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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsParkway School Board candidate refers to Michelle Obama as a giant rat on twitter
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/parkway-school-board-candidate-s-politically-conservative-tweets-alarm-some/article_7c60d3ba-58ab-567b-b433-6ae95e703f34.html"
A Chesterfield resident who is running for the Parkway School Board is coming under fire from some Parkway residents for her social media history.
School board candidate Jeanie Ames has tweeted about banning Islam in the U.S., called herself a Trump girl on Facebook and referred to former First Lady Michelle Obama as a giant rat.
Ames graduated from Parkway Central High School in 1989, taught at Marion Elementary in the Ritenour School District and served on the PTO for Parkway Central Middle School. She says she wants to ensure taxpayer stewardship if elected.
The good of the district is the only concern on which I would base my decisions, she wrote in an email to the Post-Dispatch.
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Parkway School Board candidate refers to Michelle Obama as a giant rat on twitter (Original Post)
pstokely
Jan 2018
OP
What's so sad is often the bigotry is so ingrained, they aren't even aware of it themselves.
OregonBlue
Jan 2018
#9
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)1. It's hilarious how much hate the Obamas get from right and left
despite being gone over a year...
Orrex
(63,215 posts)4. I hate that they're gone for over a year
muntrv
(14,505 posts)2. So Ames? Do you prefer klan regalia or nazi brownshirt?
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)5. She probably already has a large size robe
She says she's a confederate
muntrv
(14,505 posts)7. So she supports repealing the 13th Amendment and 14th and 15th.
OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)3. Quite the piece of work that one. She has no business being anywhere near
children or education since she is so obviously ignorant and bigoted.
mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)6. I wonder how many
minority kids lives she negatively impacted because of her racism.
IE: White kid talks in class, gets a reminder not to.
Minority kid talks in class gets sent to the principal's office
OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)9. What's so sad is often the bigotry is so ingrained, they aren't even aware of it themselves.
I had an aunt, who was a Southern Baptist preacher's wife tell me very sincerely that they couldn't possibly be prejudiced because they had lots of "those people" in their church and treated them like everyone else.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,181 posts)8. "Pretty much sums up my BoE Run."
So she's fighting for James Woods' right to pee in the Ladies Room? Fine. Better that than anything to do with the education of children.