The Morris GOP AWOL on defense of parental rights.

The NJEA argues that removing any book from a school library is something akin to the book burning that went on in 1930s Germany. Of course, the NJEA and its allies think nothing of canceling an author with whom they disagree – mirroring a practice common in authoritarian regimes of all ideological stripes.
 
There is a great difference between canceling an author along with his or her work and deciding that certain reading material isn’t “age appropriate” for a certain audience. If it is all the same, then it would follow that Penthouse magazine and Hustler would be found on the shelves of school libraries, and their presence supported by the NJEA as a “defense against book burning.”
 
You can’t cancel the author of the Harry Potter series because you disagree with her, but then claim that setting age-appropriate standards at a school library is a bridge too far. But that’s what’s being done at the Roxbury School District in Morris County. This recent Fox News coverage explains the controversy:

“The battle for our children’s future is not being fought in China or in the Middle East. It’s happening inside their minds and inside our classrooms.”

Roxbury has become ground zero in the fight for parental rights in New Jersey. Advocates and parents are even being sued by a board of education employee, a school librarian, for pushing back and demanding that the board remove certain sexually explicit books from the school library. Books that parents believe are inappropriate for their minor children.
 
Remember, unlike those who want to cancel author J.K. Rowling, an adult, for having an opinion – these parents only wish to limit the access their minor children have to this material. Adults are free to do what they like (and that goes for their children, once they are adults).
 
At a meeting of the Board of Education on Monday night, parental rights advocates from around the state showed up to support the parents being sued and to speak out in their defense. But not the Morris County GOP. Not the Republican establishment.
 
Parental rights advocate Josh Aikens was there. Aikens, a candidate for Assembly, was joined by running mate Jason Sarnoski. Aikens delivered an impassioned defense of parental rights – as he has hundreds of times before throughout his effort to recruit and train conservative school board candidates. But where were all those Republicans who claim to be “conservative” and claim to be “pro-parent”.
 
Are the language pimps who run the campaigns of GOP establishment politicians doing to the phrase “pro-parent” what they did to the word “conservative”?
 
A year ago, the GOP legislative caucuses were big on parental rights. After all, parental rights is the issue responsible for Republicans winning in Virginia in 2021 and for Florida going from a purple state to one that is bright red.  
 
But then a GOP State Senator stood up in caucus and claimed a family member was “transitioning”. And that’s how quickly the rot sets in. Never underestimate the power of the personal to undermine policy. To a GOP leadership unsure of its principles, not wishing to offend a colleague is a ready excuse to take the chicken run on a controversial issue.
 
Overnight… the GOP’s digital and social media campaign in support of parental rights dried up. Now, “pro-parent” is just a convenient label, to be applied on campaign mailings, and media advertisements – by the language pimps who run establishment politicians’ campaigns. A label that, if allowed to, will be forgotten the moment the election is over.

Morris County and the Red Rubber Ball of Disillusionment

By Rubashov

Hey Fred, do you know the words to that song? It was written just across the river from Phillipsburg – in Easton, Pennsylvania – and it’s about the disillusion that ends in a break-up. So, it’s a good choice for what is happening to the Morris County GOP.

Fresh on the heels of Friday’s remarkable intervention by the State Democrat Chairman (who also happens to be the Essex County Democrat Chairman) comes yet another intervention – this time by a blog controlled by a prominent Essex County Democrat. The Republicans who the Democrats are coming to the aid of are the Morris County Board of Commissioners, in particular, Commissioner John Krickus.

In this case, the Essex Democrats are backing the Morris Republicans' decision not to go on record in opposition to abortion up to the time of birth, something that most Democrats don’t support but that is nevertheless being pushed by a few radicals under the clever title of “The Reproductive Freedom Act.”

According to Fred Snowflack at InsiderNJ, Krickus made a reference to a red ball at a recent public meeting of the Commissioners: “We are a red ball that has held up.”

Krickus used his red ball analogy to dismiss pleas from a contingent of Pro-Life conservatives, along with activists involved in the fight against human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of children (which is horrifically affected by the Reproductive Freedom Act). Snowflack noted:

“The board had just been urged by some members of the public to oppose state legislation regarding reproductive rights.

Supporters say the bill would protect rights granted to women under Roe v. Wade; opponents say it would essentially sanction genocide.

The board declined to act, suggesting the issue was not in its lane.

Krickus, who is seeking reelection this year, said the only way to get conservative ideas and bills passed is to elect Republicans.”

But wait… if an all-Republican Board won’t oppose something as unpopular as abortion up to the time of birth what good is it? Why have it? Why go to the expense?

If Krickus and company lack the balls to take a stand on something as grotesque as abortion up to the time of birth just which “conservative ideas” will he grow a set for? So, here we go again – the Hugin 2018 model – disillusioning and suppressing the Republican/ conservative base…

I should have known

you'd bid me farewell

There's a lesson to be learned from this

and I learned it very well

Why should anyone vote for a Republican if there is no expectation that, once in office, the Republican you voted for is going to behave like a Republican? Better to leave a position with such a Republican blank rather than fill it with an interloper.

Now I know you're not the only

starfish in the sea

If I never hear your name again

it's all the same to me

While telling Fred Snowflack that “if Republicans don’t win elections, nothing will change,” Krickus is proving just the opposite. Or perhaps the change that Krickus is referring to has more to do with contracts, vendors, and patronage? Same policies… but the money will be going into different pockets.

Ignoring the Republican policies he refused to act on, Krickus said: “We need to keep this red ball in place, so we can continue enacting Republican policies.” The man is a fool to himself.

Always runnin', never carin', that's

the life you live

Stolen minutes of your time were

all you had to give

This is the same Board of Commissioners that all but endorsed Democrat Governor Phil Murphy’s LGBTQ+ mandatory curriculum for school districts. You know, the one that teaches anal sex to grade school children.

The story's in the past

with nothing to recall

I've got my life to live

and I don't need you at all

The roller-coaster ride we took

Is nearly at an end

I bought my ticket with my tears,

that's all I'm gonna spend

And I think it's gonna be alright
Yeah, the worst is over now

The morning sun is shining like a

red rubber ball

Commissioner Krickus should exchange his "red ball" analogy for an actual set of working balls.

“If it were 1860, the Democrats would be bragging about their first transgendered slave-owner.”

Jimmy Dore

(and Republicans like Commissioner Krickus would be too afraid to call them on it)