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Mesha Mainor

I never thought that I would ever come to point that I would be singing the praises of a Democratic politician on a Sunday, as Sunday is the day in my blog that I reserve for someone who deserves our praise.

From BlazeNews:

Mesha Mainor is a Georgia Democratic General Assembly member, who slammed members of her party recently, accusing them of “lying about their address” to send their own children to better schools while simultaneously rejecting a school choice bill.

It takes a lot of fortitude for a Democratic politician to buck the trend and go against her fellow Democratic politicians.

She angered her fellow Democrats when she stood with Republicans in support of Georgia Senate Bill 233, which would have provided $6,500 vouchers to parents with students performing in the bottom 25% in the state. The vouchers could have been used to pay for private school tuition and homeschooling expenses.

Mainor, a supporter of “parent choice,” was the only Democrat to vote in favor of the legislation.

“Why is no one fighting for young Black minds? Why isn’t that one of the things that we’re fighting for?” Mainor told Fox News Digital. “I actually say you’re a hypocrite. That’s what I tell them directly. You are being a hypocrite. There are state lawmakers right now where their children are in schools that they’re not even zoned for … They’re lying about their address, state lawmakers, but they won’t vote for this bill.”

“I support parent choice because some parents have children in schools where their needs are not being met,” she continued. “In my district in particular, we have schools with 3% reading proficiency, 3% have obtained math proficiency by the eighth grade. And so to say that this is just how it is and that the kid needs to just suffer these consequences, I don’t agree with that. And I don’t think that all parents agree with that either.”

But her fellow Dems did not appreciate her sticking up for poor black children.

Again from BlazeNews:

Mainor’s fellow Democrats came after her after she failed to vote along party lines. Democratic state Senator Josh McLaurin offered $1,000 to anyone willing to run against Mainor. McLaurin posted a photograph of a check on his Twitter account with the caption, “All I need is a name.”

Mainor stated that there is a “collective effort” by her Democratic colleagues to get her out of office. She called the pushback “ludicrous.”

“I think my fellow Democrats – and not all of them, I hate to say that because it’s not all of them – some of my colleagues will march in the streets for abortion rights. I’m pro-choice. They were crying on the floor for transgender rights. They were very outspoken about antisemitism. My problem is, why is no one fighting for young Black minds? … And so to say that all these other issues are important, but a child living in poverty that’s of color is at the bottom of your totem pole of priorities, that’s a problem with the value system if you ask me,” she added.

Mesha Mainor is one tough lady! Sticking up for what is right against formidable opposition takes courage. I would vote for her in a New York minute!

5/21/23

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