Let the reader understand. I am responding to Meg’s posts by way of addressing the behavior for hire from her, Matt Walsh, & Ben Shapiro. They are paid influencers whose product is outrage for the purpose of driving voter engagement. It is a deadly commodity @GovBillLee supports.
Salem Media Group offers a similar product for an overlapping market. They know that they can & must be attractive to would be influencers. This has evolved from blogging lifestyles. I’ve attended many workshops on building an influencer brand. saleminfluencers.com
When @GovBillLee acts on the advice of his predecessor @BillHaslam to view his responsibility to #KatherineKoonce, Maria Lee’s dear friend Cynthia Peak, & the rest of our beloved community as a pastoral one, he affords himself of the privilege of sounding civil & apolitical.
By choosing to pose as an apolitical pastor for such as time as this & refusing to say “gun” or address Daily Wire’s relentless push to cast this as a “war on Christians,” Bill avoids responsibility for bringing Daily Wire to TN, platforming them, & further endangering us.
A little about me for new followers. I taught high school 10 yrs, 8 of which were at a PCA school. I left teaching to adopt 2 disabled children from China. After being named Marsha Blackburn’s CCAI Angel in Adoption in 2013, I felt a responsibility to steward that honor. 1/
In those early years, I focused on the Adoption Tax Credit, testifying for a Congressional Hearing as a guest of former US Representative Diane Black. I became especially interested in the unique learning needs of adoptees. 2/
I stopped in DC to meet with lawmakers & policy leaders every time I drove my sons to their specialists in Philadelphia or Baltimore…which was pretty often. I prided myself on not believing any one party had an exclusive understanding of God’s will. My focus was the kids.3/
Today, @GovBillLee’s administration altered the 2022 State of the Child Report to suppress factual reporting on DCS crisis. They replaced data gathered from TN Comptroller’s audit with a quote about ideal foster care goals. This is a shocking indifference to children’s lives. 1/
The original report highlights findings from the TN Comptroller’s 2022 DCS audit, a report published every 2 years to give lawmakers a review of Dept of Children’s Services. That audit was presented to lawmakers in a 12/14/22 hearing I attended.
On this screenshot of pg 38 of the original State of the Child, which was sent to lawmakers in December, a text box directly references the TN Comptroller’s findings, which had been presented in the 12/14 hearing. 3/
As an adoptive mom, I’m worried for my family in @GovBillLee’s Tennessee. With his help, the @TNGOP coordinated attacks on @VUMCchildren make it dangerous to even take my sons to the doctor.
For four years, I’ve engaged with @GovBillLee’s office to ask for support of LGBTQ+ families who wished to adopt or foster parent. I’ve trained surrogates in special Ed advocacy so they could support foster youth whose safe placement depends on timely IEP services.
I’ve spoken out as an adoptive mother about how vouchers & private charter schools exclude disabled kids from accessing the same quality opportunities their non disabled peers have, an experience compounded by foster placements & adoption.
If you saw a Daily Wire writer publicly attacking a sexual abuse survivor’s account of their assault, keep in mind Basham is also a 2022 Claremont fellow. Hillsdale College pres Larry Arnn is Claremont’s vice chairman, co-founder, & 1985-2000 pres. This isn’t incidental.
Arnn chaired Trump’s 1776 Commission alongside TN GOP personality Carol Swain. They were added days after Trump passed an EO banning Critical Race Theory/Diversity Equity Inclusion training at federal agencies.