president


    Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, a classic millennial, loves social media.
    Indeed, Barnes — a Democrat challenging Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron  Johnson — has tweeted more than 18,400 times since joining Twitter a decade ago, an average of nearly five tweets a day.
    "I would probably say I spend too much time online," Barnes, 35, said in a February 2021 interview. "I can be reading too, but I spend a little too much time online.”
    But what's he saying on Twitter? 
    A lot. What we get here is an unvarnished and free-wheeling political candidate touching on a number of interesting and controversial topics over the past decade.


    Early on, he demonstrated his liberal leanings by suggesting that progressives who move to the center are "compromising all integrity." He once jokingly referred to lefty U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, known by her initials AOC, as "my president." He imagined using the COVID-19 pandemic to revamp society.  


    We should drastically reimagine society, our communities, and what quality of life actually means in a moment like this," Barnes tweeted in March 2020, just as coronavirus was starting to spread. 
    Barnes asked in November 2016 if the presidential election had been "rigged." Months later, the first-term Democrat declared Donald Trump, then president, a "Russian spy." More recently, he dismissed the notion that George Washington was one of the country's top presidents.


    Barnes once said he “really could not care less about a 2nd Amendment ‘right'” to bear arms. He also criticized House GOP Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana for not changing his position on gun control after being shot in the hip during practice for the Congressional Baseball Game in 2017.
    "Taking one for the team," Barnes wrote even as Scalise was using crutches and a scooter to get around the Capitol. "I question how people vote against self interest but this is next level. He literally almost died on this hill."



    In recent years, Barnes has ripped two moderate Democratic senators with whom he would have to serve if elected, even suggesting Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia was a “missing vertebrae” in the Senate Democrats’ spine. 
    In addition, Barnes, who is vying to be the state's first Black senator, has opined on police and community unrest, two subjects for which he has been criticized during the election. 

    During the 2014 Ferguson protests, which erupted after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, Barnes acknowledged his struggle to call for peace there. As for police, he tweeted that "not all police" are corrupt or racist.
    "BUT, if I gave you a bowl of skittles and told you three were poison..." he tweeted in response in 2016 to a post about the number of people killed by police in the U.S. A day earlier, Trump made the exact same Skittles analogy regarding Syrian refugees. 


    The two campaigns had different takes on the tweets. Maddy McDaniel, spokeswoman for Barnes, suggested that the public should not make too much of the tweets but should instead see them for what they are — a bunch of old social media posts with little or no context. 
    “Twitter is not the place to have nuanced policy discussions, and unlike Ron Johnson, Lt. Gov. Barnes has always been clear with Wisconsinites that he will fight to lower costs for working families and ensure everyone has an equal shot at the American Dream," McDaniel said.

    McDaniel accused Johnson's team of "cherry-picking" tweets to distract from his record. The Johnson campaign and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, incidentally, were unaware of the tweets by Barnes until asked to comment by the Journal Sentinel last week.
    11 min

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