Loudoun Supervisor Juli Briskman (D-Algonkian) has labeled the Loudoun parent group, Fight For Schools, as “alt-right” because they oppose what is happening, and what is being taught, in Loudoun County Public Schools. There is nothing alt-right about the group. It includes parents and taxpayer of all races and religions.
In response to Fight For Schools filing petitions to remove four school board members (Loudoun County School Board Chair Brenda Sheridan (Sterling District), Board Vice-Chair Atoosa Reaser (Algonkian District), Ian Serotkin (Blue Ridge District), and Denise Corbo, the at-large member), Supervisor Briskman tweeted,
Parents who support Fight for Schools responded, (fox.news.com):
“As a Jewish American, I am completely offended,” Elicia Brand, a Loudoun County mom who has volunteered with Fight for Schools for months, told Fox News on Sunday. “I take that as a personal affront.”
“I support [Fight for Schools Executive Director] Ian Prior and everything that he is doing for the schools and the parents in every way. I know many people in the Fight for Schools organization, and not one of them is alt-right, not one of them is far-right, not one of them is racist,” Brand said. “She is putting political ideology and political agenda before the needs of the citizens of Loudoun County, and she owes every one of us an apology.”
Brand told Fox News that she has volunteered with Fight for Schools since its inception and that she started her own organization, Army of Parents, in part to support FFS’s efforts.
“To call us alt-right is a punch in the gut, a stab in the heart for all parents who fight for their children,” she added.
Another parent active in Fight For Schools, Joe Mobley, also responded to Ms. Briskman,
“I think it’s absurd,” Joe Mobley, a Black father of four in Loudoun County, told Fox News on Sunday. “It’s an ad-hominem,” he added, arguing that Briskman used her attack to distract from the idea that “parents shouldn’t have a say in what goes on in the classroom because your kids belong to the state.”
“Obviously, as a Black dude it’s weird to be called a White nationalist,” Mobley added. He noted that Briskman launched her political career after publicly “flipping off” the president at the time, Donald Trump.
“Instead of calling us names, meet with us and have a chit-chat,” he suggested.
Fight for Schools Executive Director Ian Prior also responded to Supervisor Briskman,
“Ms. Briskman’s false and defamatory statement is an attack on a diverse coalition of thousands of Loudoun County residents that are utilizing a legal process to remove school board members that have violated the law and their own code of conduct,” Prior told Fox News on Sunday. “The best thing Ms. Briskman could do, as an elected official, is publicly retract her statement and cease and desist from regularly attacking her constituents on social media.”
“But we aren’t holding our breath,” he added.
Juli (I can’t help but wonder with her 7th grade spelling of her name, if she dots the i with a circle or a heart) Briskman began her political career by giving Trump’s Presidential motorcade the middle finger. Another classy Democrat.
