Getting Strong Now
I wonder if readers of the Salon not-a-blog recall my obsession with the Temecula Valley Unified School District Board of Education. Last year saw a skirmish between three MAGA-leaning school board members and the freedom-loving world when the board voted to reject a “controversial” state-mandated social studies curriculum and associated textbooks. This was all because of one paragraph in an ancillary text where the mention of former San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk’s existence caused a hue and cry from MAGAs who viewed him as a pedophile.
Temeculans got so irritated with this blatant injection of religiosity in a government body that they voted one of the three, their leader, Dr. Joseph Komrosky, out last June.
Not to be deterred, it seems Dr. Komrosky has thrown his hat into the three ring circus once more. He wants to be “re-elected.”
Here is a campaign video. I absolutely adore his choice in musical accompaniment.
You can’t keep a good homophobic nationalist dominionist down.
If he is as bad at campaigning as he is at making videos, you got nothing to worry about.
1Half Empty I’m not sure this is on the same page as your comment about the musical choice, but after reading it and then watching the clip the first thing that came to mind for me was a line from one of the greatest cultural touchstone movies in history.
2“Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?”
I mean it’s right up there with “Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue”
But that’s just me.
I very much hope that he loses again. Harvey Milk existed. He advanced the cause of gay rights as a San Francisco City Supervisor. He was an important figure in California and the rest of the country, and is still a gay rights icon, long after his assassination in 1978. Joseph Komrosky throwing a homophobic fit about a mention of him in a Social Studies text doesn’t do anything but lessen the worth of the text, and intrude on the jobs of Social Studies teachers.
3Long ago in my teaching “career” I discovered that the kids with no real talent acted out just like Komrosky. Nuff said!
4I think he spelled idiot wrong. It starts with i-d, not p-a-t-r.
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