The conservative Wake Community Network is going two years in the past to attack Wake County school board member Kevin Hill's re-election bid.
In Tuesday's Daily Journal, Joey Stansbury points back to how Hill had made a big deal in 2009 about the National School Boards Association’s Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) giving Wake an award for its diversity efforts.
"They say a picture is worth 1000 words," Stansbury writes. "In this case a picture is worth thousands of reaassigned (sic) children. In this photo, Kevin Hill presents the National School Boards Association Council of Urban Boards of Education's Award to the Wake County Board of Education."
Hill had taken the unusual step for a board chairman in surrendering the gavel so he could speak to the board from the speakers' podium. Hill described accepting the award as "one of the proudest moments in my long career with the Wake County Public School System."
Hill's speech occurred a few weeks after the 2009 school board elections.
The board majority dropped out of CUBE and the National School Boards Association at the same time it left the N.C. School Boards Association. The board chose not to rejoin the national groups when it rejoined NCSBA.
The post from Stansbury is part of the ongoing campaign to charge that a Hill victory over Heather Losurdo will lead to some revamped form of the old diversity policy.
Comments
TK's "Cut & Paste" Blog
Thu, 10/27/2011 - 09:46 — AgentPierceOK; TKH, now you're cutting & pasting from right-wing groups in addition to your old favorites Cash, Geary and Gerrick .... BUT here your snarky asides are "snarky". If you dared use such snarky comments w/ a Cash Michaels' "cut & paste" you'd be sitting on a Nash Square park bench with a box of your personal effects.
But this will score points w/ Whaler's crowd who think you're "too conservative" .... :-). Whaler's crowd also thinks Obama is "too conservative". Go figure.
touche
Thu, 10/27/2011 - 14:38 — WhalerCaneMany of us do think the President has tried to hard to placate the implacable. :-)
Okay, I'm sorry, that was a bit 'snarky.'
That said, I do not see anything snarky about what Keung wrote. Perhaps in what Joey said, but there was no commentary from Keung. Just a pure posting of Joey's extreme tea party agenda. :-)
So...
Thu, 10/27/2011 - 14:56 — Bob_SconceThat's about the umpteemth time you've said "extremist tea party agenda." Could you please explain what you consider the Tea Party Agenda to be?
Bob,
Thu, 10/27/2011 - 15:17 — WhalerCaneI shouldn't, but I can not resist. Check out Triangle Conservatives Unite to see what they profess as their agenda. Joey has done a pretty good job of laying out his agenda for a while. In the past Joey has allied himself with Bob Luddy who's views include the dismanatling of public education.. I would call that 'extreme.'
Heh...
Thu, 10/27/2011 - 15:42 — Bob_SconceThat's got to be the most disorganized website I've ever seen. I take it that you wouldn't consider 'clarity' to be one of their principles? In doing some browsing, I noticed that they talked about "the 912 conservative values for America" -- that sounds more like an index than a platform. Frankly, I just see that group as a bunch of conservatives getting together and talking about politics. And, just like when liberals do that, some of the ideas are crazy**. Are you really suggesting that this meetup group is the Tea Party? I thought it was just an opportunity for conservative dating -- heck a bunch of those folks aren't even Republicans. (I now know there's a "Christian Party of North Carolina.")
**I still remember liberal friends at my college who thought the US should switch to communism. Then the USSR collapsed, and those liberals said "but, they never really tried true communism."
That group is the self
Thu, 10/27/2011 - 16:31 — WhalerCaneThat group is the self described local 'Tea Party' group and every local Republican candidate has gone to their meetings to geneflect for votes including Heather Losurda. She used to have a video on their site before they took it down. She still has photos posted there.
Just this week Paul Coble went and spoke to them as well as Donna Williams to ask for their help with Heather with the warning to avoid any GOP or Tea Party paraphanelia when they campaign.
Not the same as your friends in college.
So...
Thu, 10/27/2011 - 16:36 — Bob_SconceIs that about the same advice you give your Democratic volunteers -- "Don't wear the NAACP pin. Don't talk about diversity?"
there you go again Bob
Thu, 10/27/2011 - 17:05 — WhalerCaneIgnore the facts that just undercut you point, and go right to the talking point.
I understand, you can't help it.
No not at all. My advice to them is to stay on their own message, not repeat the oppositions.
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Thu, 10/27/2011 - 17:13 — Bob_SconceNot trying to give you a talking point -- just thought that lessons about message were a common campaign practice? I do know that Mrs. Sconce was at the YMCA where an acquaintance, a Hill volunteer, told her that they're not supposed to really pump up the diversity angle. Of course, who knows what the actual truth is there -- I suspect you feel about Volunteers the same way McClellan felt about the Militia: good to have around, but need a lot more training than most of them get.
LOL
Thu, 10/27/2011 - 17:42 — WhalerCaneIt depends on how motivated that militia is. :-)
I have said that 2 years ago was more about growth and stability than diversity, and this year is more about governance than a rejection of neighborhood schools. 'Diversity' is a good value, and balanced schools are better because they create environments where good teachers want to teach and they save money. The Superentendent agrees. I have said that message for three years, and have not shied for using the word, but unfortunately, there are those who have worked to turn it into a dirty word, yes, much like 'tea party'. They are different however. One is a value that we all should embrace.
Hey...
Thu, 10/27/2011 - 22:00 — Bob_SconceDiversity -- true diversity -- is an excellent thing. Why? Because we come to understand the world about us better when we learn from people whose understandings of the world are vastly different than our own, who are from different cultures, religions and languages. At the elementary school level, this isn't that important -- there's only so different two 5-year-olds can be. Get into high school and college, and it's a bigger deal.
Unfortunately, that's not the sort of rich diversity so-called "diversity" supporters mean -- to them, a school is diverse if it has kids who grew up 10 miles away from each other, watching the same TV shows, eating basically the same food, listening to the same music, but who happen to have different skin colors. That pale imitation of diversity is no value, but a poverty all to itself.
Not that I'd actually expect
Thu, 10/27/2011 - 10:42 — KeungHui (author)Not that I'd actually expect you to bother note this but if you'll click the Wake Community Network and Joey Stansbury tags, people will see I've been blogging about his staff for the past three years.
I'm not sure how you came up with the idea it was snarky aside from the fact that I followed standard grammatical writing style to put in a sic to note that a word was misspelled. If I hadn't, the grammar police would have jumped in. If I had changed it, I would have been accused of cleaning up after his remarks.
Joey who?
Thu, 10/27/2011 - 06:54 — bpuli9999Who the heck is this guy?
And Joey's 1000 words do not convey anything.
He's one of Ron's
Thu, 10/27/2011 - 10:07 — truthBtoldtoadies. A wannbe Brad Crone. I bet a dollar he did the hachet videos on Susan Evans from Ron's information request of staff.
"I bet a dollar he did the
Thu, 10/27/2011 - 12:51 — xmarkspot62"I bet a dollar he did the hachet videos on Susan Evans from Ron's information request of staff."
very likely; Joey has been the Gang of Five's personal video spy for quite awhile
Joey has denied making those
Thu, 10/27/2011 - 15:36 — KeungHui (author)Joey has denied making those videos.
Do you expect him to
Thu, 10/27/2011 - 15:41 — truthBtoldAdmit it? If he did, then the accusations of using taxpayer resources for personal/political purposes would be true.