Brent Gibson Won The Primary, It’s Time To Move On To The General Election
The complaint of Michael Davis, one of four candidates in the recent GOP primary for Knox County Sheriff, will be heard this Wednesday by the Tennessee Republican Party Executive Committee. The sum of Davis’s complaint is that two of the four candidates were indicted following the primary election. Davis contends that had people known of the impending indictments, they might have voted otherwise. Davis ran a distant third with approximately 14% of the vote. The winner of the Republican primary was Brent Gibson, who won 44% of the vote, outdistancing all of his opponents.
There are any number of complaints that an unsuccessful candidate can make after an election, contending that voters might have voted this way or that way had they been aware of one thing or another. The indictments for the two candidates came after the election. Neither came close to winning the primary. To overturn the results of an election and the decision reached by the sovereign voters is a very serious thing and should only occur in very rare circumstances. There have been examples of even a dead man winning an election, like in 2000 when the late Governor of Missouri Mel Carnahan beat Senator John Ashcroft – yet there was no “do over.” Voters went to the polls and voted knowing Carnahan was dead. Carnahan’s widow was appointed to the seat, and voters voted her out in a special election two years later.
Brent Gibson came pretty close to winning an outright majority in the primary. It seems highly doubtful that either of the indicted candidates ran thinking they would be indicted.
To overturn the results of a legitimate primary election to run another race in this instance is pure foolishness. There is no need for it. Brent Gibson won the Republican primary and is the standard-bearer for the Republican Party in the coming general election. It is time to move beyond any wounds inflicted by the primary and win the general election.
Teachers Unions And Test Scores
Randi Weingarten, the president-for-life of the American Federation of Teachers, has just issued a “call to arms.” Evidently, Weingarten has concerned herself with the decade-long slide of test scores among students. Of course, Weingarten has already identified the culprit: devices and screens.
Most Americans can remember Randi Weingarten as having fought fiercely to keep our schools closed for the better part of two years during the beginning and aftermath of the Covid scare. When the Trump administration urged that schools be reopened in July 2020, Weingarten screamed it was “reckless” as well as “cruel.” There were those here who accused our county commissioners of having murdered people when they removed the board of health from dictating every policy as it prepared to cross county lines to admonish those wicked Blount Countians. Some of those same people applauded the most vocal and hysterical amongst them, who carelessly maligned good public officials who didn’t follow the progressive/Marxist line. They applauded censorship, demanded the public humiliation and firing of those who asked questions, and insisted anything save for the official government line during the Biden years was a “conspiracy theory.” My, how things change, and every aspect of what they insisted was their orthodoxy and dogma has been proven to be ridiculous and, in many cases, harmful. The closure of our schools has been particularly harmful to children through both isolation and test scores. Many students suffered from increasing anxiety as well as serious bouts of depression during the school closures. It also had serious consequences in affecting their social development. Experts warn us that those issues will likely remain with us for a generation.
Internal emails from an investigation by the US House of Representatives proved the American Federation of Teachers had access to a draft involving the Centers for Disease Control before it was finalized and released to the American people. Statistics later proved that the stronger the teacher union was in a jurisdiction, the more likely the local school system was to remain closed. Instead, students faced the screens that Randi Weingarten has named as one of the chief culprits of the downslide in student test scores.
The National Education Association has poured more than $50 million into campaigns through its recent financial disclosures. State and local governments have poured money into our school systems with far fewer good results, as many of the problems faced by students cannot be solved by dollars alone. And we have spent more on diversity, equity and silly policies than we have in teaching the basics. We have met the enemy and he is us.
Jill Biden’s New Book An Exercise In Gaslighting
Gaslighting has become part and parcel of the bag of tricks employed by Leftists every day of the week. Jill Biden has a new book coming out, and she is making the rounds, and she has turned the gas on full blast. During the disastrous live debate with Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the First Lady said her husband’s behavior, which she had not seen before or since, caused her to worry he was having a stroke. Did she order Biden taken to a hospital to be examined? No, instead, she took him to a Waffle House where she praised him for answering all the questions and said he did a great job. Dr. Jill has offered an explanation that a good wife must try and support her husband, hence her saying he answered all the questions and praising him for having done a great job. In the next breath, Mrs. Biden says doctors had checked out the oldest man who has ever served as our president and pronounced him fit to run for and serve another four years at age 82. Yet those doctors, who declared Old Joe was fit enough to run and serve another four years, missed the fact that Biden had stage 4 prostate cancer.
Jill was as surprised as Jake Tapper, who tried gaslighting what everyone could see for themselves and later wrote his own book about the cover-up he participated in. Is anybody else surprised? Not a bit.
