Fairfax Board of Supervisors has voted 9 to 1 to close all 167 schools in the county on March 1st for the primary election because they fear the reactions of Trump voters who might object to signing the oath of affiliation before receiving a Republican ballot. From the Washington Post,
If you say: ‘I don’t want to do it,’ I have to say: ‘You don’t get a ballot,’ ” Fairfax County Electoral Board Secretary Katherine K. Hanley told the county Board of Supervisors Tuesday before it voted to ask school officials to keep students home.
‘That’s what this provision is,’ said Hanley, a Democrat who chaired the county Board of Supervisors from 1995 to 2003 and later served in the cabinet of Gov. Tim Kaine (D). ‘That’s about as contentious as anything we can possibly be doing in a polling place on Election Day.’
Trump’s Virginia campaign chairman, Chairman of the Prince William County Board of supervisors, Corey Stewart, called the concerns “preposterous,” saying there have been no threats made over the affiliation requirement. He said,
This is just an attempt by Democrats and probably some establishment Republicans to malign and disparage Trump supporters and also to characterize conservative speech as hate speech.
Currently Fairfax schools are scheduled to open 2 hours late on election day to accommodate the expected large number of early morning voters. Fairfax Superintendent of Schools, Karen Garza, said the request to close schools came as a surprise and at this time she does not feel it necessary to close the schools for the entire day.
‘For many years, schools have been open and serving as polling locations without incident,’ Garza said in a statement. ‘We work closely with election officials, our security team and law enforcement to ensure the safety of all.’
In Loudoun, General Registrar Judy Brown said she’s having trouble getting volunteers for election day after scuffles and name calling at some Trump rallies.
‘We have had people saying they would prefer not to work the election,’ Brown said. She said she is talking to county officials about whether to implement extra security precautions but nothing has been decided.
Most election officials are concerned over the expected large crowds, and not the affiliation statement or Trump supporters, as well they should be. Democrats in Fairfax are overreacting in a typical effort to make Republicans, and particularly Trump supporters, look bad.
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[…] The Board of Supervisors voted 9 to 1 to recommend that the schools be closed because the board feared Trump voters. The Superintendent of Fairfax Schools, Karen Garza, issued this […]
This is Fairfax? The kids will never believe Republicans. Just declare the day a Snow Day, and blame it on global warming.
Why should the parents be the only ones being snowed this election?
Back in the early 1980s when I was a 2nd Lieutenant at the US Army Military Intelligence Basic Officer Course at Fort Huachuca, AZ, our instructors told us to always try to get into the mindset of our adversaries, that is to endeavor to see the world from his point of view. I apply that tactic to my current adversaries – white progressives. You see, friends, to the typical white progressive, we white conservatives are the enemy…the incarnate of evil. Black conservatives are sell-outs and race traitors. Why, If it were not for us and our support for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and other nefarious causes such as the First and Second Amendments, the entire country would be basking in the glow of a multicultural PC Age of Aquarius. Just listen to these morons…they think that we and our rhetoric are the reasons ISIS hates us. Therefore, since they are so focused on us, they never, and I mean never, see the true culprits and troublemakers. For example, they are oblivious to the thuggish behavior of the Black Lives Matter movement. They totally ignore the devastating effects of black-on-black crime on the black community and how black-on-white crime sours racial relations. They never mention Islam’s 1400 year history of aggression against the West, and the current intolerance and oppression Moslem-led countries impose on religious minorities. No, to the typical white leftist and their allies in the Republican establishment, we are ALWAYS the enemy. You can take that to the bank.
They would be just fine sending their daughters to a Bill and Hillary Clinton sponsored slumber party but those unwashed hordes of blue collar and middle class barbarian Trump supporters pose a horrific threat to their elitist view of class and economic status. As the polls have consistently confirmed that as much as 20% of Trump support rests in the black communities across the country it also represents more then a little not so concealed racism by the local Democrats and their political friends. Why does Trump continue to cruise towards the nomination? Just think about all the help this type of communication provides his candidacy among the new 21st century “silent majority” voter along with the continual backstabbing from the Republican Party and it’s establishment, after playing to the national media by requiring him to execute a pledge to not run as a third party candidate and support the eventual nominee, while taking every opportunity, as Gov. Haley did last night in her televised response to the Obama SOTU stage show, to stab him in the back. But I suppose Democratic and Republican establishment types (the uniparty) hold the opinion that the “typical” Trump voter is too stupid to be insulted by the whole matter so what is the harm. I have seen this before and it didn’t work then either and if you don’t believe me just wake up Bob Dole at his retirement home and ask him.
Apparently the Liberal Board imagines the Republican Primary will attract the Black Panthers, the Hands Up Don’t Shoot and the Wall St Occupy crowd.
See how crazy everything has gotten! But wait a minute! We should not be shocked at or astonished at Fairfax county schools or the Fairfax supervisors! After all, these Fairfax Marxist fools running the show are the same perverted fools who have smiley-faced embraced ‘gender fluidity’ and all-sex bathrooms for kids.
Okay! This is off the topic, but when you see ‘crazy,’ don’t participate in crazy. If the schools are crazy, pull your kids out of the schools. If skyrocketing health insurance is killing your family, stop enabling the health insurance/government dysfunctional complicity. Drop your health insurance and go with something like Samaritan Ministries. If the corporatized business model forces you into commercial slavery, look for private association in trade modeling as a way of slipping the noose. Always look for opportunities to live and function outside the Big Mouse Trap that government sets for you. (This will, of course, require you to question almost every assumption you ever had about how you ‘think’ things work!)
Thanks Bull Elephant for some very good coverage on a lot of topics. And by the way, it’s nice to see nice writing cogently presented. I also appreciate that you don’t ‘scrub’ dissenting views and statement at the drop of a hat like some other sites do.
Just a reminder to Donocrats and independent Trump supporters. This is an open primary. The GOPe is scared to death about a Trump landslide. Sign the petty little allegiance pledge, because as I see it, if a white chic can feel black, men women, women men, then anyone can ‘feel’ Republican on March 1st.
Je suis Republican!
That’s pretty funny and a good point. In modern days, if I say I feel like a doughnut nobody knows if I’m hungry or I’m trying to free my inner pastry.
Touché!
Trump supported woul be glad to volunteer at the polls.
And they will.
I’m thinking we need to start a “Boycott Fairfax” movement.
There is a theme emerging in Democrat “minds” that accuses law abiding gun owners, often Republicans, of being “terrorists”. Republicans are the last folks on earth to start fist fights at a polling place. The Democrats, here, are projecting their own tendencies on us. I hope Dr Garza will be able to maintain her quite reasonable position on keeping the Fairfax County Schools open.
A classic case of a solution looking for a problem!
I wish they would close the schools and then we could tell all the school kids that they get a day off because Trump and the Republicans wanted them to have an extra day off!
LOL That would certainly make us popular!
That is a great plan! Have fun, kids.
Free helicopter rides!